SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Numerous reference works consulted in the research for this book were used so frequently that they merit being listed here as general sources for the entire book. These reference works are: Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1963); The New Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago: The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1997); Collier’s Encyclopedia (New York: Collier’s, 1997); Academic American Encyclopedia (Danbury, Conn.: Grolier, 1996); World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1958; Chicago: World Book, 1995); The Book of Knowledge (New York: Grolier Society, 1928); The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From the Beginnings to 1930 (London: Oxford University Press, 1939); Encyclopedia Americana International Edition (Danbury, Conn.: Grolier, 1988).

Introduction

Men’s Journal, July 1995, with source attribution to Molecular Medicine, vol. 1, 1995: pp. 1-12, for the one-in-300-million-sperm statistic.

The Tooth of the Buddha

Kavsalyayan, Bhadant Anand. An Intelligent Man’s Guide to Buddhism. Nagpur, India: Kashinath Meshram, 1992.

Payutto, Bhikkhu P. A. (Translated from Thai by Bhikkhu Puriso.) Good, Evil and BeyondKamma in the Buddha’s Teaching. Bangkok: Buddhadhamma Foundation Publications, 1993.

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Santina, Peter D. Fundamentals of Buddhism. Taipei, Taiwan: The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, n.d.

Thera, Narada. Buddha and His Teaching. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Missionary Society, 1973.

Thera, Narada. Buddhism in a Nutshell. Taipei, Taiwan: The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, 1982.

The Gold Larnax of King Philip II

Andronicos, Manolis. Vergina: The Royal Tombs and the Ancient City. Athens: Ekdotike Athenon S.A., 1992. (This is Andronicos’s first-person account of his discovery of the tomb of King Philip II. It is the premier record of the finding of the tomb and its contents and my source for the description of the gold lar-nax and the tomb contents, as well as the cremation and burial of King Philip.)

The Magna Carta

British Library exhibition labels and reference cards from its permanent exhibition of the Magna Carta.

Davis, G. R. C. Magna Carta. London: The British Library, n.d.

Kelliner, Hilton, and Sally Brown. English Literary Manuscripts. N.p., 1985.

McKechnie, William S. Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John, with Historical Introduction. New York: B. Franklin, 1914.

Prescott, Andrew. English Historical Manuscripts. N.p., 1989.

The Stone of Scone

Breeze, David, and Graeme Munro. The Stone of Destiny. Scotland: Historic Scotland, 1997.

“The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone” (information sheets). London: Westminster Abbey, n.d. (Source of the Latin inscription.)

The Essex Ring

Boyce, Charles. Shakespeare A to Z. New York: Facts on File/Roundtable Press, 1990.

“The Essex Ring, a Gift to Westminster Abbey.” The Times (London), July 15, 1927.

Hibbert, Christopher. The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1991.

Ogburn, Charlton. The Man Who Was Shakespeare: A Summary of the Case Unfolded in the Mysterious William Shakespeare. McLean, Va.: EPM, 1995.

Rowse, A. L. The Annotated William Shakespeare (Vol. II). New York: Potter, 1978.

Strachey, Lytton. Elizabeth and Essex. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1928. (Source of the Shakespeare quote.)

Universal Standard Encyclopedia. Unicorn Publications, n.d.

Untitled information sheet on the Essex Ring. London: Westminster Abbey, n.d.

Untitled Westminster Abbey Library chart (for the female lineage of the Essex Ring).

Galileo’s Middle Finger

Miniati, Mara (ed.). Museo di Storia della Scienza Catalogo. Florence: Giunti, 1991.

Web site pages of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence, including “Condemnation of Galileo” and “Abjuration of Galileo.”

George Washington’s Schoolboy Copybooks

DeWan, George. “Birth of a Nation,” Newsday, May 24, 1987. (Source of the Charles Biddle quote about George Washington.)

Rauscher, Ann M. (annotator). George Washington’s Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. Mount Vernon, Va.: The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 1989.

Washington, George. George Washington Papers (Series 1, Sub-Series A; Forms of Writing and School Copy Books). In the collection of the Library of Congress.

Washington, George. George Washington’s School Copy-Book, 1745. In the collection of the Library of Congress.

Washington, George. 1744-1748: School Exercises. In the collection of the Library of Congress.

John Harrison’s Fourth Marine Timekeeper

Betts, Jonathan. John Harrison. London: National Maritime Museum Publications, 1997. (A short but invaluable book about Harrison’s endeavors to build a workable marine timekeeper.)

Greenhill, Basil (ed.). The National Maritime Museum. London: Scala Books, 1982.

Longitude Symposium. The Quest for Longitude. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1996.

Sobel, Dava. Longitude. New York: Walker, 1995.

Web site of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence.

The Virginia Declaration of Rights

Becker, Carl. The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922.

Bell, Whitfield J., Jr. The Declaration of Independence, Four 1776 Versions: Jefferson’s Manuscript Copy, The First Official Printing by John Dunlop, The First Newspaper Printing, A Unique Printing on Parchment by John Dunlop. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1986. (Source of the John Hancock quote.)

Ellis, Joseph J. “Editing the Declaration.” Civilization, July/August 1995.

Gustafson, Milton O. “The Empty Shrine: Transfer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to the National Archives.” The American Archivist, vol. 39, no. 3, July 1976.

Locke, John. Two Treatises of Civil Government. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1955.

Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Knopf, 1997.

Malone, Dumas. The Story of the Declaration of Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Mason, George (Robert A. Rutland, ed.). The Papers of George Mason (Volume 1). Chapel Hill, N.C.: Institute of Early American History & Culture Sen, 1970.

Padover, Saul. Thomas Jefferson on Democracy. New York: Appleton-Century, 1939.

Peterson, Merrill (ed.). Thomas Jefferson: Writings. New York: Library of America, 1984. (Source of the Thomas Jefferson letter of May 8, 1825, to Henry Lee.)

Printed Journals of the Continental Congress (Vol. 4). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1906.

Rutland, Robert Allen. George Mason, Reluctant Statesman. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1961.

Shuffleton, Frank. Thomas Jefferson: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him (1826-1980). New York: Garland Publishing, 1983.

Shuffleton, Frank. Thomas Jefferson, 1981-1990: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.

The Rising Sun Chair

Bruns, Roger A. (introduction). A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the United States Constitution. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1978 (reprint 1986).

Dube, Ann Marie. A Multitude of Amendments, Alteration and Addition: The Constitution of the United States. (The Web site that lists the locations of the different drafts of the U.S. Constitution is www.nps.gov.)

Farrand, Max. The Framing of the Constitution of the United States. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1913.

Independence National Historical Park museum catalog records and information sheets, Philadelphia, Pa.

Jackson, John W. With the British Army in Philadelphia, 1777-1781. San Rafael, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1930.

Jameson, John Franklin. “Studies in the History of the Federal Convention of 1787,” Annual Report of the American, n.d.

Jensen, Merrill (ed.). The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976.

Journal of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, 1776-1781.

Milley, John C. (ed.). Treasures of Independence National Historical Park and Its Collections. New York: Main Street Press/Mayflower Books, 1980.

Pryor, Hubert C. “Summer of Destiny,” Modern Maturity, February/March 1982. (Source of the Madison quote.)

Rapport, Leonard. “September 1786,” National Archives pamphlet, National Archives Trust Fund Board, Washington, D.C., September 1986.

Smith, Page. The Constitution: A Documentary and Narrative History. New York: Morrow, 1978.

The Louisiana Purchase Treaty

“American Originals, December 8, 1995 Through December 1998,” pamphlet, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Ford, Paul Leicester (ed.). The Works of Thomas Jefferson (Vol. 9). New York: Putnam (Knickerbocker Press), 1905. (Source of the Thomas Jefferson quote of April 18, 1802, to Robert R. Livingston.)

Greer, Curtis Manning. The Louisiana Purchase and the Westward Movement. Philadelphia: G. Barrie & Sons, 1904.

Hosmer, James K. The History of the Louisiana Purchase. New York: Appleton, 1902.

Lamar, Howard B. (ed.). The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977.

Miller, Hunter (ed.). Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (Vol. 2). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931. (This was my source for the treaty quotes in this chapter.)

The Written Word Endures. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

The Lewis and Clark Journals

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, interoffice memorandums and Lewis and Clark inventory holdings sheets, n.d.

Allen, John Logan. Passage Through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1975.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Bakeless, John. Lewis & Clark: Partners in Discovery. New York: William Morrow, 1947.

Catlett, Stephen. From St. Louis to Philadelphia: Tracking the Lewis and Clark Journalsan Exhibition of the Journals and Documents. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, August 10, 1982.

Catlett, Stephen (ed.). A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, August 10, 1987.

Conrad, Howard L. (ed.). Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri (Vol. 2). New York: Southern History Company, 1901.

Coues, Elliott. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark, To the Sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, performed during the Years, 1804-5-6, by Order of the United States Government. A New Edition. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893.

Crawford, Anthony R. (ed.). The Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Guide to the Holdings in the Division of Library and Archives of the Missouri Historical Society. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1981.

Cutright, Paul Russell. Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969.

Halsey, Ashley, Jr. “The Air Gun of Lewis & Clark,” American Rifleman, vol. 132, no. 8, August 1984.

Lamar, Howard B. (ed.). The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977.

Mayer, Robert W. “Wood River, 1803-1804,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, vol. 61, no. 2, 1958.

Moulton, Gary E. (ed.). The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804 (Vol. 2). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. (The first of an eleven-volume set that reproduces the journals and is an invaluable reference source on the expedition, with details on the writing of the journals, reprinted by permission of the University of Nebraska Press, copyright 1986 by the University of Nebraska Press.)

“The Mystery of Meriwether Lewis” (Associated Press), Newsday, June 4, 1996.

Norton, W. T. (ed.). Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois and Its People, 1812 to 1912 (Vol. 1). Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1912.

Peterson, Merrill (ed.). Thomas Jefferson: Writings. New York: Library of America, 1984. (Source of the Thomas Jefferson letter of June 20, 1803.)

Quaife, Milo M. The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant Ordway. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1965.

Western Historical Manuscript Collection microfilm, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri.

Yale University Library catalog cards, n.d.

Beethoven’s Ear Trumpets

Cross, Milton, and David Ewen. Milton Cross’ Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music (Vol. 1). Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1953. (Source of the quote, “For me there can be no recreation in the society of my fellows …”)

Komroff, Manuel. Beethoven and the World of Music. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961. (Source of the quotes, “To give you an idea of this curious condition …” and “whistle and buzz.”)

Orga, Ates. Beethoven: His Life and Times. New York: State Mutual, 1981.

Solomon, Maynard. Beethoven. New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1977.

Swift, Frederic Kay, and Willard I. Musser. All About Music. Rockville Centre, N.Y.: Belwin, 1960.

Harrison’s Peace Pipes

Belden, Bauman L. Indian Peace Medals Issued in the United States. New York: American Numismatic Society, 1927. (Source of the Wayne quote, which itself is quoted from the American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. 1.)

Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, no. 14, part 2. Washington, D.C., 1896.

Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. The Indian Heritage of America. New York: Bantam, 1969.

Kansas City Museum catalog cards on the Shawnee peace pipe and the Washington medal.

Lamar, Howard B. (ed.). The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977.

Lindsay, G. Carroll. “The Treaty Pipe of the Delawares,” Antiques Magazine, July 1958.

McClinton, Kim. Collecting American 19th Century. New York: Scribners, 1968.

Powell, J. W. Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-93. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896.

Prucha, Francis Paul. Indian Peace Medals in American History. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1971.

John Adams’s Pigtail

Bligh, William. Mutiny Aboard H.M. Armed Transport “Bounty” in 1789. N.p.: Bowker and Bertram, 1978. (The source for the “wanted description of Alex: Smith.”)

Danielsson, Bengt. What Happened in the Bounty. London: Allen & Unwin, 1962.

Hough, Richard. Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian: The Men and the Mutiny. New York: Dutton, 1973.

Kemp, Peter (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Kennedy, Gavin. The Mutiny of the Bounty. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. (This book contains an abridged version of Sir John Barrow’s The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty : Its Causes and Consequences, London: John Murray, 1831. Barrow’s book, written anonymously, is probably the definitive account of the whole Bounty mutiny and is the source of my quotes in this chapter as reproduced in Gavin Kennedy’s book.)

McKee, Alexander. HMS Bounty . New York: Morrow, 1962.

National Maritime Museum, London, accession records related to John Adams’s artifacts.

Paine, Lincoln. Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Scott, Brian W. “Pitcairn: What Happened,” in Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789-1989: An International Exhibition to Mark the 200th Anniversary, 28 April 1989-1 October 1989. (An excellent article that tells why John Adams used the name Alexander Smith and reveals that when Adams as a young man left England on the Bounty he left behind a child he had sired.)

The Doubleday Ball

Chadwick, Henry, letter of March 20, 1908, to A. G. Mills. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Library, Cooperstown, N.Y.

“A Challenge,” Delhi Gazette, Hamden, New York, July 12, 1825.

Franco, Barbara. The Cardiff Giant: A Hundred Year Old Hoax. Cooperstown, N.Y.: New York State Historical Society, 1990.

Gould, Stephen Jay. “The Creation Myth of Cooperstown,” Natural History, November 1989.

Guilfoile, Bill (ed.). National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum 1990 Yearbook. Cooperstown, N.Y.: National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, 1990.

Heitz, Thomas R., and John Thorn. “Leatherstocking Base Ball Club—Early Baseball Chronology” (sheets), n.d.

Heitz, Thomas R., and John Thorn. “Leatherstocking Base Ball Club—The 1845 New York Game Rules” (sheets), n.d., Knickerbocker Rule Book, 1845.

“Home of Baseball,” The Freeman’s Journal, March 26, 1908.

Lewin, Jonathan, and Jay Maeder. “The Crown and Flower of 19th-century Magic,” New York Daily News, March 2, 1998.

Mills, A. G., letter of December 30, 1907, to James Sullivan, Secretary, Special Base Ball Commission. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Library, Cooperstown, N.Y.

Rader, Benjamin G. Baseball: A History of America’s Game. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Spalding, Albert G. (Revised and reedited by Sam Coombs and Bob West.) America’s National Game. San Francisco: Halo Books, 1991.

Spalding, Albert G. (With an introduction by Benjamin G. Rader.) America’s National Game. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. (Originally published in 1911. Source of the Spalding quotes.)

Thorn, John, and Pete Palmer, with Michael Gershman. Total Baseball (3rd ed.). New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.

Ward, Geoffrey, and Ken Burns. Baseball: An Illustrated History. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Woodward, William E. The Way Our People Lived. New York: Washington Square Press, 1965.

Wright, Marshall D. Nineteenth Century Baseball, Year-by-Year Statistics for the Major League Teams, 1871 Through 1900. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1996.

Vendovi’s Head

Herman, J. K. “Vendovi: Cannibal and Curio,” U.S. Navy Medicine, vol. 77, no. 2, March/April 1986.

Stewart, T. D. “The Skull of Vendovi: A Contribution of the Wilkes Expedition to the Physical Anthropology of Fiji,” Arch. & Phys. Anthrop. in Oceania, vol. 13, nos. 2 and 3, July and October 1978.

Wilkes, Charles. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1849. (A fascinating work of five volumes that was the source of the quotes that appear in this chapter.)

The Battle Sword of Colonel Najera

Greer, James Kimmins. Colonel Jack Hays: Texas Frontier header and California Builder (rev. ed.). College Station: Texas A&M University, 1987. (Probably the best biography of Hays. The source for my description of the duel between Hays and Lt. Col. Najera.)

Lamar, Howard B. (ed.). The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977.

Charles Dickens’s Prompt-Copy of A Christmas Carol

Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.

Collins, Philip (ed.). Charles Dickens: The Public Readings. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. (An excellent book and the source for the review from the Portland Transcript, February 4, 1868.)

Collins, Philip (ed.). Dickens: Interviews and Recollections. London: Macmillan, 1981.

Dickens, Charles. (With introduction and notes by Philip Collins.) A Christmas Carol, the Public Reading Version, a Facsimile of the Author’s Prompt-Copy. New York: New York Public Library, 1971. (The term “prompt-copy” insofar as it relates to Dickens’s stage readings appears to have been coined by Philip Collins.)

Gordan, John D. Reading for Profit: The Other Career of Charles Dickens: An Exhibition from the Berg Collection. New York: New York Public Library, 1958. (Another excellent source on Dickens’s reading career.)

“Mr. Chas. Dickens’s Farewell Reading,” Illustrated London News, March 19, 1870. (The source for Dickens’s farewell speech.)

Szladits, Lola L. (compiler). Charles Dickens, 1812-1870: An Anthology from the Berg Collection. New York: New York Public Library, 1990.

The First American Flag Raised in Japan

Barrows, Edward M. The Great Commodore: The Exploits of Matthew Calbraith Perry. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1935.

“Fillmore’s Authorization of ‘Five Full Powers in Blank’ to Commodore Matthew C. Perry” (sheet), United States Naval Academy, n.d.

Hawks, Francis L. (ed.). Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, By Order of the Government of the United States Compiled From the Original Notes and Journals of Commodore Perry and His Officers at His Request and Under His Supervision (Vols. 1-3). Washington, D.C.: Published by Order of the Congress of the United States, Beverly Tucker, Senate Printer, 1856. (My account of Perry’s mission to Japan is chiefly based on material in Volume 1 of this three-volume set.)

Morison, Samuel Eliot. “Old Bruin”: Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1794-1858. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown, 1967.

“USNA *55.1 Flag: U.S. Ensign: 31 Stars: Japan Expedition: Commodore Matthew C. Perry (1853)” (sheets), United States Naval Academy, n.d.

The Emancipation Proclamation

Basler, Roy P. (ed.). The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953. (Source of the letter to Horace Greeley of August 22, 1862.)

“The Emancipation Proclamation” (pamphlet), Albany, New York State Library. The Emancipation Proclamation: Milestone Documents in the National Archives. (Foreword by John Hope Franklin.) Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1993.

Franklin, John Hope. The Emancipation Proclamation. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1995.

Heffner, Richard D. A Documentary History of the United States. New York: Mentor/New American Library, 1965.

Hill, Walter B., Jr. “Military Service and the Emancipation Proclamation,” National Archives Bulletin, January 1998.

Johnson, Sally. “Dust Blown Off, Paper Reveals Lincoln’s Hand,” New York Times, May 14, 1989.

“Library of Congress Opens Special Exhibition for Centenary of Emancipation Proclamation,” Press Release No. 63-5, Advance—for Publication on Friday, September 21, 1962, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.

Nevin, Allan, and Henry Steele Commager. A Pocket History of the United States. New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1981.

“The Property of Mr. William Hotine … The Pen of Liberty,” in “Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Americana,” Christie’s, New York.

Rawley, James A. Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting For. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1996.

Slices of Tom Thumb’s Wedding Cake

Barnum, Phineas T. Struggles and Triumphs. New York: American News Company, 1871.

The Lives of Tom Thumb and Wife (pamphlet), New York: Popular Publishing, n.d. (c. 1881).

Malone, Dumas (ed.). The Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Scribner’s, 1964.

“The Tom Thumb Wedding,” The New York Herald, February 11, 1863.

“The Loving Lilliputians,” The New York Times, February 11, 1863.

Romaine, Mertie. General Tom Thumb and His Lady. Taunton, Mass.: William S. Sullwold Publishing, 1976.

Thomas Edison’s Original Tinfoil Phonograph

Bergerac, Cyrano de. (Translated by Richard Adlington.) Voyages to the Moon

and the Sun. New York: Orion Press, 1962. “Build the Edison Tin-Foil Phonograph” (sheets), West Orange, N.J.: Edison

National Historic Site, n.d. Gelatt, Roland. The Fabulous Phonograph: From Tin Foil to High Fidelity.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1955. Koenigsberg, Allen. Edison Cylinder Records, 1889-1912, with an Illustrated

History of the Phonograph. Brooklyn: APM Press, 1987. “One Hundred Years of Sound Recording” (press release), New York:

Recording Industry Association of America, 1977. Rachlin, Harvey. “The Sound Recording Industry,” Songwriter’s Review, vol.

33, no. 3, June/July 1978. Rosenberg, Robert A., et al. (vol. eds.). The Papers of Thomas A. Edison,

Menlo Park: The Early Years, April 1876-December 1877 (Vol. 3).

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Source of the quotations that appear in this chapter.) Tarr, Douglas. “Sound Recording” (sheet), West Orange, N.J.: Edison National

Historic Site, May 15, 1998.

Jesse James’s Stickpin

“The Dead Outlaw,” Daily Gazette, St. Joseph, Mo., Wednesday, April 5, 1882.

“Jesse by Jehovah,” Daily Gazette, St. Joseph, Mo., Wednesday, April 5, 1882.

“Jesse James” (sheets), Jesse James Home, St. Joseph, Mo., n.d.

“Jesse James Is Very Definitely Dead, Says a Man Who Photographed His Body,” Kansas City Times, November 12, 1948.

Lamar, Howard B. (ed.). The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977.

Settle, William A. Jesse James Was His Name, Or Fact & Fiction Concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977.

Ulysses S. Grant’s Smoking Stand

Bowman, John S. (exec. ed.). The Civil War Almanac. New York: World Almanac Publications, 1983.

DeGregorio, William A. The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents. New York: Dembner, 1989.

Galena Historical Society Accession Record on U. S. Grant’s cigar butt.

Goldhurst, Richard. Many Are the Hearts: The Agony and the Triumph of Ulysses S. Grant. New York: Reader’s Digest, 1975.

Grant, Ulysses S. (E. B. Long, ed.) The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1952.

“Grant’s Old Cigar Butt,” newspaper unknown, December 30, 1890. (Source of the Ulysses S. Grant-Leo T. LeBron cigar-butt story.)

Pitkin, Thomas M. The Captain Departs: Ulysses S. Grant’s Last Campaign. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973.

Porter, General Horace. Campaigning with Grant. New York: Da Capo Press, 1986. (Source of Porter’s quote.)

Simon, John Y. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press. (© by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University; Volume 8 © 1979, source of the Mary Duncan letter quote; Volume 16 © 1988, source of the U. S. Grant quote in the interview during the Franklin Simmons “sitting,” the William Tecumseh Sherman telegram aboard the USS Susquehanna, the William Tecumseh Sherman telegram to Ulysses S. Grant, the Comstock letter to William Tecumseh Sherman, the Ulysses S. Grant letter to U.S. Representative John Bidwell; Volume 17 © 1991, source of the Ulysses S. Grant letter to Mary Jane Safford, the George Trask letter that appeared in the April 9, 1867, edition of the Chicago Times; Volume 18 © 1991, source of the letter to H. Bernd of Danbury, Conn.; Volume 19 © 1995, source of the William Gouverneur Morris letter to Orville Babcock; Volume 21 © 1998, source of the costs and amounts of cigars ordered by Ulysses S. Grant.)

“U. S. Grant Home State Historic Site” (pamphlet), Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 1994.

Jumbo the Elephant

“The Great Jumbo Killed,” newspaper article, publication unknown, n.d.

Reingold, Adam. “The Greatest Show on Earth,” New York, January 25, 1993.

Saxon, Arthur. P. T. Barman: The Legend and the Man. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Freud’s Couch

Dudar, Helen. “The Unexpected Private Passion of Sigmund Freud,” Smithsonian, August 1990.

Freud, Sigmund (Marie Bonaparte, ed.). The Origins of Psycho-Analysis: Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes, 1887-1902. New York: Basic Books, 1954.

Gay, Peter. Freud: A Life for Our Time. New York: Norton, 1988.

Jones, Ernest. The Life & Work of Sigmund Freud. New York: Basic Books, 1957.

Kelman, Harold (ed.). New Perspectives in Psychoanalysis. New York: Norton, 1965.

Molnar, Michael (ed.). The Diary of Sigmund Freud, 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade. New York: Scribner’s, 1992.

The Hoof of Fire Horse Number Twelve

National Museum of American History catalog cards.

“An Old Man Burned to Death in His Lonely Home,” Washington Evening Star, no date but circa March 30, 1890.

“A Pipe Found Beside Him,” Washington Post, March 30, 1890.

“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”

Anderson, Bruce. “The National Pastime’s Anthem.” Publication unknown, n.d.

ASCAP biographical sheet on Jack Norworth, n.d.

Bauman, Richard. “An All-American Hit Since 1908,” American Songwriter, November/December 1996.

Debus, Allen G. “Celebrity Corner: The Records of Jack Norworth,” HobbiesThe Magazine for Collectors, September 1957.

“Dodgers’ Dots & Dashes,” Los Angeles Dodgers Line Drives, vol. 1, no. 3, July 1958.

Feist, Leonard. An Introduction to Popular Music Publishing in America. New York: National Music Publishers’ Association, 1980.

Friedman, Ralph. “Best-Loved Baseball Song Born During Subway Ride” (newspaper article), Central Press Association, c. 1959.

Fusselle, Warner. “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” in Total Baseball (4th ed., edited by John Thorn and Pete Palmer). New York: Viking, 1995.

Law, Alexander G., letter of October 29, 1953, Englewood, N.J., to Sid C. Keener, Director, Baseball Hall of Fame.

Lynn Farnol Group (compilers). The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers. New York: American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, 1966.

Mote, James. Everything Baseball. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1989. New York Herald Tribune, November 24, 1940.

Rachlin, Harvey. The Encyclopedia of the Music Business. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

Ripley, John W. “Baseball’s Forgotten Casey,” Ford Times, June 1974.

Rosenthal, Harold. “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (publication unknown), March 19, 1958.

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Mark Twain’s Orchestrelle

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The Zimmermann Telegram

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The Fourteen Points

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The Truce Flag That Ended World War I

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Wilson, Edith. My Memoir. New York: Arno Press, 1980. (Source of the quote.)

Woodrow Wilson House accession and catalog cards.

Wyatt Earp’s Drawing of the O.K. Corral Gunfight

Boyer, Glenn G. (collector and ed.). I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1976.

Clum, John P. It All Happened in Tombstone. Flagstaff, Ariz.: Northland Press, 1965.

Greer, James Kimmins. Texas Ranger Jack Hays in the Frontier Southwest. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993.

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The Maltese Falcon

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Monty’s Battle Caravans

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The World War II Japanese Surrender Table

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ENIAC

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Strauss, Robert. “Birth of a Machine, Dawn of a New Era,” Newsday, February 13, 1996.

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Marilyn Monroe’s Billowing Dress from The Seven Year Itch

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Rashbaum, William K. “Burglars Got Dress, But Will It Fit?” Newsday, September 16, 1993.

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Elvis Presley’s Purple Cadillac

Bronson, Fred. The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. New York: Billboard Publications, 1985.

Cotten, Lee. All Shook Up: Elvis Day by Day. Ann Arbor: Popular Culture, 1998.

Pareles, Jon, and Patricia Romanowski (eds.). The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. New York: Rolling Stone Press/Summit Books, 1983.

UPI dispatch (Phoenix City, Ala.), August 3, 1976. (Source of the information on Herbert O’Dell Smith and the car auction.)

Able the Space Monkey

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Odyssey

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The Gun That Killed John Lennon

Bronson, Fred. The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. New York: Billboard Publications, 1985.

Clendinen, Dudley. “Lennon Murder Suspect ‘Different Person’ to Father,” New York Times, December 11, 1980.

Ledbetter, Les. “John Lennon of Beatles Is Killed; Suspect Held in Shooting at Dakota,” New York Times, December 9, 1980.

Montgomery, Paul L. “Police Trace Tangled Path Leading to Lennon’s Slaying at the Dakota,” New York Times, December 10, 1980.

Montgomery, Paul L. “Suspect in Lennon’s Slaying Is Put Under Suicide Watch,” New York Times, December 11, 1980.

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Rockwell, John. “Leader of a Rock Group That Helped Define a Generation,” New York Times, December 9, 1980.