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John Swett
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Mementos of the Swett Family
Author's copy, with extensive annotations, corrections, additions. Appended material includes handwritten correspondence and notes, published items, newspaper clippings, charts, silhouettes, and one watercolor drawing. Bound with "The Norton Family" (N.E.H.G. Register 13[1859]:225-230; annotated by the author) and a chart of the Bowles family
Lincoln's Forgotten Friend, Leonard Swett
In 1849, while traveling as an attorney on the Eighth Judicial Circuit in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln befriended Leonard Swett (1825–89), a fellow attorney sixteen years his junior. Despite this age difference, the two men built an enduring friendship that continued until Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. Until now, no historian has explored Swett’s life or his remarkable relationship with the sixteenth president. In this welcome volume, Robert S. Eckley provides the first biography of Swett, crafting an intimate portrait of his experiences as a loyal member of Lincoln’s inner circle. Eckley chronicles Swett’s early life and the part he played in Lincoln’s political campaigns, inclu...
All Deliberate Speed
"Separate but equal" in California -- "Yellow peril" in the schools (I) -- "Yellow peril" in the schools (II) -- The tragedy of Indian education -- The decline and fall of "separate but equal" -- All deliberate speed in California -- Segregation and exclusion in California schools, 1855-1975: observations.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
