An American Voice on the Late War in the East

An American Voice on the Late War in the East PDF Author: William Rounseville Alger
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Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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An American Voice on the Late War in the East

An American Voice on the Late War in the East PDF Author: William Rounseville Alger
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Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368722115
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Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Spying on the South

Spying on the South PDF Author: Tony Horwitz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101980303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman," the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape, as Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic.

Report

Report PDF Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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Dictionary of American Biography

Dictionary of American Biography PDF Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1320

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Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts

Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts PDF Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Catalogue of the New York State Library, 1861

Catalogue of the New York State Library, 1861 PDF Author: New York State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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Dictionary of American Biography: Abbe-Barrymore

Dictionary of American Biography: Abbe-Barrymore PDF Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. The DAB records the lives of prominent Americans who died by Dec. 31, 1980.

Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue

Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue PDF Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Report of the Librarian of the State Library

Report of the Librarian of the State Library PDF Author: Massachusetts State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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