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Book Synopsis Mount Vernon Revisited by : Jessie Biele
Download or read book Mount Vernon Revisited written by Jessie Biele and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mount Vernon community in Fairfax County, Virginia, draws its name from George Washington's home overlooking the Potomac River. Washington acquired the house and plantation in 1754 and lived there in peace and war until his 1799 death. Since then, however, the area's 340-year history has gained breadth and texture beyond Washington's personal heritage. In the 1840s and 1850s, forty Quaker families moved to Mount Vernon and revitalized area agriculture and commerce. The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association bought the mansion and 200 acres from Washington's great-grandnephew in 1858 and continues to preserve the historic landmark to this day. The development of Route 1 and the George Washington Memorial Parkway in the 20th century contributed to today's economic development and growth in the Mount Vernon area. Neighborhoods and sites along the Potomac River are rife with history, including landmarks like the Woodlawn Plantation, Gum Springs, Pohick Church, Fort Belvoir, and Gunston Hall.
Author :Dr. Larry H. Spruill and Donna M. Jackson Publisher :Arcadia Publishing ISBN 13 :1467121843 Total Pages :128 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (671 download)
Book Synopsis Mount Vernon Revisited by : Dr. Larry H. Spruill and Donna M. Jackson
Download or read book Mount Vernon Revisited written by Dr. Larry H. Spruill and Donna M. Jackson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important gateway suburban community, Mount Vernon was formed around the construction of two commuter rail lines to and from New York City. In the first quarter of the 20th century, its contiguous borders with Greater New York, rapid population growth, automobiles, petroleum, and industrial development set the stage for the encroachment of urban realities on the upwardly mobile founders hopes for a sustained and prosperous suburban lifestyle. Through images that illustrate the power of 20th-century transportation technologies, new energy sources, and dynamic demographic forces on this City of Happy Homes, Mount Vernon Revisited commemorates pivotal milestones of the past 150 years while offering indicators of the city s potential and identity."
Book Synopsis Experiencing Mount Vernon by : Jean Butenhoff Lee
Download or read book Experiencing Mount Vernon written by Jean Butenhoff Lee and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington, acutely aware of the accomplishments and potential of the American Revolution, used his Mount Vernon estate both to preserve the memory of events that had created a new nation and to forward his keen vision of what that nation might become. During the 1780s and 1790s, an era when neither public museums nor a national library existed, visitors to Mount Vernon viewed John Trumbull's iconic image of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Houdon's famous bust of the countryís preeminent hero, and Washington's voluminous wartime correspondence. More important, they listened as the Washingtons recalled the remarkable events that had forged independence and the unique American experiment in representative government. At Mount Vernon, too, Washington and his guests discussed how best to secure the success and well-being of the United States. Here was a place to contemplate "what the nation, at its best, might be." Following George and Martha Washington's deaths, the estate passed to four successive heirs, the last of whom deeded it to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in 1860. While still in private hands, the property nonetheless attracted thousands of visitors each year, most of whom arrived after a fifteen-mile overland trek from Washington, D.C. With the establishment of regular steamboat access in the 1850s, the numbers swelled to ten thousand annually. The public claimed Mount Vernon as its own. In the words of a nineteenth-century Washington family member, "the Nation shares it with us." In a remarkable display of civic religion that testified to the siteís enormous hold on the public imagination, Americans pronounced Mount Vernon sacred ground and made it the nationís most important site of revolutionary memory and inspiration. The sacred ground was, nonetheless, contested ground: visitors criticized the heirs' management of the property; northerners abhorred the persistence of slavery at the estate. As pilgrims contemplated the highest ideals of the Revolution at Washington's home and tomb, they often found their own society wanting. Amid escalating sectional strife in the 1850s, some argued that if Mount Vernon could be saved for the nation, the nation might be preserved from ruin. In letters and journals, newspaper and magazine articles, and public speeches, visitors recorded, often in detail and with intense emotion, their varied reactions to the site. Experiencing Mount Vernon presents the most informative of these accounts, as well as selected documents from the Washington owners (beginning with Washington himself, who in 1784 prematurely wrote Lafayette that, at his beloved home, he had "retired from all public employments"). Numerous maps, contemporary images, and annotations complement the texts. This book constitutes the only eyewitness chronicle we have of the Washington estate's ascent to the status of national shrine, and it offers the closest possible evidence of Mount Vernonís singular role in helping forge American national identity.
Book Synopsis Washington's Time Traveler Revisited by : J. Howard Brown
Download or read book Washington's Time Traveler Revisited written by J. Howard Brown and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington's Time Traveler Revisited by J. Howard Brown [--------------------------------------------]
Book Synopsis Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia by : Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates
Download or read book Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia written by Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Indentured Servitude Revisited by : Gaines Bradford Jackson
Download or read book Indentured Servitude Revisited written by Gaines Bradford Jackson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaines Bradford Jackson is a man with a goal of informing the public that it appears the democracy idea of the American founding fathers seems to be crumbling into a seedy oligarchy, which is robbing the average citizen of his/her civil liberties. He has compiled and written a provocative book in his latest creation entitled Indentured Servitude Revisited. He has cleverly written about honesty, the objectives of the original founding fathers, and a historical overview of how the US Constitution evolved. Slavery founded America, and it was supposedly done away with, but its ugly head has resurfaced time and time again in gradually eroding the individual freedoms supposedly guaranteed by the US Constitution. Jackson builds a good case of describing the original sin of our founding fathers when they made the judiciary self-regulated. This out-of-control system has allowed for democracy to be eroded in America and has allowed the old axiom of the greed for money to rule the ones in power to cause the existing oligarchy (rule by select extremely wealthy individuals only) to come about in its ugly plan of stealing the citizens' civil liberties and attempting to commit everyone to become a slave of big money. The book is fully documented to support the premises being made. All Americans should read this book and begin to push for the twenty-eighth amendment with the inclusion of the JAIL amendment proposals to put a check on the runaway legal system before it is too late. Jackson offers a solution, only if enough Americans become fully informed and begin to question everything government does and push to remove the career politician--another one of the roots of evil that has oozed into our government and ruined it along with the lifetime appointments of the "good old boys" known as the Supreme Court justices. Read this book and get mad, as you have a full right to get angry for what has been going on, and inform your neighbors and all others you know (in particular your state representatives and senators); let us change America together before something really awful happens. The plain truth is revealed in this book as a hallmark read for anyone that does not like or accept what our central government is attempting on every law-abiding citizen in the continental United States of America.
Book Synopsis History Class Revisited by : Jody Passanisi
Download or read book History Class Revisited written by Jody Passanisi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn new approaches to teaching history in middle school so students are more engaged in the big ideas and eager to examine the world around them. Co-published by Routledge and MiddleWeb, this practical guide will help you consider the unique needs of middle schoolers, who are in the midst of many social and emotional changes and need to see why the study of history matters to their own lives. Author Jody Passanisi shares helpful strategies and activities to make your social studies class a place where students can relate to the material, connect past history to present events, collaborate with others, think critically about important issues, and take ownership of their learning. Topics include: Reading and analyzing primary and secondary sources for deeper comprehension of historical issues Developing a written argument and defending it with supporting details and cited sources Examining the social context of a historical event and tracing the historical underpinnings of present day issues Using field trips, games, and Project Based Learning to make learning history a fun and interactive experience Assessing your students’ progress using self-reflection, projects, essays, and presentations The appendices offer resources for each of the topics covered in the book as well as reproducible Blackline Masters of the charts and diagrams, which can be photocopied or downloaded from our website (http://www.routledge.com/products/9781138639713) for classroom use.
Book Synopsis American Educational History Revisited by : Milton Gaither
Download or read book American Educational History Revisited written by Milton Gaither and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton Gaither is an assistant professor of education at Messiah College, in Grantham, Pennsylvania.
Book Synopsis Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon by : Scott E. Casper
Download or read book Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon written by Scott E. Casper and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited by : David Lowenthal
Download or read book The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited written by David Lowenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. The past is seen and touched and tasted and smelt as well as heard and read about. Empathy, re-enactment, memory and commemoration overwhelm traditional history. A unified past once certified by experts and reliant on written texts has become a fragmented, contested history forged by us all. New insights into history and memory, bias and objectivity, artefacts and monuments, identity and authenticity, and remorse and contrition, make this book once again the essential guide to the past that we inherit, reshape and bequeath to the future.
Book Synopsis Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Being the Second Session of the Fifty-first Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Washington December 1, 1890 by :
Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Being the Second Session of the Fifty-first Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Washington December 1, 1890 written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine by :
Download or read book William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Revisiting the Twentieth Century by : Fred Metcalfe
Download or read book Revisiting the Twentieth Century written by Fred Metcalfe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-03-22 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting the Twentieth Century, as the title suggests, is a collection of the author's experiences from his childhood in St. Paul, Minnesota, to those of him and his family before their move to New Jersey from North Carolina in 1955. The story covers amusing anecdotes he experienced in his student years, in a variety of summer laboring jobs, his early days with 3M in St. Paul, his bachelor life in New York, the courtship of his wife, their life in the High Point, NC and his job as salesman and sales manager. These anecdotes illustrate what life was like during this period which was marked by two shooting world wars, a depression and the threat of nuclear destruction. Against this background of international tumult, a great transformation in lifestyle occurred in the United States. At the beginning of the story, no one in his neighborhood has a car or a radio. Even the telephone and the record player were of recent origin. Families or churches took care of relatives and the poor went to the poorhouse . The work week was sixty hours and payment for over-time was unheard of. Unions were fighting to improve the working man's lot in life, but were in their infancy. Neighborhood interdependency disappeared as the automobile shrunk distances and people achieved greater mobility. The change in lifestyle that occurred in this brief period seem somewhat unique in our history.
Book Synopsis Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by : Anna Lorraine Guthrie
Download or read book Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature written by Anna Lorraine Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis First in the Homes of His Countrymen by : Lydia Mattice Brandt
Download or read book First in the Homes of His Countrymen written by Lydia Mattice Brandt and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two hundred years, Americans have reproduced George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation house more often, and in a greater variety of media, than any of their country’s other historic buildings. In this highly original new book, Lydia Mattice Brandt chronicles America’s obsession with the first president’s iconic home through advertising, prints, paintings, popular literature, and the full-scale replication of its architecture. Even before Washington’s death in 1799, his house was an important symbol for the new nation. His countrymen used it to idealize the past as well as to evoke contemporary--and even divisive--political and social ideals. In the wake of the mid-nineteenth century’s revival craze, Mount Vernon became an obvious choice for architects and patrons looking to reference the past through buildings in residential neighborhoods, at world’s fairs, and along the commercial strip. The singularity of the building’s trademark piazza and its connection to Washington made it immediately recognizable and easy to replicate. As a myriad of Americans imitated the building’s architecture, the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association carefully interpreted and preserved its fabric. Purchasing the house in 1859 amid intense scrutiny, the organization safeguarded Washington’s home and ensured its accessibility as the nation’s leading historic house museum. Tension between popular images of Mount Vernon and the organization’s "official" narrative for the house over the past 150 years demonstrates the close and ever-shifting relationship between historic preservation and popular architecture.In existence for roughly as long as the United States itself, Mount Vernon’s image has remained strikingly relevant to many competing conceptions of our country’s historical and architectural identity.
Book Synopsis Ghosts! Washington Revisited by : John Alexander
Download or read book Ghosts! Washington Revisited written by John Alexander and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reporter for the Washington Star newspaper wrote in 1891, "Washington is the greatest town for ghosts in this country." Here is a collection of tales and over 180 images of famous personalities who revisit the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and other Virginia, Maryland and Washington buildings and homes said to be haunted. It is a revised and updated edition of Ghosts! Washington's Most Famous Ghost Stories.
