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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 160 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 88 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 76 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 26 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 10 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 8 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
. 22, 1892 Treaty signed at State Department, Washington, by Sir Julian Pauncefote and Secretary Blaine, referring the Bering Sea dispute to an international arbitration commission of seven members......Feb. 29, 1892 Forest reserve, Pike's Peak, Col., set apart by proclamation of President Harrison......Feb. 11, March 18, 1892 Standard Oil Trust dissolved......March 21, 1892 Debate on the silver bill closes in House of Representatives and fails of a vote......March 24, 1892 Walt Whitman, poet, born in 1819, dies at Camden, N. J.......March 26, 1892 Treaty with foreign powers for repressing the slave-trade in Africa and the importation of fire-arms, ammunition, and spirituous liquors, signed at Washington......April 2, 1892 Steamer Missouri, which sailed from New York, March 15, carrying food supplies to starving Russians, arrives at Libau......April 3, 1892 President proclaims open to settlement the greater part of Lake Traverse Indian reservation in North Dakot
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Jersey, (search)
of over 3,000 employes in the Clark thread mills at Newark and Kearney begins......Dec. 10, 1890 Saturday half-holiday established, and Rutgers Scientific School awarded the funds granted by Congress in aid of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts at session......Jan. 13–March 20, 1891 Spinners' strike in the Clark thread mills declared off......April 18, 1891 Smokeless powder used for the first time in this country at Sandy Hook in an 8-inch rifled gun......July 25, 1891 Walt Whitman, poet, born 1819, dies at Camden......March 26, 1892 United States practice cruiser Bancroft, the first war-ship built in the State, is launched at the yards of Samuel L. Moore & Sons Co. in Elizabeth......April 30, 1892 City of Paterson celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding......July 4, 1892 Horse-racing during December, January, and February forbidden......1893 Battle monument at Trenton unveiled......Oct. 19, 1893 Democrats and Republicans organize separate S
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitman, Walt 1819-1892 (search)
Whitman, Walt 1819-1892 Poet; born in West Hills, Long Island, N. Y., May 31, 1819; received a public school education; learned the printer's trade; taught school for a time; and later learned the carpenter's trade. During the Civil War he was a nurse in the Federal military hospitals; and was a government clerk in 1865-73. He was editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; a contributor to the Democratic review; established The Freedman in 1850; and wrote Drum Taps; Leaves of grass, etc. He died in Camden, N. J., March 26, 1892.