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Author : Crisfield Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (856 download)
Download or read book History of Washington Co., New York written by Crisfield Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winston Adler
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781463648923
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Their Own Voices written by Winston Adler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1840s and continuing until his death, Dr. Asa Fitch (1809-1878) of Salem, NY, interviewed elderly neighbors, questioning them about the time of first European settlement, the Revolutionary War, and the first decades of the 19th century. Fitch was more than just a medical doctor. By the 1850s, he ranked as a world-famed entomologist, with important discoveries about insect life to his credit. He turned his precise, scientific mindset to good account in his oral history work. He seems to have functioned almost like a human tape recorder, transcribing and preserving vivid, colloquial statements from a wide range of individuals---most not fully literate people (that is, people who could read their Bible and sign their names but not write fluent accounts of the incidents of their lives.) Jeanne Winston Adler's excerpts from Fitch's manuscript ("Notes for a History of Washington County, NY," NY Genealogical & Biographical Soc., NYC; and elsewhere on microfilm) present the liveliest "voices" collected by the 19th-century scholar. Some portions of Adler's "Their Own Voices" (first published in 1983) were re-published in her "In the Path of War: Children of the American Revolution Tell Their Stories" (Cobblestone Publishing, 1998). A facsimile reprint of the 1983 book, containing all material originally excerpted from Fitch, is now offered here.
Author : Howard A. Burrell
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Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of Washington County, Iowa written by Howard A. Burrell and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salem Historical Committee (Salem, N.Y.)
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ISBN 13 : 9781939216021
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Salem Book written by Salem Historical Committee (Salem, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Creigh
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Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Washington County written by Alfred Creigh and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Creigh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of Washington County written by Alfred Creigh and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Smith Jackson
Publisher : Heritage Books
ISBN 13 : 9780788403422
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Marriage Notices from Washington County, New York, Newspapers, 1799-1880 written by Mary Smith Jackson and published by Heritage Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 7,000 marriage notices including neighboring counties of New York and Vermont, and of people formerly of Washington County who moved to other parts of New York or to other states. Chronological.
Author : J. R. Cole
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Total Pages : 1344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)
Download or read book History of Washington and Kent Counties, Rhode Island written by J. R. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Leete Stone
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Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Washington County, New York written by William Leete Stone and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabella Brayton
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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of Hartford written by Isabella Brayton and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hamilton Child
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Gazetteer of Washington County, Vt., 1783-1889 written by Hamilton Child and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Renner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738554785
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill written by James Renner and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill is interesting not only because the communities played a major role in the American Revolution but because of their cultural and educational institutions and residents whose culture and ethnicity have contributed to the well-being of the area. These communities have always been a haven for immigrants who have come here to live and work since the pre-Columbian era. Native Americans came to trade goods, Jewish refugees came during the 1930s to flee the tyranny of the Nazis, and since the end of World War II there has been an influx of the Latino community. The area is also noted for its dolomitic Inwood marble, which has been quarried for government buildings in New York City and some of the federal buildings in Washington, D.C. Through vintage images, Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill illustrates the transformation of this area over the decades.
Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199729107
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Gotham written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe. In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heights, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial center, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands--the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich Village from the city's street-grid plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who happily celebrated that same life. We meet the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his "white angels" (who revolutionized the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and William Randolph Hearst; and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city. The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerize everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found in the greatest city on earth. Gotham is a dazzling read, a fast-paced, brilliant narrative that carries the reader along as it threads hundreds of stories into one great blockbuster of a book.
Author : Keith Beutler
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813946514
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book George Washington's Hair written by Keith Beutler and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mostly hidden from public view, like an embarrassing family secret, scores of putative locks of George Washington’s hair are held, more than two centuries after his death, in the collections of America’s historical societies, public and academic archives, and museums. Excavating the origins of these bodily artifacts, Keith Beutler uncovers a forgotten strand of early American memory practices and emerging patriotic identity. Between 1790 and 1840, popular memory took a turn toward the physical, as exemplified by the craze for collecting locks of Washington’s hair. These new, sensory views of memory enabled African American Revolutionary War veterans, women, evangelicals, and other politically marginalized groups to enter the public square as both conveyors of these material relics of the Revolution and living relics themselves. George Washington’s Hair introduces us to a taxidermist who sought to stuff Benjamin Franklin’s body, an African American storyteller brandishing a lock of Washington’s hair, an evangelical preacher burned in effigy, and a schoolmistress who politicized patriotic memory by privileging women as its primary bearers. As Beutler recounts in vivid prose, these and other ordinary Americans successfully enlisted memory practices rooted in the physical to demand a place in the body politic, powerfully contributing to antebellum political democratization.
Author : Erich Goode
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147987857X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book The Taming of New York's Washington Square written by Erich Goode and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising and unofficial system of social control and regulation that keeps crime rates low in New York City’s Washington Square Park Located in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Washington Square Park is a 9.75-acre public park that is perhaps best known for its historic Washington Square Arch, a landmark at the foot of 5th Avenue. Hundreds, if not thousands, pass through the park every day, some sit on benches enjoying the sunshine, play a game of chess, watch their children play in the playground, take their dog to the dog runs, or sit by the fountain or, sometimes, buy or sell drugs. The park has an extremely low crime rate. Sociologist, and local resident, Erich Goode wants to know why. He notes that many visitors do violate park rules and ordinances, even engaging in misdemeanors like cigarette and marijuana smoking, alcohol consumption, public urination, skateboarding and bike riding. And yet, he argues, contrary to the well-known “broken windows” theory, which suggests that small crimes left unchecked lead to major crimes, serious crimes hardly ever take place there. Why with such an immense volume of infractions—and people—are there so little felonious or serious, and virtually no violent, crime? With rich and detailed observations as well as in-depth interviews, Goode demonstrates how onlookers, bystanders, and witnesses—both denizens and your average casual park visitor—provide an effective system of social control, keeping more serious wrongdoing in check. Goode also profiles the parks visitors, showing us that the park is a major draw to residents and tourists alike. Visitors come from all over; only a quarter of the park’s visitors live in the neighborhood (the Village and SoHo), one out of ten are tourists, and one out of six are from upper Manhattan or the Bronx. Goode looks at the patterns of who visits the park, when they come, and, once in the park, where they go. Regardless of where they live, Goode argues, all of the Park’s visitors help keep the park safe and lively. The Taming of New York’s Washington Square is an engaging and entertaining look at a surprisingly safe space in the heart of Manhattan.
Author : Robert W. Snyder
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455170
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Crossing Broadway written by Robert W. Snyder and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.
Author : Salem Historical Committee (Salem, N.Y.)
Publisher : Salem, N.Y., The Salem review-Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Salem Book written by Salem Historical Committee (Salem, N.Y.) and published by Salem, N.Y., The Salem review-Press. This book was released on 1896 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
