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Author : John T. Pierce (Sr.)
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ISBN 13 : 9780963172204
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Historical Tracts of the Town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island written by John T. Pierce (Sr.) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book Rhode Island Historical Tracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Jensen Devin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738590189
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Portsmouth Rhode Island written by Nancy Jensen Devin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From pre-colonial times through World War II , the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, has served as a stage for the dramatic evolution of American history. Dispossessed citizens from the Massachusetts Bay Colony came to Portsmouth in the spirit of religious and political tolerance, paving the way for the establishment of a large Quaker settlement in town. Revolutionary leaders such as George Washington, Lafayette, and Rochambeau visited the summer residences of wealthy Newport merchants in Portsmouth, including the home of Tory, Metcalf Bowler. During the Civil War, the Melville area of Portsmouth was the site of a hospital for wounded Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners, and was an active stop on the Underground Railroad. Prior to World War II , John F. Kennedy received his PT boat training in Portsmouth, and Raytheon has kept many employed in the defense industry ever since.
Author : Frank L Grzyb
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625847076
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Rhode Island and the Civil War written by Frank L Grzyb and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smallest state to defend the Union and one far from the battlefront, Rhode Island's stories of the Civil War are often overlooked. From Brown University's John M. Hay, later to become Lincoln's assistant secretary, to the city of Newport's role as the temporary headquarters for the U.S. Naval Academy, the Civil War history of the Ocean State is a fascinating if little-known tale. Few know that John Wilkes Booth visited Newport to meet his supposed fiancee just nine days before he assassinated President Lincoln. The state also contributed several high-ranking officers to the Union effort and, more surprisingly, two prominent officers to the Confederacy. Remarkably, Kady Southwell Brownell also openly served as a soldier in a Rhode Island infantry regiment. Join author Frank L. Grzyb as he investigates Rhode Island's rich Civil War history and unearths century-old stories that have since faded into obscurity.
Author : Frank L. Grzyb
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786489731
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital written by Frank L. Grzyb and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, thousands of wounded Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners convalesced in a general army hospital in rural Portsmouth Grove, Rhode Island. Because of its location on the periphery of the action, the hospital has remained a footnote to the dramatic sweep of Civil War literature. However, its history and the experiences of the doctors, nurses, patients and guards that gave it life provide a new perspective on the interaction between the army and society in wartime and on life in Civil War America. This in-depth account also explores the barbarities of medicine, daily routine in a general army hospital, the role of citizens in providing aid, the later adventures of former patients and staff, and the final resting places of those who died on the grounds.
Author : Kevin Schmiesing
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810888580
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Catholicism and Historical Narrative written by Kevin Schmiesing and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about the past shape not only the way people think about history, but also the way they act in the present. Nowhere is this truer than in the area of religion, which has been and continues to be a powerful motivating force in the lives of billions around the globe. In this volume, Catholicism and Historical Narrative: A Catholic Engagement with Historical Scholarship, contributors explore the way stories are constructed and show how a focus on Catholic figures and concerns challenges common understandings of important historical episodes and eras. Editor Kevin Schmiesing has gathered a distinguished group of scholars who, in various ways, call into question conventional story lines by highlighting previously neglected Catholic ideas and individuals. Built on ample evidence and employing keen insight, each essay is the result of cutting-edge research in fields ranging from historical research on Puritan New England and the antebellum South to the history of abortion to the twentieth-century papacy. Students and scholars of religious history, Catholic historians, and anyone interested in the intersection of religion and history will all find here much to interest—and maybe even surprise—in the chapters' arguments concerning the deficiencies of history's dominant narratives. The volume's focus on the history of Catholics in the United States makes it essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the place of Catholicism in the American story.
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807827949
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Drawing on America's Past written by and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts in the Index of American Design, a visual archive of decorative, folk, and popular arts made in America from the colonial period to about 1900. Three essays explore the history, operation, and ambitions of the Index of American Design, examine folk art collecting in America during the early decades of the twentieth century, and consider the Index's role in the search for a national cultural identity in the early twentieth-century United States.
Author : M. E. Reilly-McGreen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614230633
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island written by M. E. Reilly-McGreen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the most fearsome and fascinating women to ever live in the Ocean State in this collection of wild historical profiles. In Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island, local historian M.E. Reilly-McGreen reveals true tales of women who caused scandals in their day. It’s a compendium of rebellious deeds, outlandish gossip, and superstition run amok. Mercy Brown was a nineteen-year-old consumption victim thought to be a vampire. Locals were so afraid of Mercy that her body was exhumed to perform a ritual banishment of the undead. Goody Seager was accused of infesting her neighbor’s cheese with maggots by using witchcraft. According to legend, Tall “Dutch” Kattern was an opium-eating fortuneteller whose curse set a ship aflame after its crew cast her ashore. Along with these tales, you’ll read of revolutionaries, like Julia Ward Howe, who invented Mother’s Day; and religious reformers like Anne Hutchinson, said to be the inspiration for Hawthorne's heroine in The Scarlet Letter; and many others.
Author : St. Louis Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-
Author : William Nelson
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Total Pages : 776 pages
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Download or read book Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey written by William Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Ignasher
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614232806
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Rhode Island Disasters written by Jim Ignasher and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could a perfectly sound U.S. military fighter plane simply vanish from formation on a training flight? Why did the crew of a speeding train choose death over salvation? What really happened one foggy night in 1929 when the Coast Guard fired on a rumrunner in Narragansett Bay? Do guardian angels really exist? Can an airplane be jinxed? In his latest book, Jim Ignasher chronicles twenty-three long-forgotten tales of disaster in the Ocean State. His research includes declassified government reports, which allow for some stories to be told in their entirety for the first time. Collectively, these tales present heroes and villains, adventure and the human condition, strange happenings and unsolved mysteries.
Author : Gabriel J. Loiacono
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197515452
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book How Welfare Worked in the Early United States written by Gabriel J. Loiacono and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was American welfare like in George Washington's day? It was expensive, extensive, and run by local governments. Known as "poor relief," it included what we would now call welfare and social work. Unlike other aspects of government, poor relief remained consistent in structure between the establishment of the British colonies in the 1600s and the New Deal of the 1930s. In this book, Gabriel J. Loiacono follows the lives of five people in Rhode Island between the Revolutionary War and 1850: a long-serving overseer of the poor, a Continental Army veteran who was repeatedly banished from town, a nurse who was paid by the government to care for the poor, an unwed mother who cared for the elderly, and a paralyzed young man who attempted to become a Christian missionary from inside of a poorhouse. Of Native, African, and English descent, these five Rhode Islanders utilized poor relief in various ways. Tracing their involvement with these programs, Loiacono explains the importance of welfare through the first few generations of United States history. In Washington's day, poor relief was both generous and controlling. Two centuries ago, Americans paid for--and many relied on--an astonishing governmental system that provided food, housing, and medical care to those in need. This poor relief system also shaped American households and dictated where Americans could live and work. Recent generations have assumed that welfare is a new development in the United States. This book shows how old welfare is in the United States of America through five little-known, but compelling, life stories.
Author : Eve LaPlante
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0061926957
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book American Jezebel written by Eve LaPlante and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-04-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson defended herself brilliantly, but the judges, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for [her] sex." Written by one of Hutchinson's direct descendants, American Jezebel brings both balance and perspective to Hutchinson's story. It captures this American heroine's life in all its complexity, presenting her not as a religious fanatic, a cardboard feminist, or a raging crank—as some have portrayed her—but as a flesh-and-blood wife, mother, theologian, and political leader. The book narrates her dramatic expulsion from Massachusetts, after which her judges, still threatened by her challenges, promptly built Harvard College to enforce religious and social orthodoxies—making her the mid-wife to the nation's first college. In exile, she settled Rhode Island, becoming the only woman ever to co-found an American colony. The seeds of the American struggle for women's and human rights can be found in the story of this one woman's courageous life. American Jezebel illuminates the origins of our modern concepts of religious freedom, equal rights, and free speech, and showcases an extraordinary woman whose achievements are astonishing by the standards of any era.
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Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Providence River and Harbor Maintenance Dredging Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 768 pages
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Download or read book Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 766 pages
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Download or read book Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 364 pages
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