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Author : Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Vermont Tradition written by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cynthia D. Bittinger
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614235619
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Vermont Women, Native Americans & African Americans written by Cynthia D. Bittinger and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vermont's constitution, drafted in 1777, was one of the most enlightened documents of its time, but in contrast, the history of Vermont has largely been told through the stories of influential white men. This book takes a fresh look at Vermont's history, uncovering hidden stories, from the earliest inhabitants to present-day citizens striving to overcome adversity and be advocates for change. Native Americans struggled to maintain an identity in the state while their land and rights were disappearing. Lucy Terry Prince was the first female African American poet who rose above racism to argue her case before Vermont's governor and won. Educator and historian Cynthia Bittinger unearths these and other inspirational stories of the contributions of women, Native Americans and African Americans to Vermont's history.
Author : Charles T. Morrissey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348717
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Vermont: A History written by Charles T. Morrissey and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984-12-17 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Americans, Vermont still seems what the United States at least in myth once was--a bucolic landscape of wooded hills, neat farms, and handsome villages--before modern forces transformed our agrarian nation into an urban-industrial giant. Vermonters have long been respected as sturdy Americans who prize hard work, honest dealing, town-meeting government, and dry humor. Their way of life, along with the beauty of their Green Mountains and quiet valleys, remains immensely attractive to natives and newcomers who seek beauty and the satisfaction of self-sufficiency in a natural environment where rocky soil and a varied climate have always compelled respect.
Author : Deborah Pickman Clifford
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656548
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (565 download)
Download or read book "The Troubled Roar of the Waters" written by Deborah Pickman Clifford and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely look at the Vermont flood of 1927 as a window on the history of America in the 1920s
Author : Nancy L. Gallagher
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874519525
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Breeding Better Vermonters written by Nancy L. Gallagher and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disturbing story of eugenics in Vermont and the dark side of progressive social reform.
Author : Deborah Clifford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461747570
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women written by Deborah Clifford and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women celebrates the women who shaped the Green Mountain State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317474163
Total Pages : 3151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History written by James Ciment and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 3151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between the time that the first European settlers established a colony at Jamestown in 1607 through the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the outlines of America's distinctive political culture, economic system, social life, and cultural patterns had begun to emerge. Designed to complement the high school American history curriculum as well as undergraduate survey courses, "Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History" captures it all: the people, institutions, ideas, and events of the first three hundred years of American history. While it focuses on the thirteen British colonies stretching along the Atlantic, Colonial America sets this history in its larger contexts. Entries also cover Canada, the American Southwest and Mexico, and the Caribbean and Atlantic world directly impacting the history of the thirteen colonies. This encyclopedia explores the complete early history of what would become the United States, including portraits of Native American life in the immediate pre-contact period, early Spanish exploration, and the first settlements by Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, and English colonists. This monumental five-volume set brings America's colonial heritage vibrantly to life for today's readers. It includes: thematic essays on major issues and topics; detailed A-Z entries on hundreds of people, institutions, events, and ideas; thematic and regional chronologies; hundreds of illustrations; primary documents; and a glossary and multiple indexes.
Author : Carl Wells
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665576405
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Books I Have Loved written by Carl Wells and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some oldthinkers still read books . . . Carl Wells has been one of them. Some of those books have made a huge impression on him. Books I Have Loved gives us Wells' response to 46 books (by 41 authors) encountered through a longish life mostly spent (misspent?) reading books. His only regret is that he didn't spend more time reading.
Author : James Robert Saunders
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616337
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Howard Frank Mosher and the Classics written by James Robert Saunders and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among the best English and American literary works. His first novel, Disappearances (1977), signaled the arrival of a master craftsman harkening us back to Melville's Billy Budd and Moby-Dick, in terms of humankind's struggle against an ever present evil. A full 33 years after the publication of his first novel, the Vermont author, in Walking to Gatlinburg (2010), examined the polarity between cowardice and honor. In the intervening years, between Disappearances and Gatlinburg, Mosher explored crucial matters such as the disappearing wilderness, industrialization, black male/white female encounters, the necessity of humor, the quest for salvation, and the immortality of romantic love, all issues that he delved into as he staked out a unique terrain within the pantheon of Bunyan, Shakespeare, Dreiser, Twain, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Harper Lee, and others.
Author : Duane Lockard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400878217
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book New England State Politics written by Duane Lockard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A down-to-earth and fact-filled discussion of New England state politics based on seven years of research and over 1,000 interviews. Originally published in 1959. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Frank M. Bryan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226077985
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Real Democracy written by Frank M. Bryan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet in face-to-face assemblies, debate the issues on the agenda, and vote on them. And although these meetings are natural laboratories for democracy, very few scholars have systematically investigated them. A nationally recognized expert on this topic, Bryan has now done just that. Studying 1,500 town meetings in his home state of Vermont, he and his students recorded a staggering amount of data about them—238,603 acts of participation by 63,140 citizens in 210 different towns. Drawing on this evidence as well as on evocative "witness" accounts—from casual observers to no lesser a light than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—Bryan paints a vivid picture of how real democracy works. Among the many fascinating questions he explores: why attendance varies sharply with town size, how citizens resolve conflicts in open forums, and how men and women behave differently in town meetings. In the end, Bryan interprets this brand of local government to find evidence for its considerable staying power as the most authentic and meaningful form of direct democracy. Giving us a rare glimpse into how democracy works in the real world, Bryan presents here an unorthodox and definitive book on this most cherished of American institutions.
Author : Peter C. Holloran
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538102196
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of New England written by Peter C. Holloran and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England, the most clearly defined region in the United States, includes the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. First colonized by the French in 1604 and the British in 1607, the New England colonies were the first to secede from the British Empire and were among the first states admitted to the union. No region has claimed more presidents as native sons (seven) or produced more men and women of exceptional accomplishment and fame. Many Americans see New England as a touchstone for the founding ideas of the nation, and the region served as a source of inspiration for many artists and writers. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of New England contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, institutions, and events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about New England.
Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989858
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book George Perkins Marsh written by David Lowenthal and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in but wholly supersedes Lowenthal’s earlier biography George Perkins Marsh: Versatile Vermonter (1958). Marsh’s devotion to the repair of nature, to the concerns of working people, to women’s rights, and to historical stewardship resonate more than ever. His Vermont birthplace is now a national park chronicling American conservation, and the crusade he launched is now global. Marsh’s seminal book Man and Nature is famed for its ecological acumen. The clue to its inception lies in Marsh’s many-sided engagement in the life of his time. The broadest scholar of his day, he was an acclaimed linguist, lawyer, congressman, and renowned diplomat who served 25 years as U.S. envoy to Turkey and to Italy. He helped found and guide the Smithsonian Institution, shaped the Washington Monument, penned potent tracts on fisheries and on irrigation, spearheaded public science, art, and architecture. He wrote on camels and corporate corruption, Icelandic grammar and Alpine glaciers. His pungent and provocative letters illuminate life on both sides of the Atlantic. Like Darwin’s Origin of Species, Marsh’s Man and Nature marked the inception of a truly modern way of looking at the world, of taking care lest we irreversibly degrade the fabric of humanized nature we are bound to manage. Marsh’s ominous warnings inspired reforestation, watershed management, soil conservation, and nature protection in his day and ours. George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation was awarded the Association for American Geographers' 2000 J. B. Jackson Prize. The book was also on the shortlist for the first British Academy Book Prize, awarded in December 2001.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wisconsin Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J. Altenbaugh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313005338
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of American Education written by Richard J. Altenbaugh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-10-30 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of American education is a vital and productive field of study. This reference book provides factual information about eminent people and important topics related to the development of American public, private, and parochial schools, covering elementary and secondary levels. In addition to major state and regional leaders and reformers, it includes biographies of significant national educators, philosophers, psychologists, and writers. Subjects embrace important ideas, events, institutions, agencies, and pedagogical trends that profoundly shaped American policies and perceptions regarding education. The more than 350 entries are arranged alphabetically and written by expert contributors. Each entry closes with a brief bibliography, and the volume ends with a list of works for further reading. Entries were drawn from a review of leading history of education textbooks and the History of Education Quarterly. These topics were further refined by comments from leading authorities and the contributors. Most of the contributors are established scholars in the history of education, curriculum and instruction, school law, educational administration, and American history; a few also work as public and private school teachers and thus bring their practical experience to their entries. The period covered begins in the colonial period and continues through the 1990s.
Author : Joan Shelley Rubin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864269
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Making of Middlebrow Culture written by Joan Shelley Rubin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise of American middlebrow culture, and the values encompassed by it. Rubin centers her discussion on five important expressions of the middlebrow: the founding of the Book-of-the-Month Club; the beginnings of "great books" programs; the creation of the New York Herald Tribune's book-review section; the popularity of such works as Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy; and the emergence of literary radio programs. She also investigates the lives and expectations of the individuals who shaped these middlebrow institutions--such figures as Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John Erskine, William Lyon Phelps, Alexander Woollcott, and Clifton Fadiman. Moreover, as she pursues the significance of these cultural intermediaries who connected elites and the masses by interpreting ideas to the public, Rubin forces a reconsideration of the boundary between high culture and popular sensibility.
Author : Robert E. Jenner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739136126
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book FDR's Republicans written by Robert E. Jenner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FDR's Republicans illuminates the debate over foreign policy that took place in the United States prior to World War II. Robert E. Jenner approaches this issue from the perspective of Republican members of the House and Senate, who eventually came to support the interventionist position of a Democratic president. Unlike other diplomatic histories of this period, FDR's Republicans focuses on domestic components of the foreign policy debate, combining historical analysis and political theory. Jenner recounts the Republican Party's internationalist roots under McKinley, the split of 1912, and the defeat of the League of Nations in deference to its agrarian progressive wing. Taking both a local and national approach, he provides in-depth analysis of the party's reaction to the FDR landslides of 1932 and 1936, the party's resurgence in 1938, FDR's aggressive defense of the New Deal, and the decline of the party's agrarian progressive faction. The result is a broader explanation of the battle that raged between isolationists and interventionists as well as the failure of policy makers to deter fascism at an earlier date.
