Three tracts published at Amsterdam, in the years 1691 and 1692, under the name of Letters of General Ludlow to Sir Edward Seymour, and other persons, comparing the oppressive government of King Charles I, in the first four years of his reign, with that of the four years of the reign of King James II, and vindicating the conduct of the Parliament that began in November, 1640.

Each tract has special t.p. with original imprint; to the imprint of the second tract is added: And now re-printed at London, by Robert Wilks ... 1811.

Calendar of the Clarendon state papers preserved in the Bodleian Library.

Vols. 1-3, edited under the direction of the Rev. H.O. Coxe; v.4, under the direction of Sir Charles Firth.

The literary remains of the late Henry James;

Mode of access: Internet.

A modern symposium. Subjects: The soul and future life, by Frederic Harrison [and others] and, The influence upon morality of a decline in religious belief, by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen [and others]

Mode of access: Internet.

Forty years' familiar letters of James W. Alexander, constituting, with notes, a memoir of his life.

Mode of access: Internet.

1894 University of Michigan Football Team

1894 University of Michigan Football Team reserves

[back row: Welch, Evans, Thompson, Warren Rundell, Palmer; Middle Row: James Raikes, Thad Farnham, LeRoy (captain), George Marston, Gates; Front Row: Raynor Freund, Evans Holbrook, Philip Bourland]

James Baird, University of Michigan football, captain1894

(cropped from 1894 team photo)

University of Michigan football game at Regents Field, 1894

[possibly James Baird taking snap from center.]

University of Michigan football game at Regents Field, 1894 (varsity game?)

[possibly James Baird taking snap from center, cropped version of bl018624]

American and English corporation cases ; a collection of all corporation cases, both private and municipal (excepting railway cases), decided in the courts of last resort in the United States, England, and Canada [1883-1894] ..

Editors : Vols. 1-8, L. Lewis, jr., and J. H. Merrill.--v. 9-16, A. Hamilton.--v. 17-18, J. H. Merrill.--v. 19-20, 31-48, W. M. McKinney.--v. 21-23, J. M. Kerr and W. M. McKinney.--v. 24-30, J. C. Thomson and W. M. McKinney

The life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart, K.C.S.I., a judge of the High Court of Justice /

"Bibliographical note": p. [483]-486.

HOG CHAINS AND MARK TWAINS: A STUDY OF LABOR HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND INDUSTRIAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE STEAMBOAT ERA OF THE MONONGAHELA VALLEY 1811-1950

This dissertation examines a unique working class in the United States, the men and women who worked on the steamboats from the Industrial Revolution until the demise of steam-powered boats in the mid-20th century. The steamboat was the beginning of a technological system that was developed in America and used in such great numbers that it made the rapid population of the Trans-Appalachian West possible. The steamboat was forever romanticized by images of the antebellum South or the quick wit of Samuel Clemens and his sentimental book, Life on the Mississippi. The imagination swirls with thoughts of boats, bleach white, slowly churning the calm waters of some Spanish moss covered river. The reality of the boats and the experience of those who worked on them has been lost in this nostalgic vision. This research details the history of the western steamboat in the Monongahela Valley, the birthplace of the commercial steamboat industry. The first part of this dissertation examines the literature of authors in the field of labor history and Industrial Archaeology to place this work into the larger context of published literature. The second builds a framework for understanding the various eras that the steamboat went through both in terms of technological change, but also the change the workers experienced as their identity as a working class was being shaped. The third part details the excavations of two steamboat captains houses, those of Captain James Gormley and Captain Michael A. Cox. Both men represented a time in which the steamboat was in an era of transition. Excavations at their homes yield clues to their class status and how integrated they were in the local community. The fourth part of this study documents the oral histories of steamboat workers, both men and women, and their experience on the boats and on the river. Their rapidly declining population of those who lived and worked on the boats gives urgency for their lives to be documented. Finally, this study concludes with a synthesis of how worker identity solidified in the face of technological, socio-economic, and ideological change especially during their push for unionization and the introduction of the diesel towboat.

Rejoinder to James Hamilton

Hamilton (2001) makes a number of comments on our paper (Harding and Pagan, 2002b). The objectives of this rejoinder are, firstly, to note the areas in which we agree; secondly, to define with greater clarity the areas in which we disagree; and, thirdly, to point to other papers, including a longer version of this response, where we have dealt with some of the issues that he raises. The core of our debate with him is whether one should use an algorithm with a specified set of rules for determining the turning points in economic activity or whether one should use a parametric model that features latent states. Hamilton begins his criticism by stating that there is a philosophical distinction between the two methods for dating cycles and concludes that the method we use “leaves vague and intuitive exactly what this algorithm is intended to measure”. Nothing is further from the truth. When seeking ways to decide on whether a turning point has occurred it is always useful to ask the question, what is a recession? Common usage suggests that it is a decline in the level of economic activity that lasts for some time. For this reason it has become standard to describe a recession as a decline in GDP that lasts for more than two quarters. Finding periods in which quarterly GDP declined for two periods is exactly what our approach does. What is vague about this?