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The quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. 1, No. 1, March, 1900
Oregon Historical Society
This inaugural issue of the Oregon Historical Society’s journal documents the foundational era of the Pacific Northwest, tracing the shift from raw wilderness to a governed commonwealth. It serves as both a primary record and a scholarly retrospective of the nineteenth-century American frontier.
New Milford. A memorial discourse, delivered in the Congregational church, New Milford, Conn., Sunday, July 9, 1876
J. B. (James Blair) Bonar
This historical record captures the foundational spirit and evolution of a New England congregation, tracing its journey from a struggling frontier settlement to a cornerstone of town life over its first 160 years.
The American Missionary
Various
The accounts of a nineteenth-century organization reveal how religious conviction and ambitious educational goals drove a vast network of social and mission work across a rapidly changing American landscape.
The Bull-Run Rout: Scenes Attending the First Clash of Volunteers in the Civil War
E. H. (Edward Henry) Clement
This account captures the jarring transition from civilian innocence to the brutal reality of the American Civil War, as seen through the eyes of a young man witnessing his nation’s first great defeat.
The American Missionary
Various
This collection of reports and correspondence chronicles the mid-nineteenth-century efforts of a religious organization to establish schools and churches for emancipated people in the American South and for immigrant communities in the West.
Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River & Kanawha Canal
George William Bagby
The James River and Kanawha Canal once promised to bind the heart of Virginia, but this meditative chronicle captures the quiet, rhythmic life of that waterway just as the steam engine arrives to render it obsolete.
The American Missionary
Various
These pages chronicle the late nineteenth-century endeavors of an American religious organization, mapping out the intersection of faith, social reform, and the complex, often fraught, cultural landscape of the post-Civil War United States.
The American Missionary
Various
This collection serves as a vivid archival window into late 19th-century American religious life, revealing the fervent, complex intersection of social reform, education, and missionary zeal.
American slavery, and the means of its abolition
Jonathan Ward
This discourse examines the profound moral conflict between American democratic ideals and the reality of human bondage. It serves as a measured, deeply principled argument for the necessity of immediate, non-violent abolition.
Friendly counsels for freedmen
J. B. (Jared Bell) Waterbury
The transition from bondage to liberty requires not only a change in legal status but a profound transformation of daily habits, personal responsibility, and moral conduct. By embracing industry, thrift, and piety, the newly freed person secures both a livelihood and a future.
A Soldier's Life on the Western Frontier in 1813
Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
The grueling realities of early American military service are starkly revealed through the eyes of a volunteer infantryman navigating the frozen, unforgiving wilderness of the War of 1812.
The American Missionary
Various
Across the post-Reconstruction American landscape, a dedicated coalition of educators and ministers wage a quiet, methodical war against ignorance and social inequality.
The American Missionary
Various
This collection of reports and correspondence chronicles the mid-19th-century endeavor to expand education and religious influence among marginalized populations across North America.
The American Missionary
Various
A window into the organized religious fervor and social anxieties of late nineteenth-century America, this periodical chronicles the expansive efforts of missionaries working to transform the post-Civil War landscape.
The Church In Politics—Americans Beware!
M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian
The church and the state cannot mix, for a supernatural power must always swallow the human constitution it touches.
Love and tea: A comedy-drama of colonial times in two acts
Anna Phillips See
A stern spinster’s secret tea-drinking habit becomes the unlikely catalyst for romance and political awakening during the American Revolution.
Petition and memorial of David Quinn, asking for the re-establishment of Negro slavery in the United States
Quinn, David, active 1850-1869
The arguments within these pages represent a stark, reactionary rejection of the American Civil War’s outcome, demanding a return to a social order based on the bondage of others.
Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar
A. W. Weston
The harsh winter of 1854 provides a somber backdrop for the twentieth annual effort to fund the American Anti-Slavery Society. Despite natural disasters and systemic opposition, this report documents a resilient, internationally supported campaign for justice.
The Alternative: A Separate Nationality
William H. (William Henry) Holcombe
A fiery manifesto written on the eve of the American Civil War argues that the South must immediately secede to avoid moral and economic ruin.
The American National Red Cross Bulletin, Vol. I, No. 1, January, 1906
American National Red Cross
This inaugural bulletin serves as the foundational public record of the American National Red Cross, detailing its 1905 congressional charter, early administrative structure, and the earnest initial efforts to establish a nationwide network of humanitarian relief branches.
The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907: Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn
Daniel Davenport
The settlement of New Milford began in 1707, exactly a century after that of Jamestown, Va. At that time, although Milford and Stratford at the mouth of the Housatonic had been settled almost seventy years, and the river afforded a convenient highway into the interior, for much of the distance, this place, only…
The Americans in the South Seas: 1901
Louis Becke
An enterprising new republic sends its sailors into uncharted waters, upending British colonial dominance through sheer grit and maritime skill.
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621
Azel Ames
The passengers of the Mayflower were not a uniform band of saints, but a collection of families, bound children, and desperate adventurers whose individual histories were often obscured by later legend.
Eleven days in the militia during the war of the rebellion: A journal of the 'Emergency' campaign of 1862
Louis Richards
A brief surge of alarm pulls a city’s professionals from their desks to the front lines of a divided nation, proving that ordinary men can momentarily shoulder the weight of history.
How much Bolshevism is there in America?
Arno Dosch-Fleurot
This collection of investigative journalism captures the immediate post-World War I anxiety surrounding the potential spread of revolutionary socialism. Through two distinct voices, it offers a stark, dual-lens examination of social upheaval at home and abroad.
The American Missionary
Various
This periodical serves as a mid-1880s chronicle of the American Missionary Association, detailing its efforts to build schools and churches for emancipated African Americans, Indigenous tribes, and Chinese immigrants across the United States. It functions as a historical bridge, connecting the idealism of the…
Thoughts on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes of this Country
William S. (William Swan) Plumer
Providing a window into the nineteenth-century Southern ecclesiastical perspective, this treatise advocates for the systematic religious indoctrination of enslaved people as both a spiritual duty and a tool for social stability.
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Twenty Unsettled Miles in the Northeast Boundary: [From the Report of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society, presented at the Annual Meeting held in Worcester, October 21, 1896]
Thomas C. (Thomas Corwin) Mendenhall
A century-long diplomatic oversight leaves a twenty-mile stretch of water between Maine and New Brunswick without a legal boundary, forcing an attempt to resolve the resulting international friction and maritime confusion.
Do the Dead Return? A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco
Anonymous
Can a room full of hard-headed skeptics, trained to unmask fraud, find the truth when their own senses betray them?
Pilgrim Trails: A Plymouth-to-Provincetown Sketchbook
Frances Lester Warner
This evocative travelogue invites readers to walk the salt-sprayed paths of Massachusetts, tracing the history of the Pilgrims through the weathered architecture and quiet landscapes of Plymouth, Duxbury, and Cape Cod.
The Religion of Politics: A Sermon Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, The Honorable Council, And The Legislature Of Massachusetts, At The Annual Election, January 5, 1842
Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) Gannett
A nation’s political health depends entirely on the private integrity of its citizens, who must carry the weight of their religious convictions into every public act.
An account of some of the principal slave insurrections, and others, which have occured, or been attempted, in the United States and elsewhere, during the last two centuries
Joshua Coffin
This chronicle documents two centuries of slave resistance to demonstrate that the inherent human desire for liberty is an unstoppable force, and that safety lies only in immediate emancipation.
Psycho-Phone Messages
Francis Grierson
A series of urgent dispatches from beyond the grave warns an overconfident America that its political decay, cultural vanity, and military unpreparedness are hastening an inevitable global reckoning.
The American Missionary
Various
HOOK This collection of reports captures the fervent, organized spirit of late nineteenth-century religious expansionism, documenting the efforts of missionaries and educators as they sought to reshape American society through the influence of the church.
The Oahu College at the Sandwich Islands
Punahou School
This account details the mid-nineteenth-century founding of an academic institution in Hawaii, envisioned as the essential bridge between missionary labor and a stable, permanent Christian society in the Pacific.
The Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee: read after the stated meeting held February 2d, 1907
John K. Shellenberger
This military account dissects a critical moment in the American Civil War, analyzing the strategic failures and narrow escapes that defined the Battle of Spring Hill. It serves as a stark examination of command breakdown and the chaotic reality of mid-19th-century maneuvering.
The Electoral Votes of 1876: Who Should Count Them, What Should Be Counted, and the Remedy for a Wrong Count
David Dudley Field
In the uncertain shadow of the disputed 1876 presidential election, a noted legal mind examines the constitutional machinery governing the count. The work serves as a reasoned appeal for legislative clarity and democratic accountability.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 58, December 16, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Various
This weekly magazine serves as a bridge for young readers to the wider world, transforming the sprawling, often chaotic news of 1897 into a digestible, continuous narrative of global progress and peril.
Church work among the Negroes in the South: The Hale Memorial Sermon No. 2
Robert Strange
An urgent, early-twentieth-century plea for structural reform in the Episcopal Church, this sermon examines how white and Black Southerners might relate to one another within a shared Christian institution during a period of escalating Jim Crow segregation.
Montgomery, the Capital City of Alabama: Her Resources and Advantages
Montgomery Real Estate Agents' Association, Montgomery, Ala.
A flourishing hub of commerce and agriculture in the late nineteenth-century South, Montgomery offers abundant natural resources, exceptional transportation links, and an inviting climate for prospective settlers and investors.
The American Missionary
Various
This collection serves as a primary historical record of the late 19th-century American missionary movement, detailing the administrative, social, and spiritual efforts to educate and uplift disenfranchised populations across the United States.
Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street Cars
Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter) Hunt
This examination of mid-19th-century Philadelphia exposes the deep-seated racial prejudice that denied African Americans equal access to public streetcars despite the outcome of the Civil War.
Atlanta: A Twentieth-Century City
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Atlanta defines itself as a "city of the new regime" built upon the ruins of the old, championing a spirit of industrial renewal that seeks to transform post-Civil War devastation into a modern commercial hub.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 55, November 25, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Various
This weekly report offers a snapshot of late nineteenth-century global affairs, capturing the anxieties, innovations, and political turbulence of an era poised on the brink of significant change.
Christmas in Chicago
Fanny Butcher
A towering municipal Christmas tree in downtown Chicago illuminates a sprawling, bustling metropolis, sparking reflections on the astonishing transformation of the city from a muddy frontier village within the living memory of its older residents.
The tragedy of Monomoy Beach
Clarkson P. (Clarkson Paine) Bearse
Where the Atlantic pounds the shifting sand bars of Cape Cod, a routine rescue mission turns into a devastating test of human endurance and local courage.
Frontier service during the rebellion
George H. Pettis
Marching thousands of miles across unforgiving deserts and mountain passes, volunteer soldiers carved a brutal path through the American Southwest during the Civil War.
Fugitive Slave Law: The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law
Ichabod S. (Ichabod Smith) Spencer
A prominent Brooklyn clergyman addresses his congregation in late 1850, arguing with fierce religious conviction that obedience to the Fugitive Slave Law is a sacred duty ordained by God.