Author: Lynda Salter Chenoweth
Publisher: Ohio Quilt
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Lynda Salter Chenoweth reveals the value of signature quilts as historic and social documents waiting to be read. Her research to discover the story behind an 1853 Ohio Quaker signature quilt uncovers the identity of the quilt's recipient, her life and community, and a striking feature of the quilt itself--a "hidden" design element.
Philena's Friendship Quilt
Author: Lynda Salter Chenoweth
Publisher: Ohio Quilt
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Lynda Salter Chenoweth reveals the value of signature quilts as historic and social documents waiting to be read. Her research to discover the story behind an 1853 Ohio Quaker signature quilt uncovers the identity of the quilt's recipient, her life and community, and a striking feature of the quilt itself--a "hidden" design element.
Publisher: Ohio Quilt
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Lynda Salter Chenoweth reveals the value of signature quilts as historic and social documents waiting to be read. Her research to discover the story behind an 1853 Ohio Quaker signature quilt uncovers the identity of the quilt's recipient, her life and community, and a striking feature of the quilt itself--a "hidden" design element.
The Last Runaway
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014218036X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850--only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. However, Honor is drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, where she befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014218036X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850--only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. However, Honor is drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, where she befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.
A Maryland Album
Author: Gloria Seaman Allen
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Some of the oldest and most collectible American quilts were examined in the quilt documentation project of the Maryland Association for Family and Community Education. Full color illustrations. Indexed.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Some of the oldest and most collectible American quilts were examined in the quilt documentation project of the Maryland Association for Family and Community Education. Full color illustrations. Indexed.
Discipline
Author: Dash Shaw
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375699
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND THE GLOBE AND MAIL A teenage Quaker joins the Union Army and experiences firsthand the brutality of the Civil War in this singular graphic novel by a beloved comics artist and animator. During the Civil War, many Quakers were caught between their fervent support of abolition, a desire to preserve the Union, and their long-standing commitment to pacifism. When Charles Cox, a young Quaker from Indiana, slips out early one morning to enlist in the Union Army, he scandalizes his family and his community. Leaving behind the strict ways of Quaker life, Cox is soon confronted with the savagery of battle, the cruelty of the enemy (as well as of his fellow soldiers), and the overwhelming strangeness of the world beyond his home. He clings to his faith and family through letters with his sister, Fanny, who faces her own trials at home: betrayal, death, and a church that seems ready to fracture under the stress of the war. Discipline is told largely through the letters exchanged between the Cox siblings—incorporating material from actual Quaker and soldier journals of the era—and drawn in a style that combines modern graphic storytelling with the Civil War–era battlefield illustrations of the likes of Thomas Nast and Winslow Homer. The result is a powerful consideration of faith, justice, and violence, and an American comics masterpiece.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681375699
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND THE GLOBE AND MAIL A teenage Quaker joins the Union Army and experiences firsthand the brutality of the Civil War in this singular graphic novel by a beloved comics artist and animator. During the Civil War, many Quakers were caught between their fervent support of abolition, a desire to preserve the Union, and their long-standing commitment to pacifism. When Charles Cox, a young Quaker from Indiana, slips out early one morning to enlist in the Union Army, he scandalizes his family and his community. Leaving behind the strict ways of Quaker life, Cox is soon confronted with the savagery of battle, the cruelty of the enemy (as well as of his fellow soldiers), and the overwhelming strangeness of the world beyond his home. He clings to his faith and family through letters with his sister, Fanny, who faces her own trials at home: betrayal, death, and a church that seems ready to fracture under the stress of the war. Discipline is told largely through the letters exchanged between the Cox siblings—incorporating material from actual Quaker and soldier journals of the era—and drawn in a style that combines modern graphic storytelling with the Civil War–era battlefield illustrations of the likes of Thomas Nast and Winslow Homer. The result is a powerful consideration of faith, justice, and violence, and an American comics masterpiece.
James Rogers of New London, Ct
Author: James Swift Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Rogerenes
Author: John Rogers Bolles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Advocate and Family Guardian
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Saucy Betsy
Author: Ethel Calvert Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Book of Dow
Author: Robert Piercy Dow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
History of Durham, Maine
Author: Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description