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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Literature

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

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Magazine

February 1791

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

The American Museum, or Universal magazine, for February, 1791.

Disbound. Consists of pages 62-116. Printed by Carey. Contains essays on happiness, Lord Chesterfield's letters, astronomy, the microscope, and English literature, among various other topics. One essay, appearing on pages 99-107, is titled "The...

GLC08741

History Now Essay

"Dear Miss Cole": World War I Letters of American Servicemen

Phillip Papas

World History

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

"Received your package," Pvt. George Van Pelt of Company I, 165th Infantry wrote in May 1918 from the frontlines in France to Annie E. Cole, a grammar school teacher and principal on Staten Island, New York, and to her students. "I...

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43 | Wartime Memoirs and Letters from the American Revolution to Vietnam Fall 2015

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Campaigning for the African American vote in Georgia, 1894

Economics, Government and Civics

In the gubernatorial and local elections of 1894, the Democrats and the newly formed People’s Party or Populist Party vied for black votes in Georgia. Neither the Democrats nor the Populists called for racial equality in their...

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Header Record

1776-1779

Catherwood, Robert, fl. 1764-1783

Legal documents relating to captured American privateers [Decimalized .01-.10]

Collection of legal documents dated 1776 to 1779. Consists of 10 documents relating to captured American vessels which contained enslaved people and cargo,

GLC01411

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16,503 items

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

"Dear Miss Cole": World War I Letters of American Servicemen

Campaigning for the African American vote in Georgia, 1894

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