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Foreword / by Edna Greene Medford -- Prologue: One of Lincoln's Oldest Friends -- Chief Executive. Petitions for Pardon ; Correspondence Related to Colonization -- Commander in Chief. Letters Related to Military Recruitment and Volunteering ; Protests against Unequal Pay for Black Soldiers ; Requests for Discharge from the Service ; Letters from Soldiers in Trouble -- Chief Citizen. Requests for Equal Treatment ; Prayers for Aid for Christian Ministries ; Letters Seeking Economic Rights and Opportunities ; Mementos -- Epilogue. Massa Sam's Dead!

The Union army's overwhelming vote for Abraham Lincoln's reelection in 1864 has led many Civil War scholars to conclude that the soldiers supported the Republican Party and its effort to abolish slavery. In Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln Jonathan W. White challenges this reigning paradigm in Civil War historiography, arguing instead that the soldier vote in the presidential election of 1864 is not a reliable index of the army's ideological motivation or political sentiment. Although 78 percent of the soldiers' votes were cast for Lincoln, White contends tha

Reprinted from the American Bee Journal vol. 101 no.8 pp. August 1961 pp. 299-302

The beeswax processing industry of the United States is gravely concerned with increasing admixture of other waxes in the incoming beeswax they process. The source is largely other waxes added to beeswax by manufacturers of honey-comb foundation. They have requested our help in devising suitable tests for such mixtures and devising quantitative methods for their analysis. They also are requesting better Government standards for beeswax and asked us to provide a base of information about United States beeswax to be used both in writing standards and in the detection of admixture of other waxes. In an interview with the research director of the National Confectioner's Association, possible fields of use of dried honey were discussed. E-59-71

Since 2005, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), nervous over the uncertain future of the Compact of Free Association and seeking to improve its fiscal self-sufficiency, has wasted time and resources on a pie-in-the-sky tax reform proposal with too many moving parts and too many stakeholders to satisfy. A more practical path to tax reform must be found—and as the authors argue, Hawaii's unique tax system should be used as a map forward.The FSM and Hawaii each have broad-based consumption taxes—the gross revenues tax and the general excise tax, respectively. Although these two taxes appear similar at first glance, Hawaii's tax has developed sophisticated characteristics over the past eighty-five years. Instead of attempting yet again to discard its gross revenues tax, the FSM should transform it. Replicating and accelerating Hawaii's eighty-five-year tax evolution could offer the FSM a much more practicable—and less politically daunting—shortcut to a modernized, efficient, and lucrative tax system.

New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty; A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania; Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740–1840; The Pennsylvania Associators, 1747–1777; Dear Friend: Letters and Essays of Elias Hicks; A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic; Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America's First Cooking School; America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837; James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War; The Fishing Creek Confederacy: A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance