First Edition. Sarmiento, the Plenipotentiary Minister to the United States from Argentina, "arrived in New York a month after the assassination of the American president. He was moved by the nation’s mourning and resolved to write a biography of the fallen leader. Sarmiento, who believed in biography’s teaching by example.......

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 eulogy for Judge Bushrod Washington (1762–1829), who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1798 until his death. His uncle was George Washington, and Bushrod inherited Mount Vernon and the rest of President Washington's estate. Hopkinson provides a brief biography of Bushrod and includes.....

First Edition. One sheet folded to make four pages. This circular, printed shortly before the presidential election of 1848, reprints two letters that the white Whig candidate Zachary Taylor sent to his brother-in-law J. S. Allison, in which he outlined his political positions. In the first letter, called "the most.....