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Author : John J. Reardon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Peyton Randolph, 1721-1775 written by John J. Reardon and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Randolph
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638624
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Peyton Randolph and Revolutionary Virginia written by Robert M. Randolph and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1763, King George III's government adopted a secret policy to reduce the American colonies to "due subordinance" and exploit them. This brought on the American Revolution. In Virginia, there was virtually unanimous agreement that Britain's actions violated Virginia's constitutional rights. Yet Virginians were deeply divided as to a remedy. Peyton Randolph, Speaker of the House of Burgesses 1766-1775 (and chairman of the First and Second Continental Congresses), worked to unify the colony, keeping the conservatives from moving too slowly and the radicals from moving too swiftly. Virginia was thus the only major colony to enter the Revolution united. Randolph was a masterful politician who produced majorities for critical votes leading to revolution.
Author : The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 0879352418
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Revolutionary City written by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the years from 1774 to 1781, Revolutionary City chronicles the collapse of royal government in Virginia and the triumphs and travails of its people during the war. Some of these people, such as Patrick Henry, Benedict Arnold, and George and Martha Washington, are well-known. Others, such as Barbry Hoy, the wife of a carpenter-turned-soldier, and Gowan Pamphlet, and African-American preacher, do not appear in most traditional histories. All these - men and women, patriots and Tories, free and enslaved - took part in the events that turned the people of Williamsburg from subjects of a kind into citizens of a republic.
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Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851097449
Total Pages : 2459 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book American Revolution [5 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 2459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of the American Revolution, this definitive scholarly reference covers the causes, course, and consequences of the war and the political, social, and military origins of the nation. This authoritative and complete encyclopedia covers not only the eight years of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) but also the decades leading up to the war, beginning with the French and Indian War, and the aftermath of the conflict, with an emphasis on the early American Republic. Volumes one through four contain a series of overview essays on the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution, followed by impeccably researched A–Z entries that address the full spectrum of political, social, and military matters that arose from the conflict. Each entry is cross-referenced to other entries and also lists books for further reading. In addition, there is a detailed bibliography, timeline, and glossary. A fifth volume is devoted to primary sources, each of which is accompanied by an insightful introduction that places the document in its proper historical context. The primary sources help readers to understand the myriad motivations behind the American Revolution; the diplomatic, military, and political maneuvering that took place during the conflict; and landmark documents that shaped the founding and early development of the United States.
Author : Tom Lansford
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761477464
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Exploring American History written by Tom Lansford and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans are fond of describing their country as a young nation. Though there is much in that description that is true, it should not obscure the richness and variety of the nations pasta past that provides the indispensable key to understanding the nations present. This completely new reference set examines in detail the formative stages of Americas essential past from European settlement of the Western Hemisphere and the displacement of indigenous peoples to the birth of the United States and its astonishing growth, in both population and territory, from a modest confederation of thirteen independent states.
Author : Thomas Patrick Chorlton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456753886
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)
Download or read book The First American Republic 1774-1789 written by Thomas Patrick Chorlton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Continental Congress focuses on its presidents, from the American Revolution through the years under the Articles of Confederation, and ending with the establishment of the Constitution of the United States.
Author : David W. Koerner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190287101
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Here Be Dragons written by David W. Koerner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of life on other planets would be perhaps the most momentous revelation in human history, more disorienting and more profound than either the Copernican or Darwinian revolutions, which knocked the earth from the center of the universe and humankind from its position of lofty self-regard. In Here Be Dragons, astronomer David Koerner and neurobiologist Simon LeVay offer a scientifically compelling and colorful account of the search for life beyond Earth. The authors survey the work of biologists, cosmologists, computer theorists, NASA engineers, SETI researchers, roboticists, and UFO enthusiasts and debunkers as they attempt to answer the greatest remaining question facing humankind: Are we alone? From their "safe haven of skepticism" the authors venture into the "rough seas of speculation," where theory and evidence run the gamut from hard science to hocus pocus. Arguing that the universe is spectacularly suited for the evolution of living creatures, Koerner and LeVay give us ringside seats at the great debates of Big Science. The contenitous arguments about what really happens in evolution, the acrimonious UFO controversy, and the debate over intelligence versus artificial intelligence shed new light on the wildly divergent claims about the universe and life's place in it. The authors argue that while no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life yet exists, habitats and chemical building blocks for life abound in the universe. A wealth of new astronomical techniques and space missions may provide this evidence early in the next century. Lucidly written and scientifically rigorous, Here Be Dragons presents everything we know thus far about the emergence of intelligent life here on earth and, perhaps, beyond.
Author : Rhys Isaac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199884986
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom written by Rhys Isaac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landon Carter, a Virginia planter, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Isaac mines this remarkable document--and many other sources--to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was deeply troubled by the rebellion and its threat to established order. His diary, originally a record of plantation business, began to fill with angry stories of revolt in his own little kingdom. Carter writes at white heat, his words sputtering from his pen as he documents the terrible rupture that the Revolution meant to him. Indeed, Carter felt in his heart that he was chronicling a world in decline, the passing of the order that his revered father had bequeathed to him. Not only had Landon's king betrayed his subjects, but Landon's own household betrayed him: his son showed insolent defiance, his daughter Judith eloped with a forbidden suitor, all of his slaves conspired constantly, and eight of them made an armed exodus to freedom. The seismic upheaval he helped to start had crumbled the foundations of Carter's own home. In Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom Rhys Isaac unfolds not only the life, but also the mental world of our countrymen in a long-distant time. Moreover, in this presentation of Landon Carter's passionate narratives, the diarist becomes an arresting new character in the world's literature, a figure of Shakespearean proportions, the Lear of his own tragic kingdom. This long-awaited work will be seen both as a major contribution to Revolution history and a triumph of the art of biography.
Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672458
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Loyalist Conscience written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from all walks of life were branded as traitors and enemies of the people. By the end of the war, 80,000 had fled their homeland to face a dismal exile from which few would return, outcasts of a new republic based on democratic values of liberty, equality and justice.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137038349
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Creating An American Culture: 1775-1800 written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the battle for American independence and the struggle to invent a federal government, American Revolutionary leaders and intellectuals sought also to create a culture that would unify a territory of immense regional, ethnic, and religious diversity. In a sophisticated yet accessible interpretive narrative, Eve Kornfeld examines the efforts of Noah Webster, Benjamin Rush, George Washington, Judith Sargent Murray, David Ramsay, Mercy Otis Warren, and others to invent a national literature, narrate a story of nationhood, and educate a diverse people for virtuous Republican citizenship. Among the 31 documents following the narrative are early attempts at American epic poetry, excerpts from the first narrative histories of the United States, and commentaries on the place of women and Indians in national life. Headnotes to the documents, reproductions of early paintings and portraits, a chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliography, and an index are also included.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160731761
Total Pages : 2244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005 written by United States. Congress and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 2244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists every member of the U.S. House and Senate since 1789, with brief biographical entries on each member.
Author : Eve Kornfeld
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031219062X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Creating an American Culture, 1775-1800 written by Eve Kornfeld and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-03-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the battle for American independence and the struggle to invent a federal government, American Revolutionary leaders and intellectuals sought also to create an American culture that would unify a territory of immense regional, ethnic, and religious diversity. In a sophisticated, yet accessible, interpretive narrative, Eve Kornfeld examines the efforts of Noah Webster, Benjamin Rush, George Washington, Judith Sargent Murray, David Ramsay, Mercy Otis Warren, and others to invent a national literature, narrate a story of nationhood, and educate a diverse people for virtuous republican citizenship. Among the 31 documents following the narrative are early attempts at American epic poetry, excerpts from the first narrative histories of the United States, and commentaries on the place of women and Indians in national life. Headnotes to the documents, reproductions of early paintings and portraits, a chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliography, and an index are also included.
Author : Hugh Howard
Publisher : Artisan Books
ISBN 13 : 1579655106
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Houses of the Founding Fathers written by Hugh Howard and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a tour of the houses belonging to some of America's early leaders, sharing an inside look at the domestic world of the Founding Fathers to chronicle their private lives, families, culture, interests, and aspirations.
Author : Virginia. General Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book Virginia Colonial Decisions written by Virginia. General Court and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doris Devine Fanelli
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871692422
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (716 download)
Download or read book History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park written by Doris Devine Fanelli and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a history and catalog of the portraits by Charles Willson Peale, who painted heroes of the American revolution, founders of American government, statesmen, jurists, men of science, and individuals who contributed art and letters. The three chapters by Fanelli (Cultural Resources Management, Independence National Historical Park) discuss the collection from its inception through the period in which the shrine that housed it became a museum. Each of the 250 entries (mostly b&w, with a few in color) in the catalog includes a brief biography of the subject, a physical description of the painting, the circumstances under which it was created, and its provenance. They are arranged alphabetically by sitter. Edited by Karie Diethorn, chief curator, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Terry M. Mays
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810853898
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary America written by Terry M. Mays and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not just about the grievances that led to war nor the actual war itself, but more particularly the subsequent period of trial and error in which the thirteen states and those that followed were welded into the United States of America. In addition to the over 1100 dictionary entries on significant people and political, economic, and social events of the era, appendixes documenting the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, as well as listing all the Presidents of Congress under the Articles of Confederation, are included.
Author : Virginia. General Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Barton's introduction, tables, index written by Virginia. General Court and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
