Author: H. C. Bradsby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585493975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publications of the Pennsylvania History Club
Author: Pennsylvania History Club, Philadelphia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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History of Adams County, Pennsylvania
Author: H. C. Bradsby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585493975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585493975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
An Uncommon Woman
Author: Mark Kelley
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271098732
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813–1884) was a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper, life companion, and collaborator of the state’s abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens. In his biography of this remarkable woman, Mark Kelley reveals how Smith served the cause of abolition, managed Stevens’s household, acquired property, and crossed racialized social boundaries. Born a free woman near Gettysburg, Smith began working for Stevens in 1844. Her relationship with Stevens fascinated and infuriated many, and it made Smith a highly recognizable figure both locally and nationally. The two walked side by side in Lancaster and in Washington, DC, as they worked to secure the rights of African Americans, sheltered people on the Underground Railroad, managed two households, raised her sons and his nephews, and built a real-estate business. In the last years of Stevens’s life, as his declining health threatened to short-circuit his work, Smith risked her own well-being to keep him alive while he led the drive to end slavery, impeach Andrew Johnson, and push for the ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. An Uncommon Woman is a vital history that accords Lydia Hamilton Smith the recognition that she deserves. Every American should know Smith’s inspiring story.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271098732
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813–1884) was a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper, life companion, and collaborator of the state’s abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens. In his biography of this remarkable woman, Mark Kelley reveals how Smith served the cause of abolition, managed Stevens’s household, acquired property, and crossed racialized social boundaries. Born a free woman near Gettysburg, Smith began working for Stevens in 1844. Her relationship with Stevens fascinated and infuriated many, and it made Smith a highly recognizable figure both locally and nationally. The two walked side by side in Lancaster and in Washington, DC, as they worked to secure the rights of African Americans, sheltered people on the Underground Railroad, managed two households, raised her sons and his nephews, and built a real-estate business. In the last years of Stevens’s life, as his declining health threatened to short-circuit his work, Smith risked her own well-being to keep him alive while he led the drive to end slavery, impeach Andrew Johnson, and push for the ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. An Uncommon Woman is a vital history that accords Lydia Hamilton Smith the recognition that she deserves. Every American should know Smith’s inspiring story.
Publications
Author: Pennsylvania History Club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Catalogue and Index of Contributions to North American Geology, 1732-1891
Author: Nelson Horatio Darton
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Gettysburg Address
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504080246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504080246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Pennsylvania History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews and Book notices."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews and Book notices."
House documents
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Historic Architecture of Adams County, Pennsylvania: African & Dutch Experience
Author: James J. Fritz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781601266873
Category : Adams County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a summary of Adams County Pennsylvania's founding and early history, with emphasis on the architectural, political, and cultural influences of regional settlers. The author recognizes awardee dwellings that exemplify the preservation efforts of Historic Gettysburg Adams County.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781601266873
Category : Adams County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a summary of Adams County Pennsylvania's founding and early history, with emphasis on the architectural, political, and cultural influences of regional settlers. The author recognizes awardee dwellings that exemplify the preservation efforts of Historic Gettysburg Adams County.