A broadsheet advertising anti-Catholic lectures, along with a public challenge to Catholic Priests, by an influential “escaped nun” and possible KKK ally whose sensational lectures fuelled xenophobia and nativist politics at the turn of the 20th Century. This advertising brochure promotes lectures to be given in Johnstown, Pennsylvania by Margaret.....
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A group of three scarce circulars issued to promote a St. Louis Sanitary Fair in 1864. The Western Sanitary Commission's biggest fund-raising event was the Grand Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. The Commission was a private agency devoted to aiding the Union Army’s sick and wounded soldiers. Led by abolitionists and.....
An unrecorded circular produced by the Philadelphia Prison Society reporting on an 1848 prison-reform convention in New York City held by the Prison Association of New York and promoting a subsequent such convention to be held in Philadelphia later that year. The “period of reform from the 1820s to.....
A fresh example of the fourth installment of Wright’s series of sporadically published manifestos, dedicated to the preservation of American democracy and economic autonomy; expressing animus towards fascism, communism, and all forms of empire. Wright delivers a blistering Independence Day message summed up as follows: “Let this truth come through.....