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Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. A. B. Ronald
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612005225
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Life of John André written by D. A. B. Ronald and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Britain’s spy chief during the Revolutionary War sheds new light on his conspiracy with Benedict Arnold—and his mysterious capture. John André was head of the British Army’s Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of the high-ranking American general Benedict Arnold. As the commander of West Point, Arnold agreed to turn the strategically vital fort over to the British. André and Arnold also conspired to kidnap George Washington. The secret negotiations between Arnold and André were protracted and fraught with danger. Arnold’s wife Peggy acted as go-between until September 21st, 1780, when the two men met face to face in no-man’s-land. But then André was captured forty-eight hours later, having broken every condition set by his commanding officer: he was within American lines, wearing civilian clothes, and carrying maps of West Point in his boots. When he announced himself as a spy, the Americans had no recourse. Tried by a military tribunal, he was convicted and hanged. André’s motives for his apparent sacrifice have baffled historians for generations. This biography provides a provocative answer to this mystery—explaining not only why he acted as he did, but how he wished others to see his actions.
Author : Schenectady County Historical Society
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Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Year Book of the Schenectady County Historical Society written by Schenectady County Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Schenectady County Historical Society, Schenectady, N.Y.
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Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Year Book of the Schenectady County Historical Society, Schenectady, N.Y. written by Schenectady County Historical Society, Schenectady, N.Y. and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael H. Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498590802
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book James Wilson written by Michael H. Taylor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Wilson’s life began as an Atlantic World success story, with mounting intellectual, political, and legal triumphs, but ended as a Greek tragedy. Each achievement brought greater anxiety about his place in the revolutionary world. James Wilson's life story is a testament to the success that tens of thousands of Scottish immigrants achieved after their trans-Atlantic voyage, but it also reminds us that not all had a happy ending. This book provides a more nuanced and complete picture of James Wilson’s contributions in American history. His contributions were far greater than just the attention paid to his legal lectures. His is a very human story of a Scottish immigrant who experienced success and acclaim for his activities on behalf of the American people during his public service, but in his personal affairs, and particularly financial life, he suffered the great heights and deep lows worthy of a Greek tragedy. James Wilson's life is an entry point into the events of the latter half of the 18th century and the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on American society, discourse, and government.
Author : Elroy McKendree Avery
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Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the United States and Its People written by Elroy McKendree Avery and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421421399
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Germans written by Simon J. Bronner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive encyclopedia—the first of its kind—maps out three hundred years of German history and culture in Pennsylvania and beyond. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Destined to become the standard reference on Pennsylvania Germans (also known as the “Pennsylvania Dutch”), this book is the first survey of this extensive American group in nearly seventy-five years. Nineteen broad interpretive essays written by a distinguished group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, and folklorists tell the rich and nuanced story of Pennsylvania German history and culture. United by a distinct (and distinctly American) language, the Pennsylvania Germans have been slower to assimilate than other ethnic groups. This sweeping volume reveals, though, that the group is much less homogenous and isolated than was previously thought. From architecture, media, and farming techniques to food, folklore, and medicine, the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants display a wide range of cultural variation. In Pennsylvania Germans, editors Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown broaden the geographical and social coverage of the group, touching both on Pennsylvanian communities and the Pennsylvania German diaspora, including settlements in Canada and Mexico. They also expand historical coverage of the Pennsylvania Germans to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beautifully illustrated, this volume—while paying tribute to the historical and cultural legacy of the Pennsylvania Germans—is the most comprehensive book on the subject to date. Contributors: R. Troy Boyer, Simon J. Bronner, Joshua R. Brown, Edsel Burdge Jr., William W. Donner, John B. Frantz, Mark Häberlein, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, Donald B. Kraybill, David W. Kriebel, Gabrielle Lanier, Mark L. Louden, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Lisa Minardi, Steven M. Nolt, Candace Perry, Sheila Rohrer, and Diane Wenger
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen R. Taaffe
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Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778 written by Stephen R. Taaffe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engagingly recounts how this often underestimated Revolutionary War campaign became a critical turning point in the war that led to the ultimate victory of the Continental Army over the British forces.
Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000158691
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Thomas Paine written by Gregory Claeys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Thomas Paine's social and political thought in both its British and American moments. It examines the ways in which Paine's ideas were understood. The book restores him to the position his contemporaries accorded him, that of an important writer on politics and society.
Author : Thomas J. Balcerski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190914602
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Bosom Friends written by Thomas J. Balcerski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The friendship of the bachelor politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the years. Why did neither marry? Might they have been gay? Or was their relationship a nineteenth-century version of the modern-day "bromance"? In Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, Thomas J. Balcerski explores the lives of these two politicians and discovers one of the most significant collaborations in American political history. He traces the parallels in the men's personal and professional lives before elected office, including their failed romantic courtships and the stories they told about them. Unlikely companions from the start, they lived together as congressional messmates in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse and became close confidantes. Around the nation's capital, the men were mocked for their effeminacy and perhaps their sexuality, and they were likened to Siamese twins. Over time, their intimate friendship blossomed into a significant cross-sectional political partnership. Balcerski examines Buchanan's and King's contributions to the Jacksonian political agenda, manifest destiny, and the increasingly divisive debates over slavery, while contesting interpretations that the men lacked political principles and deserved blame for the breakdown of the union. He closely narrates each man's rise to national prominence, as William Rufus King was elected vice-president in 1852 and James Buchanan the nation's fifteenth president in 1856, despite the political gossip that circulated about them. While exploring a same-sex relationship that powerfully shaped national events in the antebellum era, Bosom Friends demonstrates that intimate male friendships among politicians were--and continue to be--an important part of success in American politics.
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Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania-German Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings, addresses and annual reports.
Author : Herbert Baxter Adams
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Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science written by Herbert Baxter Adams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Coelho
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476605645
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Timothy Matlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence written by Chris Coelho and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House. It was engrossed on vellum later in the month, and delegates began signing the finely penned document in early August. The man who read the Declaration and later embossed it--the man with perhaps the most famous penmanship in American history--was Timothy Matlack, a Philadelphia beer bottler who strongly believed in the American cause. A disowned Quaker and the grandson of an indentured servant, he rose from obscurity to become a delegate to Congress. He led a militia battalion at Princeton during the Revolutionary War; his unflagging dedication earned him the admiration of men like Thomas Jefferson and Richard Henry Lee. Also in 1776 Matlack and his radical allies drafted the Pennsylvania Constitution, which has been described as the most democratic in America. This biography is a full account of an American patriot.
Author : Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
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Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historical Papers and Addresses written by Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Betsy Krieg Salm
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584658452
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Women's Painted Furniture, 1790-1830 written by Betsy Krieg Salm and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated, comprehensive study of women's painted furniture, a long-lost art that sheds light on women's lives in the early republic
