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Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Official Congressional Directory
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Senate documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington
Author: Louis TorresPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907521287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Washington Monument is one of the most easily recognized structures in America, if not the world, yet the long and tortuous history of its construction is much less well known. Beginning with its sponsorship by the Washington National Monument Society and the grudging support of a largely indifferent Congress, the Monument's 1848 groundbreaking led only to a truncated obelisk, beset by attacks by the Know Nothing Party and lack of secured funding and, from the mid-1850s, to a twenty-year interregnum. It was only 1n 1876 that a Joint Commission of Congress revived the Monument and entrusted its completion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.In "To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington": The United States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington Monument, historian Louis Torres tells the fascinating story of the Monument, with a particular focus on the efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Captain George W. Davis, and civilian Corps employee Bernard Richardson Green and the details of how they completed the construction of this great American landmark. The book also includes a discussion and images of the various designs, some of them incredibly elaborate compared to the austere simplicity of the original, and an account of Corps stewardship of the Monument up to its takeover by the National Park Service in 1933. First published in 1985. 148 pages, ill.
Vice Presidents of the United States 1789-1993
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Huntington Family in America
Author: Huntington Family AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England
Author: Thomas Townsend ShermanPublisher: New York : T.A. Wright
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012
Author: Matthew Andrew WasniewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
"A compilation of historical essays and short biographies about 91 Hispanic-Americans who served in Congress from 1822 to 2012"--Provided by publisher.
Maryland Historical Magazine
Author: William Hand BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
A History of the Constitution of Minnesota
Author: William AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
