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ISBN 13 : 9780936149080
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Exploring Historic Georgetown written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas J. Carrier
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738502397
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Historic Georgetown written by Thomas J. Carrier and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The area now known as Georgetown was once a central meeting place for nearly 40 Native American tribes situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Potomac River. It was inevitable that the very rivers that served these native people would attract the first European settlers to the region, settlers who established Georgetown as a bustling port and key commercial center. In 1791, George Washington fixed the small community's enduring importance by including it in the plans for the new Federal City. Taking you down cobblestone streets, Historic Georgetown: A Walking Tour includes local sites associated with such historic figures as John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy, Alexander Graham Bell, Francis Scott Key, and Victorian novelist E.D.E.N. Southworth. Enjoy the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century charms of Georgetown's architecture as you visit private homes, businesses, and social establishments. Climb the stairs on which the climatic scene of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist took place!
Author : Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book A Walking Guide to Historic Georgetown written by Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georgetown Garden Club
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ISBN 13 : 9780986127908
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Gardens of Georgetown written by Georgetown Garden Club and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textual and visual description of gardens in Georgetown, Washington, DC, with historical references.
Author : George C. Rogers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina written by George C. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [December 2001]
Author : Heidi Valco Kruggel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (798 download)
Download or read book The Georgetown Walking Tour written by Heidi Valco Kruggel and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Emmett Curran
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878404858
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From academy to university, 1789-1889 written by Robert Emmett Curran and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sets Georgetown's story within the larger educational context quite expertly."-Catholic Historical Review.
Author : Esquesing Historical Society (Ont.)
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ISBN 13 : 9780921901075
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Historic Georgetown written by Esquesing Historical Society (Ont.) and published by . This book was released on 1989* with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul R. O’Neill and Bennie L. Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467104663
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Georgetown University written by Paul R. O’Neill and Bennie L. Smith and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book, Georgetown University, is a revised edition by alumni Paul ONeill (C'86) and Bennie Smith (C'86). The book includes 200 images from Georgetown University's archives along with captions that tell the story of the university's first 200 years. Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in America, was founded in 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll, SJ, as an academy for boys that was open to Students of Every Religious Profession and every Class of Citizens. Carroll established the school on a hilltop overlooking the Potomac River, delightfully situated as Charles Dickens would observe several decades later. Georgetown welcomed its first student, William Gaston, in 1791 and was chartered by Congress in 1815, but by the time of the Civil War, when Federal troops occupied the campus, the school was on the brink of collapse. It was not until the presidency of Patrick F. Healy, SJ, in 1873 that Georgetown would recover and be set on a course to become a university, linking Georgetown College with professional schools of medicine and law. The early 20th century was marked by the founding of the schools of dentistry, nursing, foreign service, languages and linguistics, and business. Now among the top universities in America, Georgetown is continuously reinvigorated by teaching and scholarship dedicated to serving the nation and the world.
Author : Donna Scarbrough Josey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439645655
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Georgetown written by Donna Scarbrough Josey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1848, Georgetowns development was driven by cattle, cotton, railroads, and education. Author and Georgetown native Donna Scarbrough Josey brings the citys history to life through this remarkable collection of vintage photographs from the Georgetown Heritage Society, Williamson County Sun newspaper, Southwestern University, and private collections. Readers will explore the beautifully restored courthouse square, a railroad district revived for the 21st century, the oldest neighborhoods, Southwestern University, and storied places along the San Gabriel River.
Author : Georgetown Society (Colo.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555661519
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Georgetown Silver Plume Historic District written by Georgetown Society (Colo.) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books in the Historic Mining District Series contain walking tours, information on key historic attractions, photographs, maps, and numerous historical nuggets.
Author : Dagomar Degroot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108317588
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Frigid Golden Age written by Dagomar Degroot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighboring societies unraveled in the face of extremes in temperature and precipitation. By tracing the occasionally counterintuitive manifestations of climate change from global to local scales, Degroot finds that the Little Ice Age presented not only challenges for Dutch citizens but also opportunities that they aggressively exploited in conducting commerce, waging war, and creating culture. The overall success of their Republic in coping with climate change offers lessons that we would be wise to heed today, as we confront the growing crisis of global warming.
Author : Adam Rothman
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1647120969
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Facing Georgetown's History written by Adam Rothman and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A microcosm of the history of American slavery in a collection of the most important primary and secondary readings on slavery at Georgetown University and among the Maryland Jesuits
Author : James P. Steyer
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 179720517X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Which Side of History? written by James P. Steyer and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A valuable primer on this moment where humans are deciding how much power over their lives they give to monopolies and algorithms." —DAVE EGGERS, bestselling author of The Circle Which Side of History? offers a collection of bold essays on how technology is affecting democracy, society, and our future. Featuring prominent national voices such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Marc Benioff, Ellen Pao, Ken Auletta, Chelsea Clinton, Tim Wu, Khaled Hosseini, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Jaron Lanier, Willow Bay, Sal Khan, Sherry Turkle, Shoshana Zuboff, Vivek Murthy, Geoffrey Canada, and many more. The essays focus on the extraordinary impact of technology on our privacy, kids and families, race and gender roles, democracy, climate change, and mental health. This groundbreaking book challenges opinion leaders and the broader public to take action to improve technology's effects on our lives. • Featuring notable journalists, engineers, entrepreneurs, novelists, activists, filmmakers, business leaders, scholars, and researchers, including: Thomas Friedman, Kara Swisher, Michelle Alexander, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jenna Wortham, Cameron Kasky, Howard Gardner, and Tristan Harris. • Explores the ethical behavior of Big Tech, or the lack thereof. • Offers roadmaps for constructive change and thought-provoking perspectives. With the rise of cyberbullying and hate speech online, issues around climate change and technology, and the "move fast and break things" mentality of tech culture, Which Side of History? will urge readers to draw the line. • This book will help shape the conversations we have around technology in our society and our future for years to come. • A smart book for anyone who approaches tech and the future with a healthy skepticism • Edited by James P. Steyer, the CEO and founder of Common Sense Media. • Add it to the shelf with books like Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.
Author : John Reagan
Publisher : Whitman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780794828134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Georgetown University Basketball Vault written by John Reagan and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Higgins
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316360845
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Secret Gardens of Georgetown written by Adrian Higgins and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1994 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly traces Georgetown's history, and shows and describes more than two dozen of its private gardens
Author : Sheryll Cashin
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807058270
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Loving written by Sheryll Cashin and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark story of how interracial love and marriage changed American history—and continues to alter the landscape of American politics When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark decision of Loving v. Virginia ended bans on interracial marriage and remains a signature case—the first to use the words “white supremacy” to describe such racism. Drawing from the earliest chapters in US history, legal scholar Sheryll Cashin reveals the enduring legacy of America’s original sin, tracing how we transformed from a country without an entrenched construction of race to a nation where one drop of nonwhite blood merited exclusion from full citizenship. In vivid detail, she illustrates how the idea of whiteness was created by the planter class of yesterday and is reinforced by today’s power-hungry dog-whistlers to divide struggling whites and people of color, ensuring plutocracy and undermining the common good. Not just a hopeful treatise on the future of race relations in America, Loving challenges the notion that trickle-down progressive politics is our only hope for a more inclusive society. Accessible and sharp, Cashin reanimates the possibility of a future where interracial understanding serves as a catalyst of a social revolution ending not in artificial color blindness but in a culture where acceptance and difference are celebrated.
