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Caroling Dusk: An Anthology Of Verse By Negro Poets, Countee Cullen , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Poets: Paul Laurence Dunbar • Joseph S. Cotter, Sr • James Weldon Johnson • William Edward Burghardt Du Bois • William Stanley Braithwaite • James Edward Mccall • Angelina Weld Grimke • Anne Spencer • Mary Effie Lee Newsome • John Frederick Matheus • Fenton Johnson • Jessie Fauset • Alice Dunbar Nelson • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Claude McKay • Jean Toomer • Joseph S. Cotter, Jr • Blanche Taylor Dickinson • Frank Horne • Lewis Alexander • Sterling A. Brown • Clarissa Scott Delany • Langston Hughes • Gwendolyn B. Bennett • Anna Bontemps • Albert Rice • …

Co=Ge=We=A: The Half–Blood. A Depiction Of The Great Montana Cattle Range, Hum-Ishu-Ma "Mourning Dove", Christine Quintasket, Susan Kalter (Ed.)

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Described as “a work of Indigenous empowerment,” this novel was completed in 1912 but remained unpublished until 1927. It begins:

It was sunset on the river Pend d’Oreille. The last rays of the day-God, glinting through the tangled vines screening the great porch of the homestead of the Horseshoe Brand Ranch, fell upon a face of rare type. The features were rather prominent and well de-fined. The rich olive complexion, the grave, pensive countenance, proclaimed a proud descent from the only true American—the Indian. Of mixed blood, was Cogewea; a “breed”!—the socially ostracized of two races. Her eyes of the …

Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.2), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)

Maine Collection

Sprague's Journal of Maine History (Vol.XIV, No.2) April, May, June 1926.

Edited by John Francis Sprague.

Vol. 14, No. 2 (1926) Contents: History of the Chadwick Survey / Undeveloped Areas for Maine History Research / Fred Pike / Record of Marriages of Aroostook Pioneers / John C. Cross / Historical Notes about Farmington, Maine / "Like a Bell's Distant Tone" / Relating to Farmington and Sandy River Region / Facts to be Remembered about the State of Maine / Passing of the Old Tanneries / School Department / Editorial Comment / Captain Silas Adams / Sayings of the Subscribers

Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.1), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)

Maine Collection

Sprague's Journal of Maine History (Vol.XIV, No.1) January, February, March 1926.

Edited by John Francis Sprague.

Vol. 14, No.1 (1926) Contents: Longfellow's English Ancestors / Fort Mary / A New Version of Thanatopsis / When King George Assessed the Town of Gorham, Maine, in 1770 / Politics in Bangor in 1860 / Referring to the Name of Mount Battie / List of Tax Payers in the Town of Vienna, Maine, for the Year 1834 / James Henry Carleton / An Old Maine Newspaper / My Mother / Historic Thanksgiving at Southwest Harbor / The Lugubrious Tale and Doleful Death of …

Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.3), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)

Maine Collection

Sprague's Journal of Maine History (Vol.XIV, No.3) July, August, September 1926.

Cover: "In Memoriam John Francis Sprague, June 16, 1848 -- May 7, 1926".

Vol.14, No. 3 (1926) Contents: Tributes to John Francis Sprague / All Alone / March in a Maine Pasture / Regarding the Jonothan Edwards Family / What Forestry Means to Maine / Repeating Maine History / Side-light on Ancient Local History / Chadwick Survey Paper Corrigenda / First Permanent Settler / Census of Penobscot County / Letters from Journal's Friends / Maine Patriotic Orders / Kind and Appreciative Words / Sayings of Subscribers

The Americanization Of Czech Surnames, J. B. Dudek

Nebraskiana Publications: Resources and Materials on the 37th State

An essay on issues surrounding the alteration of Czech surnames in the United States of America in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

J. B. Dudek was born in Nebraska and was the rector at St. John's Nepomuk Roman Catholic Church in Yukon, Oklahoma, United States. He was educated at Benedictine Abbey at Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, and at Kendrick Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

Increase Mather: The Foremost American Puritan, Kenneth B. Murdock

Zea E-Books in American Studies

The classic biography of preeminent colonial Massachusetts minister and President of Harvard College, Increase Mather (1639-1723). This is the work that re-started Puritan studies in America.

“A book which will be indispensable to students of early American history.” —Times Literary Supplement

“It is a book to welcome and appreciate.” —American Historical Review

“The available sources have been used carefully, and the story is told with great literary skill.” —The Sewanee Review

“[Murdock’s book] opened the sluice gates to powerful streams of scholarship that in the next two decades revised our understanding of American Puritanism.” —Philip F. Gura, in A Concise …

Maine's Joan Of Arc : An Address Made Before The Kennebec Historical Society, John Francis Sprague

Dorothea Lynde Dix Pamphlets

Booklet containing an address by John Francis Sprague given to the Kennebec Historical Society on January 8, 1924 about Dorothea Dix. Series 1, number 2 of "Kennebec Historical Society's Brochures."

Memoirs Of The Foreign Legion, Maurice Magnus, D.H. Lawrence

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Maurice Magnus was 39 years old when he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion to join the fight against Germany in World War I. Magnus was an American expatriot living in Rome—a theatrical agent, tutor, newspaper correspondent, writer, editor, and literary entrepreneur. He soon discovered his error—the Legion he found consisted largely of German exiles, prison-avoiding felons, and contemptuous French officers. Magnus spent about six weeks training in North Africa before a transfer to southern France provided the opportunity to desert and flee back to Italy. The Memoirs recounts his brief disenchanted tenure as a Legionnaire. After his military service …

Rosalyn Kirsch's Scrapbook 1920-1922, Rosalyn Kirsch

Scrapbooks

Rosalyn Kirsch went to Ward-Belmont during the 1920-1922 school years. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

Lewiston Of Today, 1920, R. J. Lawton (Publisher)

Lewiston, Maine

No abstract provided.

America's Mission To Serve Humanity: (Wilson A Prophet, In A Line Of Prophets), Frank Moss

Electronic Texts in American Studies

America's divinely-ordained mission is to serve humanity; Germany's ruler-imposed mission was to dominate mankind. America's galaxy of prophets culminates in the president, whose voice is heard throughout the earth; Germany's line of prophets crashes to ruin in the kaiser; "Deutchland ueber alles" has become a dirge, but rescued peoples are singing "Sweet land of liberty."

This address shows that a continuous voice of prophecy has rung out from American leaders, from the nation's beginning to the present time, proclaiming the mission of America to Humanity, -- culminating in the tremendous movement of 1918-19, when she undertakes to save democracy, and …

Mary Daly Mcwilliams' Scrapbook 1918-1920, Mary Daly Mcwilliams

Scrapbooks

Mary Daly McWilliams went to Ward-Belmont during the 1918-1920 school years. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

November 15, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, dated to approximately 1916, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about several topics, including her teaching job, attending an exhibition, seeing the Emperor pass on the street, tea services, and describes in detail her accommodations. She says that she is very happy in Japan now that she is more used to the climate.

Folklore Of The Pennsylvania Germans, Isaac Shirk Simons

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed thesis paper completed at Franklin and Marshall College entitled, "Folklore of the Pennsylvania Germans", by Isaac Shirk Simons, dated May 20, 1915. Within, Simons covers a range of topics pertaining to Pennsylvania Germans, including history, superstitions, religious sects and witchcraft.

The Lewiston Of Today, 1913, City Of Lewiston

Lewiston, Maine

No abstract provided.

Wonder-Working Providence Of Sions Saviour In New England 1628-1651, Edward Johnson, J. Franklin Jameson

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Late in the year 1653, but under date of 1654, Nathaniel Brooke, a London publisher, "at the Angel in Cornhill," brought out a small octavo book of two hundred and thirty-six pages, entitled A History of New-England, from the English planting in the Yeere 1628 untill the Yeere 1652, etc. The title, inexact in any case, for the book is rather a history of Massachusetts than of all New England, was evidently affixed by the publisher. His advertisements show that at one time he thought of giving the book the title Historicall Relation of the First Planting of the English …

1609-1909. The Dutch In New Netherland And The United States

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CONTENTS
Directors of the Chamber
Constitution of the Chamber
Contract with Henry Hudson (Original text)
Contract with Henry Hudson (English Translation)

The Dutch in New Netherland and the United States -- pp. 19-73

NEW NETHERLAND
Exploration of the Hudson in 1609
Fur traders 1609-1612
Block's exploration of Long Island Sound and formation of the United New Netherland Company
Chartering of the West India Co. in 1621
First settlers arrived under leadership of Jesse de Forest
Claims of Holland and England
Captain May, first head of the Colony
Pieter Minuit, first Governor
Erection of Fort Amsterdam
Patroons and the Act of …

Part 03 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Part 01 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 02 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

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Samuel Morris: The Story Of A Spirit-Filled Life, D. E. Reed, Arthur Jordan

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

The story of a boy from Liberia who came to America and his dependence upon the Holy Spirit.

1908 edition originally published by several different religious publishing companies, including Christian Alliance (in Harrisburg, Pa.) and the Golden Rule (in Albion, Mich.). OCLC records have authors as Stephen Merritt; T.C. Reade.

Helen Marx's Scrapbook 1908-1911, Helen Marx

Scrapbooks

Helen Marx was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana on May 13, 1894. She attended Belmont College for Young Women from 1908-1911 and received a special degree in English. After school, she returned to Lake Charles and eventually married Richard Joseph Zander on June 18, 1919. The couple moved to Pennsylvania where he worked as a partner in a men’s clothing manufacturing business and Helen was a homemaker. They had four children: Judith, Richard Jr., Julia, and Simone. Richard Zander Sr. died on December 17, 1954, and Helen passed on March 5, 1982.

July 23, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about her vacation trip from where she was staying in Tokyo to several different places around Japan. She writes of her stay in a Japanese style hotel. She also writes about the scenery around her, and about how long it takes her by rail to get to her travel destinations. She also writes of a traveling companion named George, and how she has invited Abbie to come and visit her and meet George.

April 11, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about life in Japan. She writes about the climate, and how she finds she cannot do as much due to the "enervating" nature of the climate there. She describes a "sword walking" ceremony, in which one climbs a ladder made of swords. She then writes of the beginnings of spring in Japan and how there is a fair coming to Japan, "the largest ever held in Japan."

January 18, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about the "glorious" scenery where she is staying. She writes of the mountains, streams, tall oak trees, and blossoms as the season changes from winter to spring.

December 26, 1906, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets to thank her for the Christmas gifts. She describes the table that they set for a traditional western-style Christmas. They invited a Japanese couple, who were described by Cora to be very fascinated with the Christmas decor. She also tells Mrs. Tibetts about her coming vacation with George to Oshima, as there is a volcano there that they are intending to climb.

The Waterville Mail (Vol. 59, No. 51): May 2, 1906, The Mail Publishing Company

The Waterville Mail (Waterville, Maine)

Continues The Eastern Mail (July 1847-August 1863).
Published weekly, September 4, 1863 - May 9, 1906.
Publishers: Maxham & Wing (1863 - December 2,1885); Ephraim Maxham (December 1885); Wing & Wing (January 1886 - March 21, 1891); Charles G. Wing (March 21, 1891 - April 17, 1891); Prince & Wyman (April 17, 1891 - February 26, 1896); The Mail Publishing Company (February 26, 1896 - May 9, 1906).
See Gerould, W.G.: American newspapers, 1821-1836; Whittemore, E.C.: Centennial history of Waterville.
Colby Libraries catalog record (CBBcat): http://cbbcat.net/record=b1209701~S19
WorldCat record (OCLC): http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10486964

The Waterville Mail (Vol. 59, No. 49): April 18, 1906, The Mail Publishing Company

The Waterville Mail (Waterville, Maine)

Continues The Eastern Mail (July 1847-August 1863).
Published weekly, September 4, 1863 - May 9, 1906.
Publishers: Maxham & Wing (1863 - December 2,1885); Ephraim Maxham (December 1885); Wing & Wing (January 1886 - March 21, 1891); Charles G. Wing (March 21, 1891 - April 17, 1891); Prince & Wyman (April 17, 1891 - February 26, 1896); The Mail Publishing Company (February 26, 1896 - May 9, 1906).
See Gerould, W.G.: American newspapers, 1821-1836; Whittemore, E.C.: Centennial history of Waterville.
Colby Libraries catalog record (CBBcat): http://cbbcat.net/record=b1209701~S19
WorldCat record (OCLC): http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10486964

The Waterville Mail (Vol. 59, No. 42): February 28, 1906, The Mail Publishing Company

The Waterville Mail (Waterville, Maine)

Continues The Eastern Mail (July 1847-August 1863).
Published weekly, September 4, 1863 - May 9, 1906.
Publishers: Maxham & Wing (1863 - December 2,1885); Ephraim Maxham (December 1885); Wing & Wing (January 1886 - March 21, 1891); Charles G. Wing (March 21, 1891 - April 17, 1891); Prince & Wyman (April 17, 1891 - February 26, 1896); The Mail Publishing Company (February 26, 1896 - May 9, 1906).
See Gerould, W.G.: American newspapers, 1821-1836; Whittemore, E.C.: Centennial history of Waterville.
Colby Libraries catalog record (CBBcat): http://cbbcat.net/record=b1209701~S19
WorldCat record (OCLC): http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10486964