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A Selection of Materials : Pamphlets

From the first rustlings of revolution into the 20^th century, pamphlets were the primary format for political debate in this country.  They were the blogs of their day: some blazing with heightened rhetoric and unfounded accusations, others less shrill but no less impassioned, all contributing to that extraordinary medley we call the Will of the People.  To learn more about the ways our forebears commemorated their heroes and vilified their enemies, search the catalog for the more than 1500 pamphlets in call number series 2/14, 2/16, 2/17, and 2/18. (Make sure to change the drop-down menu to "Dewey or Other Call Number.")

		2/17 (1812) 001  The present war unexpected, unnecessary, and ruinous. Two discourses delivered in Boston: the first on the 23d of July, 1812, the fast appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts; the second on the 20th of August, the fast appointed by the President of the United States, in consequence of the present war by John Lathrop
		2/17 (1825) 001  The claims of past and future generations on civil rulers. A sermon, preached at the annual election, May 25, 1825, before His Honor Marcus Morton, esq., lieutenant governor, the honorable Council, and the legislature of Massachusetts by the Reverend William Buell Sprague
		2/17 (1840) 005  More than one hundred reasons why William Henry Harrison should and will have the support of the democracy : for president of the United States, in preference to Martin Van Buren by "A Workingman"
		2/17 (1900) 017  Karl Marx and the Civil War by Herman Schlüter
		2/18 (1888) 003  Pickett’s Charge as Seen from the Front Line by Winfield Scott (1837-1910)
		2/18(1885) 001  The American Churches the Bulwarks of American Slavery by James Gillespie Birney

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