THE LONG EMANCIPATION
Inscribed first printing of this account of the history of emancipation and what it meant for the identities of formerly enslaved Black Americans, given as part of the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures.
Inscribed first printing of this account of the history of emancipation and what it meant for the identities of formerly enslaved Black Americans, given as part of the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures.
First edition, second issue, of the most influential piece of war fiction in American literature, with the armorial engraved bookplate of Theodore Roosevelt on the front pastedown, and Roosevelt's clipped signature additionally tipped onto the front free endpaper.
Original pair of muster rolls from 1863, documenting the pay of the Union company just before their fateful role in turning back Pickett's Charge, "the high-water mark of the Confederacy," with incomplete payments offering poignant evidence of their losses during the battle.
First edition of this biography of the influential abolitionist and advocate for Native American and women's rights.
First edition of this map of the eastern United States, annotated as the tide of the Civil War turned against the Confederacy.