Author: James Swift Rogers
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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James Rogers of New London, Ct
Author: James Swift Rogers
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Maryland Historical Magazine
Author: William Hand Browne
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Includes the proceedings of the Society.
The Rogerenes
Author: John Rogers Bolles
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Gaithersburg
Author: Gaithersburg (Md.)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
ISBN: 9780738523729
Category : Gaithersburg (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From its eighteenth-century roots as Benjamin Gaither's upstart central Maryland crossroads, Gaithersburg grew quickly into an early agricultural powerhouse. With the mighty roar of railroads came the rush of cultural prominence and the sweep of growth and prosperity. The city soon bloomed into a high-tech hub for the capital region and the nation. Witness to the march of time from Washington's Revolutionary campaigns to pivotal Confederate troop movements, Gaithersburg was also a waypoint for many early westbound settlers and is today situated in the frenzied center of East Coast traffic and communications. Gaithersburg: History of a City paints a colorful portrait of the town's early days when Montgomery County's wheat and tobacco fields gained agricultural muscle. Readers ride the rails of the Baltimore & Ohio as the breathless young town connects to Washington and the world beyond. The excitement of the boom times that followed comes to life with detailed stories of the days when science came to town. First, the city participated in an international experiment that gathered astronomical information still used today. The story continues when the National Institute of Standards and Technology moved in, initiating an even bigger boom and ushering in the modern research and development industry that made Gaithersburg a national hub of technology.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
ISBN: 9780738523729
Category : Gaithersburg (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From its eighteenth-century roots as Benjamin Gaither's upstart central Maryland crossroads, Gaithersburg grew quickly into an early agricultural powerhouse. With the mighty roar of railroads came the rush of cultural prominence and the sweep of growth and prosperity. The city soon bloomed into a high-tech hub for the capital region and the nation. Witness to the march of time from Washington's Revolutionary campaigns to pivotal Confederate troop movements, Gaithersburg was also a waypoint for many early westbound settlers and is today situated in the frenzied center of East Coast traffic and communications. Gaithersburg: History of a City paints a colorful portrait of the town's early days when Montgomery County's wheat and tobacco fields gained agricultural muscle. Readers ride the rails of the Baltimore & Ohio as the breathless young town connects to Washington and the world beyond. The excitement of the boom times that followed comes to life with detailed stories of the days when science came to town. First, the city participated in an international experiment that gathered astronomical information still used today. The story continues when the National Institute of Standards and Technology moved in, initiating an even bigger boom and ushering in the modern research and development industry that made Gaithersburg a national hub of technology.
The State Records of North Carolina: 1776-[1777] and supplement, 1730-1776
Author: North Carolina
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Publisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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A History of the American People
Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060168360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." Johnson's history is a reinterpretation of American history from the first settlements to the Clinton administration. It covers every aspect of U.S. history--politics; business and economics; art, literature and science; society and customs; complex traditions and religious beliefs. The story is told in terms of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character. Wherever possible, letters, diaries, and recorded conversations are used to ensure a sense of actuality. "The book has new and often trenchant things to say about every aspect and period of America's past," says Johnson, "and I do not seek, as some historians do, to conceal my opinions." Johnson's history presents John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Cotton Mather, Franklin, Tom Paine, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison from a fresh perspective. It emphasizes the role of religion in American history and how early America was linked to England's history and culture and includes incisive portraits of Andrew Jackson, Chief Justice Marshall, Clay, Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis. Johnson shows how Grover Cleveland and Teddy Roosevelt ushered in the age of big business and industry and how Woodrow Wilson revolutionized the government's role. He offers new views of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his role as commander in chief during World War II. An examination of the unforeseen greatness of Harry Truman and reassessments of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush follow. "Compulsively readable," said Foreign Affairs of Johnson's unique narrative skills and sharp profiles of people. This is an in-depth portrait of a great people, from their fragile origins through their struggles for independence and nationhood, their heroic efforts and sacrifices to deal with the `organic sin' of slavery and the preservation of the Union to its explosive economic growth and emergence as a world power and its sole superpower. Johnson discusses such contemporary topics as the politics of racism, education, Vietnam, the power of the press, political correctness, the growth of litigation, and the rising influence of women. He sees Americans as a problem-solving people and the story of America as "essentially one of difficulties being overcome by intelligence and skill, by faith and strength of purpose, by courage and persistence...Looking back on its past, and forward to its future, the auguries are that it will not disappoint humanity." This challenging narrative and interpretation of American history by the author of many distinguished historical works is sometimes controversial and always provocative. Johnson's views of individuals, events, themes, and issues are original, critical, and admiring, for he is, above all, a strong believer in the history and the destiny of the American people.
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060168360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." Johnson's history is a reinterpretation of American history from the first settlements to the Clinton administration. It covers every aspect of U.S. history--politics; business and economics; art, literature and science; society and customs; complex traditions and religious beliefs. The story is told in terms of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character. Wherever possible, letters, diaries, and recorded conversations are used to ensure a sense of actuality. "The book has new and often trenchant things to say about every aspect and period of America's past," says Johnson, "and I do not seek, as some historians do, to conceal my opinions." Johnson's history presents John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Cotton Mather, Franklin, Tom Paine, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison from a fresh perspective. It emphasizes the role of religion in American history and how early America was linked to England's history and culture and includes incisive portraits of Andrew Jackson, Chief Justice Marshall, Clay, Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis. Johnson shows how Grover Cleveland and Teddy Roosevelt ushered in the age of big business and industry and how Woodrow Wilson revolutionized the government's role. He offers new views of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his role as commander in chief during World War II. An examination of the unforeseen greatness of Harry Truman and reassessments of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush follow. "Compulsively readable," said Foreign Affairs of Johnson's unique narrative skills and sharp profiles of people. This is an in-depth portrait of a great people, from their fragile origins through their struggles for independence and nationhood, their heroic efforts and sacrifices to deal with the `organic sin' of slavery and the preservation of the Union to its explosive economic growth and emergence as a world power and its sole superpower. Johnson discusses such contemporary topics as the politics of racism, education, Vietnam, the power of the press, political correctness, the growth of litigation, and the rising influence of women. He sees Americans as a problem-solving people and the story of America as "essentially one of difficulties being overcome by intelligence and skill, by faith and strength of purpose, by courage and persistence...Looking back on its past, and forward to its future, the auguries are that it will not disappoint humanity." This challenging narrative and interpretation of American history by the author of many distinguished historical works is sometimes controversial and always provocative. Johnson's views of individuals, events, themes, and issues are original, critical, and admiring, for he is, above all, a strong believer in the history and the destiny of the American people.
The Brontës in Context
Author: Marianne Thormählen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Crammed with information, The Brontës in Context shows how the Brontës' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Crammed with information, The Brontës in Context shows how the Brontës' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time.
The Diaries V. 6; Jan. , 1790-Dec. 1799
Author: George Washington
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.
Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896
Author: Henrietta Emma Darwin Litchfield
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The Architecture of Country Houses
Author: Andrew Jackson Downing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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