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Bulwark of liberty; early years at Dickinson
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA/Cu LD 1663 .A5 1950
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickinson College
- Series:
- The Boyd Lee Spahr lectures in Americana ; v.1, 1947-1950.
- The Boyd Lee Spahr lectures in Americana ; v.1, 1947-1950
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson College--History.
- Dickinson College.
- Pennsylvania--Cumberland Co--Carlisle--Colleges and universities.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- 174 p., [6] pages of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Revell, [1950]
- Contents:
- Boyd Lee Spahr, Dickinsonian, an appreciation.
- Bulwark of liberty / by W. J. Bell, Jr.
- Benjamin Rush and the beginnings of "John and Mary's College" over Susquehanna / by L. H. Butterfield.
- Charles Nisbet, portrait in miniature / by B. L. Spahr.
- A frontier experiment with higher education / by J. B. Smith.
- The sources of the original Dickinson college Library / by J. W. Phillips.
- High Brackenridge's ride; how we got "Old West" / by W. W. Edel.
- The education of Roger B. Taney / by C. B. Swisher.
- James Buchanan; lessons in leadership in trying times / by R. F. Nichols.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Frederic R. Kirkland. Includes correspondence form Boyd Lee Spahr to FRK.
- The James Buchanan Presidential Library.
- OCLC:
- 910775
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