Author: Samuel ELLIOT (of Brattleborough, Vt.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
An oration pronounced at Brattleboro, Vt., before the Washington Benevolent Societies. ... July 6, 1813, in commemoration of the thirty-seventh anniversary of American Independence
Author: Samuel ELLIOT (of Brattleborough, Vt.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787–1846
Author: James S KabalaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317321006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Americans of the Early Republic devoted close attention to the question of what should be the proper relationship between church and state. Kabala examines this debate across six decades and shows that an understanding of this period is not possible without appreciating the key role religion played in the formation of the nation.
Star Territory
Author: Gordon FraserPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to colonize the North American continent depended upon the science of surveying, or mapping with reference to celestial movement. Through its built environment, cultural mythology, and exercise of military power, the United States has always treated the cosmos as a territory available for exploitation. In Star Territory Fraser explores how from its beginning, agents of the state, including President John Adams, Admiral Charles Henry Davis, and astronomer Maria Mitchell, participated in large-scale efforts to map the nation onto cosmic space. Through almanacs, maps, and star charts, practical information and exceptionalist mythologies were transmitted to the nation's soldiers, scientists, and citizens. This is, however, only one part of the story Fraser tells. From the country's first Black surveyors, seamen, and publishers to the elected officials of the Cherokee Nation and Hawaiian resistance leaders, other actors established alternative cosmic communities. These Black and indigenous astronomers, prophets, and printers offered ways of understanding the heavens that broke from the work of the U.S. officials for whom the universe was merely measurable and exploitable. Today, NASA administrators advocate public-private partnerships for the development of space commerce while the military seeks to control strategic regions above the atmosphere. If observers imagine that these developments are the direct offshoots of a mid-twentieth-century space race, Fraser brilliantly demonstrates otherwise. The United States' efforts to exploit the cosmos, as well as the resistance to these efforts, have a history that starts nearly two centuries before the Gemini and Apollo missions of the 1960s.
The Bibliography of Vermont
Author: Marcus Davis GilmanPublisher: Burlington : Free Press association
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: American Bibliography: Items 1-50192
Author: Richard H. ShoemakerPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
American Bibliography
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Author index also includes a list of corrections.
An Oration pronounced before “the Washington Benevolent Society ... in the town of Northfield,” July 5, 1813, in commemoration of the thirty-seventh anniversary of American Independence
Author: Festus FOSTERThe Doolittle Family in America
Author: William Frederick DoolittlePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016855594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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The Council of Censors
Author: Lewis Hamilton MeaderPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description