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- The Great Seal of California
(Illustrated London Almanack, 1852)
- On the design of the new "great seal" of the state of California, adopted in 1849.
- The Commercial Crisis of 1837
(Scribners, 1879A)
- A complicated tale of banking and speculation.
- Historic Notes of Life and Letters on Massachusetts, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Atlantic Monthly, 1883)
- The Ku Klux Klan, by Julia D. Whiting
(Century Magazine, 1884B)
- Subtitled "Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment," and including an additional editorial comment, "New Light on the KKK."
- Connecticut in the Middle Ages, by Wendell Philips Garrison
(Century Magazine, 1885B)
- An account of a Quaker woman's attempts to establish a school for "colored pupils" in 1830's Connecticut.
- A Scout with the Buffalo Soldiers, by Frederic Remington
(Century Magazine, 1889A)
- The "Haunted House" in Royal Street, by George Cable
(Century Magazine, 1889B)
- A true story of wicked doings in a house in the New Orleans French Quarter.
- Salome Muller: Strange True Stories of Louisiana, by George Cable
(Century Magazine, 1889B)
- The account of a slave girl believed to be a long-lost German child illegally sold into slavery, leading to a complicated court case. For more details and an update on the "was she or wasn't she?" question, see
The Lost German Slave Girl, by John Bailey (2004).
- Out in the Snow
(Pictorial Museum of Sport & Adventure, ca. 1890)
- Some accounts of the bitter winter of 1863-1864 in the US.
- Across the Plains in the Donner Party, by Virginia Reed Murphy
(Century Magazine, 1891B)
- A charming and touching account of the ill-fated Donner party by a woman who was a young girl at the time of her travels.
- Aaron Burr's Conspiracy and Trial, by Walter S. Drysdale
(Harper's Monthly, 1892A)
- Wildcat Banking in the Teens, by J.B. McMaster
(Atlantic Monthly, 1893)
- The Myth of Land-Bill Allen, by Washington Gladden
(Century Magazine, 1894A)
- An interesting account of "false news" in the 19th century - how a legend evolved around an individual who claimed to be responsible for an important land-bill and who died a pauper.
- Capture of the Slave-Ship "Cora," by Wilburn Hall
(Century Magazine, 1894B)
- Account of the last slaver taken by the United States, in 1860.
- A Group of American Girls, Early in the Century, by Helen Evertson Smith
(Century Magazine, 1897A)
- Reminiscences of girlhood on the Hudson in the early 19th century.
- Napoleon's Interest in the Battle of New Orleans, by William Hugh Robarts
(Century Magazine, 1897A)
- Including a description of the battle by General Andrew Jackson.
- Alexis de Tocqueville and His Book on America, 60 Years After, by Daniel Gilman
(Century Magazine, 1898B)
- The Pony Express, by W.F. Bailey
(Century Magazine, 1898B)
- [The Statue of Liberty] The Largest Statue in the World, and How It Was Built, by A. Meta
(The Strand, 1899B)
- • See also American Military History
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