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Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book Longworth's American Almanac, New York Register, and City Directory ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Stuart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803292345
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (923 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of the Oregon Trail written by Robert Stuart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Stuart saw the American West a few years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and, like them, kept a journal of his epic experience. A partner in John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company, the Scotsman shipped for Oregon aboard the Tonquin in 1810 and helped found the ill-fated settlement of Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River. In 1812, facing disaster, Stuart and six others slipped away from Astoria and headed east. His journal, edited and annotated by Philip Ashton Rollins, describes their hazardous 3,700-mile journey to St. Louis. Crossing the Rockies in winter, they faced death by cold, starvation, and hostile Indians. But they made history by discovering what came to be called the Oregon Trail, including South Pass, over which thousands of emigrants would travel west in mid-century. Besides Stuart’s narrative, this volume contains important material about Astoria and the fate of the Tonquin, as well as the harrowing account of Wilson Price Hunt, who headed a party of overlanders traveling east to join the Astorians.
Author : Samuel Harrison Baynard
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Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of the Supreme Council, 330̊, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America, and Its Antecedents written by Samuel Harrison Baynard and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendy A. Woloson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226905691
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book In Hock written by Wendy A. Woloson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation’s founding through the Great Depression, In Hock demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic tide could make ends meet only, Wendy Woloson argues, by regularly pawning household objects to supplement inadequate wages. Nonetheless, businessmen, reformers, and cultural critics claimed that pawnshops promoted vice, and employed anti-Semitic stereotypes to cast their proprietors as greedy and cold-hearted. Using personal correspondence, business records, and other rich archival sources to uncover the truth behind the rhetoric, Woloson brings to life a diverse cast of characters and shows that pawnbrokers were in fact shrewd businessmen, often from humble origins, who possessed sophisticated knowledge of a wide range of goods in various resale markets. A much-needed new look at a misunderstood institution, In Hock is both a first-rate academic study of a largely ignored facet of the capitalist economy and a resonant portrait of the economic struggles of generations of Americans.
Author : Brooklyn Library
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Total Pages : 430 pages
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Author : Brooklyn Public Library
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Total Pages : 418 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue...authors, Titles, Subjects, and Classes written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mercantile Library Association of Brooklyn
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Total Pages : 418 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn: A-C written by Mercantile Library Association of Brooklyn and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brooklyn Public Library
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Total Pages : 1276 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Brooklyn Library written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne Franklin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300135009
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book James Fenimore Cooper written by Wayne Franklin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) invented the key forms of American fiction—the Western, the sea tale, the Revolutionary War romance. Furthermore, Cooper turned novel writing from a polite diversion into a paying career. He influenced Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Francis Parkman, and even Mark Twain—who felt the need to flagellate Cooper for his “literary offenses.” His novels mark the starting point for any history of our environmental conscience. Far from complicit in the cleansings of Native Americans that characterized the era, Cooper’s fictions traced native losses to their economic sources. Perhaps no other American writer stands in greater need of a major reevaluation than Cooper. This is the first treatment of Cooper’s life to be based on full access to his family papers. Cooper’s life, as Franklin relates it, is the story of how, in literature and countless other endeavors, Americans in his period sought to solidify their political and cultural economic independence from Britain and, as the Revolutionary generation died, stipulate what the maturing republic was to become. The first of two volumes, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years covers Cooper’s life from his boyhood up to 1826, when, at the age of thirty-six, he left with his wife and five children for Europe.
Author : Harwood P. Hinton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806167998
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Courage Above All Things written by Harwood P. Hinton and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784–1869) was one of America’s most illustrious figures—most notably as an officer in the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. At the onset of the Civil War, when he assumed command of the Department of the East, Wool had been a brigadier general for twenty years and, at age seventy-seven, was the oldest general on either side of the conflict. Courage Above All Things marks the first full biography of Wool, who aside from his unparalleled military service, figured prominently in many critical moments in nineteenth-century U.S. history. At the time of his death in 2016, Harwood Hinton, a scholar with an encyclopedic knowledge of western history, had devoted fifty years to this monumental work, which has been completed and edited by the distinguished historian Jerry Thompson. This deeply researched and deftly written volume incorporates the latest scholarship to offer a clear and detailed account of John Ellis Wool’s extraordinary life—his character, his life experiences, and his career, in wartime and during uneasy periods of relative peace. Hinton and Thompson provide a thorough account of all chapters in Wool’s life, including three major wars, the Cherokee Removal, and battles with Native Americans on the West Coast. From his distinguished participation in the War of 1812 to his controversial service on the Pacific coast during the 1850s, and from his mixed success during the Peninsula Campaign to his overseeing of efforts to quell the New York City draft riots of 1863, John Ellis Wool emerges here as a crucial character in the story of nineteenth-century America—complex, contradictory, larger than life—finally fully realized for the first time.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691185204
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 42 written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessing that he may be acting "with more boldness than wisdom," Jefferson in November 1803 drafts a bill to create Orleans Territory, which he entrusts to John Breckinridge for introduction in the Senate. The administration sends stock certificates to France in payment for Louisiana. Relieved that affairs in the Mediterranean have improved with the evaporation of a threat of war with Morocco, the president does not know yet that Tripoli has captured the frigate Philadelphia with its officers and crew. He deals with never-ending issues of appointment to office and quarreling in his own party, while hearing that some Federalists are "as Bitter as wormwood." He shares seeds of the Venus flytrap with Elizabeth Leathes Merry, the British minister's wife. She and her husband, however, create a diplomatic storm over seating arrangements at dinner parties. Having reached St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis reports on the progress of the western expedition. Congress passes the Twelfth Amendment, which will provide for the separate election of president and vice president. In detailed notes made after Aaron Burr calls on him in January, Jefferson records his long-standing distrust of the New Yorker. Less than a month later, a congressional caucus nominates Jefferson for a second term, with George Clinton to replace Burr as vice president. Jefferson makes his first trials of the "double penned writing box" called the polygraph.
Author : Kyle T Bulthuis
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479807931
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Four Steeples over the City Streets written by Kyle T Bulthuis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the diverse story of four congregations in New York City as they navigated the social and political changes of the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. In the fifty years after the Constitution was signed in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolis of over half a million residents. This rapid development transformed a once tightknit community and its religious experience. Including four churches belonging in various forms to the Church of England, that in some form still thrive today. Rapid urban and social change connected these believers in unity in the late colonial era. As the city grew larger, more impersonal, and socially divided, churches reformed around race and class-based neighborhoods. In Four Steeples over the City Streets, Kyle T. Bulthuis examines the intertwining of these four famous institutions—Trinity Episcopal, John Street Methodist, Mother Zion African Methodist, and St. Philip’s (African) Episcopal—to uncover the lived experience of these historical subjects, and just how religious experience and social change connected in the dynamic setting of early Republic New York. Drawing on a wide range of sources including congregational records and the unique histories of some of the churches leaders, Four Steeples over the City Streets reveals how these city churches responded to these transformations from colonial times to the mid-nineteenth century. Bulthuis also adds new dynamics to the stories of well-known New Yorkers such as John Jay, James Harper, and Sojourner Truth. More importantly, Four Steeples over the City Streets connects issues of race, class, and gender, urban studies, and religious experience, revealing how the city shaped these churches, and how their respective religious traditions shaped the way they reacted to the city. This book is a critical addition to the study and history of African American activism and life in the ever-changing metropolis of New York City.
Author : Tammis K. Groft
Publisher : Albany Institute of History and Art
ISBN 13 : 1438429940
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Albany Institute of History and Art written by Tammis K. Groft and published by Albany Institute of History and Art. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History and Art is one of the nation's oldest cultural institutions. Today, it boasts outstanding collections largely focused on New York State's Upper Hudson Valley. These include Hudson River School landscape paintings, portraits by Ezra Ames and Charles Loring Elliott, sculpture by Erastus Dow Palmer, landscape and interior paintings by Walter Launt Palmer, and Albany –made silver and other crafts. This comprehensive overview of the Albany Institute of History and Art's American art and decorative-arts collections, presents color plates and essays on about 130 objects (of a total exceeding 20,000). Dating from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the 1990s, each object in this volume was chosen for its national significance, artistic merit, and relevance to the Institute's mission: collecting and interpreting the art, history, and culture of New York State's Upper Hudson Valley through four centuries.
Author : American Philosophical Society. Library
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Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the American Philosophical Society Library written by American Philosophical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Philosophical Society of the U.S written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willman Spawn
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Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book American Signed Bindings Through 1876 written by Willman Spawn and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes and illustrates 315 bookbinder's tickets, stamps, and engraved designations, from the 1750s through 1876. Identifies 233 binders from 19 states and 84 cities and towns from Maine to New Orleans and as far west as Little Rock. Provides brief descriptions of bindings and explanatory notes for many binders"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Laura Arnold Leibman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197530478
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Once We Were Slaves written by Laura Arnold Leibman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origins (Bridgetown, 1793-1798) -- From Slave to Free (Bridgetown, 1801) -- From Christian to Jew (Suriname, 1811-12) -- The Tumultuous Island (Bridgetown, 1812-1817) -- Synagogue Seats (New York & Philadelphia, 1793-1818) -- The Material of Race (London, 1815-17) -- Voices of Rebellion (Bridgetown, 1818-24) -- A Woman Valor (New York, 1817-19) -- This Liberal City (Philadelphia, 1818-33) -- Feverish Love (New York, 1819-1830) -- When I am Gone (New York, Barbados, London, 1830-1847) -- Legacies (New York and Beyond, 1841-1860).
