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| Harmon, George D. “An Indictment of the Administration of President James Buchanan and His Kansas Policy.” Historian 3 (Autumn 1940): 52-68. | Journal Article | Secondary | 1940 | Full Record | |
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| Donovan, Theresa A. “President Pierce’s Ministers at the Court of St. James.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 91 (1967): 457-471. | Journal Article | Secondary | 1967 | Full Record | |
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| Auchampaugh, Philip G. “James Buchanan, the Squire from Lancaster.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 56 (1932): 15-33. | Journal Article | Secondary | 1932 | Full Record | |
| Auchampaugh, Philip G. “James Buchanan, the Squire in the White House.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 58 (1934): 270-285. | Journal Article | Secondary | 1934 | Full Record | |
| Auchampaugh, Philip Gerald. “John B. Floyd and James Buchanan.” Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine 4 (April 1923): 381-388. | Journal Article | Secondary | 1923 | Full Record | |
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| Cross, Coy F. Go West, Young Man!: Horace Greeley's Vision for America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. | Book | Secondary | 1995 | Full Record | |
| Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. | Book | Secondary | 1999 | Full Record |