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Benson-Thompson Family papers, 1803-1936 3 Linear Feet 864 Items

Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Although there are only a few scattered soldiers' letters, the Civil War is well represented on the
mother at Marion. Reach to the secession crisis is often expressed in these letters. After the Civil War
Recorded earlier as the Benson Family Papers. Includes materials from the related families of Elias Benson, physician, of Marion Co., Alabama, and John Ford Thompson, officer of the Alabama Militia. The families emigrated from Greenvilee and Spartanburg counties, S.C., to Alabama in the early 1800s. Personal correspondence and business papers of the Benson, Thompson, and Moore families who migrated from Greenville County and Spartanburg County, South Carolina, to Alabama. Correspondence between the groups in South Carolina and Alabama is concerned for the most part with family matters. However, political events are occasionally discussed, and a number of letters, 1836-1840, deal with the Alabama militia. The collection includes letters reflecting conditions in Alabama during the Civil War; several items on medical education at the University of Louisiana (Tulane University), 1866-1868; and records of the Marion (Alabama) Grange, No. 95, 1873-1876.
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Leroy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive, 1952-1998 and undated 606.6 Linear Feet 439,500 Items

"General" indicates there was not sufficient material on a subject to divide into categories
. Therefore the file would include a range of topics. For example, "South Africa: Bantustans - General" would
include a variety of information about Bantustans as a subject and specific Bantustans. Following "General

The LeRoy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive is an extensive resource file assembled by ANS over the course of two decades in support of its news gathering efforts about Africa-related issues and U. S. foreign policy towards Africa. The collection spans the years from approximately 1960 to 1995, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1978 through 1994. Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, press releases, newsletters, brochures, and reports comprise the collection. Much of the material is gathered from mainstream media sources and government documentation in the United States, Europe, Africa, and other parts of the world. In addition, the collection includes significant resources from alternative, minority, and special interest presses world-wide that may be difficult to locate elsewhere. The archive contains scarce and difficult-to-locate materials such as numerous publications produced by non-governmental organizations and grass-roots/community groups that are/were involved in efforts related to independence movements, economic development, and human rights issues in Africa.

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Images Asia: No Childhood At All (1997) Box 287, Video-cassette BU047

Tiger Camp under drug war lord Kun Sa. Testimonies of former child soldiers. Also includes footage of
, and 40% of the children have never been to school. Ethnic children are worse off, dislocated by civil
war, abandoned, or lost. Girls are likely to end up in the brothels and sweat shops across Thailand
  1. Produced by: Images Asia
  2. Report on children and how they have suffered physically, mentally and emotionally under Burma's military regime. They are denied basic services and education, and are forced to work for the military regime and/or join the army.
  3. Footage of children breaking rocks, building tourist sites, carrying huge bags from boats to land, working at construction sites, irrigation schemes, road building, and mixing toxic chemicals. Footage of children training at various military camps, including the Tiger Camp under drug war lord Kun Sa. Testimonies of former child soldiers. Also includes footage of student demonstrations: December 6, 1996, at Hledan Intersection, Rangoon.
  4. Segment on how students risk their lives to demonstrate against the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). The SLORC responds with military retaliation. Footage of student demonstrations: "I believe that, starting from this day, this night, this place, at this time all of us must fight in unity for the dignity of past student leaders, in memory of those who fought in the colonial revolution, for future generations, for the people of Burma, and for our lives."
  5. From a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report: "Many children in Burma are orphaned, abandoned, trafficked, exploited in the labor force, institutionalized or jailed. Across the country many children enjoy no childhood at all. They are simply put to work."
  6. Aung San Suu Kyi: "Children have become involved in forced labor lately, because their parents can't afford to take time off from whatever they are doing to make a living, so if you don't provide one person per family for forced labor then you are fined parents send their children to take their place."
  7. According to this report, classrooms are crowded, there is a shortage of textbooks, the dropout rate is high, and 40% of the children have never been to school. Ethnic children are worse off, dislocated by civil war, abandoned, or lost. Girls are likely to end up in the brothels and sweat shops across Thailand. Boys are forced to join the army.
  8. From a UNICEF report: "Children have become victims or participants in Burma's armed conflicts, used as porters, human shields or human minesweepers.Children are killed, forcibly conscripted, unwillingly separated from their families, kidnapped and tortured."
  9. The report states that conscription of children to the army is common, the army rounds up children at movie halls, tea shops, and even schools. Stories are told by runaway child soldiers:
  10. Shwe Hla, 7th grader: "After school the SLORC soldiers came and surrounded the school and arrested us if rich people paid a bribe, they would be freed of course, but we had no money."
  11. Naing Oo, age 16: "The commanders mixed large tablets with army rum and the soldiers would become aggressive."
  12. The SLORC says Burma is experiencing an economic boom, and shows off foreign imports.This report claims that only a small echelon of the society is prospering.
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute. Burma Videotapes, circa 1990-2002
  3. Burma Videotapes, circa 1990-2002

General Files Subseries, 1962-2007

General Files Subseries, 1962-2007
Derian assembled these subject files on topics such as civil rights in the U.S., the civil rights
movement in Mississippi, international efforts for the trial of war criminals, terrorism, and human rights

Derian assembled these subject files on topics such as civil rights in the U.S., the civil rights movement in Mississippi, international efforts for the trial of war criminals, terrorism, and human rights policies of the Carter and Reagan administrations. Folders typically contain Derian's personal notes, correspondence, articles, interviews, reports, and news clippings. Between the years 1981 and 2004 Patricia Derian also served on the award-giving committees of various foundations advocating the improvement of human rights conditions worldwide, such as the Carter-Menil Human Rights Foundation and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation. Arranged in original order as received.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. Patricia M. Derian papers, 1962-2008 and undated
  3. Post-Carter Administration Human Rights Work Series, 1978-2007 and undated

Cooper, S[amuel], General Orders No. 64, I-V, Richmond, VA, 1862 September 8 1 item Box 1

Cooper, S[amuel], General Orders No. 64, I-V, Richmond, VA, 1862 September 8
Alfred and Elizabeth Brand Collection of Civil War and Lee Family papers, 1757-1925, bulk 1838-1868
Civil War Papers

Cooper was Adjutant and Inspector General.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. Alfred and Elizabeth Brand Collection of Civil War and Lee Family papers, 1757-1925, bulk 1838-1868
  3. Civil War Papers

Johnson, J.E., Gen., General Order No. 18, 1865 April 27 1 item Box 1

Alfred and Elizabeth Brand Collection of Civil War and Lee Family papers, 1757-1925, bulk 1838-1868
Civil War Papers
Johnson, J.E., Gen., General Order No. 18, 1865 April 27

Acknowledged and accepted the terms set forth in Major General W. T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 65, hailing the end of the Confederacy.

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  2. Alfred and Elizabeth Brand Collection of Civil War and Lee Family papers, 1757-1925, bulk 1838-1868
  3. Civil War Papers

Facsimile of General Order no. 9, 1865 April 10 Box 1

Alfred and Elizabeth Brand Collection of Civil War and Lee Family papers, 1757-1925, bulk 1838-1868
Facsimile of General Order no. 9, 1865 April 10
General order of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.

General order of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. Alfred and Elizabeth Brand Collection of Civil War and Lee Family papers, 1757-1925, bulk 1838-1868
  3. Lee Family Papers
  4. Lee, Robert E[dward], 1838-1865, 1925

Letter from Lee to Samuel Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, VA, 1865 January 8 Box 1

Alfred and Elizabeth Brand Collection of Civil War and Lee Family papers, 1757-1925, bulk 1838-1868
Letter from Lee to Samuel Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, VA, 1865 January 8
Letter concerns certain of Lee's orders in regard to correcting abuses, securing discipline and

Letter concerns certain of Lee's orders in regard to "correcting abuses, securing discipline and enforcement of orders" [in the Department of East Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia] that Cooper failed to properly execute.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. Alfred and Elizabeth Brand Collection of Civil War and Lee Family papers, 1757-1925, bulk 1838-1868
  3. Lee Family Papers
  4. Lee, Robert E[dward], 1838-1865, 1925

Correspondence, 1851-1916 and undated

orders from officers in the Union Army, including General Rufus Saxton, with whom JEB would continue to
The bulk of the letters cover the years before the American Civil War when John Emory Bryant (JEB
) and Emma Spaulding were in Maine, during the Civil War when JEB was at Port Royal and Hilton Head, S.C

The bulk of the letters cover the years before the American Civil War when John Emory Bryant (JEB) and Emma Spaulding were in Maine, during the Civil War when JEB was at Port Royal and Hilton Head, S.C., during Reconstruction in Georgia (1865-1887), and the remaining years in New York (1888-1900). The letters document JEB's life as a soldier, his courtship and relationship with his wife Emma Spaulding, his involvement in the Republican Party, temperance organizations, the Freedman's Bureau, and the Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as his relationships with other politicians such as President Ulysses S. Grant, James Atkins, Governor Rufus Bullock, and Foster Blodgett, including prominent African-American politicians of the time such as Henry McNeal Turner and William Anderson Pledger.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. John Emory Bryant papers, 1851-1955 and undated

Currency Issued by Banks and Other Corporate Bodies, Businesses, Etc.

money ended substantially during the Civil War. The Confederate government and the various states of the
1861, and it is the only paper currency to survive the Civil War as a significant economic factor. Some
1850's and 1860's. After the Civil War there are occasional bills. See also the Raphael P. Thian Papers

The Continental Congress issued a great quantity of paper currency in order to finance the Revolution. The depreciation of this money and its economic effects produced a distrust of any national paper currency. For that reason the 1789 Constitution forbade the states to issue paper money. The Constitution was deliberately silent on the federal government's right to do so. However, there was no ban against their issuance by private organizations and local governments. This loophole was utilized to provide paper currency which was both convenient and necessary for economic life. Over 30,000 varieties of notes were issued by 1,600 different banks in 34 different states between 1790 and 1865. These figures do not include the issues of local governments and private businesses that were not banks. The history of this money ended substantially during the Civil War. The Confederate government and the various states of the Confederacy issued paper currency-during the war. The U.S. Congress authorized a national paper currency in 1861, and it is the only paper currency to survive the Civil War as a significant economic factor. Some currency and scrip continued to be issued at various times by businesses and local governments, but it was economically and quantitatively insignificant. It should be remembered, of course, that the federal government issued gold and silver coinage during this period.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. The Duke University Currency collection, 1746-1982

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