These recordings of oral history, play songs, blues, spirituals, and stories were made in 1948 when Alan Lomax invited Vera Hall to come from her home in Livingston, Alabama, to New York City for a concert. Vera Hall's mother had been a slave, and...
During the second half of the twelfth century the "accomandatio" was a well-defined business contract in Genoa. These old Genoese documents reveal some important economic pehnomena, such as the process of capital accumulation and the clear...
We are now able to date the origin of bookkeeping through the fortunate discovery of a specimen drawn up at the end of the 11th century or in the first decade of the 12th century by a Pisan shipbuilder to record expenditures incurred in the...
Songs--United States--19th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: drawing of the Christy Minstrels performing, with smaller drawings of African Americans dancing and playing music; text reads: ""Music of the original Christy Minstrels, the oldest established band in the United States, as arranged and...
Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation -- United States;Business enterprises, Foreign -- United States;Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States;