Ashbrook Center — Fall 2023
This fall, we present a display of a number of original documents in the Peter Schramm Library at Ashbrook. Some texts on display are: one of the five remaining copies of the United States Constitution that were sent to the states, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Students are allowed, even encouraged, to pick up the texts and flip through the pages. Faculty are able to use them in classes as well. This is a fantastic addition to the great education Ashbrook Scholars receive!
Classical works exhibition included:
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- A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America by John Adams, 1787-1788
- The Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri by Dante Aligheri, 1896
- “The Anti-Slavery Record” by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836
- “An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting at the Presidential Election in November, 1872, and on the Trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, The Inspectors of Election by whom her Vote was Recieved,” by Susan B. Anthony, 1874
- Rubricated Manuscript Leaf in Latin by Thomas Aquinas, 1447
- [Ethica ad Nicomachum. Politica. Economica.] by Aristotle, 1473
- Citie of God by Augustine, 1494
- Beecher, Catharine E. 2nd 1837 “An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females” by Catharine E. Beecher, 1837
- Bible — Erasmus’ Greek and Latin New Testament, 1570
- Invictissimi imperatoris commentaria: seculorum iniuria antea difficilia: & valde mendosa. Nunc primum a viro docto expolita: & optime recognita. Additis de nouo apostillis: Una cu figuris suis locis apte dispositis. Necnon regulata tabula q oia loca: slumina: montes: vsbes: op pida: isinita plia: & quaeq digna cognitu miri sice demostrat by Caii Iulii Caesaris by Julius Caesar, 1511
- “Letters to Alexander Hamilton, King of the Feds. Ci-Devant Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America, Inpector-General of the Standing Armies thereof Counsellor of Law. &c. &c. &c. Being Intended as a Rely to a Scandalous Pamphlet Lately Published Under the Sanction, as it is Presumed, of Mr. Hamilton, and Signed with the Signature of Junius Philnaeus” by James Thomson Callender, 1802
- De RePublica by Cicero, 1822
- Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States by William Clark and Lewis Meriwether, 1804-1806
- Letters from a Farmer, in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies by John Dickinson, 1774
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American by Frederick Douglass, 1846
- The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, 1787
- Alexander Hamilton’s Report on the Subjects of Manufacturers Made in his Capacity of Secretary of the Treasury, on the Fifth of December by Alexander Hamilton, 1791
- Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies by Thomas Jefferson, 1829
- Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson, 1801
- An Oration Delivered on The Battlefield of Gettysburg, (November 19, 1863,) at the Consecration of the Cemetery for the Internment of the Remains of those who Fell in Battles of July 1st, 2d, and 3d, 1863 (Gettysburg Address) by Abraham Lincoln and Edward Everett, 1863
- Historiarium by Titus Livius Livy, ca 1580
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine, 1776
- Tragoediae Septem by Sophocles, 1568
- The Constitution of the United States, 1789