Author: John McMurray LansdenPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois
Author: John McMurray LansdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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On the Storied Ohio
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Illio
Author: Ross-Ade
Author: Robert C. KriebelPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557535221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Dave Ross (1871-1943) and George Ade (1866-1944) were trustees, distinguished alumni and benefactors of Purdue University. Their friendship began in 1922 and led to their giving land and money for the 1924 construction of Ross-Ade Stadium, now a 70,000 seat athletic landmark on the West Lafayette campus. Their life stories date to 1883 Purdue and involve their separate student experiences and eventual fame. Their lives crossed paths with U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, and Will Rogers among others. Gifts or ideas from Ross or Ade led to creation of the Purdue Research Foundation, Purdue Airport, Ross Hills Park, and Ross Engineering Camp. They helped Purdue Theater, the Harlequin Club and more. Ade, renowned author and playwright, did butt heads with Purdue administrators at times long ago, but remains a revered figure. Ross's ingenious mechanical inventions of gears still steer millions of motorized vehicles, boats, tractors, even golf carts the world over.
Lincoln and Douglas
Author: Allen C. GuelzoPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416564926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
From the two-time winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize, a stirring and surprising account of the debates that made Lincoln a national figure and defined the slavery issue that would bring the country to war. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was known as a successful Illinois lawyer who had achieved some prominence in state politics as a leader in the new Republican Party. Two years later, he was elected president and was on his way to becoming the greatest chief executive in American history. What carried this one-term congressman from obscurity to fame was the campaign he mounted for the United States Senate against the country’s most formidable politician, Stephen A. Douglas, in the summer and fall of 1858. As this brilliant narrative by the prize-winning Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo dramatizes, Lincoln would emerge a predominant national figure, the leader of his party, the man who would bear the burden of the national confrontation. Lincoln lost that Senate race to Douglas, though he came close to toppling the “Little Giant,” whom almost everyone thought was unbeatable. Guelzo’s Lincoln and Douglas brings alive their debates and this whole year of campaigns and underscores their centrality in the greatest conflict in American history. The encounters between Lincoln and Douglas engage a key question in American political life: What is democracy's purpose? Is it to satisfy the desires of the majority? Or is it to achieve a just and moral public order? These were the real questions in 1858 that led to the Civil War. They remain questions for Americans today.
Factory, Family, and Woman in the Soviet Union
Author: Susan Myra KingsburyPublisher: New York : AMS Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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History of McLean County, Illinois
Author: Jacob Louis HasbrouckPublisher:
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Category : McLean County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Banta's Greek Exchange
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Category : Greek letter societies
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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