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George Washington Argues for a “Professional Man” to Supply Technical Guidance to the Potomac Company
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George Washington Dreads Assuming the Presidency: He Feels As If He’s Being Led to His Execution
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Napoleon Bonaparte Authorizes a Soldier to Join the Egyptian Campaign in Syria
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Napoleon, at the Siege of Acre, Orders His Generals and Troops to be Paid
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Nelson Rejoices at the Raising of the Siege of Acre - and Napoleon's Fleeing
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Thomas Jefferson Describes the White House as a Really Pleasant Country Residence
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President James Madison Tracks Down His Shipment, Seized in the Embargo, of 114 Gallons of Brandy
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President James Monroe Writes Concerning the Purchase of Florida and John Adams’ Recommendation of Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse
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Excessively Rare Presidential Check Signed by Zachary Taylor
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John Quincy Adams Writes About John Adams
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President Andrew Jackson Writes of His Loneliness in the White House
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Andrew Jackson Predicts Van Buren Will Win With a Greater Majority than Any Since Washington
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President Andrew Jackson’s BIG Cheese Tasting
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Edward Robinson Writes to His Publisher to Inquire About his Epoch-Making Work, "Biblical Researches in Palestine"
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The Ultimate Presidential Rarity: An Autograph Letter of the Sick, Soon to Die, William Henry Harrison – He’s Harassed, He Says, by The Multitudes
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Rare Letter of John Tyler as Vice-President - Recommending a Consul to Galveston
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William Henry Harrison’s Secretary Announces Harrison’s Impending Death
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President John Tyler Says the Presidency is a Prison
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Polk, Surprised at his Compromise Candidacy, Declares the Presidency too Important an Office to be Sought or Declined
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Dark-Horse Polk Expresses Surprise at His “Wholly Unexpected” Nomination
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President-Elect James K. Polk Anxiously Queries His Tailor About New Clothes for Washington
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Martin Van Buren, Just Two Days into James K. Polk’s Term, Prepares to Write His Political Antagonist
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Bachelor President James Buchanan Teasingly Laments His “Usual Hard Fate” With Ladies and Jokes That a “Miss Jane” Has Beat Him to the Alter
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Edgar Allan Poe Details His Literary Life and Says “The Raven” and “The Valdemar Case” Are His Best Things
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Exceptionally Rare Abraham Lincoln Autobiographical Letter - Mentioning the Deaths of His Mother & Sister, & His Poem "My Childhood Home I See Again"
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Passport for the Early Explorer of Jerusalem, the Reverend Eli Smith, Signed By James Buchanan
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To Minimize the Risk of Ridicule, Lincoln Arranges for the Anonymous Publication of His Most Famous Poem, “My Childhood Home I See Again”
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American President James K. Polk Gives Orders for a Fire-Proof Victory Celebration for the Battle of Cerro Gordo in Washington
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Confined For Two Years to the White House, President James K. Polk Tries to Plan an Out-of-Town Visit
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Abraham Lincoln Praises Confederate Vice-President Alexander H. Stephens, in 1848
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A Rare Abraham Lincoln Quote from Shakespeare’s Othello
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Abraham Lincoln, a Henry Clay Man, Explains Why He Supports Zachary Taylor for President in 1848: Political Pragmatism
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David Roberts Sends His Sketches of the Holy Land to Archaeologist J.J. Scoles to Refute a Famous Argument About the Temple Mount
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Former President Tyler Tells His Son He is Hard Pressed to Support His Family
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Newly Installed in the White House, Where in Short Order He Will Die of "Too Many Cherries & Too Much Cold Milk", Taylor Invites Relatives to Stay
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Polk, Exhausted, Says He’s Feeling Better Now That He’s Out of Office and Can Rest - and Dies One Month Later
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Campaigning for General Land Office Commissioner, Lincoln Asks a Congressman to Write to “Old Zach” About Him
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Mordecai Manuel Noah - and Isaac Leeser - Propose Relief for the Poor Jews of Palestine
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Ascended to the Presidency Just a Week Before, Millard Fillmore Orders a New Black Hat
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A Handsome Autograph Sentiment from Millard Fillmore as President
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President Millard Fillmore Arranges to Attend Gala Opening of the Railroad Line from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes
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In 1851, Rabbi Gotthelf's Louisville Congregation Votes To Send $100 Per Year for Jerusalem's Poor
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Millard Fillmore, Perusing “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in 1852, Reflects on Slavery, Civil War, and the Recolonization of Slaves to Africa
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President Fillmore Makes an Appointment to See Governor Gibbs
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President Millard Fillmore Acknowledges the Gift of “a Beautiful Picture of ‘Ancient Jerusalem’”
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Millard Fillmore in Defeat: “I Would Rather Be Right Than President."
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Candidate Franklin Pierce Writes about Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Campaign Biography of Him
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John Tyler: His Cabinet Problems, Franklin Pierce’s Election, and Presidential Etiquette
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Early Variant of Executive Mansion Card Signed by American President Millard Fillmore
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On His Last Day in Office, the Bibliophilic Millard Fillmore Sends Thanks for a Book
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Jane Pierce, Recalling Her Deceased Child, is Haunted by Happier Times
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President Franklin Pierce Sets in Motion the Recall of the American Minister Resident in Turkey
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President Franklin Pierce Warmly Endorses the Kansas-Nebraska Act as “Demonstrably Right and Patriotic”
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Pierce on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and the Prelude to Civil War
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Franklin Pierce on His Favorite Portrait of Himself, That of His Dead Son, and Those of the First Five Presidents
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Very Rare Printed Presidential Check Signed by Franklin Pierce: He Purchases Coal for White House
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Abraham Lincoln: He'll Speak Where it Will Do Good - Not as a Compliment to Himself
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Pierce Invites a Famous Presbyterian Divine to Visit the White House
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Fillmore on the Fugitive Slave and Kansas-Nebraska Acts: You Can Not Reason with Fanaticism
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President Franklin Pierce Appoints the First United States Consul to Serve in Jerusalem
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Rare Abraham Lincoln Letter To His Dear Friend Abraham Jonas - He is "Hobbled", He Jokes, By a Troublesome Crippled Nephew
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Millard Fillmore, All But Admitting Defeat Five Days Before the 1856 Election, Looks Forward With Relief to the End
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1856 Poll Book Certifying Abraham Jonas, Lincoln's Intimate Jewish Friend, an Elector
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President James Buchanan Trusts Providence to Help Him Choose a Cabinet
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James Buchanan, Ill with Dysentery Before His Inauguration, Declines Jefferson Davis’ Invitation to Dine
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Andrew Johnson Writes His “Humble History” in Two Pages
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1858 Senate Report Regarding the "Outrage at Jaffa" in Which the American Dickson Agricultural Colony Was Brutally Attacked
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Abraham Lincoln, in a Prelude to the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Agrees to Follow Douglas to Bloomington
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Having Just Lost to Douglas, in the 1858 Senate Contest, Abraham Lincoln Writes, "And this too shall pass away, Never fear."
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Abraham Lincoln Writes to Defeated Rival Cassius Clay as “The Humblest of All Whose Names Were Before the Convention”
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Abraham Lincoln in Indiana: A Rare Mention of His Childhood There
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Abraham Lincoln in 1860: “Just Now, the Skies Look Bright. What Clouds May Hereafter Rise, We Know Not.”
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President James Buchanan, Care-Fraught in the Summer of 1860, Writes He Hasn’t Time for His Friends
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Abraham Lincoln Reviews His Won-Lost Record in Electoral Politics Up to 1849
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Abraham Lincoln: "The Government is About to Fall Into Our Hands"
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Abraham Lincoln Declares He is Not a “Man of Great Learning, or a Very Extraordinary One in Any Respect”
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“So All is Over and Lincoln Elected”, John Tyler Writes, as “Confidence Between Man and Man is Giving Way”
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"Union is Dissolved!" - South Carolina Proclaims It Has Dissolved Its Bonds to the United States & Becomes First State to Secede
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Benjamin Mordecai, Great Jewish Benefactor of the Confederate Cause, is Honored By, and Praises in Return, the Famed Palmetto Riflemen
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Lincoln Grows His Beard: This Second Photograph, Signed, Depicts the Progress
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Jewish Confederates: Letter Regarding Benjamin Mordecai’s Support of a Commission for Jacob Valentine
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John Tyler, as President of the 1861 Washington Peace Convention, Certifies Vermont’s Lucius Eugene Chittenden a Delegate
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John Tyler, as President of the 1861 Washington Peace Convention, Certifies a Delegate, Charles Allen, From Massachusetts
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President James Buchanan, on His Next to Last Day in Office, Pardons a Judge
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A Rare 1861 Lincoln Inaugural Ball Invitation - Printed by, and Naming as a Ball Manager, Adolphus S. Solomons
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Young Benjamin Harrison Writes President Lincoln About “Spoils” Due Indiana
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April 5th 1861: Abraham Lincoln Corrects, In His Own Hand, His Presidential Salary Payment Which Credits Him With Days Not Worked
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“Honest Abe” Lincoln, Annoyed About an Unpaid Bill, Orders It Paid – On the Day He Effectively Declares War
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An "Occident" Subscriber Begs Rabbi Leeser To Write Abraham Lincoln and Convince Him to Stop the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln Orders Seal Affixed to His Appointment of the Arabist Edward Joy Morris as Minister Resident to Turkey
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Abraham Lincoln Appoints Edward Joy Morris Minister to the Ottoman Empire - and By Extension, Palestine
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A Fateful Appointment: Abraham Lincoln Makes William T. Sherman a General
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Lincoln Appoints Jewish West Pointer Alfred Mordecai Jr - Namesake of the Famous Jewish Military Munitions Expert - 2nd Lieutenant
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Buchanan Approves Abraham Lincoln’s Ordering Fremont to Rescind his Emancipation Proclamation
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Lincoln's Famous Inscription on a Photograph to Mrs. Speed "From Whose Pious Hand I Accepted the Present of an Oxford Bible Twenty Years Ago."
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Abraham Lincoln's Celebrated "Wanting to Work" Letter
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Jewish Civil War Union Surgeon Morris Asch Rules on Another Surgeon’s “Exorbitant” Bill
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Abraham Lincoln Endorses the Appointment of a Jewish Sutler, Henry Rice
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Abraham Lincoln Sends His Autograph as a Favor to His Jewish Friend Sigismund Kaufmann
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Alexander Hart's Civil War Sword and Scabbard Presented Upon His Promotion to Captain
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Lincoln, Four Days After Son Willie’s Death, Tells Sumner Mary Lincoln Needs His Help – “Can You Come?”
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Millard Fillmore on Civil War: Abolitionists Pervert Cause and Lincoln Tempts Tyranny
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Former President Millard Fillmore: Abraham Lincoln’s Election Caused the War
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Former President Franklin Pierce Defends Himself Against Treason Charges Brought by Seward
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Contemporary Copy of Chase’s Famous Letter to Abraham Lincoln in Support of General Hunter’s Emancipation Order
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Abraham Lincoln’s First Testimonial for Issachar Zacharie, the President's Mysterious Jewish Foot Doctor - and Personal Spy
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Lincoln’s Second Testimonial for Issachar Zacharie, His Mysterious Jewish Chiropodist - and Personal Spy
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Anti-Semitic General Benjamin Butler: The Jews "Betrayed Their Savior," He Writes in 1862, "& Also Have Betrayed Us"
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War-Date William Tecumseh Sherman: He Vents Anti-Semitic Prejudice, Discusses Runaway Slaves, & Sketches Total War
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Abraham Lincoln, Noting “We Have Not Yet Appointed a Hebrew,” Names C.M. Levy an Assistant Quarter Master with the Rank of Captain
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James Buchanan Defends His “Public Conduct” Prior to the Outbreak of the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln’s Famous Civil War Condolence Letter to Young Fanny McCullough About Death, Loss and Memory
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Abraham Lincoln Queries the Surgeon General of the Army About an Appointment
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Abraham Lincoln’s Appointment of Benjamin F. Isherwood - the Creator of the Steam Navy
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Lincoln Card: "Submitted to the Sec. of War."
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“Doomed to the Gallows” by Public Opinion, James Buchanan Says History Will Vindicate Him
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Millard Fillmore Writes Abraham Lincoln Asking For a Favor; On the Back of the Letter, Lincoln Takes Steps to Oblige Him
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Rare Letter from the Gettysburg Battlefield, Dated July 4th, 1863: Union Soldier Hopes “This Battle Will End the War”
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A Soldier Writes Home After Gettysburg: “We Will Whip Lee's Army So That He Will Not Be Fit to Do Anything More”
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Abraham Lincoln’s Order That Sparked the New York City Draft Riots of 1863
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Fresh From His Capture of Vicksburg, Ulysses S. Grant Reports News from Gettysburg: Meade “Whipped Lee Badly”
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General Meade: Lee is Just 15 Miles Away and "May at Any Time Force Action on Us.”
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Vivid Eyewitness Description of Execution of Deserters at Beverly Ford Mentions the Presence of a Rabbi Praying With One of the Condemned Men
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Blow-by-Blow Eyewitness Account of the Execution of Deserters at Beverly Ford
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John Wilkes Booth Arranges With the Owner of Ford’s Theatre to Appear in a Play There - Which Abraham Lincoln Would Come to See
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Original Harper’s Weekly for September 26, 1863, with Illustrated Story about Five Union Soldiers, Including a Jew, Executed for Desertion
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Lincoln Would Be Glad to See General Milroy - “Were It Not That I Know He Wishes to Ask for What I Have Not to Give”
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General Custer’s Secret: “Libbie Bacon is the Fortunate or Unfortunate Person… Who Will Unite Her Destinies With Mine.”
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Abraham Lincoln Swears He Shall Not Modify the Emancipation Proclamation, or Return to Slavery Any Person Freed by It
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Abraham Lincoln Recommends a Franklin Pierce White House Appointee, the Mysterious Thomas Stackpole, to General Butler
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In Refusing a Parole, Abraham Lincoln Notes That Federal Prisoners are Being “Frozen and Starved” in Libby Prison
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Jewish Confederate Hero Alexander Hart, Grants Leave to Officers During a Brief Spring Lull in the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln Suggests Suffrage – “The Jewel of Liberty” - for Some Louisiana Blacks: The “Very Intelligent” and Union Veterans
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Dr. Jacob de Silva Solis Cohen Certifies the 1864 Death of a “Contraband” in Philadelphia
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Abraham Lincoln, One Year to a Day Before His Assassination, Denies Clemency to a Spy – on the Advice of Judge Advocate Holt
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Lincoln, Having Heard the Reports of the Bloody Battle of the Wilderness, Declares “I Am Not In a Sentimental Mood”
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Abraham Lincoln Appoints Henry Ernest Goodman as Surgeon of Civil War Union Volunteer Army
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Former President Franklin Pierce Describes His Discovery of Lifelong Friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dead in the Middle of the Night
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Rare Copy of Dr. Issachar Zacharie's Book "Surgical and Practical Observations on the Diseases of the Human foot" Signed "By the Author"
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Lincoln Thanks a Jewish Philadelphian for the Gift of a Suit
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Lincoln Attends to a Request From Jewish Congressman Leonard Myers: "I Really Want This Done," He Tells Gideon Welles
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After Attempted Prison Break at Johnson’s Island, Abraham Lincoln Directs Gideon Welles to Hear Firsthand Report
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Lincoln Interjects Himself Into Case of Two Jewish Merchants, Philip & Meyer Wallach, Charged With Selling Goods to Blockaders
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Abraham Lincoln Asks General Ulysses S. Grant, Not As President But As a Friend, For a Favor: Find a Place For His Son, Robert, on His Staff
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Abraham Lincoln Exercises Clemency: “Let This Boy Be Discharged...”
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Portentous John Wilkes Booth Letter, Written Just Eight Weeks Before Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination, Mentions Ford's Theatre
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Abraham Lincoln “Pardons” Misbehaving Boys, Allowing Them to Return to School
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Hugh McCulloch Tells Colfax He Doesn’t Want to be Treasury Secretary – But if President Abraham Lincoln Asks, He’ll Take the Job, Reluctantly.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Check to His Son, Robert Lincoln, Finally Sending Him Off to Serve at the End of the Civil War with Ulysses S. Grant
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Abraham Lincoln: A December 8th Oath of Allegiance
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"Both Parties Deprecated War... and the War Came": Abraham Lincoln's Words, in His Own Hand, from the Second Inaugural Address
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"With Malice Toward None": Abraham Lincoln's Words, In his Own Hand From the Second Inaugural Address
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General Grant Replies “No” To General Lee’s Suggestion That They Negotiate an Armistice and Vows to Press On
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A Gift in Wartime: Lincoln Requests a “A Map or Two” for His Youngest Son, Tad
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“I Will Take Care of Myself,” Abraham Lincoln Wires Stanton as He Follows the Troops: “Richmond is in Our Hands.”
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As Lee Surrenders, Abraham Lincoln in his Last Days Happily Grants a Favor to the Captain of the "River Queen"
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Three Days Before He is Assassinated, Abraham Lincoln Orders the Discharge of a Sickly Boy from the Army
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On the Last Full Day of His Life, Abraham Lincoln Makes an Important Appointment
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Gideon Welles is Summoned to Abraham Lincoln’s Last, and Prophetic, Cabinet Meeting
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A Millard Fillmore Letter Written on the Day of President Lincoln’s Assassination
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Unused Ticket for Ford's Theatre April 14, 1865 - The Night Lincoln Was Assassinated There
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On His Last Day Alive, Abraham Lincoln Writes a Pass to Richmond for the Wife of the Doctor Who Would Attend His Death-Bed
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Abraham Lincoln’s Family Physician Describes the President’s Final Hours
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Rutherford B. Hayes Responds to Lincoln's Assassination on April 15, 1865: Now He is "The Darling of History"
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Pass to President Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral in the East Room of the Executive Mansion
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A Union Officer In the Field Describes the Reaction to News of Lincoln’s Assassination
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A Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness Runs for Charles Henry Liebermann, the Jewish Doctor Who Attended Lincoln's Deathbed
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First Responder Leale: The Eyewitness Account of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination By The Doctor Who Treated Him at the Scene
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Rabbi Sabato Morais Sends His Synagogue's Contribution to "A Monument to the Memory of the Deeply and Universally Lamented Abraham Lincoln."
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Robert E. Lee Charmingly, and Piously, Responds to a Young Girl's Gift of Socks in 1865
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Young Mark Twain, in Maui, Sets Out to "Discover" Hawaii
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Frederick Benteen Takes the Oath of Office as Captain in the 7th Cavalry
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Mark Twain's Last Day in New York - Spent Drinking, Mostly, With Writers - Before Leaving on the “Quaker City” for the Holy Land
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Joshua Chamberlain and William Seward Assist the Jaffa -Adams- Colonists in 1867
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Back From the "Quaker City" Voyage to Europe and the Holy Land, Mark Twain Discovers He is "Better Known...Than I Was Before I Started."
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Mark Twain on His Book “Innocents Abroad”; His Lecture “The Frozen Truth”; and Awful Photos of Him, “Those Constantinople Pictures”
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Jewish General Edward S. Salomon Accepts an Invitation to Meet with His “Old Comrades in Arms”
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Running for President, Ulysses S. Grant Tries to Lose the Anti-Semite Label Engendered to Him During the Civil War By His Infamous “Jew Order”
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Mark Twain Names His Lecture Tour About Holy Land Trip: "The American Vandal Abroad"
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Mary Surratt’s Daughter Petitions Andrew Johnson for the Return of Her Mother’s Remains
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Mark Twain Promotes “Quaker City” Roommate Dan Slote to His Publisher as a Promoter of “The Innocents Abroad”
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Custer Wants Kid Brother “Bos” – Who Would Die With Him at Little Bighorn – Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Cavalry
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President Grant Stays Execution of African-American Who Murdered a Jewish Peddler
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Statesman, Political Exile, Attorney, and Queen's Counsel Judah Benjamin, Arranges a Meeting
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Dr. Jacob de Silva Solis Cohen: A Scarce Civil War Autograph
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General Custer Gives an Order to His Loyal Adjutant Cooke, Who Would Die Next to Him at The Little Bighorn
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Custer Signs Off on the Tobacco Allotment for Enlisted Men Who Died With Him at Little Bighorn
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John Wild Bets That the Black Hills Gold Rush - Set Off By Custer’s Discovery of Gold There in 1874 – is a Bust
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Leaving to “Drive Out” the Indians from the Bighorn Country, General Custer Envisions the Mining Fortunes To Be Made There
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Libbie Custer Makes a Secret Plea to Aid the Widows of Captain Yates, Lt. Calhoun, and Enlisted Men
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On His Second to Last Day in Office, Ulysses S. Grant Announces His Intention to Travel the Globe
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President Rutherford B. Hayes Salutes Service of U.S. Commissioner of Education John Eaton
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Ulysses S. Grant on Egypt: Fascinated by its Antiquity, He Finds it More Interesting Than Any Other Place He Has Visited
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Ulysses S. Grant Comments on the Refugees – Many, Bulgarian Jews – Who Have Fled to Constantinople Before Russian Invaders
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An Autograph Innovation: Rutherford B. Hayes Signs an Executive Mansion Card
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Thomas Edison: “I am Busily Engaged on the Electric Light”
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Rutherford B. Hayes Signed Photograph as President
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An Eerie Prescience: James Garfield Finds "A Streak of Sadness" in His Nomination as President
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Chester A. Arthur Accepts Congratulations, as Vice-President Elect, on Winning His First and Last Election
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President-Elect James A. Garfield Turns Down a Loan to Tide Him Over Until Assuming the Presidency
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Extraordinary James Garfield Letter on Assassination: It Can No More Be Guarded Against Than Death By Lightning
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President Rutherford B. Hayes Gives Recipe for Allegedly "Non-Alcoholic" Punch
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Benjamin Harrison on Writing about the “Illustrious Lincoln”
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Rutherford B. Hayes, Having Just Left Office, Expresses Satisfaction with Himself, His Successor, and John Sherman
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A Rare President James A. Garfield Autograph Letter in Office
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James A. Garfield’s Appointment of the Anti-Semitic Selah Merrill as Consul at Jerusalem
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Mark Twain Says He Cannot Deliver a “Light and Nonsensical Speech” While President Garfield is Dying
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Robert Todd Lincoln on Presidential Assassinations
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President Garfield's Widow, Recalls How Her Husband's Portents at the Chicago Convention Foreshadowed "The Fateful Ending"
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Western Gambler “Ike” Isaacs’ Tombstone Gaming License Signed by Sheriff Johnny Behan
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Guiteau, Convicted and in Jail, Declares He is Not a Lunatic
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American President Chester A. Arthur Laments the “Never Ending and Still Beginning Pressure” of the Presidency
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General Charles "Chinese" Gordon Reveals He is Going to Palestine
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General Charles "Chinese" Gordon Discusses His Discovery of "Calvary" in Jerusalem
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Robert Lincoln is Gratified his Father’s Name is Still Current and His Memory Respected
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Grant Says Mark Twain Has Offered Him "More Favorable Terms" To Publish His Memoirs
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Herman Melville “Disinters” a Rare Copy of “Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land” to Send It to an Admirer
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Check of Jewish-Owned Cochise County Bank in Tombstone Sends Money to and from Jewish Merchants
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Rutherford B. Hayes Announces He Will Attend Ulysses S. Grant's Funeral
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Twain on the Nature of Time, Fame, and Civilizations: Monuments Disappear, but Great Cities – and Reputations - Survive
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U.S. President Grover Cleveland Appoints a Consul at Jerusalem, Nageeb Arbeely, To Replace the Anti-Semitic Selah Merrill
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About to Marry, President Grover Cleveland Longs To Live Away From the White House “Like Other People.”
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Mark Twain Can’t Remember Recent Things or Much from Virginia City, But Vividly Recalls His “Hannibal Courier” Co-Workers
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Mark Twain on Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Grammar is Like Gravel in Bread
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Grover Cleveland, the Only President to be Married in the White House, Writes His Bride Detailed Plans for the Wedding
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Grover Cleveland, the First President to Marry in the White House, Handwrites an Invitation to His Wedding
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Mark Twain Lists His Favorite Books For Children - and Himself
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Mark Twain On the Heroic Writing, and Fantastic Success, of Ulysses S. Grant’s Memoirs
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Hannibal Hamlin Calls for Making Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday a National Day of Observance
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President Grover Cleveland, "Cross as a Bear", Complains of an Avalanche of Unwelcome Invitations, As He Plans a Pleasure Trip Out of Town
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Theodore Roosevelt, The Conservation President, Declares His Affinity for the West and His Identification with Its Heroes
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Rutherford B. Hayes Discusses, at Length, The Disputed Election of 1876
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Mark Twain to French Jewish Writer Marcel Schwob: "I do commit crimes, but they are not of this grade."
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Benjamin Harrison’s First Personal Check as President
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Benjamin Harrison: The Earliest Known Example of a Typewritten Presidential Letter
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President Benjamin Harrison Names Solomon Hirsch Minister to Turkey - the Third Jew to Hold That Diplomatic Rank
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William T. Sherman Recalls His Trip to the Levant, and Teases His Lady Friend about Harem Life
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Theodor Herzl Writes a Condolence Letter, Seemingly in Connection with an Outbreak of Austrian Anti-Semitic Attacks
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President Benjamin Harrison Appoints a Commissioner for the World’s Columbian Exposition
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President Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes Abraham Lincoln, Calling For All to Have “An Equal Start and a Fair Chance in the Race of Life”
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President Benjamin Harrison Discusses a Letter Written by His Grandfather, William Henry Harrison
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President Benjamin Harrison is “Lonesome” in the White House
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President Benjamin Harrison: Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of America
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A Scarce Signed Photo of President Benjamin Harrison
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Cyrus Adler Lectures in 1893 on His Presidentially-Mandated Tour of The Levant
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Grover Cleveland, Recovering From Secret Cancer Surgery, Reports He is “Getting to be Quite a Drunkard”
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Mark Twain on the French: No Humor, No Depth, No Compass, No Balance, No…
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Grover Cleveland Celebrates a Great Deception: The One Year Anniversary of His Secret Cancer Surgery
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Newly Convicted, a Defiant Alfred Dreyfus Swears to Clear His Name From the Unjust Stain of Treason
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“Truth,” Mark Twain instructs, “is the most precious thing we have. Economise it.”
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Mark Twain, Caught up in the Dreyfus Affair, Asks if Dreyfus was Struck in the Face With the Hilt of a Sword
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Simon Wolf's Original Contract for the Book "The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen"
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Herzl Sets Out to "Establish the Society of Jews" - Which Would Become the 1st Zionist Congress - and Vows "the Jews Will Get Palestine!"
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Theodor Herzl, Hurt and Frustrated, Considers Quitting – in 1896, the First Year of the Zionist Movement
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Theodor Herzl Admits to Exhaustion But Swears to Continue “The Great Campaign… As Long as I Am Able”
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Mourning Daughter Susy, Mark Twain Describes His Family as Adrift, Indifferent and Derelict - They Cannot Bear to Return to Their Hartford Home
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Olivia Clemens Quotes “Mr. Clemens” - Mark Twain - About a Phrase in “Following the Equator”
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Camille Pissarro Protests Alfred Dreyfus' Conviction
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President William McKinley’s Appointment of the Anti-Semitic Selah Merrill as Consul at Jerusalem
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President William McKinley Signs Executive Mansion Card on His 55th Birthday
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Theodore Roosevelt Decries the Deprivations Suffered by Rough Riders Just Two and a Half Weeks After San Juan Hill
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Theodore Roosevelt Arranges a Dramatic Presentation About the Rough Riders
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Theodor Herzl in Jerusalem, Just Prior to Meeting With German Emperor Wilhelm II, Sends a Postcard to Menachem Ussishkin
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Herzl Signed Photo Commemorating His Visit in Jerusalem with Kaiser Wilhelm II
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A Rare Signed Photo of Theodor Herzl
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Theodor Herzl, Hustling and Bustling, Sends Thanks for a Joke
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Beset by an Ally Turned Detractor, Herzl Says It is a “Miracle” He Hasn’t Become an Anti-Semite
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During the Dreyfus Affair, Theodor Herzl Writes Excitedly of a Matter Unknown, He Says, Even to His Editor
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President William McKinley Wires Ailing Vice President Garret Hobart
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McKinley is Greatly Comforted to Learn That His Gravely-Ill Vice President is Improving - Five Days Before Hobart Dies
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President William McKinley Orders Seal Affixed to his Proclamation on the Death of Vice President Hobart
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Signed Etching of Max Nordau
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President William McKinley Commissions a Second Lieutenant
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McKinley Writes to the Widow of His Vice President and Dear Friend, Mrs. Hobart
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Former President Benjamin Harrison Explains That Ex-Presidents Should Be Seen and Not Heard
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Alfred Dreyfus Reviews Case Against Him, Proclaims His Innocence, and Demands a New Trial
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Herzl Directs U.S. Zionists to Force McKinley to Protest Turkish Discrimination Against Jews in Palestine as Matter of “Equal Rights"
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On the First Day of His Second Term, William McKinley Promotes a War Hero
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Cortelyou Cancels President McKinley’s Engagements “Owing to Mrs. McKinley's Serious Illness”
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President William McKinley's Last Tour: Cortelyou Thanks the Mayor of San Francisco for His Help
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Secretary of Navy Long: President William McKinley, “Acute and Wise”, Will Not Seek Third Term
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Theodor Herzl Considers an American Lecture Tour
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Incredibly Rare Czolgosz Letter – 5 Weeks Before McKinley Assassination – as “Fred Nobody”
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Document Signed by President William McKinley Close to His Assassination
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One of the Last Things Signed by William McKinley: An Autographed Souvenir Booklet from the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo
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Leon Czolgosz’s Incredibly Rare Confession to the Assassination of President William McKinley
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Extraordinary Eyewitness Account of the Assassination of President McKinley – Dated One Day After
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Theodore Roosevelt Confidently Reports that the Mortally-Wounded McKinley is Doing Well and he Predicts a Speedy Recovery
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On the Day of McKinley’s Death, Asst. Secretary of State Cridler Writes of His Horror and Fury to the U.S. Counsel in Montreal
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McKinley Just Having Died Hours Before, the Newly Sworn-in Theodore Roosevelt Expresses Foreboding: a Heavy and Painful Task Has Fallen Upon Him
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Days After McKinley’s Death, Theodore Roosevelt Swears to Do His Best
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First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Two Weeks After McKinley’s Death: “Life Does Not Seem Very Simple Just Now”
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A Contemporary Account of the William McKinley Assassination by a 15 Year-Old Girl
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Doctor of Assassinated President William McKinley Quotes McKinley's Last Words
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Former First Lady Frances Cleveland Reports Ailing Grover Cleveland is "Breaking Up Generally"
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Mark Twain: "The American Historian of Joan of Arc Makes his Best Compliments..."
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Theodor Herzl Signed Photograph, Taken in Basel, Switzerland
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An Early and Rare Account by Orville Wright of the First Flight at Kitty Hawk
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Theodore Roosevelt: a Condolence Letter on the Death of a Father
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Heartsick, Zionist Max Nordau Writes about the Death of Theodor Herzl
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Chaim Weizmann on the Assassination of the Russian Pogrom Organizer, Plehve: A Pity He didn’t Die Years Ago...
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Theodore Roosevelt Accepts a Gift of Fine Fabric From Which to Make His 1905 Inauguration Day Suit
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Theodore Roosevelt, Readying for His Inauguration, Complains of Bad Tailoring: His Coat and Trousers, He Fumes, are "Hopeless"
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Theodore Roosevelt Inscribes Photo of His 1905 Inaugural With His Keystone “Square Deal” Credo
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Jack London on “Call of the Wild” - and an Alleged Jewish Ancestry
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Theodore Roosevelt Expresses His Dislike of the Motor Car
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Dreyfus Thanks Writer of a 1898 Article Decrying the Illegality of the French Government's Refusal to Allow Wife Lucie to Join Him in Exile
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Famous Mark Twain Aphorism about Deserving Honors
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Mark Twain on the San Francisco Earthquake and a Picture He Cannot Get Out of His Mind
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Jack London, Hit Hard by the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, Concentrates on Building His Famous Ketch, The Snark
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Theodore Roosevelt: “My Great Hero is Abraham Lincoln”
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Calling Himself a “Wandering Jew,” Chaim Weizmann Dreams of a Jewish University of “Our Own” in Jerusalem
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Roosevelt Writes from the “Canal Zone” to Panama’s President Amador
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Max Nordau Accepts Invitation to Contribute His “Literary Might" to a Book
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Theodore Roosevelt Writes, "Bully for You"
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Max Nordau Praises the Juvenile Poetry of “E. Babette Deutsch” and Predicts an Exceptional Future
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Mark Twain on “Innocence at Home,” President Grover Cleveland, and God
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President Theodore Roosevelt Plans for Life After the White House: His African Safari
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William Howard Taft, About to Assume the Presidency, Qualifies the Thought of a Four Year Term: “If I Live”
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Theodore Roosevelt Pens Congratulatory Letter on White House Card: Lauds Utica Public Library
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Theodore Roosevelt on Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “One of the Great Classics of Human Eloquence”
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Mark Twain Excoriates Theodore Roosevelt as a Butcher, a Ruffian and a Bully
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Theodore Roosevelt Writes about Taking Books on His Upcoming Safari to Africa
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President William Howard Taft Praises President Grover Cleveland To Mrs. Cleveland
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Max Nordau Exchanges Photos, in English, With an Admirer
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Alfred Dreyfus Writes to Emile Zola’s Widow to Commemorate the Anniversary of the Publication of “J’Accuse!”
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Rare William Howard Taft Autograph Letter as President: He’s Happy to Meet after His (Daily) Golf Game
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Major Archibald Butt, Military Aide to Roosevelt and Taft, Writes the Day Before Boarding the Titanic
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Rare Letter from the Titanic - Postcard Sent at Beginning of Voyage; Ship “a Peach”, in “N.Y. Next Tuesday.”
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Taft’s Eulogy for His Aide, Archibald Butt, Who Went Down With the Titanic Just Days Before
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The Day After Beating TR for the Republican Nomination, Taft Declares That Having Denied Him The Presidency Again is Victory Enough
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Theodore Roosevelt on the “Treacherous Injustice at Chicago” and His New Bull Moose Party
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Famous Painting by John Falter of the 1912 Attempted Assassination of Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt Assassination Attempt: Secretary Who Wrestled Shooter to Ground Reports From Hospital Room: Candidate is “Hearty as a Bull Moose"
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Woodrow Wilson Suspends His Campaign on Account of Theodore Roosevelt Assassination Attempt
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Taft, Running for President Against His One-Time Mentor, Theodore Roosevelt, Calls him a “Genuine Menace” to the Country
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Edith Roosevelt on Her Husband Theodore Roosevelt's Recovery from an Assassination Attempt and the Bullet Left Inside Him
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Theodore Roosevelt Comments On, and Then Annotates, a Manuscript Detailing The Attempt Made on His Life
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Woodrow Wilson, on the 9th Day of His Presidency, Signs a White House Card
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Abraham Lincoln Biographer Ida Tarbell Salutes Markens’ “Abraham Lincoln and the Jews”
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William Howard Taft, Newly Out of Office: "Struggling to Get into a New Trade…Fading Away into Obscurity"
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Woodrow Wilson Explains That He Wouldn't, and Couldn't, Pardon Atlantic City Boss Kuehnle
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Theodore Roosevelt Blames Woodrow Wilson for the Sinking of the Lusitania, Killing 1,198 people in May, 1915
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President Woodrow Wilson: Lonely in the White House
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Theodore Roosevelt Lambasts Woodrow Wilson for Refusing to Let Him Lead a Division in World War I
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T.E. Lawrence Wants to "Clear Up" The "Jewish Section" in 1917
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Signed Photo of Edmund Allenby Entering Jerusalem
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Theodore Roosevelt Mourns the Death of His Son in WWI Battle
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One Son Dead, Two Others Wounded, Theodore Roosevelt Bitterly Regrets Being Forced to Sit Through World War I at Home in “Comfort and Safety”
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Woodrow Wilson On How the Bodies of America’s WWI Dead Are Handled Prior to Eventual Re-Burial in the U.S.
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General Edmund Allenby, Datelining His Letter "Palestine", Commemorates His Victorious Entrance into Jerusalem One Year Later
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A Final Roar: In One of His Last Letters, Theodore Roosevelt Blasts Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson Lobbies For Ratification of the Treaty of Versailles - A Matter of Gravest Consequence
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Former President William Howard Taft Rejoices in Deflecting Another Run: "I Have Served My Time"
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Extraordinary Orville Wright Letter Discussing the Birth of Manned Flight at Kitty Hawk
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A Wyatt Earp Autograph Letter Signed: An Incredible Rarity
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Winston Churchill Thanks Pro-Zionist Ormsby-Gore for Accepting Post to the Permanent Mandates Commission Responsible for Palestine
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An Early, and Uncommon, Warren G. Harding White House Card Signed, “Good Wishes!”
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Vice President Calvin Coolidge Explains His New Job is of Little Responsibility – But He’s Kept Busy All the Same
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A Very Rare President Warren G. Harding Signed Check
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Recalls the Incident at Fort Stevens When Abraham Lincoln Was Forced to Duck from Enemy Fire
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Woodrow Wilson On the Emotional Impact WWI Had On Him – Which, In Turn, Led to His Devastating Stroke
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T.E. Lawrence on Palestine: No One There Trusts the British For Two Minutes
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President Warren G. Harding Acclaims Abraham Lincoln the Apogee of the Golden Age of American Statesmanship
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President Warren G. Harding, About to Leave on the Trip During Which He’ll Die, Makes Plans to Meet a King Upon His Return
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President Warren G. Harding: He Won’t “Overdo” It on What Would Be His Last Trip
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Warren G. Harding Thanks a Young Girl for a Lucky Four-Leaf Clover – Just as His Luck was Running Out
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President Warren G. Harding: Possibly the Last Letter He Wrote From the White House
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President Calvin Coolidge Writes to a Jewish American about the Book “Jewish Thoughts”
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Calvin Coolidge Mourns the Death of His Son, Calvin Jr.
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Scarce President Calvin Coolidge Autograph Letter Signed as President
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President William Howard Taft: “The Fame of Lincoln Has Spread to Every Land”
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Chief Justice William Howard Taft Comments on an Abraham Lincoln Address by Hertz
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Looks Forward to Receiving Books on Judaism
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Has Received Jewish Books and is Reading Them With “the Greatest of Interest.”
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Lists Favorite Parts of “A Book of Jewish Thoughts”
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President Calvin Coolidge Declares His Abiding Interest in Abraham Lincoln
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Infuriated by “His Obituaries”, Declares His Comeback
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Einstein on the “Bumpy” Creation and “Beautiful” Dream of Hebrew University
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President Herbert Hoover, On the Lessons to be Drawn From Abraham Lincoln's Life
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Herbert Hoover Responds Coolly to “Interesting Observations” on the 1929 Anti-Jewish Hebron Riots in Palestine
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Benjamin Cardozo Expresses His "Sure Interest" In Essays Written About Lincoln
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Orville Wright Sets the Record Straight About the First Flight
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Einstein on the Proposal to Create a Jewish Homeland in Peru
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Tells Emanuel Hertz He Will Always Try to Justify His Good Opinion
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Albert Einstein on the Tragedy of Theodor Herzl’s Son: "A Warning to All Jews Against Defection From Their People.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, as President-Elect, Recognizes "Grave Responsibilities"
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Excessively, and Admittedly Rare, Herbert Hoover Autograph Letter as President: “One Per Annum”
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Just Prior to Renouncing German Citizenship, Einstein Tells Son, “I Will Not be Returning to Germany, Perhaps Never Again”
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Einstein, Working to Save Jews from Hitler, Discusses the “Brown Book of Hitler Terror” and Personal Risk
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Chaim Nachman Bialik On the Persecutions of the Diaspora and the Determination to Make a Home in Zion
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Einstein Advises a Refugee from “the Hitler Gang” About Re-Settling in California
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Josephine Earp, Wyatt Earp’s Jewish Widow, Admits Her Destitution to Earp’s Biographer
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Einstein: “Jewish Smarts Serve One Well”
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Einstein on "Jewish Future" in Palestine: Against Brandeis, Against Nationalism
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In 1936, As Adolf Hitler Closes In, Sigmund Freud Acts To Help a Colleague’s Son Who Has Been Charged with High Treason
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Chaim Weizmann Accepts Wingate’s Offer; Analyzes British Partition Plans; Outlines Prerequisites for Statehood; and Blasts American Jewry
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Herbert Hoover Explains, in Holograph, His Antipathy to Writing Holograph Letters
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FDR Details His 1938 Plan Settle Jewish and “White” Refugees in the Unexplored Highlands of Venezuela
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Sandburg Says That Walt Whitman “Strolls in and Out of the Pages Regularly” of His Monumental Lincoln Biography
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Thanks His Secretary of War for a “Delightful Old Book of Abraham Lincoln's Debates”
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Einstein Tells Cyril Clemens He Consents To Having a Street Named After Him – But That’s All
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Adjudicates an Intergovernmental Turf War
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Fires His Isolationist Secretary of War During WWII
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Imperturbable FDR Assures Fired, and Fired-Up, Isolationist Secretary of War: No War Unless Monroe Doctrine is Breached
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Chaim Weizmann to Lorna Wingate on the Jewish Brigade: “There is No Short Cut to Jerusalem”
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In 1942, Ensign J.F. Kennedy Requests Sea Duty on a PT Vessel: “Recommendation Approved”
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Einstein Discusses an Understanding with the Arabs and Zionist Politics in ‘42
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Einstein, in ’43, on His Anti-Nazi Work in ’33: Had “Those Fellows” Listened, “These Horrors Would Not Have Existed”
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Secretary of Interior on Campaign To Stop German Annihilation of the Jews - The Holocaust - During WWII
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Chaim Weizmann in ’43: “Nothing Short of a Miracle If We Do Get Something Out of This War”
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Chaim Weizmann Thanks British Zionist Leader for His Book, "The Jews, the War and After"
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A Homesick General Eisenhower Tells of a Two Hour Wartime Visit to Jerusalem
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Praising the United Jewish Appeal, FDR Mentions Suffering Brought on By Nazis
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Chaim Weizmann Writes to Orde Wingate’s Widow About Wingate’s Death and Memorial
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Rare, Seemingly Singular Evidence That John F. Kennedy Knew How To Fly: His 1944 Flight Logbook
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Early John F. Kennedy Letter About the Death of His Brother, Joe - the Event Which Would Propel Him into Politics
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on Orde Wingate: A Man of Genius Who Might Have Become a Man of Destiny
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Chaim Weizmann, in 1944, on the Jewish Brigade, and Rumors of a Jewish State
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Chaim Weizmann Writes to Orde Wingate’s Widow about a Memorial for Wingate at Hebrew University in Jerusalem
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Chaim Weizmann Agrees to Stand as Godfather to Orde Wingate’s Son
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Hiding Two Deadly Illnesses, Franklin D. Roosevelt Dreams of a World Organization for Peace: The UN
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Same-Day Harry Truman Letter Written as Vice President - But Signed as President With "Terrible Responsibilities"
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Eisenhower’s Trip to a Concentration Camp: “I Never Dreamed… It Was Horrible”
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Harry Truman Writes General Hap Arnold About Death of FDR - “The Greatest Blow” - Just Two and Half Weeks Before
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General Eisenhower Approves a Soldier’s Request to Shoot Captured Reich Marshal Goering – “The Fat ----,“ If Possible
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President Harry Truman, in August 1945, Defends Atomic Bombing of Japan as the Only Language a Beast Can Understand
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Einstein Declares He is for a Jewish Homeland, but Not a Separate State
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President Truman, about to Implement the Truman Doctrine in Greece, Calls Greek-American Politicians “Connivers”
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Palestine, Truman Says, is a “Matter of Considerable Disturbance” to be Determined by U.N.
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Einstein on the Holocaust: He Never Forgot, Never Forgave
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Young John F. Kennedy Condemns Harry Truman’s 1948 Stand on the Partition of Palestine: “One of the Most Unfortunate Reversals in American Policy.”
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Harry Truman Declares "In spite of Palestine," he had a "Grand Birthday"
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An Invitation to the Birth of Israel: On Friday, 5 Iyar 5708, at 4:00 p.m, Independence Will Be Declared
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Harry Truman Presents Supreme Court Chief Justice Vinson With a Gavel Having “Historical Connections”
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Chaim Weizmann Thanks Clark Clifford for His “Magnificent” Help in Getting President Harry S. Truman to Recognize Israel
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Former President Herbert Hoover, at Seventy-Five, Confesses His Hope to Make Ninety – Which He Did
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A Historic Memo: Harry Truman Salutes Dean Acheson’s Crucial Role in Going to War With Korea
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President Harry Truman Writes about the Assassination Attempt on His Life Just the Day Before
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President Harry Truman, Two Days After Unleashing a Tempest By Firing MacArthur, Cryptically Writes Newsman, Seemingly About the Response
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Truman Fires MacArthur and Writes of “All My Trials and Tribulations”
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Frank Lloyd Wright On "Rampant" Hitlerism and Stalinism
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President Harry Truman Refers to Life in the White House as “Jail”
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President-Elect Eisenhower Thanks Mary Lincoln’s Niece for the Gift of a “Truly Historic Memento”
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President Harry Truman Says “It Will be a Relief to Get Out of Washington” At The End of His Term
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Senator John F. Kennedy Declines McCarthyite Alvin Owsley’s Invitation to Visit Texas - But Invites Him to Lunch
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Rare Eisenhower Autograph Letter as President, Praising the Utica Public Library
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Life's Lessons: John F. Kennedy Advises a College Student What Classes to Take For a Life in Politics
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Einstein, At the End of His Life, Writes Check to His Beloved Hebrew University
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Had Even a Tiny Jewish State Been Established in 1937, Ben-Gurion Laments, Millions of Jews Would Not Have Died in the Holocaust
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At a Critical Moment Ben-Gurion Compares, Favorably, the Fledging IDF to George Washington’s Revolutionary Army
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Harry Truman Looks at the Potsdam Conference Twelve Years Later: An Astonishing Appraisal of What Went Wrong
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Harry Truman Muses on Presidential Succession and Disability
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Important People, Herbert Hoover Explains, Don’t Have Time to Write Longhand – Or Like Their Letters Being Sold
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Harry Truman, "Blue as Indigo", Declares "Immature" John F. Kennedy the Lesser of Evils Over "Impossible" Nixon
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Harry Truman: “The Campaign is Ended and We Have a Catholic for President”
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President Eisenhower writes President-Elect John F. Kennedy a Chilly Letter about Staffing
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On His First Full Day in Office, “Jack” Kennedy Thanks His Predecessor, Eisenhower, for a Smooth Transition
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Harry Truman Reading John Nicolay and John Hay on Abraham Lincoln, as He Tries to Write History of Presidency
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John F. Kennedy Tells Goldberg That the Security of the Nation and the Future of the Space Program Depend On Ending Labor Strife Delays
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The Beginning of the Beginning of the Peace Corps: JFK Welcomes the First Volunteers
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Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes JFK’s Famous “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You” Inaugural Challenge
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Truman on Kennedy During the Berlin Crisis: He's "Young, Inexperienced and Hopeful. Let's Hope the Hopeful Works."
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JFK Sends Gen. Maxwell Taylor to South Vietnam to Appraise Situation
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President John F. Kennedy Recalls Happy Palm Beach Memories With an Old Irish Friend
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It Was His Boyhood Reading, Harry Truman Recalls, That Prepared Him for When His "Terrible Trial Came"
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President John F. Kennedy Plans a Pleasure Trip to His Ancestral Home, Ireland
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John F. Kennedy’s First Draft, Partially Handwritten, Letter of Condolence to Medgar Evers’ Widow
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Fresh From Berlin and His Electrifying “Ich bin ein Berliner” Speech, JFK Thanks the Overseas Military for Making His Visit a Success
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President John F. Kennedy on His Historic Trip to Ireland: “It Couldn't Have Been Better. We Loved It”
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President John F. Kennedy on the Death of His Infant Son Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
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Notes written by JFK as president Aboard Air Force One
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Harry Truman Tells How He Learned He Became the President: FDR’s Death, He Says, Was a Complete Surprise
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A Last Thing Signed: John F. Kennedy Autographs a Dallas Newspaper on the Morning of His Murder There
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Rare Ticket to "Texas Welcome Dinner" for President Kennedy, November 22, 1963, at 7:30 p.m.
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"Kennedy Slain on Dallas Street" - The Dallas Morning News November 23, 1963 Edition
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John F. Kennedy Letter, Dated November 26, 1963, Signed Before He Left For Dallas
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LBJ’s a Bum, Reagan Says – and Worries That the Left Wants Conservatives in Concentration Camps
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President Lyndon Johnson Salutes Sir Winston Churchill’s Commitment to Zionism
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Fifteen Years as Prime Minister is Enough, David Ben-Gurion Says: Now He is Writing the History of Israel, to Inspire Future Generations
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Lyndon B. Johnson on the Death of an Astronaut in the Apollo I Fire
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Lyndon B. Johnson Writes to the Parents of Astronaut Gus Grissom, Killed in the Apollo 1 Fire
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Ronald Reagan, Arguing for Capital Punishment, Discusses the Rabbinic Interpretation of the Sixth Commandment
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Reagan Stirringly Defends His Decision Not to Stop a Cop Killer’s Execution
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Ronald Reagan Declares That JFK was “Much More Intelligent and Perceptive” Than President Johnson
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Ben-Gurion Asks Manuscript Collector Justin Turner about a 1945 Photograph – At Start of Six Day War
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Writing as Six Day War Begins, Ben-Gurion Predicts Victory Under Dayan, & Discusses How Many Arabs Equal One Israeli Soldier
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Ben-Gurion on the Pioneer Generations and the Need for U.S. Immigration
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Ronald Reagan Describes Himself, in 1967, as a “Crier of Doom” – And Claims Not to Aspire To the Presidency
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David Ben-Gurion Predicts the Six Day War Will Not be Israel's Last
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Ronald Reagan Offers Ethel Kennedy His Help as Robert F. Kennedy, Shot in Los Angeles, Lay Dying
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Quintessential 1968 Reagan Speech: He’s Sick about RFK’s Assassination, About Lawlessness, About Blame
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Reagan Promises To Work for Nomination-Foe Nixon in ‘68 : “We Haven’t Too Many More Chances in This Land of Ours”
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Ronald Reagan Writes About Vietnam in 1968: A Change of Policy is Needed
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Age No Impediment to Visiting Israel, David Ben-Gurion Argues – And Cites the Biblical Sarah, and Moses Montefiore, as Examples
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David Ben-Gurion on Eisenhower: "I never met a better friend of Jews."
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David Ben-Gurion on Anwar Sadat’s Wanting Peace in 1971: He Isn’t Convinced
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David Ben-Gurion on God’s Promises to His People: Strength and Peace – One Given, the Other, Coming
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Six Months After His Resignation, A Rare Nixon Comment on Watergate: He Took One for The Team
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Rare Gerald Ford Presidential Letter Written Just After His “Tough and Traumatic” Defeat by Jimmy Carter
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Autograph Letter of Astronaut Judy Resnik - Killed in the Challenger Disaster - About Autographs
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President Gerald Ford Writes About His Admiration of Abraham Lincoln
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Five Weeks After Having Been Shot and Almost Killed, Reagan is Pleased With Recovery
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Ronald Reagan, Burdened by Budget Crisis, Happily Escapes Washington for a Day
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Ronald Reagan on Challenges: “The Best Days Are Always the Ones That Lie Ahead”
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President Ronald Reagan Defends George Custer Against Charges of Negligence at Little Big Horn
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Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe Writes About Her Excitement Going into Space on the Ill-Fated Challenger
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Richard Nixon, Loathed by Harry Truman, Speaks Well of Him
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Dick Scobee, Commander of the Ill-Fated Challenger, Writes that He is Hoping to Be Selected as a Space Shuttle Astronaut
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William McKinley Invites Old Friend to Go with Him to His Gubernatorial Inauguration: “Don’t fail me.”
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Manuscript of Vachel Lindsay’s “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" - With Early Letter
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“His Accidency”, President John Tyler, Says He is a Creature of Accidents, “Being an Accident Himself.”
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Lew Wallace’s Signed "Minister Resident of the United States of America to Turkey" Calling Card
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Andrew Johnson Calling Card Signed Four Times
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Mark Twain's Mock-up of Title Page and Dedication of "More Tramps Abroad" With a Note About "Innocents Abroad"
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Rare Travel Poster: Cook's Nile & Palestine Tours
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Ronald Reagan Writes About How Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto Joined the Polish Uprising Against Nazis
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Franklin Pierce Scrawls an Urgent Message on His Calling Card
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Mark Twain's Autograph Notes Regarding People, Places and Recalling an Incident
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Mark Twain 1868 Signed Photo
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Rabbi Arnold Fischel Writes to Rabbi Sabato Morais About a Raphael de Cordova Lecture on International Jewry
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Thomas Cook, Holy Land Tourism Pioneer, Receives Testimonial
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From the 1858 “Outrage at Jaffa” to the Lecture Platform: A Broadside Advertising “Dickson’s Palestine Museum”
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Mary Todd Lincoln Issues 1865 Invitation to Presidential Box at Fords Theatre – for Play Starring John Wilkes Booth’s Brother-in-Law
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Frederick Douglass Quotes Abraham Lincoln: "With Malice Toward None and With Charity Toward All"
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John Quincy Adams Signs a Card Depicting William Henry Harrison’s (Alleged) Log Cabin Birthplace
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Theodor Herzl Asks Jewish Sculptor Samuel Friedrich Beer to Show "Mr. Simon" His Work
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Golda Meir: Her “Golda Myerson” Calling Card Signed in Hebrew
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Signature of Young Officer, J.J. Crittenden, Killed with Custer at the Little Bighorn
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Signature of 2nd Lieutenant Henry Moore Harrington Killed with General Custer at Little Bighorn
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A Lincoln-Douglas Debates Book, Inscribed by Abraham Lincoln in Ink to His Old Law Partner Logan: A Great Rarity
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Max Nordau’s Calling Card Bearing An Autograph Note
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Max Nordau Sends New Years Greetings to Viennese Writer and Translator Paul Tausig
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1898 French Railway Travel Poster Advertising "Palestine"
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Early Mark Twain Autobiographical Manuscript – Announcing His Intention to Travel Abroad – From the Missing 1867 Notebook
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Signature of Lieutenant James Calhoun, General Custer’s Brother-in-Law, Killed with Him at Little Bighorn
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Mark Twain Directs His Publisher to Set Two Lines of Text in Facsimile, Not Typeface
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Herbert Hoover Describes Himself “Once of Washington D.C. Now Fortunately Elsewhere”
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From “Innocents Abroad”: Mark Twain's Famous Soliloquy at the Tomb of Adam in the Holy Land
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David Rice Atchison Denies Ever “For a Moment” Acting as President of the United States
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“Samuel Clemens, Assistant Secretary Nevada Territory”: The 1862 Nevada Directory Listing Mark Twain in His First Job Out West
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Thomas A. Edison Inscribes Photo: “In 1879 I Invented the Incandescent Lamp”
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President Theodore Roosevelt Signs a Mint White House Card
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Theodore Roosevelt: Famous “Square Deal” Quotation
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Mark Twain Signed Photo by Abdullah Frères in Constantinople
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Herbert Hoover’s Handwritten List of His Autograph Collection
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Robert Frost Declares Himself a “Balfour Israelite” and Discusses His Trip to the Western Wall
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Abraham Lincoln Signed Carte-de-Visite Photo: the “Solitary Pine Pose” from the January 8, 1864, Sitting
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What’s in a Name: Samuel Clemens Defines Mark Twain
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Thomas Jefferson’s Visiting Card, Bearing His Signature in an Ornate Printed Border – A Rarity
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A Rare 1879 Tauchnitz Edition of "Innocents Abroad" Inscribed by Twain to His Wife "With the Love of S.L. Clemens"
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A “Song of Praise” Celebrating the Yishuv’s Welcome of Lew Wallace to Jerusalem
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Signed Photo of Doomed Challenger Astronaut Judy Resnik - the Second American Woman, and the First American Jew, in Space
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Roderick Cole’s 1858 Beardless Photo of Abraham Lincoln – Signed “Yours Truly, A. Lincoln”
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Jerusalem Consul Wallace and Chief Rabbi Salant Solicit American Funds for the City’s Yeshiva 'Etz Hachaim' and 'Bikur Holim' Hospital
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Excessively Rare "Rice and Byers" One Dollar Sutler Token From Fort Sill in the Indian Territory
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Lawyer Abraham Lincoln Defends Farmer in Dispute Over Price of Hogs
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Rabbi Isaac Leeser's Review of Convert and Early American Zionist Warder Cresson's, "The Key of David"
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Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, on Hearing McKinley Has Been Shot, Wires For News
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Early Carte-de-Visite Photo of Longtime U.S. Consul to Jerusalem, Selah Merrill
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A Leaf from Abraham Lincoln's Earliest Handwritten Manuscript, His Homemade Student "Sum Book"
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Abraham Lincoln Cannily Analyzes Stephen Douglas’ Position, and Maneuvering, on the Temperance Issue in Illinois
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Abraham Lincoln’s Family Physician, Robert K. Stone, Signed 1842 Book about a Miraculous Cure
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Abraham Lincoln Signed Photo from First Washington Sitting, With John Hay Note of Authentication
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Abraham Lincoln Signed Carte-de-Visite Photo by Matthew Brady, of Which Lincoln Said “I Look Most Like That One.”
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50 Cent Civil War Sutler Token of Jewish Sutler and Abraham Lincoln Friend, Henry Rice
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Gregory Jarvis Explains That Space Mission Assignment is “Luck” and Says He Has Been Assigned to the Challenger
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Rail Ticket for the Historic Jaffa–Jerusalem Railroad
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A Calling Card Signed as Samuel L. Clemens and Mark Twain
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A Rare Original Watercolor by John F. Kennedy of the Kennedy Palm Beach Beachfront Home in 1955
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An Anti-Copperhead Broadside Denouncing Former President Franklin Pierce as a Traitor
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A Scarce Ronald Reagan White House Card Signed
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JFK’s Handwritten Quote: “Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country”
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A Ronald Reagan Photo, in Front of Berlin Wall, Inscribed With His Famous Call to “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
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Harry Truman Manuscript on the “Settlement of the Palestine Question”
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Carte-de-Visite of Abolitionist Crusader Rabbi David Einhorn
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American Civil War Union General George B. McClellan: An Anti-Semitic Letter
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Jewish Colonel Max Friedman Certifies an Enlistment into the Cameron Dragoons
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A Rare Association With 1862 Battlefield Passover Seder: a G.W. Forbes Civil War Sutler’s Token
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John F. Kennedy's Famous "New Frontier Speech" In Which He Offers a Nascent Version of the Indelible "Ask Not" Line of His Inaugural Address
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President John F. Kennedy, “On the Edge of the New Frontier”, Wonders What the Next Four Years Will Bring
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Lyndon Johnson Signed Photo Depicting Him Taking the Oath of Office Aboard Air Force One - Inscribed to the Photographer of the Iconic Image
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H.C. Corbin, Who Established Policy of Religious Furloughs for Jewish Soldiers, Postbellum Army Documents
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Rare Civil War 25-Cent Sutler Token from L. Goldheim of the Union's 1st West Virginia Cavalry
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An Early Civil War Treatise on Gunshot Wounds By Surgeon General P.J. Horwitz
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A Scarce Signed Photo of Alfred Dreyfus
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Emile Zola Writes to Alfred Dreyfus at the Height of the Dreyfus Affair
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Chaim Weizmann and Albert Einstein Sign a Hebrew University Postcard
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“My God, We’ve Lost Another One: A Secret Service Agent’s Account of the Reagan Assassination Attempt, Signed by Reagan
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