This fall brings our seventh catalogue, once again containing twenty-five items with important stories to tell, stories that bring unique perspectives to the American experience at its broadest: from the diary of a young Massachusetts woman teaching Freedmen in a North Carolina refugee camp while the war still rages around her to the shipboard journal of a newly appointed U. S. consul on his way to Mauritius; from the account of a Swiss immigrant at Selkirk’s Red River Colony to the articles of association printed for a California gold rush company; from a newsletter printed at the Tuskegee Army Flying School to the only file of an antebellum St. Louis newspaper; from the cash book of San Antonio’s first national bank to the first Trans-Allegheny arithmetic; and from an early published account of Nova Scotia’s Mi’kmaq Indians to the petition of Black citizens in Colorado Territory, demanding their civil rights. They all contribute to new ways of exploring the corners of American history. Our name is what they have in common. They are primary sources, and they are largely uncharted. Thanks again to everyone who has supported our prior efforts, and we hope that you enjoy browsing Catalogue 7.
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