A compelling group of letters, all retained copies, written in response to the upcoming election of 1848 by a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Lewis Cass. Marshall argues for the removal of the Quartermaster General of New Orleans, Major Daniel D. Tompkins (1798–1863), whose scheming on behalf of Whig.....
A Reconstruction-era archive including a vitriolic anti-Reconstruction letter and a plea for character reference from a white banker embroiled in a bribery scandal with South Carolina’s first prominent Black politician. Thomas J. Robertson (1823–1897) was a South Carolina plantation and slave owner who supported the Union during the Civil War.....
A compelling, unrecorded film-script for a movie-that-never-was dramatizing the infamous assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico, with twenty-nine recommended changes in manuscript. In 1958, Hollywood director of low-budget Western films George Sherman (1908–1991) was in Mexico shooting the movie The Last of the Fast Guns (1958) when a journalist offered.....