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23 January 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1102 (January 23, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Treaty disallowing the future settlement of Tobago by the British and French. Discussion of the Pennsylvania lottery and announcement of prize amounts. Classified ads inhabit pages 3...

GLC06670.128

13 February 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1105 (February 13, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Discussion of the Pennsylvania lottery and announcement of prize amounts. Section reserved for announcing the indentured...

GLC06670.131

20 March 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1110 (March 20, 1750)]

GLC06670.136

26 April 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1115 (April 26, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Proposal for a canal to be dug between Stockholm and Gottenburg. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of...

GLC06670.139

24 May 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1119 (May 24, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Discusses lottery drawing and deadlines for participation. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of...

GLC06670.143

31 May 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1120 (May 31, 1750)] [Incomplete]

GLC06670.144

19 July 1863

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

to his son

Describes the attack on Fort Wagner. A page dated 7/20, lists missing and wounded officers. "Shortly after dark our troops advanced to the assault. The 54th Mass. (colored regiment) in the lead... [T]his regiment which went into the charge with...

GLC04663.22

25 November 1863

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

to Louise Walbridge

Embarrassed by the news that several ladies inspected a uniform he sent home, worries about the recently discovered Canada Conspiracy, and pay of a black regiment. "The North Carolina regiment (colored), are to be paid off to morrow, it seems all...

GLC04663.27

28 August 1782

Smith, Paschal Nelson, ?-1805

to Henry Knox

Mentions that in reference to Knox's last letter, he will be happy to make the acquaintance a young gentleman named Mr. Craik and to show "him any civility in [his] power." Writes, "Since my last I have discovered that my Boy Prince is at Salem, & I...

GLC02437.01545

25 March 1863

Reynolds, J. L. (James Lawrence), 1814-1877

Confederate Baptist. [Vol. 1, no. 22 (March 25, 1863)]

"Army Correspondence" includes several letters from soldiers. An editorial examines the topic of "Death," while another short article titled "Last Words" discusses a soldier's last words and actions. "Secular News" includes a report that 200 Negro...

GLC05959.39.17

11 April 1878

Lee, John F., 1813-1884

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Relates that he is leaving Washington to travel to St. Louis, Missouri. Notes that Senator Ambrose Burnside (a Civil War General) is doing well but may need looking after. Mentions Representative Walsh (possibly William Walsh, a Representative from...

GLC02382.096

American colonial history belongs to what scholars call the early modern period. As such, it is part of a bridge between markedly different eras in the history of the western world. On its far side lies the long stretch we call the...

circa 1880-1890

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912

Buying a substitute in the North during the war

Image comments negatively upon the Northern policy of allowing men to find a substitute to take their place in the draft. Shows a well-dressed and dandified agent with a holstered pistol showing a timid gentleman into a low class pub where the...

GLC00493.07

Essay

Colonization and Settlement, 1585–1763

John Demos

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy, World History

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

History Now Essay

Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute, 1892: A Little-known Encounter

Adele Alexander

Featuring a passage from Adele Alexander’s book in progress, A Black Suffragist in the Jim Crow South: Adella Hunt Logan’s Epic Journey Author’s Introduction Most historians consider Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington the...

Appears in:

50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018

57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Religion and Social Reform: Abolitionism

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 Assenting to the “self-evident truth” maintained in the American Declaration of Independence, “that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights” . . . I shall strenuously contend...

History Now Essay

Dolley Madison: First Lady and Queen

Catherine Allgor

Government and Civics

Whatever else you can say about Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1768–1849), she was famous. She was so well known and well regarded in her lifetime that, at her death in 1849, both houses of Congress adjourned, along with the Supreme Court...

Appears in:

35 | America’s First Ladies Spring 2013

Lesson Plan

The Scottsboro Trial

Government and Civics

5, 6, 7, 8

Background In 1932, times were hard for many as jobs were not easy to find and people had difficulty putting food on the table. In March of that year, nine black boys ventured out looking for work only to find themselves caught in a...

History Now Essay

Avast! How the US Built a Navy, Sent In the Marines, and Faced Down the Barbary Pirates

Christopher L. Miller

Economics, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

In October 1784, an American merchant vessel, the Betsey , was on a trade run from her home port of Boston to Tenerife in the Canary Islands when she was approached by an un-flagged vessel. Suddenly, "sabers grasped between their...

Appears in:

20 | High Crimes and Misdemeanors Summer 2009

Lesson Plan

Jackie Robinson, WWII, and the Integration of Baseball

9, 10, 11, 12

Background In the 1940s America was in the throes of a crippling depression and a world war. While all Americans coped with the overwhelming challenges that the economy and war presented, some Americans faced an additional hardship,...

Essay

The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900

Richard White

Economics, Government and Civics

When in 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner entitled their co-authored novel The Gilded Age , they gave the late nineteenth century its popular name. The term reflected the combination of outward wealth and dazzle with inner...

Essay

1945 to the Present

William H. Chafe

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

No event proved more important to the course of modern American history than World War II. The war cast America onto the world stage as a mighty economic and military giant. It rescued the country from the Great Depression, created...

History Now Essay

"Prince of Darkness": Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire

Shane White

Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a Black man whose very existence flies in the face of our understanding of the way things were in nineteenth-century New York. He made his fortune as a broker. Although a pioneer, far from being some novice...

Appears in:

72 | Black Entrepreneurship in America Fall 2024

Letter signed

October 24, 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

to Gen. David Hunter

Written after the relieval of Fremont. A draft in the hand of John Hay (Sec.) with corrections and an additional paragraph at the end in Lincoln's hand. Basler 5: 2.

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ...

GLC01212

circa May 1853

Walker, William, 1824-1860

Printed land bond of the Independence Loan Fund for the Republic of Sonoma

GLC01358.02

Header Record

1862-1863

Jones Family

Jones family soldier letters [Decimalized .01 and .02]

Letters related to GLC01445 and possibly GLC01448.

GLC01449

Header Record

1680-1863

collection on French & Indian, Revolutionary Wars, Missouri [decimalized]

[decimalized 01450.001-01450.911]

1 black and white bust engraving of Sir William Johnson Bar included.

Dated 1680-1863 (bulk:1750-90).

GLC01450

1836/04/04

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Pardon petition endorsement for Priv. A. Scales, also signed by Amasa Turner

Signed by Houston as Commander in Chief of the army of Texas, granting pardon to Scales, who was under death sentence (for desertion?). The petition is signed by, among others, Amasa Turner, Lieutenant Millen, Deputy and W.W. Summers, Lieut....

GLC01860.13

Autograph document signed

1836/02/22

Peebles, Robert, fl. 1836

Empresario land grant in Spanish (cos. John H. Borden and William Pettus)

Also signed by John H. Borden and William Pettus.

GLC01860.22

1830/09/17

Vicario, Leona, fl. 1830

Land grant in Spanish to John Baptist Sideck

Also signed by Rafael Manchola and Santiago del Valle. Docketed in English.

GLC01860.23

1832

Leon, Fernando de, fl. 1832

Land grant in Spanish for Francisco Peres, with a map dated 10/23/1833

Map shows land by the River Guadalupe.

GLC01860.24

1828/12/01

Austin, Stephen F., 1793-1836

Memorandum re: agreement to recruit 450 families to settle

Co-signed by Anthony Butler. Butler agrees to settle 450 families on land granted to Austin in return for all "donations and benefits" arising from settlement.

GLC01860.29

6 December 1764

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Pennsylvania gazette. [no. 1876 (December 6, 1764)]

Printed by Benjamin Franklin and D. Hall. Contains Governor William Penn's acceptance of a temorary peace with the Delawares and Shawnees. Penn appoints William Johnson as agent to negotiate final peace treaty. Declaration signed on 5 December...

GLC01713.02

Letter

1842/04/04

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

to Henry Jones re: commanding him not to interfere with archives removal

Houston Commands Jones that interference with removal of the archives from Houston would be treasonable. Clerical copy with docket of Joseph Daniels on p. 2 certifying delivery of original.

GLC02145.13

Manuscript

1844 ca.

Resolve re: Thomas Ward's dispute with Texas House over archive war

Clerical manuscript.

GLC02145.24

1842/04/09

Hockley, George W., 1802-1851

to Thomas Ward re: Ward's tenacity in protecting the papers of the land office

GLC02145.30

1850/01/23

Jones, Anson, 1798-1858

to Thomas Ward re: his health, land business and political matters

GLC02145.33

1842/07/25

Shaw, James B., 1820-?

to Col. Thomas Ward or Capt Joseph Daniels re: forwarding books to Shaw

Written as Comptroller of Texas, asking for account books in Ward's possession.

GLC02145.42

Manuscript document signed

1819/09/26

Austin, Moses, fl. 1802-1819

Deed to plot of land sold to Robert Bruffy (cos. Mary Austin)

Notarized by Sam Woodson, clerk. Conveying deed to Robert Bruffy. Early land document for Missouri settlement.

GLC02022

July 7, 1857

Clymer, George, 1804-1881

to V. McBlair

Instructions on how to write to her husband, Captain William McBlair, while he is at sea off the African coast. George Clymer was a U.S. Naval surgeon.

GLC00722.57

Manuscript document

11 May 1857

Officers & Crew, U.S. ship Dale

Complete list of all crew members, according to rank, on board the U.S.S. "Dale." Besides sailors, there are also twenty five marines on board the ship. Written at sea, on board the ship "Dale."

GLC00722.09

Manuscript letter signed

November 24, 1857

Duggan, John, fl. 1857-1858

to William McBlair

Duggan apologizes for his insubordination and asks to be discharged and left ashore, so that he can earn a living for his family. Written on board the U.S.S. "Dale."

GLC00722.25

Pamphlet

1857

Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865

The political economy of slavery

First edition of Ruffin's pro-slavery pamphlet, signed by Andrew Johnson. Johnson writes on the cover "Send this to my room with my mail." The pamphlet was published in 1857, Johnson most likely signed it in 1858. Untrimmed edges. Lacking wrappers...

GLC00774

07 April 1855

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

Authority to affix the seal: Treaty with Cherokee Indians (1855 Feb. 2)

Original treaty dated Feb. 22, 1855

GLC00787

Manuscript document signed

14 April 1857

Brown, John, 1800-1859

[Appointment of trustees]

Appoints George L. Stearns, Samuel Cabot Jr. and William H. Russell as "trustees to hold all funds and other personal property now in my hands...in my behalf for the aid of the free state cause in Kansas." This is to take effect only if Brown...

GLC00502

May 12, 1857

Brown, John, 1800-1859

to Mary Ann Brown

Writes to his wife enclosing a draft for thirty dollars from Gerrit Smith and his wife, Ann Carrol Fitzhugh Smith. Part of the money is to be used on presents, the rest on expenses. She must try and make the money last, since he does not know how...

GLC00516

April 25, 1814

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

to Rachel Jackson

Informs his wife that he has returned "from the junction of the Coosee and Tallapoosee" and that "The Creeks are conquered, some submitting unconditionally, and other whose crimes are great flying towards Pensacola. Outlines his travel plans before...

GLC00522

4 March 1858

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

to William P. Fessenden

Praises a speech of Fessenden and mentions that in order for the Republicans to win the election in 1860, they will need to keep together on their own principles. Comments on the opinions of Stephen Douglas, "The Douglas notion of a popular...

GLC02286