Hayden Library - B132.V3 J66 2018

Hayden Library - BD450.H28725 2018

Hayden Library - BD201.J66 2018

Hayden Library - B105.F3 E28 2018

Dewey Library - B105.S64 B69 2018

Hayden Library - B809.6.J67 2018

Dewey Library - BD450.M68 2019

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Everyday theology.

On June 22, 1881, Eliza Seaman Leggett, a New York City native, sat down to pen a letter to her dear, lifelong correspondent, Walt Whitman. She wrote from her home at 169 East Elizabeth Street in Detroit, about 40 miles from her Waterford Township house that had served as a stop on the Underground Railroad....

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In January 1976, Jesse Birnbaum, the European edition editor of Time, cabled Edward Jamieson, the magazine’s managing editor, about an unusual table he had received as a gift from French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. The table’s gold-leaf legs supported a plain top, the edges of which were decorated with an “ornate series of nude figures...

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Given its links to Massachusetts, it may come as a surprise to many that the earliest surviving text of “Christian Charitie. A Modell hereof” (more commonly called “A Model of Christian Charity”) resides in New York.  A lay sermon attributed to the Puritan John Winthrop, the once unheralded manuscript came to the New-York Historical Society from Francis...

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Hailed as the foremost painter of the American Revolution, John Trumbull (1756-1843) is best remembered for the four iconic images that grace the walls of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. These paintings depict pivotal events in our nation’s early history: The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of General Burgoyne, The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General Washington Resigning his...

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John B. Cooper prepared to set sail in pursuit of sperm whales aboard the ship Franklin in August 1833. The voyage to the Pacific Ocean originated in Sag Harbor, East Hampton, Long Island. Like many sailors, Cooper kept a log of weather conditions, navigational calculations, and daily activities aboard ship. There are also several poems, essays,...

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There was a time when Thomas Cole, the celebrated landscape painter and Hudson River School artist, was an unknown portraitist travelling by foot across the northeast, determined to make a living for himself with nothing but a dollar in his pocket. Cole’s eventual success was due in part to that incredible drive, his passionate commitment...

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Since its completion in 1818, John Trumbull’s “Signing of the Declaration of Independence” remains one of the most recognizable paintings among Americans. Commissioned by Congress with the intent of housing it in the United States Capitol, Trumbull took several creative liberties to represent one of the most significant events of the American Revolution and to...

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Grierson, John, 1909-1971

Veijola, Soile, author

Edelheim, Johan R., author

Wearing, Stephen, author

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, 1894-1981

Platjouw, Froukje Maria, author

Jefferies, Cameron S. G., author

Grigorjeva, Joanna, author

Hannigan, John A., 1948- author

Johnstone, Rachael Lorna, author

Johansson, Tafsir, author

Nagan, Winston P., author

Proulx, Vincent-Joël, author

Fletemeyer, John R., author

Franks, Benjamin, author

Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, author, issuing body

Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee on Law Enforcement

Australia. Parliament. Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, author, issuing body

Crowe, Jonathan, author

Australia. Parliament. Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, author, issuing body

Colvin, Eric, 1945- author

Douglas, Roger (Roger Neil), author

Baker, John H. (John Hamilton), author

Johns, Margaret Z

Pearson, Mark, 1954- author