Category Highlights

John Hancock
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American History

American History is filled with great ideas, personalities, struggles, advances and triumphs. Here you will find autographs and manuscripts that bring many of them to life.

Manuscripts and Historical Figures

20th Maine (1 piece)

One of the great fighting regiments of the Civil War, it won immortality at Gettysburg view autograph manuscript

Robert Anderson (1 piece)

Union General during the Civil War view autograph manuscript

James Archer (1 piece)

Confederate general. view autograph manuscript

Omar Bradley (1 piece)

United States general (1893-1981) who played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II. view autograph manuscript

Edward Canby (1 piece)

Union general of the Civil War, later fought the Indians. view autograph manuscript

Civil War Journals (4 pieces)

Eyewitness narrative descriptions of the Civil War. view autograph manuscripts

John Dahlgren (1 piece)

One of the leading Union admirals of the Civil War. view autograph manuscript

Clarence Darrow (1 piece)

America's most famous trial attorney who defended the underdog and civil rights. view autograph manuscript

Jefferson Davis (3 pieces)

President of the Confederate States of America. view autograph manuscripts

Stephen A. Douglas (1 piece)

American politician from Illinois, was one of the Democratic Party nominees for President in 1860. view autograph manuscript

Henry Ford (1 piece)

Automobile manufacturer who invented the moving assembly line which produced the Model-T cars in his factory. view autograph manuscript

Benjamin Franklin (3 pieces)

Originally a printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics. Played a major role in drawing up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He was an invaluable asset during the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists. As a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity. view autograph manuscripts

William Lloyd Garrison (2 pieces)

Abolitionist, editor of "The Liberator." view autograph manuscripts

Ulysses S. Grant (4 pieces)

Union general who brought victory to the North in the Civil War, later president during the Gilded Age. view autograph manuscripts

John Hancock (3 pieces)

President of the Continental Congress from 1775-1777 and the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. Governor of Massachusetts from 1780-1785. view autograph manuscripts

John Hatch (1 piece)

Union Civil War general. view autograph manuscript

John B. Hood (1 piece)

Confederate Civil War general. view autograph manuscript

Joseph Hooker (1 piece)

Union Civil War general, commander of the Army of the Potomac. view autograph manuscript

J. Edgar Hoover (1 piece)

Long-time leader of the F.B.I. who brought the Bureau to prominence. view autograph manuscript

Sam Houston (1 piece)

United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States view autograph manuscript

O.O. Howard (1 piece)

Union general, founder of Howard University view autograph manuscript

Charles Evans Hughes (1 piece)

American statesman and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court view autograph manuscript

Judson Kilpatrick (1 piece)

Union Civil War general who led Sherman's cavalry on the march to the sea. view autograph manuscript

Martin Luther King, Jr. (2 pieces)

Charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of African Americans. view autograph manuscripts

Meriwether Lewis (1 piece)

Leader of the epochal Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored and opened up the American West, he died shortly afterwards under mysterious circumstances. view autograph manuscript

Dolley Madison (1 piece)

1st Lady view autograph manuscript

John Marshall (1 piece)

Chief Justice who established the Supreme Court's broad power and authority to interpret the Constitution. view autograph manuscript

Misc. American Revolution (3 pieces)

The great struggle for American independence that culminated in victory. view autograph manuscripts

Frank Murphy (1 piece)

Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. view autograph manuscript

George Murphy (1 piece)

Actor turned U.S. Senator. view autograph manuscript

John J. Pershing (1 piece)

A soldier in the United States Army. Pershing eventually rose to the highest rank ever held in the United States military, equivalent only to the posthumous rank of George Washington: General of the Armies. He was born near Laclede, Missouri and graduated from United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1886. view autograph manuscript

David Porter (1 piece)

officer in the United States Navy and later the commander-in-chief of the Mexican Navy. view autograph manuscript

Eleanor Roosevelt (5 pieces)

First lady and humanitarian, the most admired woman of the 20th century. view autograph manuscripts

Philip Schuyler (2 pieces)

American general in the Revolutionary War. view autograph manuscripts

Winfield Scott (2 pieces)

Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army", he served on active duty as a general longer than any other man in American history and most historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time view autograph manuscripts

William T. Sherman (1 piece)

Union general who took Atlanta and whose famous March to the Sea devastated Georgia view autograph manuscript

Daniel Sickles (1 piece)

Controversial politician and Union general. view autograph manuscript

Robert Spring (1 piece)

Famous American forger, specializing in George Washington. view autograph manuscript

Charles Thomson (1 piece)

Secretary to the Continental Congress throughout its existence. view autograph manuscript

James Lyman Van Buren (1 piece)

Union general. view autograph manuscript

Richard Varick (1 piece)

Revolutionary War officer and aide to Washington, he was later mayor of New York City. view autograph manuscript

Daniel Webster (1 piece)

Vice President under John Taylor, famed 19th century politician view autograph manuscript

Noah Webster (1 piece)

United States lexicographer view autograph manuscript

Gideon Welles (1 piece)

United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, including the entire duration of the American Civil War. view autograph manuscript

William Westmoreland (1 piece)

Commanded U.S. troops in Vietnam. view autograph manuscript

Eli Whitney (1 piece)

Inventor of the cotton gin and supplier of arms to the revolutionary effort. view autograph manuscript

John Wool (1 piece)

Union general. view autograph manuscript