James Hadden

Reports of Cases in Chancery, Decided by Lord Cottenham [1846-1848]

• Author(s): Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Charles Purton Cooper

• Categories: Equity

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1848
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report

• Author(s): New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

• Categories: Poor

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1865
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Reports from Commissioners

• Author(s): Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1838
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Annals of Aberdeen, from the reign of king William the lion

• Author(s): William Kennedy

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1818
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Groundless

• Author(s): Gregory Evans Dowd

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2016-01-15
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• Publisher: JHU Press

The fascinating—and troubling—story of powerful rumors that circulated and influential legends that arose in early America. Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women’s scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced that white settlers—hardly immune as a group to the disease—routinely distributed smallpox-tainted blankets to the natives? Rumor—spread by colonists and Native Americans alike—ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, historian Gregory Evans Dowd explores why half-truths...