This memoir by early American bishop Philander Chase provides a firsthand account of religious and social issues in the mid-nineteenth century. Chase writes about his experiences as a pioneer bishop…

The Reminiscences of Bishop Chase V2: Now Bishop of Illinois (1844) is a book written by Philander Chase, an American bishop who served in the Episcopal Church during the 19th…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

This is the ninth volume of George Washington’s presidential papers, covering the period September 1791 to February 1792. Over 40 letters concern the problems arising from Pierre L'Enfant’s high-handedness as…