Jared Diamond applies his experience in evolutionary biology to explain the forces that may shape human history.

The prize-winning book, Guns, Germs & Steel, was also made into a PBS television series. This online transcript of a talk covers many of the themes in his book. As I understand it, this books has been widely assigned as required reading in high schools and colleges over the past few years.

You can get another taste of Diamond in his online article: The Worst Mistake in Human History. Many other interviews and reviews can be found. Also discussion on his more recent book, Collapse.

The online book Historical Collections of Georgia (1854) has a fairly detailed treatment of the meetings at Running Waters and Red Clay between the Ridge and Ross parties and US Commissioner Schermerhorn. Also Samuel Worcester's imprisonment, his Supreme Court case and other pressures prior to Cherokee removal.

A is for American by historian Jill Lepore of Harvard University.

To Marry an Indian by Theresa Strouth Gaul is an edited account of the controversial marriage of Elias Boudinot and Harriet Gold.

This Typographical Bibliography by Marthens from 1875 is a good collection of starting points for research.

Ringwalt's American Encyclopedia of Printing is an excellent source. But the online archived version is very slow and cumbersome to navigate. One illustration in Ringwalt is this letter-cutter working by the light of the window.

Via the Universal Library, Carnegie-Mellon. Some details of printing in the 19th Century can be found in the History of English Printing by Henry Plomer, 1927. Beginning on page 238: discusses the Stanhope Iron Press, Koenig, other early cylinder and rotary presses. In the area of typefounding, some mentions of Caslon, Fry, "Fat Face" style, Royal printers, the Chiswick Press, William Morris and Kelmscott.

Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia (1878) has a long entry on the topic of printing (pages 1405-1420). It includes typefounding techniques and printing presses both historical and of the period.

Prior to helping establish the printing office at New Echota, the American Board had opened a similar effort in its Hawaiian missions about 1822.

Similar to Cherokee the native language was a syllabary, however a set of twelve stardard Roman characters were used to render the alphabet compared to the unique alphabet devised by Sequoyah. The printer, Elisha Loomis, was among the first group of missionaries led by the young Hiram Bingham from the American Board.

Samuel Knapp is an often-cited source describing his enounter with George Guess/Seqouyah in 1828. One place to find this account is in the Curiosities of American Literature by Rufus Griswold available online.

This online textbook from the University of Houston includes an American Indian section... Native American Voices... Part Three is of particular interest. It covers missionary involvements, "civilization" policy, and removal.

A presbyterian church founded by Samuel Worcester is located in Park Hill, Oklahoma. It is located south of the Cherokee Heritage Center toward the Murrell House.



A bell is displayed in front of the church building. It notes Rev. S.A. Worcester as pastor and that the bell was originally cast in 1847, destroyed by fire, and cast again in 1889.