Author: United States Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Register of All Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States
Author: United States Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Register of All Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 18
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691229260
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
A new definitive volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson This volume’s 627 documents feature a vast assortment of topics. Jefferson writes of his dread of “a doting old age.” He inserts an anonymous note in the Richmond Enquirer denying that he has endorsed a candidate for the next presidential election, and he publishes two letters in that newspaper under his own name to refute a Federalist claim that he once benefited by overcharging the United States Treasury. Jefferson does not reply to unsolicited letters seeking his opinion on constitutional matters, judicial review, and a call for universal white male suffrage in Virginia. Fearing that it would set a dangerous precedent, he declines appointment as patron of a new society “for the civilisation of the Indians.” Jefferson is also asked to comment on proposed improvements to stoves, lighthouses, telescopes, and navigable balloons. Citing his advanced age and stiffened wrist, he avoids detailed replies and allows his complaint to John Adams about the volume of incoming correspondence to be leaked to the press in hopes that strangers will stop deluging them both with letters. Jefferson approves of the growth of Unitarianism and predicts that “there is not a young man now living in the US. who will not die an Unitarian.”
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691229260
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
A new definitive volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson This volume’s 627 documents feature a vast assortment of topics. Jefferson writes of his dread of “a doting old age.” He inserts an anonymous note in the Richmond Enquirer denying that he has endorsed a candidate for the next presidential election, and he publishes two letters in that newspaper under his own name to refute a Federalist claim that he once benefited by overcharging the United States Treasury. Jefferson does not reply to unsolicited letters seeking his opinion on constitutional matters, judicial review, and a call for universal white male suffrage in Virginia. Fearing that it would set a dangerous precedent, he declines appointment as patron of a new society “for the civilisation of the Indians.” Jefferson is also asked to comment on proposed improvements to stoves, lighthouses, telescopes, and navigable balloons. Citing his advanced age and stiffened wrist, he avoids detailed replies and allows his complaint to John Adams about the volume of incoming correspondence to be leaked to the press in hopes that strangers will stop deluging them both with letters. Jefferson approves of the growth of Unitarianism and predicts that “there is not a young man now living in the US. who will not die an Unitarian.”
Thomas L. McKenney
Author: Herman J. Viola
Publisher: Chicago : Sage Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
"Also a study in public policy making and administration, and a glimpse into the religious and humanitarian programs so fashionable in the early 19th century." Dust jacket.
Publisher: Chicago : Sage Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
"Also a study in public policy making and administration, and a glimpse into the religious and humanitarian programs so fashionable in the early 19th century." Dust jacket.
Register of All Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 19
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson This volume’s 601 documents show Jefferson dealing with various challenges. He is injured in a fall at Monticello, and his arm is still in a sling months later when he narrowly escapes drowning during a solitary horseback ride. Jefferson obtains temporary financial relief by transferring a $20,000 debt from the Bank of the United States to the College of William and Mary. Aided by a review of expenditures by the University of Virginia that uncovers no serious discrepancies, Jefferson and the Board of Visitors obtain a further $60,000 loan that permits construction to begin on the Rotunda. Jefferson drafts but apparently does not send John Adams a revealing letter on religion. He exchanges long letters discussing the Supreme Court with Justice William Johnson, and he writes to friends about France’s 1823 invasion of Spain. Jefferson also helps prepare a list of recommended books for the Albemarle Library Society. In November 1822, Jefferson’s grandson Francis Eppes marries Mary Elizabeth Randolph. He gives the newlyweds his mansion at Poplar Forest and visits it for the last time the following May. In a letter to James Monroe, Jefferson writes and then cancels “my race is near it’s term, and not nearer, I assure you, than I wish.”
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson This volume’s 601 documents show Jefferson dealing with various challenges. He is injured in a fall at Monticello, and his arm is still in a sling months later when he narrowly escapes drowning during a solitary horseback ride. Jefferson obtains temporary financial relief by transferring a $20,000 debt from the Bank of the United States to the College of William and Mary. Aided by a review of expenditures by the University of Virginia that uncovers no serious discrepancies, Jefferson and the Board of Visitors obtain a further $60,000 loan that permits construction to begin on the Rotunda. Jefferson drafts but apparently does not send John Adams a revealing letter on religion. He exchanges long letters discussing the Supreme Court with Justice William Johnson, and he writes to friends about France’s 1823 invasion of Spain. Jefferson also helps prepare a list of recommended books for the Albemarle Library Society. In November 1822, Jefferson’s grandson Francis Eppes marries Mary Elizabeth Randolph. He gives the newlyweds his mansion at Poplar Forest and visits it for the last time the following May. In a letter to James Monroe, Jefferson writes and then cancels “my race is near it’s term, and not nearer, I assure you, than I wish.”
Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y..
Author: United States Military Academy. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
African American State Volunteers in the New South
Author: John Patrick Blair
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1648430740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, a turbulent period fraught with violence, struggle, and uncertainty, a forgotten few African Americans banded together as men to assert their rights as citizens. Following emancipation, the nation’s newest citizens established churches, entered the political arena, created educational and business opportunities, and even formed labor organizations, but it was through state militia service, with the prestige and heightened status conveyed by their affiliation, that they displayed their loyalty, discipline, and more importantly, their manliness within the public sphere. In African American State Volunteers in the New South, John Patrick Blair offers a comparative examination of the experiences and activities of African American men as members in the state volunteer military organizations of Georgia, Texas, and Virginia, including the complicated relationships between state government and military officials—many of them former Confederate officers—and the leaders of the Black militia volunteers. This important new study expands understanding of racial accommodation, however minor, toward the African American military, confirmed not only in the actions of state government and military officials to arm, equip, and train these Black troops, but also in the acceptance of clearly visible and authorized military activities by these very same volunteers. In doing so, it adds significant layers to our knowledge of racial politics as they developed during Reconstruction, and prompts us to consider a broader understanding of the history of the South into the twentieth century.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1648430740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, a turbulent period fraught with violence, struggle, and uncertainty, a forgotten few African Americans banded together as men to assert their rights as citizens. Following emancipation, the nation’s newest citizens established churches, entered the political arena, created educational and business opportunities, and even formed labor organizations, but it was through state militia service, with the prestige and heightened status conveyed by their affiliation, that they displayed their loyalty, discipline, and more importantly, their manliness within the public sphere. In African American State Volunteers in the New South, John Patrick Blair offers a comparative examination of the experiences and activities of African American men as members in the state volunteer military organizations of Georgia, Texas, and Virginia, including the complicated relationships between state government and military officials—many of them former Confederate officers—and the leaders of the Black militia volunteers. This important new study expands understanding of racial accommodation, however minor, toward the African American military, confirmed not only in the actions of state government and military officials to arm, equip, and train these Black troops, but also in the acceptance of clearly visible and authorized military activities by these very same volunteers. In doing so, it adds significant layers to our knowledge of racial politics as they developed during Reconstruction, and prompts us to consider a broader understanding of the history of the South into the twentieth century.
Three Finding Lists Issued by the War Department Library
Author: United States. War Dept. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book selection
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book selection
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Three Finding Lists Issued by the War Department Library. 1. Serial Publications. 2. Principal Reference Works. 3. Important Accessions. 1898-1903
Author: United States. War Department. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Contains three finding lists put out by the U.S. War Department Library for locating and identifying resources in their library.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Contains three finding lists put out by the U.S. War Department Library for locating and identifying resources in their library.