Author: Reuben Weiser
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Regina, the German Captive
Author: Reuben Weiser
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
I Am Regina
Author: Sally M. Keehn
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110107695X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she must begin a new life. She becomes Tskinnak, who learns to catch fish, dance the Indian dance, and speak the Indian tongue. As the years go by, her new people become her family . . . but she never stops wondering about her mother. Will they ever meet again? "A first-person narrative based on the true story of a young woman held by Indians from 1755-1763, related with all the impact of a hard-hitting documentary . . .Wonderful reading." (School Library Journal) "I Am Regina is an enthralling and profoundly stirring story, historical fiction for young people at its very finest." (Elizabeth George Speare, Newbery Award-winning author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond)
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110107695X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she must begin a new life. She becomes Tskinnak, who learns to catch fish, dance the Indian dance, and speak the Indian tongue. As the years go by, her new people become her family . . . but she never stops wondering about her mother. Will they ever meet again? "A first-person narrative based on the true story of a young woman held by Indians from 1755-1763, related with all the impact of a hard-hitting documentary . . .Wonderful reading." (School Library Journal) "I Am Regina is an enthralling and profoundly stirring story, historical fiction for young people at its very finest." (Elizabeth George Speare, Newbery Award-winning author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond)
Regina, the German Captive, Or True Piety Among the Lowly ...
Author: Reuben Weiser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Pennsylvania-German
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants.
The Pennsylvania-German
Author: Philip Columbus Croll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Regina, the German Captive
Author: Reuben Weiser
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795054075
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795054075
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Regina, the German Captive
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Germany and the Americas [3 volumes]
Author: Thomas Adam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851096337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
This comprehensive encyclopedia details the close ties between the German-speaking world and the Americas, examining the extensive Germanic cultural and political legacy in the nations of the New World and the equally substantial influence of the Americas on the Germanic nations. From the medical discoveries of Dr. Johann Siegert, surgeon general to Simon Bolivar, to the amazing explorations of the early-19th-century German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, whose South American and Caribbean travels made him one of the most celebrated men in Europe, Germany and the Americas examines both the profound Germanic cultural and political legacy throughout the Americas and the lasting influence of American culture on the German-speaking world. Ever since Baron von Steuben helped create George Washington's army, German Americans have exhibited decisive leadership not only in the military, but also in politics, the arts, and business. Germany and the Americas charts the lasting links between the Germanic world and the nations of the Americas in a comprehensive survey featuring a chronology of key events spanning 400 years of transatlantic history.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851096337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1366
Book Description
This comprehensive encyclopedia details the close ties between the German-speaking world and the Americas, examining the extensive Germanic cultural and political legacy in the nations of the New World and the equally substantial influence of the Americas on the Germanic nations. From the medical discoveries of Dr. Johann Siegert, surgeon general to Simon Bolivar, to the amazing explorations of the early-19th-century German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, whose South American and Caribbean travels made him one of the most celebrated men in Europe, Germany and the Americas examines both the profound Germanic cultural and political legacy throughout the Americas and the lasting influence of American culture on the German-speaking world. Ever since Baron von Steuben helped create George Washington's army, German Americans have exhibited decisive leadership not only in the military, but also in politics, the arts, and business. Germany and the Americas charts the lasting links between the Germanic world and the nations of the Americas in a comprehensive survey featuring a chronology of key events spanning 400 years of transatlantic history.
The Voice of the Old Frontier
Author: R. W. G. Vail
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
This volume contains the three lectures R. W. G. Vail delivered in the fall of 1945, in connection with his A. S. Rosenbach Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
This volume contains the three lectures R. W. G. Vail delivered in the fall of 1945, in connection with his A. S. Rosenbach Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800.
Setting All the Captives Free
Author: Ian K. Steele
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773589899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities as well as how these differences show the variety of circumstances that affected captives’ experiences. The product of a herculean effort to identify and analyze the captives taken on the Allegheny frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, Setting All the Captives Free is the most complete study of this topic. Steele explores genuine, doctored, and fictitious accounts in an innovative challenge to many prevailing assumptions and arguments, revealing that Indians demonstrated humanity and compassion by continuing to take numerous captives when their opponents took none, by adopting and converting captives into kin during the war, and by returning captives even though doing so was a humiliating act that betrayed their societies' values. A fascinating and comprehensive work by an acclaimed scholar, Setting All the Captives Free takes the study of the French and Indian War in America to an exciting new level.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773589899
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities as well as how these differences show the variety of circumstances that affected captives’ experiences. The product of a herculean effort to identify and analyze the captives taken on the Allegheny frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, Setting All the Captives Free is the most complete study of this topic. Steele explores genuine, doctored, and fictitious accounts in an innovative challenge to many prevailing assumptions and arguments, revealing that Indians demonstrated humanity and compassion by continuing to take numerous captives when their opponents took none, by adopting and converting captives into kin during the war, and by returning captives even though doing so was a humiliating act that betrayed their societies' values. A fascinating and comprehensive work by an acclaimed scholar, Setting All the Captives Free takes the study of the French and Indian War in America to an exciting new level.