Author: John Dawson Gilmary Shea
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Memorial of the First Centenary of Georgetown College
Author: John Dawson Gilmary Shea
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Ghosts of Georgetown
Author: Tim Krepp
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625845790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Take the Exorcist Steps to meet “the diverse array of ghosts” in DC’s historic neighborhood—from the author of Capitol Hill Haunts (The Hoya). On the banks of the Potomac River, Georgetown has had three centuries to accumulate ghoulish tales and venerable apparitions to haunt its cobbled streets and mansions. In this historic Washington, DC, neighborhood, the eerie moans of three sisters herald every death on the river, and on R Street, President Lincoln is rumored to have witnessed the paranormal at a seance. Along the towpath of the C&O Canal, a phantom police officer still walks his lonely beat, and on moonlit nights, he is joined by a razor-wielding ghoul. From the spirit of a sea captain who lingers in the Old Stone House to the strange ambiance of the Exorcist Steps, author and guide Tim Krepp takes readers on a chilling journey through the ghostly lore of Georgetown. Includes photos! “A great storyteller who, with a confident grasp of the facts and judiciously inserted asides, can bring to life both the haunters and the haunted. His way of ending his chapters with—gasp!—the literary equivalent of a horror movie organ chord lends a delightfully chilling touch.” —HillRag
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625845790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Take the Exorcist Steps to meet “the diverse array of ghosts” in DC’s historic neighborhood—from the author of Capitol Hill Haunts (The Hoya). On the banks of the Potomac River, Georgetown has had three centuries to accumulate ghoulish tales and venerable apparitions to haunt its cobbled streets and mansions. In this historic Washington, DC, neighborhood, the eerie moans of three sisters herald every death on the river, and on R Street, President Lincoln is rumored to have witnessed the paranormal at a seance. Along the towpath of the C&O Canal, a phantom police officer still walks his lonely beat, and on moonlit nights, he is joined by a razor-wielding ghoul. From the spirit of a sea captain who lingers in the Old Stone House to the strange ambiance of the Exorcist Steps, author and guide Tim Krepp takes readers on a chilling journey through the ghostly lore of Georgetown. Includes photos! “A great storyteller who, with a confident grasp of the facts and judiciously inserted asides, can bring to life both the haunters and the haunted. His way of ending his chapters with—gasp!—the literary equivalent of a horror movie organ chord lends a delightfully chilling touch.” —HillRag
The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From academy to university, 1789-1889
Author: Robert Emmett Curran
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9780878404858
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"Sets Georgetown's story within the larger educational context quite expertly."-Catholic Historical Review.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9780878404858
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"Sets Georgetown's story within the larger educational context quite expertly."-Catholic Historical Review.
Library Bulletins
Author:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Historical Records and Studies
Author: United States Catholic Historical Society
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist
Author: Ileana Chinnici
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004387331
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Winner of the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy In Decoding the Stars, Ileana Chinnici offers an account of the life of the Jesuit scientist Angelo Secchi (1818-1878). In addition to providing an invaluable account of Secchi’s life and work—something that has been sorely lacking in the English-language scholarship—this biography will be especially stimulating for those interested in the evolution of astrophysics as a discipline from the nineteenth century onward. Despite his eclecticism, reminiscent of the natural philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Secchi was in many ways a very modern scientist: open to innovation and cooperation, and a promoter of popularization and citizen science. Secchi also appears fully inserted in the cultural context of his time: he participated in philosophical and scientific debates, spread new theories and ideas, but also suffered the consequences of political events that marked those years and impacted on his life and activities.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004387331
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Winner of the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy In Decoding the Stars, Ileana Chinnici offers an account of the life of the Jesuit scientist Angelo Secchi (1818-1878). In addition to providing an invaluable account of Secchi’s life and work—something that has been sorely lacking in the English-language scholarship—this biography will be especially stimulating for those interested in the evolution of astrophysics as a discipline from the nineteenth century onward. Despite his eclecticism, reminiscent of the natural philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Secchi was in many ways a very modern scientist: open to innovation and cooperation, and a promoter of popularization and citizen science. Secchi also appears fully inserted in the cultural context of his time: he participated in philosophical and scientific debates, spread new theories and ideas, but also suffered the consequences of political events that marked those years and impacted on his life and activities.
Alphabetical Finding List
Author: Princeton University. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Faithful Passages
Author: James Emmett Ryan
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299290638
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Roman Catholic writers in colonial America played only a minority role in debates about religion, politics, morality, national identity, and literary culture. However, the commercial print revolution of the nineteenth century, combined with the arrival of many European Catholic immigrants, provided a vibrant evangelical nexus in which Roman Catholic print discourse would thrive among a tightly knit circle of American writers and readers. James Emmett Ryan’s pathbreaking study follows the careers of important nineteenth-century religionists including Orestes Brownson, Isaac Hecker, Anna Hanson Dorsey, and Cardinal James Gibbons, tracing the distinctive literature that they created during the years that non-Catholic writers like Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson were producing iconic works of American literature. Faithful Passages also reveals new dimensions in American religious literary culture by moving beyond the antebellum period to consider how the first important cohort of Catholic writers shaped their message for subsequent generations of readers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perhaps most strikingly, Ryan shows that by the early twentieth century, Roman Catholic themes and traditions in American literature would be advanced in complex ways by mainstream, non-Catholic modernist writers like Kate Chopin and Willa Cather. Catholic literary culture in the United States took shape in a myriad of ways and at the hands of diverse participants. The process by which Roman Catholic ideas, themes, and moralities were shared and adapted by writers with highly differentiated beliefs, Ryan contends, illuminates a surprising fluidity of religious commitment and expression in early U.S. literary culture.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299290638
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Roman Catholic writers in colonial America played only a minority role in debates about religion, politics, morality, national identity, and literary culture. However, the commercial print revolution of the nineteenth century, combined with the arrival of many European Catholic immigrants, provided a vibrant evangelical nexus in which Roman Catholic print discourse would thrive among a tightly knit circle of American writers and readers. James Emmett Ryan’s pathbreaking study follows the careers of important nineteenth-century religionists including Orestes Brownson, Isaac Hecker, Anna Hanson Dorsey, and Cardinal James Gibbons, tracing the distinctive literature that they created during the years that non-Catholic writers like Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson were producing iconic works of American literature. Faithful Passages also reveals new dimensions in American religious literary culture by moving beyond the antebellum period to consider how the first important cohort of Catholic writers shaped their message for subsequent generations of readers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perhaps most strikingly, Ryan shows that by the early twentieth century, Roman Catholic themes and traditions in American literature would be advanced in complex ways by mainstream, non-Catholic modernist writers like Kate Chopin and Willa Cather. Catholic literary culture in the United States took shape in a myriad of ways and at the hands of diverse participants. The process by which Roman Catholic ideas, themes, and moralities were shared and adapted by writers with highly differentiated beliefs, Ryan contends, illuminates a surprising fluidity of religious commitment and expression in early U.S. literary culture.
The Bibliographer's Manual of American History: R-Z. nos. 4528-6056. 1909
Author: Stanislaus Vincent Henkels
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Educational Review
Author: Nicholas Murray Butler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, compiled by James I. Wyer and others.
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, compiled by James I. Wyer and others.