INDEPENDENCE

Since Independence Day is fast approaching, our  curiosity kicked in this week when someone mentioned that this collection contains a lot of books on that subject. So we searched the data base and came up with 21 hits. We'll list a few of them here to give you an idea of the variety of information on that subject that can be found here in the Bullis Room.

(By the way, don't you just love some of these long titles on these books from the 1800s? In some cases, the titles serve as a synopsis of the content - which is handy for researchers and casual readers, alike.)

Anyway, here are some of the books on the subject of independence that we thought you might be interested in:

Camp-fires of the Revolution:  or The War of Independence,

by Henry C. Watson, published in Philadelphia in 1850 by Lindsay and Blackiston

The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution; or, Illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the war for Independence,

by Benson John Lossing, published in New York by Harper & Brothers, 1860

Karl Marx and the Close of His System: A Criticism,

by Eugene von Bohm-Bawerk, published in New York by Macmillan, 1898

A Centennial Edition of the History of the United States:

from the discovery of America, to the end of the first one hundred years of American independence;

with a full account of the approaching centennial celebration.

by Benson John Lossing, published in Hartford by T. Belknap, 1876

The Rise of the Dutch Repuiblic: A History,

by John Lothrop Motley, published in New York by Harper & Brothers, 1868-69

The Centennial History of the United States: From the discovery of the

American continent to the close of the first century of American Independence,

by James Dabney McCabe, published in Philadelphia by National Publishing Company, c 1874

Well, that's all folks. Hope you see something here that grabs your interest so that we can see you in the Bullis Room in the near future. In the meantime, Happy 4th of July.