Great Crossings

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199399077
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis Great Crossings by : Christina Snyder

Download or read book Great Crossings written by Christina Snyder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America. Most often, this drama focuses on whites who turned west to conquer a continent, extending "liberty" as they went. Great Crossings also includes Native Americans from across the continent seeking new ways to assert anciently-held rights and people of African descent who challenged the United States to live up to its ideals. These diverse groups met in an experimental community in central Kentucky called Great Crossings, home to the first federal Indian school and a famous interracial family. Great Crossings embodied monumental changes then transforming North America. The United States, within the span of a few decades, grew from an East Coast nation to a continental empire. The territorial growth of the United States forged a multicultural, multiracial society, but that diversity also sparked fierce debates over race, citizenship, and America's destiny. Great Crossings, a place of race-mixing and cultural exchange, emerged as a battleground. Its history provides an intimate view of the ambitions and struggles of Indians, settlers, and slaves who were trying to secure their place in a changing world. Through deep research and compelling prose, Snyder introduces us to a diverse range of historical actors: Richard Mentor Johnson, the politician who reportedly killed Tecumseh and then became schoolmaster to the sons of his former foes; Julia Chinn, Johnson's enslaved concubine, who fought for her children's freedom; and Peter Pitchlynn, a Choctaw intellectual who, even in the darkest days of Indian removal, argued for the future of Indian nations. Together, their stories demonstrate how this era transformed colonizers and the colonized alike, sowing the seeds of modern America.

Great Crossing

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Publisher : Judalon de Bornay
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Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Great Crossing written by Judalon de Bornay and published by Judalon de Bornay. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1807: With the country spiraling out of control and heading toward another war with England, a slave woman and a man destined to become an American vice president find themselves on a different kind of collision course. Although they lead very separate lives, one hand rules them both: Jemima Johnson, matriarch of the first western political dynasty and stern mistress over Great Crossing. Richard's world revolves around fulfilling his mother's plans for a brilliant political future. Julia's every move depends on his mother's whims, as her pet slave. Julia watches helplessly as Richard pursues independent and worldly-wise Suzanne, the woman who has the mettle to help him become president. But, when his mother destroys those plans, Julia's relief knows no bounds, for she clings to the one freedom even a slave can claim: to dream, and she dreams of loving Richard. After a revelatory trip to New Orleans, Richard changes his entire life course with one decision. He sets out to defy his family and American society as well, with his choice of bride. But, can Julia's dream of being with the man she loves survive threats, ridicule and isolation? Can Richard stand up to the greatest men of their time and defend his shocking choice? Great Crossing, A Forgotten Love Story, reimagines the relationship between Julia Chinn and Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson, a love that dared to cross barriers and confront relentless obstacles.

Jadwiga's Crossing

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595381278
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Jadwiga's Crossing by : Richard J. Lutz

Download or read book Jadwiga's Crossing written by Richard J. Lutz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer in Istanbul, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with plans for a Turkish defense system, the seductive cabaret dancer and her manager husband, and a number of surprising allies. Thrilling, intense, and masterfully plotted, Journey Into Fear is a classic suspense tale from one of the founders of the genre.

Washington's Crossing

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199756678
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Washington's Crossing by : David Hackett Fischer

Download or read book Washington's Crossing written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined. Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning.

Crossing Niagara

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0763668230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Book Synopsis Crossing Niagara by : Matt Tavares

Download or read book Crossing Niagara written by Matt Tavares and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applaud Matt Tavares’s latest feat — a gripping tale of real-life daredevilry perfectly balanced by stunning illustrations. “Monsieur Blondin is to cross Niagara Falls this afternoon, or perish in the attempt.” — Troy Daily Times, June 30, 1859 When the Great Blondin announced that he was going to walk from America to Canada across the Niagara River on a rope that was more than 1,100 feet long and just 3 inches wide, hanging 160 feet above the raging river, people came from everywhere. Some came to watch him cross. Some came to watch him fall. Some thought he wouldn’t show up at all. But he did show up. And he did walk across the river. And then he did something else amazing. He crossed the river on that tightrope again and again, adding another death-defying flourish each time. Matt Tavares’s gorgeous, riveting account of the daredevil of Niagara Falls is sure to hold readers in its grip, just as Blondin's feats enthralled those spectators on the cliffs more than one hundred and fifty years ago.

The Best of Us

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Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1488088683
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Best of Us by : Robyn Carr

Download or read book The Best of Us written by Robyn Carr and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Bestselling Author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River! In Sullivan’s Crossing, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr has created a place where good people, powerful emotions, great humor and a healthy dose of common sense are the key ingredients to a happy life. Sullivan’s Crossing brings out the best in people. It’s a place you’ll want to visit again and again. Dr. Leigh Culver loves practicing medicine in Timberlake, Colorado. It is a much-needed change of pace from her stressful life in Chicago. The only drawback is she misses her aunt Helen, the woman who raised her. But it’s time that Leigh has her independence, and she hopes the beauty of the Colorado wilderness will entice her aunt to visit often. Helen Culver is an independent woman who lovingly raised her sister’s orphaned child. Now, with Leigh grown, it’s time for her to live life for herself. The retired teacher has become a successful mystery writer who loves to travel and intends to never experience winter again. When Helen visits Leigh, she is surprised to find her niece still needs her, especially when it comes to sorting out her love life. But the biggest surprise comes when Leigh takes Helen out to Sullivan’s Crossing and Helen finds herself falling for the place and one special person. Helen and Leigh will each have to decide if they can open themselves up to love neither expected to find and seize the opportunity to live their best lives.

Crossing

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763666645
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Book Synopsis Crossing by : Philip Booth

Download or read book Crossing written by Philip Booth and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and text capture the rhythm and notion of a moving freight train.

Butcher's Crossing

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174240
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Butcher's Crossing by : John Williams

Download or read book Butcher's Crossing written by John Williams and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

Crossing the Wake

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Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1635052378
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Crossing the Wake by : Tanya Binford

Download or read book Crossing the Wake written by Tanya Binford and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing the Wake: One Woman's Great Loop Adventure follows the waterlogged travels and travails of a woman willing to risk it all in a quest to bring some adventure to her life. A beautifully honest account of riding the waves of a journey, both physically and emotionally grueling, author Tanya Binford recounts her arduous six months with amazing detail.After leaving behind her work as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and saying goodbye to her grown children, Tanya Binford was ready to cast off. With an itch for sailing that had taken root decades before, she was finally ready to put her dreams into action--not even a lack of any real sailing experience could stop her!-----"Bittersweet, yet triumphant. The story that must be experienced."--Sean O'Boyle AM, Australian composer and conductor

Shaman's Crossing

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061793353
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Book Synopsis Shaman's Crossing by : Robin Hobb

Download or read book Shaman's Crossing written by Robin Hobb and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevare Burvelle is the second son of a second son, destined from birth to carry a sword. The wealthy young noble will follow his father—newly made a lord by the King of Gernia—into the cavalry, training in the military arts at the elite King's Cavella Academy in the capital city of Old Thares. Bright and well-educated, an excellent horseman with an advantageous engagement, Nevare's future appears golden. But as his Academy instruction progresses, Nevare begins to realize that the road before him is far from straight. The old aristocracy looks down on him as the son of a "new noble" and, unprepared for the political and social maneuvering of the deeply competitive school and city, the young man finds himself entangled in a web of injustice, discrimination, and foul play. In addition, he is disquieted by his unconventional girl-cousin Epiny—who challenges his heretofore unwavering world view—and by the bizarre dreams that haunt his nights. For twenty years the King's cavalry has pushed across the grasslands, subduing and settling its nomads and claiming the territory in Gernia's name. Now they have driven as far as the Barrier Mountains, home to the Speck people, a quiet, forest-dwelling folk who retain the last vestiges of magic in a world that is rapidly becoming modernized. From childhood Nevare has been taught that the Specks are a primitive people to be pitied for their backward ways—and feared for their indigenous diseases, including the deadly Speck plague, which has ravaged the frontier towns and military outposts. The Dark Evening brings the carnival to Old Thares, and with it an unknown magic, and the first Specks Nevare has ever seen . . .

Asterix and the Great Crossing

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Publisher : Asterix
ISBN 13 : 9780752866475
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (664 download)

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Book Synopsis Asterix and the Great Crossing by : René Goscinny

Download or read book Asterix and the Great Crossing written by René Goscinny and published by Asterix. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out at sea fishing, Asterix and Obelix are blown off course in a storm. Luckily they land on the shores of a Roman colony - or is it? Teepees, totems, gobbling birds: it's not what they're used to. And what are the Viking explorers in their longship doing? But perhaps 50 BC is a little too early for a voyage of discovery to this strange New World...

Nile Crossing

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Publisher : Eerdmans Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780802854254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)

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Book Synopsis Nile Crossing by : Katy Beebe

Download or read book Nile Crossing written by Katy Beebe and published by Eerdmans Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Khepri, who lives in ancient Egypt, begins to feel nervous as he and his father travel to Thebes for Khepri's first day of scribe school"--

EveryDay Leadership

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ISBN 13 : 9781973823834
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (238 download)

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Book Synopsis EveryDay Leadership by : Bill Clement

Download or read book EveryDay Leadership written by Bill Clement and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Life Lessons of Successes, Failures and Leadership

The Crossing

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ISBN 13 : 9780439691864
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (918 download)

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Book Synopsis The Crossing by : Jim Murphy

Download or read book The Crossing written by Jim Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1776, and George Washington's army of rebellious colonists is emboldened by its stunning victories over the British at Lexington and Concord, and at having driven the world's most formidable army from Boston. But now they face the threat of a brutal British retaliation. George Washington, who has little military experience, is unanimously chosen as commander in chief-in the hope that he can whip his ragtag, unruly troops into a real fighting army. As the British begin their invasion of New York City and out-battle the Americans in one encounter after another, George Washington isn't the only one who is overcome with doubts. In a breathtaking account of this pivotal moment in the Revolution, Jim Murphy masteruflly shows Washington's transformation from gentleman farmer to a brilliant general as he delivers the country from the blackest of times-into the brightest of futures.

Caleb’s Crossing

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007334648
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Caleb’s Crossing by : Geraldine Brooks

Download or read book Caleb’s Crossing written by Geraldine Brooks and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller ‘March’, ‘Year of Wonders’ and ‘People of the Book’.

The National Road

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801851551
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis The National Road by : Karl B. Raitz

Download or read book The National Road written by Karl B. Raitz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for the most part, by U.S. 40 and I-70.).

The Olden Time

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olden Time written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: