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Extracts from Commodore William Bainbridge's Journal

Transcribed journal entry written aboard the USS Constitution (later transcribed, not in Bainbridge's hand) recounting the ship's battle with HMS Java off the coast of Brazil. The account is recorded as the fighting occurs. Includes a casualty and...

GLC00496.009

1806 State of the Union Address

1806 State of the Union Address, announcing the return of Lewis and Clark, who have "traced the Missouri nearly to its source." Burr's conspiracy discussing calling for prohibition of the slave trade in 1808, as son as allowed under the Constitution...

GLC08118

33 Years After Brown v. Board of Education

One pamphlet entitled, "33 Years After Brown v. Board of Education" printed by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Item was printed in honor of the the Annual Civil Rights Institute. Contains a message from the Director-Counsel Julius L. Chamber...

GLC09640.178

to Hannah Cushing

Comforts Hannah Cushing on the death of her nephew, John Cushing Aylwin, who died aboard the U.S.S. Constitution after its battle with the HMS Java in December 1812. Adams quotes from Cato: "How beautiful is death when earned by virtue / Who would...

GLC09394

Proclamation by the President of the United States and the message of the governor of the state of Illinois, to the General Assembly, ...

Title continues, " ... together with a preamble and resolutions adopted by the Legislature accompanying the same." Printed on the first page is a letter introducing this proclamation by John Reynolds, Governor of Illinois, dated 24 December 1832...

GLC06605