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Book Synopsis The Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp by : Jereboam O. Beauchamp
Download or read book The Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp written by Jereboam O. Beauchamp and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1826, Jereboam 0. Beauchamp was sentenced to hang for assassinating Col. Solomon P. Sharp, an older man who Beachamp claimed had seduced his young wife prior to their marriage. In prison, Beauchamp wrote his Confession, which was published after his hanging. The fact that his wife committed suicide in his jail cell and was buried in the same coffin with him led to the incident's wide renown as "The Kentucky Tragedy." In addition, the Confession was extensively reprinted in cheap pamphlets during the nineteenth century, and it has inspired a number of novels, plays, short stories, and folk songs, the best known of which are Edgar Allan Poe's Politian, William Gilmore Simms's Charlemont and Beauchampe, and Robert Penn Warren's World Enough and Time.
Book Synopsis The Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp by : Jereboam O. Beauchamp
Download or read book The Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp written by Jereboam O. Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp, who was Hanged at Frankfort, Ky. on the 7th Day of July, 1826, for the Murder of Col. Solomon P. Sharp by : Jereboam O. Beauchamp
Download or read book The Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp, who was Hanged at Frankfort, Ky. on the 7th Day of July, 1826, for the Murder of Col. Solomon P. Sharp written by Jereboam O. Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp by : Jereboam O. Beauchamp
Download or read book The Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp written by Jereboam O. Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Confession of Jereboam Beauchamp, by : Jereboam O. Beauchamp
Download or read book The Confession of Jereboam Beauchamp, written by Jereboam O. Beauchamp and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Murder and Madness by : Matthew Schoenbachler
Download or read book Murder and Madness written by Matthew Schoenbachler and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Kentucky Tragedy” was early America’s best known true crime story. In 1825, Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated Kentucky attorney general Solomon P. Sharp. The murder, trial, conviction, and execution of the killer, as well as the suicide of his wife, Anna Cooke Beauchamp—fascinated Americans. The episode became the basis of dozens of novels and plays composed by some of the country’s most esteemed literary talents, among them Edgar Allan Poe and William Gilmore Simms. In Murder and Madness, Matthew G. Schoenbachler peels away two centuries of myth to provide a more accurate account of the murder. Schoenbachler also reveals how Jereboam and Anna Beauchamp shaped the meaning and memory of the event by manipulating romantic ideals at the heart of early American society. Concocting a story in which Solomon Sharp had seduced and abandoned Anna, the couple transformed a sordid murder—committed because the Beauchamps believed Sharp to be spreading a rumor that Anna had had an affair with a family slave—into a maudlin tale of feminine virtue assailed, honor asserted, and a young rebel’s revenge. Murder and Madness reveals the true story behind the murder and demonstrates enduring influence of Romanticism in early America.
Book Synopsis The Unvarnished Truth by : Ann Fabian
Download or read book The Unvarnished Truth written by Ann Fabian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-01-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian examines the tales of beggars, convicts, ex-slaves, prisoners of the Confederacy, and others to explore cultural authority, truth-telling, and the nature of print media as the country was shifting to a market economy. This well-crafted book describes the fascinating controversies surrounding these little-read tales and returns them to the social worlds where they were produced. Drawing on an enormous number of personal narratives—accounts of mostly poor, suffering, and often uneducated Americans—The Unvarnished Truth analyzes a long-ignored tradition in popular literature. Historians have treated the spread of literacy and the growth of print culture as a chapter in the democratization of refinement, but these tales suggest that this was not always the case. Producing stories that purported to be the plain, unvarnished truth, poor men and women edged their way onto the cultural stage, using storytelling strategies far older than those relying on a Renaissance sense of refinement and polish. This book introduces a unique collection of tales to explore the nature of truth, authenticity, and representation.
Book Synopsis Making History by : Jonathon S. Cullick
Download or read book Making History written by Jonathon S. Cullick and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first published book to his last works, Robert Penn Warren wrote novels, poetry, biographies, and essays based on the lives of American historical figures. Even some of his critical texts take a biographical approach to their subjects. In Making History, the first comprehensive survey of Warren’s biographical narratives, Jonathan S. Cullick tracks a clear development toward autobiography in Warren’s career. By applying narrative theory to that provocative trend, he then makes an intriguing discovery: Warren’s discourse techniques dramatize his philosophy of history and ethics. Cullick unearths what might be called the “narrative syntax” of Warren’s historical vision, in which genre becomes vital in the attempt to reconcile American past and present. Making History considers all of Warren’s major biographical narratives and their evolvement from detached reporting to doubtful self-examination. It offers a new reading of Warren’s famed novel All the King’s Men and close examination of several neglected texts, including Warren’s first book, John Brown: The Making of a Martyr; his essay “The World of Daniel Boone”; and two of his final works, Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back and Portrait of a Father.
Book Synopsis A Tree Accurst by : Daniel W. Patterson
Download or read book A Tree Accurst written by Daniel W. Patterson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a tree growing near the ruins of the old cabin was cursed--that anyone who climbed into it would be unable to get out. Daniel Patterson uses this "accurst" tree as a metaphor for the grip the story of the murder has had on the imaginations of the local community, the wider world, and the noted Appalachian traditional singer and storyteller Bobby McMillon. For nearly 170 years, the memory of Frankie Silver has been kept alive by a ballad and local legends and by the news accounts, fiction, plays, and other works they inspired. Weaving Bobby McMillon's personal story--how and why he became a taleteller and what this story means to him--into an investigation of the Silver murder, Patterson explores the genesis and uses of folklore and the interplay between folklore, social and personal history, law, and narrative as people and communities try to understand human character and fate. Bobby McMillon is a furniture and hospital worker in Lenoir, North Carolina, with deep roots in Appalachia and a lifelong passion for learning and performing traditional songs and tales. He has received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award from the state's Arts Council and also the North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Folklore Award.
Download or read book Politian written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Local History in Kentucky Literature by : Otto Arthur Rothert
Download or read book Local History in Kentucky Literature written by Otto Arthur Rothert and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Register of Kentucky State Historical Society by : Kentucky Historical Society
Download or read book Register of Kentucky State Historical Society written by Kentucky Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana by : Colton Storm
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Colton Storm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Americana by : Joseph Sabin
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mary Todd Lincoln by : Jean H. Baker
Download or read book Mary Todd Lincoln written by Jean H. Baker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary Todd (1818-1882) was raised in a world of frontier violence. Subjected to her first abandonment at age six when her mother died, Mary later fled a hostile stepmother for Springfield, where she met and, after a stormy romance, married the raw Illinois attorney, Abraham Lincoln. For twenty-five years the Lincolns forged opposing temperaments into a tolerant, loving marriage. Mary was at her husband's side on the night of his assassination, and never recovered from that greatest in a series of grievous abandonments. The desperate measures she took to win the acknowledgment she sought all her life led finally to the shock of a public insanity hearing instigated by her eldest son. In this elegant biography, Jean Baker uses previously untapped letters and documents to portray a woman whose will carried her across the recognized boundaries of female behavior. Book jacket.
Download or read book Book Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by : Jean Harvey Baker
Download or read book Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography written by Jean Harvey Baker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A striking success…the account of the White House years is absorbing, the account of Mary Lincoln's life as a widow utterly compelling." —New York Times This definitive biography of Mary Todd Lincoln beautifully conveys her tumultuous life and times. A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary fell into a stormy romance with the raw Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln. For twenty-five years the Lincolns forged opposing temperaments into a tolerant, loving marriage. Even as the nation suffered secession and civil war, Mary experienced the tragedies of losing three of her four children and then her husband. An insanity trial orchestrated by her surviving son led to her confinement in an asylum. Mary Todd Lincoln is still often portrayed in one dimension, as the stereotype of the best-hated faults of all women. Here her life is restored for us whole.
