Over the past few years, I’ve had a lot of materials indexed or transcribed. I haven’t posted them publicly but they are freely available upon request. Below is a short list of the items available.
Indexes
The following newspapers have been indexed:
The Freedman’s Journal
The Radical Standard
The Republican Standard
The Educator (in progress)
Transcriptions
The following materials have been transcribed:
Songs from The Child at Home published in the 1860s.
Links to Life in Fourscore Years by Brinckerhoff
Mission Work Among the Freed Negroes by Brinckerhoff
Letters of William Forster Mitchell (in progress)
Diary of Anna Ault (in progress)
Paul Kent the Choir Boy
Bibliographies
Materials written for freed people (1860-1880)
Diaries, correspondence, and books written by freedmen’s teachers
Works of Helen E. Brown
Works of Anne Maria Mitchell Payne
Book Scans
All the books I have scanned have been uploaded to the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/@losthistorybooks
Genealogies
I have built family trees for several of my research subjects on ancestry.com. You can view them here with a free account. I’m happy to provide gedcom files upon request. Below is a limited selection of them.
Anna M. Ault (1838-1909) – Freedmen’s teacher, correspondent, and diarist
Isaac Brinckerhoff (1821-1910) – Baptist Minister, missionary, and author
Joanna Donaldson Bronson (1814-1876) – author of United States Primer (1864)
Lillie Rose Brown (1848-1863) – titular subject of a book from 1866
Helen E. Brown (1819-1894) – Reformer, author, and editor.
Lucy Evelyn Sparhawk Brown (1839-1923) – author, correspondent and missionary
Mary Jane Correll Carter (1830-1881) – Editorial correspondent
Francis Manwaring Caulkins (1795-1869) – Author of The Tract Primer
Rev. Edwin S. Cheeseman (1835-1913) – Methodist minister and diarist
Samuel Cloues (1838-1863) – engraver for American Tract Society
Jane Briggs Smith Fisk (1834-1925) – Freedmen’s teacher, correspondent, and diarist
Francina E. H. Haines (1819-1886) – Educational advocate and author
John N. Hyde (1836-1895) – Artist for American Tract Society
Anne Maria Mitchell Payne (1847-1929) – Freedmen’s teacher, correspondent, and author
Wilmer Walton (1826-1892) – Freedmen’s teacher
Oscar Waring (1841-1911) – Freedmen’s teacher and high school principal
Rev. Israel P. Warren (1814-1892) – Congregational minister, author, and editor
Rev. Jared Bell Waterbury (1799-1876) – Presbyterian minister and author
Lost History Books 