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This is a collection of Digitized Books taken from the Cornell University Library's extensive holdings.
The first books available are selected from our Race and Religion Digital Online Collection.

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    Cayuga notes
    Taft, Grace Ellis (Benton Harbor, Mich.: Antiquarian pub., 1913)
    A history of the Cayuga Indians.
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    A valedictory discourse, delivered at Graham's Church, in the County of Orange, and State of New York; on Sabbath, the 18th of August, 1816, on resigning the pastoral care of that church
    Stansbury, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1781-1865 (New York: George F. Hopkins, 1816)
    A Valedictory discourse, delivered by the Rev. Arthur J. Stansbury at Graham's Church, in the County of Orange, and the State of New York; on the Sabbath, the 18th of August 1816, on resigning the pastoral charge of that Church. Printed for the use of the Congregation.
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    Journals of Henry A. S. Dearborn. A record of councils with the Sececa and Tuscarora Indians at Buffalo and Cattaraugus in the years 1838 and 1839. Now first published
    Dearborn, H. A. S. (Henry Alexander Scammell), 1783-1851. (Buffalo, N.Y: Buffalo Historical Society, 1904)
    Gen. Henry A. S. Dearborn, the author of the following journals, was the son of Major-General Henry Dearborn of Revolutionary fame, who also served with distinction in the War of 1812. In the summer of 1838 Gen. Dearborn came to Buffalo as the Superintendent of Massachusetts—such was his official title—to be present at negotiations with the Seneca and Tuscarora Indians, having in view their removal from their Western New York reservations to lands in Kansas. It is an important chapter in the early history of Buffalo, the story of which has remained until now for the most part untold. Gen. Dearborn’s observations on the condition of Buffalo in 1838, his predictions of the great city which would grow up on the Niagara frontier, his feeling allusions to his father, and their presence on the frontier during the War of 1812; even the Indian traditions which he wrote down from the narration of Cone the young Tonawanda, all combine to give interest and historic value to the journal which he kept, but which has lain unpublished until now.
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    George Wallingford Noyes Papers (1848-1854): The Oneida Community collection in the Syracuse University Library Author: Noyes, George Wallingford
    Noyes, George Wallingford; Weimer, Mark (Syracuse University, 1986)
    The Oneida Community was a religious communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York. The community believed in "perfectionism" and that since Jesus had returned in 70AD, they were to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves, be free of sin and perfect in this world. The Oneida Community practiced communalism (sharing property and possessions), including in sexual relations. There were other Noyesian communities in Wallingford, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Putney and Cambridge, Vermont. This is a collection of letters from the Syracuse University archives compiled by Mark Weimer.
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    Description of the Colosseum, Broadway, 35th and 36th Streets, New York
    New York State Pamphlets (New York: Baker and Godwin, Printers, 1874)
    Description of the Colosseum, Broadway, 35th and 36th Streets, New York. The largest iron structure in the world. A history of the world renowned cycloramas, each covering an acre of canvas, of London of 1828, by Daylight, painted in 1828, from sketches of Thomas Hornor, by E. T. Parris. Paris by Moonlight, and London of 1873, by Night, painted by Danso & Sons to be followed by Paris of 1873. Now first introduced to an American Public. Also and extensive and curious collection of works of art, objects of historical interest, wonders of sceince and mechanics, optical illusions, automatic marvels, musical novelties, which together with the entertainments of the Lectorium, under the direction of Prof. Tobin, late of the Ploytechnic, London, will form the most novel, pleasing, moral and instructive exhibition ever attempted in America. R. L. Kennard., Sole Proprietor. P. T. Barnum, Director
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    The Crisis, November 1929
    (1929-11)
    The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Editor: W.E.B. DU Bois, was publisghed monthly and copyrighted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) and dealt with issues affecting the African-American community.
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    The Crisis, October 1929
    (New York, Arno Press, 1929-10)
    The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Editor: W.E.B. DU Bois, was publisghed monthly and copyrighted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) and dealt with issues affecting the African-American community.
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    Annual Report of the State Charities Aids Association to the State Commission in Lunacy. New York, 1909, 17th Annual Report
    New York, State Charities Aid Association (New York, State Charities Aid Association, 1909-11-01)
    17th Annual Report of the State Charities Aid Association to the State Commission in Lunacy. Nov. 1, 1909. United Charities Building, 105 East 22nd Street, New York, New York.
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    North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860
    Litwack, Leon F. (University of Chicago Press, 1961)
    The Mason-Dixon Line is a convenient but an often misleading geographical division. It has been used not only to distinguish the Old South from the North and the Confederacy from the Union but to dramatize essential differences in the treatment of, and attitudes toward, the Negro - to contrast southern racial inhumanity with northern benevolence and liberality. But the historian must be wary of such an over-simplified comparison, for it does not accord with the realities of either the nineteenth or the twentieth century. The inherent cruelty and violence of southern slavery requires no further demonstration, but this does not prove northern humanity. Although slavery eventually confined itself to the region below the Mason-Dixon Line, discrimination against the Negro and a firmly held belief in the superiority of the white race were not restricted to one section but were shared by an overwhelming majority of white Americans in both the North and the South. Abraham Lincoln, in his vigorous support of both white supremacy and denial of equal rights for Negroes, simply gave expression to almost universal American convictions. In the ante bellum North racial discrimination was not as subtle or as concealed as it has been in more recent decades.