Author: David EVERETTPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
An Oration ... pronounced ... the anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence
Author: David EVERETTAn Oration Pronounced Before the Citizens of Boston on the Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence, July 4th, 1831
Author: John Gorham PalfreyPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
An Oration pronounced ... on the anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1814
Author: William SLADE (Governor of the State of Vermont.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An Oration, Pronounced at Worcester, (Mass.) on the Fortieth Anniversary of American Independence
Author: John DavisPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
An Oration Pronounced at Springfield, Mass. on the Fourth of July, 1823, Being the Forty Seventh Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence
Author: Edward Dillingham BangsPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Foundations of the Republic; Speeches and Addresses
Author: Calvin CoolidgePublisher: New York, Scribner
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
An Oration, Delivered in Newburyport, on the Fifty-fourth Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence. ...
Author: William Stickney AllenPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
American Scripture
Author: Pauline MaierPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307791955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's []Common Sense[], which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision. In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776: the local resolutions -- most of which have gone unnoticed over the past two centuries -- that explained, advocated, and justified Independence and undergirded Congress's work. Detective-like, she discloses the origins of key ideas and phrases in the Declaration and unravels the complex story of its drafting and of the group-editing job which angered Thomas Jefferson. Maier also reveals what happened to the Declaration after the signing and celebration: how it was largely forgotten and then revived to buttress political arguments of the nineteenth century; and, most important, how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in American society. Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do -- by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ -- we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1801-1815
Author: An Oration, Pronounced before the Citizens of Bangor, on the Fourth of July, 1838. The Sixty-Second Anniversary of American Independence
Author: Frederic Henry HedgePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385600626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.