Author: Various
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043104112
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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Harper's Young People, January 11, 1881
Author: Various
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043104112
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043104112
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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Howard Pyle
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Who's who in America
Author: John W. Leonard
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2504
Book Description
Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2504
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Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Author: Elizabeth K. Halbeisen
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512816558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The life and writings of one of the most popular and talented authoresses of the nineteenth century whose work has a permanent value for American literature.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512816558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The life and writings of one of the most popular and talented authoresses of the nineteenth century whose work has a permanent value for American literature.
Harper's Young People
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Pages : 852
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The Tunis Hood Family
Author: Dellmann Osborne Hood
Publisher: Binford & Mort Publishing
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
This is the biography of the Tunis Family a more or less typical very early American Family; its ancestry, national origin and far flung branches of thousands of known descendants and allied connections.
Publisher: Binford & Mort Publishing
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Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
This is the biography of the Tunis Family a more or less typical very early American Family; its ancestry, national origin and far flung branches of thousands of known descendants and allied connections.
American Bookfinder and Serially American Book Prices Current
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Bulletin of the Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ...
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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The Field of Blood
Author: Joanne B. Freeman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.