Author: Charles Abiathar White
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Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies
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Category : Scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings ... Index ... 1915-24, 1926.

Author: Steven K. Madsen
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0874217083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, still cannot be reached or viewed easily. Much of the surrounding region remained remote and rarely visited for decades after settlement of other parts of the West. The first U.S. government expedition to explore the canyon country and the Four Corners area was led by John Macomb of the army's topographical engineers. The soldiers and scientists followed in part the Old Spanish Trail, whose location they documented and verified. Seeking to find the confluence of the Colorado and the Green and looking for alternative routes into Utah, which was of particular interest in the wake of the Utah War, they produced a substantial documentary record, most of which is published for the first time in this volume. Theirs is also the first detailed map of the region, and it is published in Exploring Desert Stone, as well.

Author: Lorien Foote
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823264491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429

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“Outstanding essays” exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News). With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a victorious Union. Broadly defining “intellectuals” to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college professors, health reformers, and religious leaders, the essays address how these thinkers disseminated their ideas, sometimes using commercial or popular venues and organizations to implement what they believed. To what extent did educated Americans believe that the Civil War exposed the failure of old ideas? Did the Civil War promote new strains of authoritarianism in northern intellectual life, or reinforce democratic individualism? How did it affect northerners’ conception of nationalism and their understanding of their relationship to the state? These essays explore myriad topics, including: *How antebellum ideas about the environment and the body influenced conceptions of democratic health *How leaders of the Irish American community reconciled their support of the United States and the Republican Party with their allegiances to Ireland and their fellow Irish immigrants *How intellectual leaders of the northern African American community explained secession, civil war, and emancipation *The influence of southern ideals on northern intellectuals *Wartime and postwar views from college and university campuses—and the ideological acrobatics that professors at Midwestern universities had to perform in order to keep their students from leaving the classroom *How northern sketch artists helped influence the changing perceptions of African American soldiers over the course of the war Collectively, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers an in-depth look at this part of the nation’s intellectual history—and suggests that antebellum modes of thinking remained vital and tenacious well after the Civil War.

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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1178

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Author: Arnold Arboretum. Library
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 834

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Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies
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Languages : en
Pages : 468

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