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Moyer, William J. “The Fantastic Career of Daniel E. Sickles.” The Washington Star Journal Pictorial Magazine, March 1, 1953.
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, D.C. File cards. N.d.
Swanberg, W. A. Sickles the Incredible. New York: Scribner’s, 1956.
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Commager, Henry Steele, and Allan Nevins. Heritage of America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1949.
Kunhardt, Philip B., Jr. A New Birth of Freedom, Lincoln at Gettysburg. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.
Long, E. B., with Barbara Long. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861-1865. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.
Luthin, Reinhard H. The Real Abraham Lincoln. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1960.
Mearns, David C, and Lloyd A. Dunlap. Long Remembered: Facsimiles of the Five Versions of the Gettysburg Address in the Handwriting of Abraham Lincoln. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1963.
Mitgang, Herbert, ed. Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.
Nevins, Allan, ed. Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address: Commemorative Papers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964.
Press Release No. 63-5. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., September 21, 1962.
Randall, J. G. Lincoln, the President: Springfield to Gettysburg. Vol. 2. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1945.
Thomas, Benjamin P. Abraham Lincoln. New York: Knopf, 1952.
Trueblood, Elton. Abraham Lincoln: Theologian of American Anguish. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
Wills, Garry. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
THE APPOMATTOX SURRENDER TABLES
America: Great Crises in Our History Told by Its Makers (A Library of Original Sources). Vol. 8, The Civil War, 1861-1865. Chicago: Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, 1925.
Appomattox Court House: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1980.
“Appomattox Furniture.” Furniture South, July 1961.
“The ‘Appomattox’ Table in Chicago.” Chicago Tribune, July 23, 1887.
“Appomattox Table Story.” Sheets of the Chicago Historical Society, circa 1920.
Bowman, John S. The Civil War Almanac. New York: World Almanac, Bison Books, 1983.
Cadawallader, Sylvanus. Three Years with Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadawallader, ed. Thomas Benjamin. 1955. Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Cauble, Dr. Frank P. The Proceedings Connected with the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, April 1865. 1962. Reprint, H. E. Howard, 1987.
Chesley, A. H. Letter to Charles Gunther, March 22, 1887. Chicago Historical Society.
Chicago Historical Society. Accession records.
Dunlap, Lloyd A. “The Grant-Lee Surrender Correspondence: Some Notes and Queries.” Manuscripts, Spring 1969, pp. 78-91.
Freeman, Douglas S. R. E. Lee. Volume 4. New York: Scribner, 1935.
Grant, Julia. Letter to Mrs. E. O. C. Ord, January 26, 1887. Chicago Historical Society.
Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Vol. 2. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1886. Source of Grant and Lee letters, pp. 289, 290, 292.
“Historic Furnishings Report and Plan Appomattox Court House National Historical Park.” Prepared under contract by William Seale, Harpers Ferry Center, 1984.
“A National Shrine Is Dedicated, ‘Surrender House’ Becomes ‘Peace House.’” The Iron Worker, vol. 13, no. 3 (Summer 1950), pp. 1-5.
“Notebook of James Kelly.” New York, circa 1892.
Ord, Mrs. E. O. C. Letters to Charles Gunther, January 12, 1887; March 10, 1887; March 24, 1887; July 20, 1887. Chicago Historical Society.
Simon, John Y., ed. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Vol. 14, February 21-April 30, 1865. Carbondale, Il.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985. Source of the terms of surrender letter, pp. 373-74; permission to reproduce granted by John Y. Simon and the Ulysses S. Grant Association, Frank J. Williams, president.
THE BED LINCOLN DIED IN
Bailey, J. O. British Plays of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Odyssey Press, 1966.
Bishop, Jim. The Day Lincoln Was Shot. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955.
Borreson, Ralph. When Lincoln Died. New York: Appleton-Century, 1965.
Buffalo-Erie County Historical Society sheet on the Lincoln railroad funeral car. N.d.
Chicago Historical Society. Accession records.
“The Funeral!” The World, New York (April 20, 1865).
Historic Structure Report of Ford’s Theatre. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963. Source of the Frank Ford quote.
Hobbies—The Magazine for Collectors, February 1948, 127.
Johnson, Geoffrey. “Souvenir of Sorrow.” Chicago, April 1990.
Leale, Charles A., M.D. “Lincoln’s Last Hours.” From Address Delivered Before the Commandery of the State of New York Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States at the regular meeting, February 1909, City of New York, in Observance of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of President Abraham Lincoln. New York, 1909.
Luthin, Reinhard H. The Real Abraham Lincoln. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1960.
McMurty, Gerald R., ed. “The Lincoln Funeral Car.” Lincoln Lore, no. 1431 (May 1957), pp. 1-4.
Medical and Surgical History, War of the Rebellion, Surgical History, vol. 2, part 1, Washington, D.C., 1870, pp. 305-6.
Oldroyd, Osborn H. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Washington, D.C.: O. H. Oldroyd, 1910. Source of the William T. Clark quote.
Olszewski, George J. The House Where Lincoln Died: Furnishing Study. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Park Service, Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, 1967.
Steers, Edward, Jr. The Escape and Capture of John Wilkes Booth. Brandywine, Md.: Marker Tours, 1983.
Taft, C. S. “Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln.” Medical and Surgical Reporter, Philadelphia, April 22, 1865.
Taylor, Tom. Our American Cousin: The Play That Changed History. With an introduction by Welford D. Taylor. Washington, D.C.: Beacham, 1990.
Thomas, Benjamin P. Abraham Lincoln. New York: Knopf, 1952.
White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society. The White House, An Historic Guide. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 1987.
LITTLE SORREL, STONEWALL JACKSON’S CHARGER
Bowman, John S. The Civil War Almanac. New York: World Almanac, Bison Books, 1983.
Davis, Burke. They Called Him Stonewall: A Life of Lt. General T. J. Jackson, C.S.A. New York: Rinehart, 1954.
Dooley, Louise K. “Little Sorrel: A War-Horse for Stonewall.” Army, April 1975, pp. 34-39.
Henderson, G. F. R. Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1937.
Rhinesmith, Donald W. “Traveller, ‘Just the Horse for General Lee.’” Virginia Cavalcade, vol. 33, no. 1 (Summer 1983), pp. 38-47.
Riggs, David F. “Stonewall Jackson’s Raincoat.” Civil War Times Illustrated, July 1977, pp. 35-41.
Wheeler, Richard. We Knew Stonewall Jackson. New York: Crowell, 1973.
ROBERT BROWNING’S RELIQUARY
Cameron, Kenneth Neill, ed. Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822. Vol. 3. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Garrod, H. W, ed. Keats: Poetical Works. London: Oxford University Press, 1956. Source of “On Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair.”
Kelley, Philip, and Betty A. Coley, compilers. The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction with Other Memorabilia. Winfield, Kans.: Wedgestone Press, 1984.
Kelley, Philip, and Scott Lewis. The Brownings’ Correspondence, Vol. 11. Winfield, Kans.: Wedgestone Press, 1984. Source of Elizabeth and Robert’s correspondence in November and December 1845.
The Library Company, Philadelphia,
materials: A description of the frame of a lock of Washington’s hair signed by Joseph Crout, dated February 1860, and minutes of a meeting dated August 6, 1829.
Origo, Iris. “Additions to the Keats Collection.” Times Literary Supplement, April 23, 1970.
Stack, V. E., ed. How Do I Love Thee: The Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969.
Stephens, James, Edwin L. Beck, and Royall L. Snow, eds. English Poets Romantic, Victorian, and Later. New York: American Book, 1934. Source for the excerpt from Sonnets from the Portuguese, p. 847.
THE ELEPHANT MAN
Angier, Natalie. “Scientists Discover the Gene in a Nervous System Disease.” The New York Times, July 13, 1990.
Graham, Peter W., and Fritz H. Oehlschlaeger. Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Howell, Michael, and Peter Ford. The True History of the Elephant Man. London: Allison and Busby, 1980. The definitive book on the Elephant Man. Much of my discussion is based on Sir Frederick Treves’s essay “The Elephant Man,” which appears in Howell and Ford’s book, and which is from Treves’s The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences (London: Cassell, 1923); and “The Autobiography of Joseph Carey Merrick” as it appears in Howell and Ford.
Montagu, Ashley. The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Behavior. New York: Dutton, 1979. This book contains a reproduction of “Report on the Inquest of John Merrick,” The Times (London), April 16, 1890, which was used as a resource.
Seward, G. R. The Elephant Man. London: British Dental Association, 1992. An excellent medical analysis of Joseph Carey Merrick.
“What the Elephant Man Really Had.” Newsweek, February 29, 1988.
OWNEY, THE CANINE TRAVELER
Bruns, James, compiler. “Owney, Mascot of the Railway Service.” Washington, D.C.: The National Philatelic Collection of the Smithsonian Institution, 1990.
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS’ FLYER
Crouch, Tom. The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Orville and Wilbur Wright. New York: Norton, 1989.
Hallion, Richard P. The Wright Brothers: Heirs of Prometheus. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1979.
Howard, Fred. Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. New York: Knopf, 1987.
McMahon, John R. The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Flight. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1930.
Walsh, John Evangelist. One Day at Kitty Hawk: The Untold Story of the Wright Brothers and the Airplane. New York: Crowell, 1975.
Wright Brothers National Memorial, North Carolina. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961; reprinted 1985.
THE BREAST-POCKET ITEMS THAT SAVED THE LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Abbott, Lyman, ed. in chief. “The Assault on Theodore Roosevelt.” The Outlook, October 26, 1912.
Davis, Oscar King. Letter telegraphed from Chicago, Illinois, to George Perkins, national chairman of the Progressive Party, in New York City, October 15, 1912. Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, National Historic Site, New York, N.Y
Donovan, Robert J. “Annals of Crime.” The New Yorker, November 6, 1954.
Gores, Stan. Wisconsin Stories: The Attempted Assassination of Teddy Roosevelt. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1980. Reprinted from Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 53 (Summer 1970).
Lorant, Stan. The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1959.
McCullough, David. Mornings on Horseback. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.
Remey, Oliver E., Henry F. Cochems, and Wheeler P. Bloodgood. The Attempted Assassination of Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. Milwaukee: Progressive Publishing, 1912.
Roosevelt, Theodore. Social Justice and Popular Rule: Essays, Addresses, and Public Statements Relating to the Progressive Movement (1910-1916), from The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt. © 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons/Macmillan. My source for lines quoted from the Theodore Roosevelt speech given after the assassination attempt.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, New York City. Accession records, catalog cards, restoration contracts, and memos. The birthplace has possession of the Perkins paper cited above.
This Week Magazine, March 21, 1965, 12-13.
PILTDOWN MAN
Blinderman, Charles. The Piltdown Inquest. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1986.
Shipman, Pat. “On the Trail of the Piltdown Fraudsters.” New Scientist, October 6, 1990.
Spencer, Frank. Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery. London and New York: Natural History Museum Publications, Oxford University Press, 1990.
Spencer, Frank. The Piltdown Papers, 1908-1955: The Correspondence and Other Documents Relating to the Piltdown Forgery. London: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Wilford, John Noble. “Mastermind of Piltdown Hoax Unmasked?” The New York Times, June 5, 1990.
LADDIE BOY
Boston Transcript, August 5, 1926.
Carvan, Anthony (head curator, Department of Civil History, Smithsonian Institution). Letter to William M. Hall, October 1960. National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
Russell, Francis. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
BABE RUTH’S SIXTIETH-HOME-RUN BAT
Ruth, Babe, as told to Bob Considine. The Babe Ruth Story. New York: Dutton, 1948.
“Ruth Crashes 60th to Set New Record.” The New York Times, October 1, 1927.
JOHN DILLINGER’S WOODEN JAIL-ESCAPE GUN
Cromie, Robert, and Joseph Pinkston. Dillinger: A Short and Violent Life. Evanston, Il.: Chicago Historical Bookworks, 1990.
Girardin, G. Russell, with William J. Helmer. Dillinger: The Untold Story. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Nash, J. Robert, and Ron Offen. Dillinger: Dead or Alive. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1970.
Toland, John. The Dillinger Days. New York: Random House, 1962.
ANNE FRANK’S DIARY
Barnouw, David, and Gerrold van der Stroom, eds. The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition. Prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1952.
The Works of Anne Frank. Introduction by Ann Birstein and Alfred Kazin. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1959.
THE ENOLA GAY
Thomas, Gordon, and Max Morgan Witts. Enola Gay. New York: Stein and Day, 1977.
Young, Peter. The World Almanac Book of World War Two. New York: World Almanac, Bison Books, 1981.
EINSTEIN’S BRAIN
Garbedian, H. Gordon. Albert Einstein: Maker of Universes. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1939.
Hoffman, Banesh, with Helen Dukas. Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel. New York: Viking, 1972.
Lawren, Bill. “Slam Dunks and Einstein’s Brain.” Longevity, April 1993.
Levy, Steven. “My Search for Einstein’s Brain.” New Jersey Monthly, August 1978.
THE RIFLE THAT KILLED PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Four Days: The Historical Record of the Death of President Kennedy. Compiled by United Press International and American Heritage magazine. New York: American Heritage (distributed by Simon and Schuster), 1983.
O’Donnell, Kenneth P. and David E Powers, with Joe McCarthy, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye.” Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
Posner, Gerald. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. New York: Random House, 1993.
Rachlin, Harvey. The Kennedys: A Chronological History: 1823-Present. New York: World Almanac, Pharos Books, 1986.
Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John E Kennedy. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1964.
VOYAGER 1 AND VOYAGER 2’S GOLD-PLATED PHONOGRAPH RECORD FOR EXTRATERRESTRIALS
Begley, Sharon, and Mary Hager. “A Fantastic Voyage to Neptune.” Newsweek, September 4, 1989.
Fact Sheet: Voyager 2 Encounter of Neptune. Pasadena: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1989.
Sagan, Carl, E D. Drake, Ann Druyan, Timothy Ferris, Jon Lomberg, and Linda Salzman Sagan. Murmurs from Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record. New York: Random House, 1978. Source of the greetings that appear in this chapter, pp. 134-43.
The Voyager Neptune Travel Guide. Pasadena: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1989.
“Voyager Will Carry ‘Earth Sounds’ Record.” NASA News press release. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C., 1977.
Wilford, John Noble. “Target of Four Spacecraft: Edge of the Solar System.” The New York Times, August 28, 1989.
KEYWORDS
Abbott, William Lewis
Abolitionism
Abraham Lincoln Museum, Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tennessee), Lincoln’s walking stick
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), and Shroud of Turin
Acherblad, Johan David
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
“Admiral of the Ocean Sea,”
Adolescence, Anne Frank’s diary and,
Aeneid
Africa
Ahab
Ahaz
Ahaziah
Airplanes
Aitkin, Martin J.
Akkadian kings
Alexander VI (Pope)
Alexandria, Egypt
Aljahar Alsad
Allah. See Black Stone of the Ka‘bah
Alliance (ship). See Jones, John Paul
Amenophis I (Egypt)
Amorite, Hammurabi
Amsterdam, the Netherlands. See Anne Frank House
Ancient languages, Rosetta Stone
Ancient Near East, The (Pritchard)
Animals as artifacts, Laddie Boy (dog), Little Sorrel, Owney (dog)
Anjou, duke of
Annals of Ulster
Anne Frank House (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Anthropology
Antioch Byzantine silver treasure