This collection is a resource for checkers fans to get an overview of the game and its players spanning ninety years. This collection includes checkers columns from newspapers printed in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada in the late 19th century to early 20th century, with the bulk of the clippings being from the 1920s and 1930s. The columns were a forum for aficionados to solve problems, participate in correspondence games, learn about...

Contains letters, cards, and other paper ephemera to, from, about, or signed by Langston Hughes. Includes personal correspondence from Sidney Poitier, Rowena Jelliffe, and Russell Jelliffe; and the publication Gospel songs / by Jobe Huntley, featuring a song with lyrics by Langston Hughes. Published materials written by, about, or autographed/marked by Langston Hughes. Includes a Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio), 1919 yearbook autographed by...

While in office from 1801 to 1809, Thomas Jefferson cut and pasted into homemade scrapbooks hundreds of poems of nation - early odes to the still coalescing republic - family, and romantic love. He gave the books as gifts to his granddaughters and for nearly 200 years it was believed the girls had compiled the collections themselves. No previous biography of Jefferson has drawn on this important resource. In unexpected ways this groundbreaking work...