Today in history.
Contributors: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Depressions -- 1857 -- United States.; United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.; Delaware -- History.
Other titles: August 24
Description: Tells about the Depression of 1857 which occurred after the failure of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company's New York branch on Aug 24, 1857. Gives a history of the "lower counties," a territory awarded to William Penn on Aug. 24, 1682.  This land became Delaware, the first state to ratify the new U.S. Constitution.
Notes: Title from HTML header (viewed on Aug. 29, 2003; last updated Aug. 2002).
Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: The panic of 1857; title: William Penn acquires the "lower counties."