[Civil War] [Slavery] Manumission and compensation documents concerning the enlistment of Minos James in the United States Colored Troops, created in Maryland circa 1865 during the final months of the American Civil War when border state slaveholders sought payment for enslaved men who entered Union military service. The documents record.....
Wilmer, L. Allison. History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861–65, published 1898–1899, compiles the official service record of Maryland soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in the Union war effort during the American Civil War, preserving one of the most detailed documentary records of the state’s military participation.....
RCA COSMAC VIP (a build it yourself microcomputer sold to hobbyists and students) archive of user programming periodicals, 1978 to 1980, documenting the late 1970s culture of kit computer ownership, reader written software, and newsletter based technical exchange before home computing became a retail software market. This low cost kit.....
Notes on the Progress of the Colored People of Maryland Since the War. Jeffrey R. Brackett. Johns Hopkins University: Baltimore, 1890. Original paper wrappers. 6 x 9 inches. 96 pages. "In some respects, Maryland is a most interesting and instructive field for a study of the progress of the colored.....
Railroad preservation photo archive depicting hand track labor, narrow gauge steam restoration, and surviving nineteenth-century rail infrastructure during the 1970s heritage railroad movement, when volunteer groups, museums, and tourist railways across the United States began rebuilding lines and preserving steam locomotives that had narrowly escaped scrapping after the end of.....
Women: A Journal of Liberation, 1970 to 1975, documenting feminist cultural expression and ideological debate within the Women’s Liberation Movement during the early second wave period. The material reflects feminist print culture, illustrating themes of gender roles, domestic life, labor, sexuality, and global political struggle, and offering insight into how.....
[African American] [Civil Rights] Jack, Robert History of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Boston: The Meador Press, 1943. First edition. 110 pages. Original hardcover cloth binding, no dust jacket as issued. 5 1/2" x 8". This book is a thorough and detailed historical study of the.....
[Richard Wright] Official Quarterly Publication of the College Language Association. Volume XII, No. 4. Baltimore, June 1969. 6" x 9." Glossy pictorial wrappers bearing photo portrait of Richard Wright sitting at a writing desk. 103 pages, Single issue of scholarly journal devoted to teaching litreature at historically Black universities. This.....
Historic WWII Newspaper. Baltimore News Post, MD, August 24, 1945. Large, bold banner above the masthead: "ATOMIC BOMB RAYS KILL THOUSANDS, JAPS CLAIM". Also has small front page photo of MacArthur. In very good condition.
