This final release of plays from Nineteenth-Century American Drama includes a devastating assault on Abraham Lincoln, an all-female cast in a courtroom drama meant to ridicule women, and a “Negro...
The January release of The American Civil Collection, 1860-1922: From the American Antiquarian Society includes a trove of reflections on the Civil War and its aftermath. Also found in this release is...
The June release of Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922: From the Library Company of Philadelphia includes a clergyman’s critique of Thomas Jefferson’s candidacy for the presidency, a Quaker’s message...
The current release of The American Civil War Collection, 1860-1922: From the American Antiquarian Society, includes: an unusual Christmas story instructive of the need for faith, an elaborate account...
Every four years the American political parties gather to nominate their presidential candidate. The months preceding the conventions are often the most fractious periods in American politics as...
This month’s release of Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922: From the Library Company of Philadelphia includes works illustrating various forms of internal strife caused by slavery and the opposition...
The October release of The American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922: From the American Antiquarian Society includes speeches illustrating the growing controversy surrounding America’s peculiar...
By Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware, and Director of the Program in African American History, Library Company of Philadelphia In 2013, people across the...
From The Daily Picayune; 04-15-1865; New Orleans One hundred and forty-five years ago this month, two of the most critical events in American history occurred within five days of one another. On April...
