Author: Thomas Chalmers McCorvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Mission of Francis Scott Key to Alabama in 1833
Author: Thomas Chalmers McCorvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Lost World of Francis Scott Key
Author: Sina Dubovoy
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490831177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Francis Scott Key was born during the Revolutionary War on his family’s Maryland estate and died suddenly and unexpectedly in Baltimore at age sixty-three. History remembers him best as the composer of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and least of all as a noted poet and eminent lawyer. Time and again his career propelled him into the limelight, which explains how Key happened to find himself aboard a truce ship during the massive British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814. As he watched the assault all night long with the aid of a spyglass, the poet-lawyer was inspired to compose the ode that became the anthem of a nation. During his forty-plus years as a lawyer, Francis Scott Key argued well over one hundred appeals before the Supreme Court in Washington. As a devout evangelical Episcopalian and lay leader, he found himself steeped in the divisive issues sundering his church. His restless intellect and spirit sought an outlet in a mind-boggling array of philanthropic projects, which included the founding of the free African republic of Liberia. As a result of new and overlooked sources and materials, new facts about Francis Scott Key have emerged, and some age-old myths have been dispelled. What still remains true and enduring about the man are his genius, piety, and service to his country and fellow man.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490831177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Francis Scott Key was born during the Revolutionary War on his family’s Maryland estate and died suddenly and unexpectedly in Baltimore at age sixty-three. History remembers him best as the composer of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and least of all as a noted poet and eminent lawyer. Time and again his career propelled him into the limelight, which explains how Key happened to find himself aboard a truce ship during the massive British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1814. As he watched the assault all night long with the aid of a spyglass, the poet-lawyer was inspired to compose the ode that became the anthem of a nation. During his forty-plus years as a lawyer, Francis Scott Key argued well over one hundred appeals before the Supreme Court in Washington. As a devout evangelical Episcopalian and lay leader, he found himself steeped in the divisive issues sundering his church. His restless intellect and spirit sought an outlet in a mind-boggling array of philanthropic projects, which included the founding of the free African republic of Liberia. As a result of new and overlooked sources and materials, new facts about Francis Scott Key have emerged, and some age-old myths have been dispelled. What still remains true and enduring about the man are his genius, piety, and service to his country and fellow man.
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
Author:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
What So Proudly We Hailed
Author: Marc Leepson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137278285
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A fresh look at Francis Scott Key, a man who embodied the contradictions of his time, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137278285
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A fresh look at Francis Scott Key, a man who embodied the contradictions of his time, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
Author: Jefferson Cowie
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 154167281X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY An "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way. American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom’s Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 154167281X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY An "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way. American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom’s Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.
Sectionalism and Party Politics in Alabama, 1819-1842
Author: Theodore Henley Jack
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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Clays of Alabama
Author: Ruth Ketring Nuermberger
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Of unique interest to the student of nineteenth century America is this account of the Alabama Clays, who in their private life were typical of the slaveholding aristocracy of the old South, but as lawyer-politicians played significant roles in state and national politics, in the development of the Democratic party, and in the affairs of the Confederacy. In the period from 1811 to 1915, the Clays were involved in many of the great problems confronting the South. This study of the Clay family includes accounts of the wartime legislation of the Confederate Congress and the activities of the Confederate Commission in Canada. Equally interesting to many readers will be the intimate view of social life in ante-bellum Washington and the story of the domestic struggles of a plantation family during and after the war, as revealed through the letters of Clement Claiborne Clay and his wife Virginia.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Of unique interest to the student of nineteenth century America is this account of the Alabama Clays, who in their private life were typical of the slaveholding aristocracy of the old South, but as lawyer-politicians played significant roles in state and national politics, in the development of the Democratic party, and in the affairs of the Confederacy. In the period from 1811 to 1915, the Clays were involved in many of the great problems confronting the South. This study of the Clay family includes accounts of the wartime legislation of the Confederate Congress and the activities of the Confederate Commission in Canada. Equally interesting to many readers will be the intimate view of social life in ante-bellum Washington and the story of the domestic struggles of a plantation family during and after the war, as revealed through the letters of Clement Claiborne Clay and his wife Virginia.
The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835
Author: Sarah Haynsworth Gayle
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817361189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The remarkable journal of the young wife of early Alabama governor John Gayle and a primary source of our knowledge about early Alabama and the antebellum American South
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817361189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The remarkable journal of the young wife of early Alabama governor John Gayle and a primary source of our knowledge about early Alabama and the antebellum American South
Clearing the Thickets
Author: Herbert James Lewis
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
ISBN: 1610271661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
An accessible and interesting survey of the rise of the state of Alabama from frontier society to the Civil War.
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
ISBN: 1610271661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
An accessible and interesting survey of the rise of the state of Alabama from frontier society to the Civil War.
The Development of Southern Sectionalism
Author: Charles S. Sydnor
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Sectionalism (United States)
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Sectionalism (United States)
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description