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Author : Mary Clemmer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
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Download or read book Ten Years in Washington written by Mary Clemmer and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446452
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America written by Paul Finkelman and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the home front in many ways. Westward expansion and land ownership increased. The draft disrupted families while a shortage of male workers created opportunities for women that were previously unknown. The war also enlarged the national government in ways unimagined before 1861. The Homestead Act, the Land Grant College Act, civil rights legislation, the use of paper currency, and creation of the Internal Revenue Service to collect taxes to pay for the war all illustrate how the war fundamentally, and permanently, changed the nation. The essays in this book, drawn from a wide range of historical expertise and approaching the topic from a variety of angles, explore the changes in life at home that led to a revolution in American society and set the stage for the making of modern America. Contributors: Jean H. Baker, Jenny Bourne, Paul Finkelman, Guy Gugliotta, Daniel W. Stowell, Peter Wallenstein, Jennifer L. Weber.
Author : Mary Clemmer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385418461
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Ten Years in Washington written by Mary Clemmer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Mary Clemmer Ames
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382818035
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Life and Scenes in the National Capital as a Woman Sees Them written by Mary Clemmer Ames and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-20 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Frank J. Wetta
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807181455
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film written by Frank J. Wetta and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli’s Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film investigates how depictions of women in Hollywood motion pictures helped forge the myth of Lincoln. Exploring female characters’ backstories, the political and cultural climate in which the films appeared, and the contest between the moviemakers’ imaginations and the varieties of historical truth, Wetta and Novelli place the women in Lincoln’s life at the center of the study, including his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln; his stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln; his lost loves, Ann Rutledge and Mary Owens; and his wife and widow, Mary Todd Lincoln. Later, while inspecting Lincoln’s legacy, they focus on the 1930s child actor Shirley Temple and the 1950s movie star Marilyn Monroe, who had a well-publicized fascination with the sixteenth president. Wetta and Novelli’s work is the first to deal extensively with the women in Lincoln’s life, both those who interacted with him personally and those appearing on screen. It is also among the first works to examine how scholarly and popular biography influenced depictions of Lincoln, especially in film.
Author : Michael Burlingame
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801889936
Total Pages : 2028 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Michael Burlingame and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 2028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s.
Author : Jean Fagan Yellin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625792
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers written by Jean Fagan Yellin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, holds a central place in the canon of American literature as the most important slave narrative by an African American woman. Born in Edenton, North Carolina, Jacobs escaped from her owner in her mid-twenties and hid in the cramped attic crawlspace of her grandmother's house for seven years before making her way north as a fugitive slave. In Rochester, New York, she became an active abolitionist, working with all of the major abolitionists, feminists, and literary figures of her day, including Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Amy Post, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, William C. Nell, Charlotte Forten Grimke, and Nathan Parker Willis. Jean Fagan Yellin has devoted much of her professional life to illuminating the remarkable life of Harriet Jacobs. Over three decades of painstaking research, Yellin has discovered more than 900 primary source documents, approximately 300 of which are now collected in two volumes. These letters and papers written by, for, and about Jacobs and her activist brother and daughter provide for the thousands of readers of Incidents--from scholars to schoolchildren--access to the rich historical context of Jacobs's struggles against slavery, racism, and sexism beyond what she reveals in her pseudonymous narrative. Accompanied by a CD containing a searchable PDF file of the entire contents, this collection is a crucial launching point for future scholarship on Jacobs's life and times.
Author : Michael Burlingame
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066672
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)
Download or read book The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln written by Michael Burlingame and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based primarily on long-neglected manuscript and newspaper sources--and especially on reminiscences of people who knew him--this psychobiography casts new light on Lincoln. Burlingame uses a blend of Freudian and Jungian theory to interpret the psyche of the 16th president.
Author : Steven Walton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047407032
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Instrumental in War written by Steven Walton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research and instrumentation in warfare since 1500 demonstrates the rise of the scientific military, the complicated interaction with military institutions, and details of how scientists and engineers developed artillery and explosives, surveying and geophysics, pilot testing and siegework, and the role of national and university laboratories.
Author : Ira Rutkow
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466827920
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book James A. Garfield written by Ira Rutkow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politics—only to be felled by an assassin's bullet and to die at the hands of his doctors James A. Garfield was one of the Republican Party's leading lights in the years following the Civil War. Born in a log cabin, he rose to become a college president, Union Army general, and congressman—all by the age of thirty-two. Embodying the strive-and-succeed spirit that captured the imagination of Americans in his time, he was elected president in 1880. It is no surprise that one of his biographers was Horatio Alger. Garfield's term in office, however, was cut tragically short. Just four months into his presidency, a would-be assassin approached Garfield at the Washington, D.C., railroad station and fired a single shot into his back. Garfield's bad luck was to have his fate placed in the care of arrogant physicians who did not accept the new theory of antisepsis. Probing the wound with unwashed and occasionally manure-laden hands, Garfield's doctors introduced terrible infections and brought about his death two months later. Ira Rutkow, a surgeon and historian, offers an insightful portrait of Garfield and an unsparing narrative of the medical crisis that defined and destroyed his presidency. For all his youthful ambition, the only mark Garfield would make on the office would be one of wasted promise.
Author : afterwards AMES CLEMMER (afterwards HUDSON, Mary)
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Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them, etc written by afterwards AMES CLEMMER (afterwards HUDSON, Mary) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Clemmer
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Total Pages : 634 pages
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Download or read book Ten Years in Washington written by Mary Clemmer and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book A Historic Resources Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Clemmer
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Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Ten Years in Washington: Or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... written by Mary Clemmer and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathryn Allamong Jacob
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801893976
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book King of the Lobby written by Kathryn Allamong Jacob and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King of the Lobby tells the story of how one man harnessed delicious food, fine wine, and good conversation to the task of becoming the most influential lobbyist of the Gilded Age. Sam Ward was a colorful character. Scion of an old and honorable family, best friend of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and charming man-about-Washington, Ward held his own in an era crowded with larger-than-life personalities. Living by the motto that the shortest route between a pending bill and a congressman’s “aye” was through his stomach, Ward elegantly entertained political elites in return for their votes. At a time when waves of scandal washed over Washington, the popular press railed against the wickedness of the lobby, and self-righteous politicians predicted that special interests would cause the downfall of democratic government, Sam Ward still reigned supreme. By the early 1870s, he had earned the title "King of the Lobby" and jokingly referred to himself as "Rex Vestiari." Ward cultivated a style of lobbying that survives today in the form of expensive golf outings, extravagant dinners, and luxurious vacations. Kathryn Allamong Jacob's engaging account shows how the "king" earned his crown through cookery and conversation and how this son of wealth and privilege helped to create a questionable profession in a city that then, as now, rested on power and influence.
Author : James B. Conroy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442251352
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's White House written by James B. Conroy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-winner of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Lincoln’s White House is the first book devoted to capturing the look, feel, and smell of the executive mansion from Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861 to his assassination in 1865. James Conroy brings to life the people who knew it, from servants to cabinet secretaries. We see the constant stream of visitors, from ordinary citizens to visiting dignitaries and diplomats. Conroy enables the reader to see how the Lincolns lived and how the administration conducted day-to-day business during four of the most tumultuous years in American history. Relying on fresh research and a character-driven narrative and drawing on untapped primary sources, he takes the reader on a behind-the-scenes tour that provides new insight into how Lincoln lived, led the government, conducted war, and ultimately, unified the country to build a better government of, by, and for the people.
Author : Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
