First Edition. A collection of speeches by a leading bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the editor of the A.M.E. Church Review, and a tireless campaigner for social justice. "Ransom was torn between two concepts of Christianity: Christianity as an instrument of (possibly bloody) revolution, and Christianity as the.....

On November 5, 1872, 440,738 New Yorkers went into the voting booth to express a preference for Ulysses S. Grant over Horace Greeley. Under the American political system they were technically selecting voters in the Electoral College, including Frederick Douglass and thirty-four other men on the Republican party slate. This.....

First Edition. A business-oriented travel guide to the United States with additional sections devoted to Europe, South America, and Cuba. The book offers advice on obtaining permission to travel (a somewhat difficult endeavor given anti-Japanese sentiment in the US), information on traveling by rail across America, recommended hotels for entrepreneurs.....

First Edition. A travelog of the author's trip to the United States to visit the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Sugishita went on to be a banker and member of the House of Representatives in Japan. This is a scarce 19th century Japanese view of the United States. [6], [3].....

A book tracing the history of US-Japanese relations focusing on the growth of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and the legal and diplomatic efforts to exclude and discriminate against Japanese immigrants. The author then turns to the growing possibility of a war in the Pacific between the two countries.....

Third printing. A biography of Frederick Douglass by the longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute (now University). Washington frames Douglass as an inspiring figure from the past, part of an era of "destruction and liberation" focused on slavery and its immediate aftermath. Washington implies that the more difficult task of.....

First Edition. A 64-page promotional book about the Afro-American, a national African American newspaper that began publishing in the 1890s. Illustrated with numerous photographs, the book provides an overview of the various departments in the company and the basics of newspaper production and distribution. The AFRO is still in business.....

First Edition. A history of the United States, published on May 15, 1907, three months to the day following the signing of the Gentlemen's Agreement, which significantly curtailed Japanese immigration to the United States. This entry in the massive Imperial Encyclopedia, which filled hundreds of volumes over two decades, gives.....

First Edition. A collection of letters to the editor and excerpts from published interviews in which "American" (presumably meaning White) soldiers express support for Japanese Americans as soldiers in the war and as loyal citizens on the homefront. The pamphlet seems rather a low-budget affair, issued by the War Relocation.....

First Edition. A guide to American, French, and British manners and customs for Japanese travelers and for Japanese who encounter Westerners at home. The book is an expansion of the author's earlier work on French manners, covering names, calling cards, stationery, letter writing, introductions and handshakes, weddings and divorce, meals.....

First Edition. A Japanese nationalist critique of the United States and American culture written by a Buddhist minister who oversaw a Jodo sect church in Honolulu. Ito (1876–1930) lived in Hawaii for 18 years, returning to Japan about 1920, where he wrote books on a variety of topics. This book.....

While not credited by name, this is (apparently) a Japanese translation of J. D. Quakenbos's Elementary History of the United States, offered as a high school textbook during the Meiji era. It is a relatively early account of American history published for a mainstream Japanese audience. This translation omits the.....

First Edition. This book offers an introduction to the prominent Japanese business leaders and companies in New York City, including short biographies, a directory of resident members of the Japan Club, and 32 pages of black-and-white plates, mostly with pictures of business owners and their shops. There are English and.....