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Speech Of Mr. Solomon Foot, Of Vermont, On The Origin And Causes Of The Mexican War, Solomon Foot

Palo Alto/Mexican War Research Collection

Delivered in the House of Representatives of the U. S., July 16, 1846. The bill making appropriations for the support of volunteers and other troops, authorized to be employed in the prosecution of the war with Mexico, during the year ending the 30th June 1847, being under consideration in Committee of the whole on the state of the Union. Printed by J. & G. S. Gideon

Documents Relating To The Ursuline Convent In Charlestown, George T. Curtis, Theodore Lyman, Charles G. Loring

Special Collections Miscellanea

An 1842 reprint containing two reports detailing the events surrounding the 1834 mob destruction of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, MA. The first report discusses the public responsibility and duty of the State to protect its citizens and their property, regardless of social or religious affiliation, from unjust actions. The second report, produced by a select committee of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, discusses the merits of a petition for the Commonwealth to indemnify the Sisters of the Ursuline Order for their loss. Boston: Reprinted by Samuel N. Dickinson, 1842.

See The Trial of John R. Buzzell by Lemuel Shaw, …

Centenary Of Wesleyan Methodism : A Brief Sketch Of The Rise, Progress, And Present State Of The Wesleyan-Methodist Societies Throughout The World, Thomas Jackson

ATS Digital Resources

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The Far West, And Its Native Inhabitants, Lucian Minor

Faculty Publications

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Book Review Of The Great Metropolis, Lucian Minor

Faculty Publications

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Book Review Of George Bancroft's A History Of The United States, N. Beverley Tucker

Faculty Publications

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Christian Education, N. Beverley Tucker

Faculty Publications

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John Kean To Reverend James Carmakau, July 1, 1834, John Kean Ii

Liberty Hall Collection 1830s

John Kean wrote to Reverend James Carmakau, addressed to Princeton. John wrote about history and how seemingly small or insignificant moments can cause the most magnificent or disastrous events. He discussed events such as the Dark Ages, priesthood, and the Great Wall of China. It is possible that this was written for one of Kean's classes at Princeton College.

Historical Collections Of The Indians In New England., Daniel Gookin

Special Collections (Miscellaneous)

An account of the Indians of New England by Daniel Gookin, a magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Published in 1792.

Memoir Of The Indian Wars, John Stuart

Primary Sources

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A Narrative Of The Planting Of The Massachusets Colony Anno 1628. With The Lords Signal Presence The First Thirty Years. Also A Caution From New-Englands Apostle, The Great Cotton, How To Escape The Calamity, Which Might Befall Them Or Their Posterity. And Confirmed By The Evangelist Norton With Prognosticks From The Famous Dr. Owen. Concerning The Fate Of These Churches, And Animadversions Upon The Anger Of God, In Sending Of Evil Angels Among Us. Published By Old Planters, The Authors Of The Old Mens Tears., Joshua Scottow, Paul Royster (Transcribed & Edited By)

Joshua Scottow Papers

This edition of A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusets Colony Anno 1628 is based on the first edition published in Boston in 1694. The spelling, orthography, punctuation, and capitalization of the original have been retained; only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Scottow's Narrative is the sequel to Old Mens Tears for their Own Declensions, published three years earlier. It is an expansion of the argument that God and history are being unkind to New England because its churches have strayed from the strict practice of the unanimously-minded early founders of the Congregational Way. Scottow treats of …

Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 29 Collection Of Minor Classical Authors, Aldine Press

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

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Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 30 Nova Legenda Angliae, John De Tynemouth

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

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Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 31 Hortus Sanitatis, Jacob Meydenbach

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

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Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 9 "Sermones" Of Simon De Cremona, Simon De Cremona

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

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The Deeds Of King Arthur Of Britain In The Latin World Chronicle Of Guillaume De Nangis, Guillaume De Nangis, Christopher Berard, Morris Tichenor

Humanities Program Faculty Publications

Translated by:

Christopher Berard and Morris Tichenor

At the Abbey of Saint Denis-en-France, the Benedictine monk and chronicler Guillaume de Nangis (d. 1300) wrote a Latin World Chronicle from Creation to AD 1300. The text contains an account of the reign of King Arthur of Britain that includes the celebrated Sword in the Stone Episode. This iconic scene was not traditionally part of the ‘historical’ account of King Arthur’s biography. The pseudo-historical Brut chronicle story of King Arthur, which originates with Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae [History of the Kings of Britain] (c. 1136), has Arthur, aged …

Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 7 Officium Beate Marie Virginis, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

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