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From letter, Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox re: Ordinance Department, ca. 1779, (GLC 07167)




Tintype of unidentified private, ca. 1861. (GLC 05111.01.0506)




"Reading the Emancipation Proclamation." Lithograph of black family reading newspaper, Hartford, Conn., 1864. (Detail, GLC 07595)




Watercolor from the sketchbook of Philo H. Arnold, 1848. (GLC01685)





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Lancaster, Jane (Pembroke Center)
"One good turn deserves another?" Madame Eliza Jumel, Aaron Burr, and the Association for the Relief of Respectable, Aged, Indigent Females in New York City (GLC)

Laughlin Schultz, Bonnie (Indiana University)
"Could I Not Do Something for the Cause?" The Brown Women and John Brown's Female Networks (COL, 2006)

Leavenworth, Peter (University of New Hampshire)
Confrontations of Taste: Americans and European Standards of Musical Aesthetics in the Early Republic: 1770-1825 (NYPL, 2004)

LeBien, Thomas (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Civil War Through Private Eyes (GLC, 2001)

Lepore, Jill (Boston University)
The Mystery of Iniquity: Solving the 1741 New York Slave Conspiracy (NYHS, 2002)

Letwin, Daniel (Pennsylvania State University)
The Problem of Social Equality in African-American Thought (COL, 1999)

Levander, Caroline (Rice University)
Cradling Liberty: The Politics of Nineteenth-Century American Culture (GLC, 2001)

Lieberman, Robbie (Southern Illinois University)
"Peace and Civil Rights Don’t Mix, They Say": The Impact of Anti-Communism on the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1965 (SCH, 2006)

Lloyd, John P. (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
Revising the Republic: Popular Perceptions of Constitutional Change during the Civil War and Reconstruction (GLC, 2005)

Loomis, Christopher (University of Virginia)
Rechanneling Democracy: Public Television and Liberalism in America, 1950-1980 (COL)

Lorini, Alessandra (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
The Role of Political Refugees in New York Public Culture, 1877-1898 (NYHS, 2000)

Lowry, Thomas and Beverly A.
Civil War Court Martials database (GLC, 2001)
Publications: Venereal Disease and the Lewis & Clark Expedition, University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Lundberg, James M. (Yale University)
Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872. (NYPL, 2005)

Lutes, Jean Marie (Manhattan College)
Stunt Reporters and Sob Sisters: Women Journalists and the Embodiment of Publicity in America (COL, 2001)
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Mackintosh, Will (University of Michigan)

A Restless Nation: Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and Class in the United States, 1790-1865 (NYHS, 2005)

Maertz, Gregory (St. John's University)
The Invisible Museum: The Secret Postwar History of Nazi Art (NYPL, 2001)
Publications: Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age: Critical
Essays in Comparative Literature
, SUNY Press, 1998.
George Eliot's Middlemarch, Broadview Editions, 2004.
The Invisible Museum: The Secret Postwar History of Nazi Art, Yale
University Press, forthcoming, 2007.

Marinari, Maddalena (University of Kansas, Lawrence)
Liberty, Restriction, and the Remaking of Italians and Eastern European Jews (1924-1965) (NYPL, 2005)

Mason, Matthew (Brigham Young University)
The Doughfaes: Northern Men of Southern Principles in U.S. Politics, 1819-1865 (NYPL)

Masur, Louis P. (The City College of The City University of New York)
Baseball, American Culture, and the First World Series (NYPL, 2001)

Matsui, John (Johns Hopkins)
We See What Our Fathers Did Not" Interracial Evangelicalism in the Antislavery Atlantic World, 1816-1866 (SCH)

Matthews, Irene (Northern Arizona University)
The Darkie's House: Migration and Emigration Patterns During Reconstruction (GLC, 2004)

Mattson, Kevin (Ohio University)
Reconstructuring 'the L Word': An Intellectual History of Post-World War II American Liberalism (COL, 2002)
Publications: When America Was Great: The Fighting Faith of Liberalism in Post-War America, Routledge, 2004.
Engaging Youth: Combating the Apathy of Young Americans toward Politics, Century Foundation, 2003.
Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical
Liberalism, 1945-70
, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.
Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participator
Democracy During the Progressive Era
, Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1998.

Maw, Peter (University of Manchester)
Anglo-American Trade, 1783-1815 (NYHS, 2004)

May, Cedrick (Pennsylvania State University)
Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Transatlantic, 1760-1855 (NYHS, 2001)

Mayers, David (Boston University)
The American Empire and Its Discontents (NYHS, 2000)

McCaughey, Robert (Barnard College)
A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004 (NYHS, 1998)

McCaskill, Barbara (University of Georgia)
African American Women and Transatlantic Abolition (COL, 1998)
Publications: “Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem”: African American
Literature and Culture, 1877-1919
, Co-edited with Caroline
Gebhard, New York University Press, 2006.
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. The University of Georgia Press,
1999.
Multicultural Literature and Literacies: Making Space for Difference. Co-edited with Suzanne Miller, SUNY Press Series on Literacy,
Culture, and Learning, SUNY Press, 1993.

McClintock, Russell (Clark University)
Response to Secession: Northern Political Culture and the Crisis of the Union, 1860-1861 (GLC, 2000)

McClure, Daniel (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
The National Center of Afro-American Artists, Culture and Community Development in Roxbury, MA, 1950-1990 (SCH, 2003)

McConnell, Kent (Wake Forest University)
"There Must Be Tears in the Houses": A Search for Religious Meaning from the Carnage of the American Civil War (GLC, 2006)

McCoy, Colin (University of Illinois)
Democracy in Print: The Transformation of American Political Culture, 1815-1861 (NYHS, 1999)

McDaniel, W. Caleb (Johns Hopkins University)
"Our Country is the World": Radical American Abolitionists Abroad (NYHS, 2003)

McDonald, Christine Coalwell (The Storm King School)
Jefferson's Military School (NYHS, 2001)

McDonald, Kevin P. (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers and Slaves: Making an Indo-Atlantic Trade World, 1645-1730 (NYHS, 2004)

McElfresh, Earl B. (McElfresh Map Co., LLC)
Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War (GLC, 1998)

McKerley, John (University of Iowa)
Beyond the Ballot: Race, Voting Rights, and the Limits of Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Missouri (NYPL, 2003)
Publications: Building Solidarity: A History of The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 1260, 2004.

McKito, Valerie H. (Texas Technology University)
In the Shadow of Victory: Loyalists after the Revolution (NYPL)

McMahon, Lucia (Rutgers University)
Gender, Sociability and Identity in the Early Republic (GLC, 2000)

McManus, Michael J. (McManus, Perkins & Associates, Ltd.)
The Missouri Compromise: Politics, Slavery and Race in America, 1789-1861 (NYHS, 2004)
Publications: Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861, Kent State University Press, 1998.

McMillin, Robyn Davis (University of Oklahoma)
Cultivation of the Scientific Arts in Eighteenth-Century America (NYPL, 2003)

McNeil, Genna Rae (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"Witness!" - Two Centuries of African American Faith and Practice of the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York, 1808-2008 (SCH)

Mead, Philip (Harvard University)
Melancholy Landscapes: The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign in History and Memory 1779-1830 (NYHS)

Mehrotra, Ajay K. (University of Chicago)
Creating the Modern American Fiscal State: The Political Economy of U.S. Tax Policy, 1880-1930 (COL, 2001)

Middleton, Simon (University of East Anglia)
Rights, Privileges, and the Place of the Artisan in Colonial New York (COL, 1998)

Mihm, Stephen (New York University)
The Counterfeiters: Bankers, Forgers and the Culture of Commerce (NYHS, 2000)

Miletsky, Zebulon (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
City of Amalgamation: Race, Marriage, Class and Color in Boston, 1900-1930 (SCH, 2003)

Milford, Timothy A. (Harvard University)
Advantage: The Gardiners and Anglo-America, 1750-1820 (COL, 2000)
Publications: The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition
and the British-American Career
, University Press of New
England, 2005.

Miller, Eben (Brandeis University)
Born along the Color Line: A Generation within the Twentieth-Century Civil Rights Struggle (COL, 2000)

Miller, Tom (University of Arizona)
José Martí's Life in New York City, 1880-1895 (NYPL, 2001)
Publications: How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life, National Geographic Books, 2007.

Millett, Nathaniel (St. Louis University)
Slave Resistance During the Age of Revolution; The Maroon Community at Prospect Bluff, Spanish Florida (NYHS)

Mills, Brandon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Cultures of African Colonization in the Antebellum United States: The Roots of American Empire and the Global Imagination of U.S. Citizenship, 1817-1863 (NYPL)

Milne, David (University of Nottingham)
Intellectuals and Foreign Policy, 1890-1945 (COL, 2005)

Minardi, Margot (Harvard University)
Making Slavery History: Memory and Aspiration in Early National Massachusetts (NYPL, 2005)

Minichillo, Matthew A. (Kent State University)
The Federalist Sage of New York: The Retirement Years of John Jay, 1801 - 1829 (COL, 2002)

Mittelstadt, Jennifer (University of Michigan)
The Dilemmas of the Liberal Welfare State, 1945-1964: Gender, Race, and Aid to Dependent Children (COL, 2001)

Moats, Sandy (University of California, Los Angeles)
Monroe's Tours and the Realignment of American Politics in the early 19th century (NYHS, 2000)

Monaghan, Charles
They Taught a Young Nation to Read: Writers of Literacy Textbooks in the Early Republic (COL, 2002)

Moniz, Amanda (University of Michigan)
Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe: Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760-1815 (NYPL, 2003)

Montejano, David (University of Texas at Austin)
A Red Badge of Cotton? On the Circulation of Southern Cotton during the American Civil War (NYHS, 2002)

Morgan, Kerry A.
Picturing Justice: Law and Lawlessness in American Visual Culture, 1850-1880 (NYPL, 1998)

Morin, Karen (Bucknell University)
Charles P. Daly and the Making of American Geography, 1860-1890 (NYPL, 2004)
Publications: Women, Religion, & Space, co-edited with Jeanne Kay Guelke, forthcoming, Syracuse University Press.

Morris, James McGrath
Pulitzer: A Biography (COL, 2006)

Moudry, Roberta
Met Life's Metropolis (NYHS, 2005)

Murphy, Brian P. (University of Virginia) The Politics Corporations Make: Interests, Institutions, and the Formation of States and Parties in New York, 1783-1850 (NYPL)

Moses, Jennifer (University of Delaware)
The Fortune Generation: The Black Press and the Unfolding of Jim Crow America, 1888-1908 (NYHS, 2006)

Mulhall, Sarah (Johns Hopkins)
Treated as a Child Should Be: New York City Orphan Asylums and Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of Childhood (NYHS)

Mustakeem, Sowande (Michigan State University)
Ripples of Infinity: Gender, Health, and Violence in the Middle Passage, 1721-1808 (GLC, 2006)
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Nathans, Heather Shawn (University of Maryland)

"A Democracy of Glee:" The Post-Revolutionary Theater of Boston & Philadelphia (NYHS, 1999)

Nelson, Claire Nee (Yale University)
African Americans and the Making of Race in America, 1877-1925 (SCH, 2004)

Nichols-Geerdes, Sasha (University of California at Los Angeles)
Ancient Systems of Trade: Organizing Commerce in Colonial Boston, New York, and Philadelphia (NYHS)

Nissenbaum, Steven (University of Massachusetts)
Clement Moore Papers (NYHS, 2001)

Noonan, Mark James (Queens College, City University of New York)
"Reading The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine:" American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893' (NYPL, 2001)

Nord, David Paul (Indiana University)
Complaining About Journalism in Early 20th Century New York (COL, 2003)
Publications: Newspapers and New Politics: Midwestern Municipal Reform, 1890-1900. UMI Research Press, 1981.
Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers. University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America, 1790-1860. Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Albumen print of an unidentified woman in a black dress. (GLC 05131)








Full-length standing carte de visite portrait of two young girls in roller skates. Pentz imprint, York, Pa., undated. (GLC 00241.09)




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