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[LeRoi Williams' funeral]

LeRoi Williams' casket, draped with an American flag with mourners surrounding him.

GLC09587.120

Forging a Nation Documents from America's Founding

JB00086

White slavery in the Barbary States.

Lecture given before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, 17 February 1847. Sumner argues that American slavery was based on white American racism. Published by William D. Ticknor and Company, Boston. Printed by Metcalf and Company...

GLC00267.070

Observations on Paine's Rights of Man, in a series of lectures, by Publicola

Edinburgh edition. First separate printing, originally published in Boston newspaper June-July 1791. Disbound. Attributed to John Quincy Adams by himself (see GLC 958.07)

GLC04398

Colored man is no slacker

Depicts an African American World War I infantryman parting with a woman in a blue dress. In the background, African American soldiers march; one soldier carries a United States flag. The couple stands on a walkway surrounded by flowers.

GLC06134

[Authorization for Mr. Macdonogh of Brampton, England, to have power of attorney for Dawson]

Dawson, son of the late Roper Dawson, attests that he is serving as a captain of a company in the British Legion and has been deprived of property in New York and elsewhere in America "on Account of my Loyalty to his Majesty and my Attachment to...

GLC01450.610.05

to Henry Knox

References receiving Knox's letter. Says he cannot respond fully as he has to attend a meeting on internal affairs. Wishes to introduce Jacques Pierre Brissot (who Lafayette refers to by the name he assumed, de Warville) and a man named de Ferriere....

GLC02437.03880

to Mrs. Wetmore

Schurz notes the "joy" of growth characteristically American, a movement towards socialism and Theodore Roosevelt's belief that the American people will perish in a "slothfull peace."

GLC02871

Americans will always fight for liberty

OWI No. 26. Government printing Office O-502684. By artist Bernard Perlin (1918- ). U.S. soldiers in helmets and coats march forward on snow, looking back in review at colonial militiamen with rifles, some in torn clothing or bloody bandages. A badge...

GLC09520.37

[Photograph of Japanese-Americans woman in a field]

One undated black-and-white photograph of Japanese-American woman in a field.

GLC09860.327