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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Annals of the Ancestry of Charles Custis Harrison and Ellen Waln Harrison
Author: Annals of the Ancestry of Charles Custis Harrison and Ellen Waln Harrison
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ISBN: 9789264196834
Category : Social policy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Robert Morris
Author: Robert M MorrisPublisher: TrineDay
ISBN: 1634243889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
"a cogent, complex look at the American Revolution" – Kirkus Reviews Morris in one year put up more money for the war than all the states combined. The spirit of risk and economic freedom that he championed – laissez-faire capitalism, a radical idea – helped us win the war (and gave rise to our modern system). He coordinated the French Fleet and Washington's arrival at Yorktown. He got rid of religious test laws, and signed all three founding documents. His enemies won the election of 1800 and wrote him out of the story. Only Washington was more indispensable.
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Remembering Kensington & Fishtown
Author: Kenneth W. MilanoPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 162584347X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Native Americans called it shackamaxon, the place where the chiefs meet, but Kensington soon became a meeting place of a different kind. Ideologies and demagogues, industry and entrepreneurs all came together in Kensington and Fishtown. Kensington was the epicenter of the American vegetarian movement, and a decade later the area's shipyards gave birth to the U.S. Navy's first submarine. In Kensington & Fishtown, native son Kenneth W. Milano presents a collection of fascinating and diverse articles from his column The Rest is History. Relive the golden age of Kensington and Fishtown as you learn about learn about their fascinating pasts.
Church and Estate
Author: Thomas F. RzeznikPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271063254
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In Church and Estate, Thomas Rzeznik examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that extended from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s. The book demonstrates how their religious beliefs informed their actions and shaped their class identity, while simultaneously revealing the ways in which financial influences shaped the character of American religious life. In tracing those connections, it shows how religion and wealth shared a fruitful, yet ultimately tenuous, relationship.
Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic
Author: Peter KaferPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812237863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
How could a glorious age of American history also give rise to the darkest of literary traditions, one that would inspire Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and many other best-selling American writers?"
Mischievous Creatures
Author: Catherine McNeurPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541674189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth century, combining "meticulous research and sensitive storytelling" (Janice P. Nimura, New York Times-bestselling author of The Doctors Blackwell) In Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur uncovers the lives and work of Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris, sisters and scientists in early America. Margaretta, an entomologist, was famous among her peers and the public for her research on seventeen-year cicadas and other troublesome insects. Elizabeth, a botanist, was a prolific illustrator and a trusted supplier of specimens to the country’s leading experts. Together, their discoveries helped fuel the growth and professionalization of science in antebellum America. But these very developments confined women in science to underpaid and underappreciated roles for generations to follow, erasing the Morris sisters’ contributions along the way. Mischievous Creatures is an indelible portrait of two unsung pioneers, one that places women firmly at the center of the birth of American science.
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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