Author: William Plumer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
William Plumer's Memorandum of Proceedings in the United States Senate, 1803-1807
Author: William Plumer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
William Plumer's Memorandum of Proceedings in the United States Senate, 1803 - 1807
Author: William Plumer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
William Plumer's Memorandum of Proceedings in the United States Senate, 1803-1807
Author: Everett Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780472750559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
William Plumer of New Hampshire merits the recognition of historical students along with those other pioneer diarists of the United States Senate because his Memorandum is an almost daily record of sessions in the Senate from October 17, 1803, when Congress convened in special session to consider the treaty and conventions with France respecting the purchase of Louisiana, until the close of his term in March 1807.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780472750559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
William Plumer of New Hampshire merits the recognition of historical students along with those other pioneer diarists of the United States Senate because his Memorandum is an almost daily record of sessions in the Senate from October 17, 1803, when Congress convened in special session to consider the treaty and conventions with France respecting the purchase of Louisiana, until the close of his term in March 1807.
The Jeffersonians
Author: Kevin R. C. Gutzman
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250135478
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
“A long, insightful look at three Founder presidents. ... Political histories are rarely page-turners, but Gutzman, clearly a scholar who has read everything on his subjects, writes lively prose and displays a refreshingly opinionated eye for a huge cast of characters and their often unfortunate actions. Outstanding historical writing.” — Kirkus (starred review) A lively and essential chronicle of the only consecutive trio of two-term presidencies of the same political party in American history, from the bestselling author of Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary and James Madison. Before the consecutive two-term administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, there had only been one other trio of its type: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Kevin R. C. Gutzman’s The Jeffersonians is a complete chronicle of the men, known as The Virginia Dynasty, who served as president from 1801 to 1825 and implemented the foreign policy, domestic, and constitutional agenda of the radical wing of the American Revolution, setting guideposts for later American liberals to follow. The three close political allies were tightly related: Jefferson and Madison were the closest of friends, and Monroe was Jefferson’s former law student. Their achievements were many, including the founding of the opposition Republican Party in the 1790s; the Louisiana Purchase; and the call upon Congress in 1806 to use its constitutional power to ban slave imports beginning on January 1, 1808. Of course, not everything the Virginia Dynasty undertook was a success: Its chief failure might have been the ineptly planned and led War of 1812. In general, however, when Monroe rode off into the sunset in 1825, his passing and the end of The Virginia Dynasty were much lamented. Kevin R. C. Gutzman’s new book details a time in America when three Presidents worked toward common goals to strengthen our Republic in a way we rarely see in American politics today.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250135478
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
“A long, insightful look at three Founder presidents. ... Political histories are rarely page-turners, but Gutzman, clearly a scholar who has read everything on his subjects, writes lively prose and displays a refreshingly opinionated eye for a huge cast of characters and their often unfortunate actions. Outstanding historical writing.” — Kirkus (starred review) A lively and essential chronicle of the only consecutive trio of two-term presidencies of the same political party in American history, from the bestselling author of Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary and James Madison. Before the consecutive two-term administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, there had only been one other trio of its type: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Kevin R. C. Gutzman’s The Jeffersonians is a complete chronicle of the men, known as The Virginia Dynasty, who served as president from 1801 to 1825 and implemented the foreign policy, domestic, and constitutional agenda of the radical wing of the American Revolution, setting guideposts for later American liberals to follow. The three close political allies were tightly related: Jefferson and Madison were the closest of friends, and Monroe was Jefferson’s former law student. Their achievements were many, including the founding of the opposition Republican Party in the 1790s; the Louisiana Purchase; and the call upon Congress in 1806 to use its constitutional power to ban slave imports beginning on January 1, 1808. Of course, not everything the Virginia Dynasty undertook was a success: Its chief failure might have been the ineptly planned and led War of 1812. In general, however, when Monroe rode off into the sunset in 1825, his passing and the end of The Virginia Dynasty were much lamented. Kevin R. C. Gutzman’s new book details a time in America when three Presidents worked toward common goals to strengthen our Republic in a way we rarely see in American politics today.
The Republic of Letters
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393036916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393036916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an
Author: Denise A. Spellberg
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385350538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history, and travel, taking extensive notes on Islam as it relates to English common law. Jefferson sought to understand Islam notwithstanding his personal disdain for the faith, a sentiment prevalent among his Protestant contemporaries in England and America. But unlike most of them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country. Based on groundbreaking research, Spellberg compellingly recounts how a handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost among them, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims (then deemed the ultimate outsiders in Western society) to fashion out of what had been a purely speculative debate a practical foundation for governance in America. In this way, Muslims, who were not even known to exist in the colonies, became the imaginary outer limit for an unprecedented, uniquely American religious pluralism that would also encompass the actual despised minorities of Jews and Catholics. The rancorous public dispute concerning the inclusion of Muslims, for which principle Jefferson’s political foes would vilify him to the end of his life, thus became decisive in the Founders’ ultimate judgment not to establish a Protestant nation, as they might well have done. As popular suspicions about Islam persist and the numbers of American Muslim citizenry grow into the millions, Spellberg’s revelatory understanding of this radical notion of the Founders is more urgent than ever. Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an is a timely look at the ideals that existed at our country’s creation, and their fundamental implications for our present and future.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385350538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history, and travel, taking extensive notes on Islam as it relates to English common law. Jefferson sought to understand Islam notwithstanding his personal disdain for the faith, a sentiment prevalent among his Protestant contemporaries in England and America. But unlike most of them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country. Based on groundbreaking research, Spellberg compellingly recounts how a handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost among them, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims (then deemed the ultimate outsiders in Western society) to fashion out of what had been a purely speculative debate a practical foundation for governance in America. In this way, Muslims, who were not even known to exist in the colonies, became the imaginary outer limit for an unprecedented, uniquely American religious pluralism that would also encompass the actual despised minorities of Jews and Catholics. The rancorous public dispute concerning the inclusion of Muslims, for which principle Jefferson’s political foes would vilify him to the end of his life, thus became decisive in the Founders’ ultimate judgment not to establish a Protestant nation, as they might well have done. As popular suspicions about Islam persist and the numbers of American Muslim citizenry grow into the millions, Spellberg’s revelatory understanding of this radical notion of the Founders is more urgent than ever. Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an is a timely look at the ideals that existed at our country’s creation, and their fundamental implications for our present and future.
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
A Government Out of Sight
Author: Brian Balogh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521820979
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A Government Out of Sight revises our understanding of the ways in which Americans turned to the national government throughout the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521820979
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A Government Out of Sight revises our understanding of the ways in which Americans turned to the national government throughout the nineteenth century.
The Missouri Compromises and Presidential Politics, 1820-1825
Author: William Plumer (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience
Author: Padraig Riley
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812247493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience explains how democratic subjects confronted and came to terms with slaveholder power in the early American Republic. Slavery was not an exception to the rise of American democracy, Padraig Riley argues, but was instead central to the formation of democratic institutions and ideals.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812247493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience explains how democratic subjects confronted and came to terms with slaveholder power in the early American Republic. Slavery was not an exception to the rise of American democracy, Padraig Riley argues, but was instead central to the formation of democratic institutions and ideals.