Author: Linda Davis Reno
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078645184X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This work chronicles the story of 400 young men who willingly and knowingly sacrificed themselves to save the Continental Army at the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776. Holding back 20,000 British and Hessian soldiers, they allowed their comrades to retreat and may have saved the Revolution from immediate defeat. This exhaustively researched account introduces the reader to the background of the battle and the stories of the individuals who fought that day, and includes biographies with extensive quoted material in addition to a general historic overview.
The Maryland 400 in the Battle of Long Island, 1776
Author: Linda Davis Reno
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078645184X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This work chronicles the story of 400 young men who willingly and knowingly sacrificed themselves to save the Continental Army at the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776. Holding back 20,000 British and Hessian soldiers, they allowed their comrades to retreat and may have saved the Revolution from immediate defeat. This exhaustively researched account introduces the reader to the background of the battle and the stories of the individuals who fought that day, and includes biographies with extensive quoted material in addition to a general historic overview.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078645184X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This work chronicles the story of 400 young men who willingly and knowingly sacrificed themselves to save the Continental Army at the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776. Holding back 20,000 British and Hessian soldiers, they allowed their comrades to retreat and may have saved the Revolution from immediate defeat. This exhaustively researched account introduces the reader to the background of the battle and the stories of the individuals who fought that day, and includes biographies with extensive quoted material in addition to a general historic overview.
Official Bulletin of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The Founders' Fortunes
Author: Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524745928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty, justice, and the fate of the fledgling United States of America? In this landmark account, historian Willard Sterne Randall investigates the private financial affairs of the Founders, illuminating like never before how and why the Revolution came about. The Founders’ Fortunes uncovers how these leaders waged war, crafted a constitution, and forged a new nation influenced in part by their own financial interests. In an era where these very issues have become daily national questions, the result is a remarkable and insightful new understanding of our nation’s bedrock values.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524745928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty, justice, and the fate of the fledgling United States of America? In this landmark account, historian Willard Sterne Randall investigates the private financial affairs of the Founders, illuminating like never before how and why the Revolution came about. The Founders’ Fortunes uncovers how these leaders waged war, crafted a constitution, and forged a new nation influenced in part by their own financial interests. In an era where these very issues have become daily national questions, the result is a remarkable and insightful new understanding of our nation’s bedrock values.
Maryland Society, Sons of the American Revolution Centennial History, 1889-1989
Author: Henry C. Peden (Jr.)
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution
Author: Sons of the American Revolution
Publisher: New York, Press of A. H. Kellogg
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Press of A. H. Kellogg
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Official Bulletin of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Author: Sons of the American Revolution
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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National Yearbook - National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Author: Sons of the American Revolution
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Category : Patriotic societies
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Category : Patriotic societies
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Finding Charity’s Folk
Author: Jessica Millward
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820348791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women’s future interactions with the state.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820348791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women’s future interactions with the state.
The Spirit of '76
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
First[-Fifth] Biennial Report of the Historical Department of Iowa Made to the Trustees of the State Library
Author: Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
Publisher:
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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