Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography: Pickering-Sumter
Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Author: Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography
Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography, ed. by J.G. Wilson and J. Fiske
Author: Appleton D. and coThe Cyclopædia of American Biography
Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
A Companion to First Ladies
Author: Katherine A.S. SibleyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118732189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 943
Book Description
This volume explores more than two centuries of literature on the First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, providing the first historiographical overview of these important women in U.S. history. Underlines the growing scholarly appreciation of the First Ladies and the evolution of the position since the 18th century Explores the impact of these women not only on White House responsibilities, but on elections, presidential policies, social causes, and in shaping their husbands’ legacies Brings the First Ladies into crisp historiographical focus, assessing how these women and their contributions have been perceived both in popular literature and scholarly debate Provides concise biographical treatments for each First Lady
Catalogue of the Public Library, 1892
Author: Lady First
Author: Amy S. GreenbergPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804173443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk—a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism. While the Women’s Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, in her riveting biography, Amy S. Greenberg brings Sarah’s story into vivid focus. We see Sarah as the daughter of a frontiersman who raised her to discuss politics and business with men; we see the savvy and charm she brandished in order to help her brilliant but unlikeable husband, James K. Polk, ascend to the White House. We watch as she exercises truly extraordinary power as First Lady: quietly manipulating elected officials, shaping foreign policy, and directing a campaign in support of America’s expansionist war against Mexico. And we meet many of the enslaved men and women whose difficult labor made Sarah’s political success possible. Sarah Polk’s life spanned nearly the entirety of the nineteenth-century. But her own legacy, which profoundly transformed the South, continues to endure. Comprehensive, nuanced, and brimming with invaluable insight, Lady First is a revelation of our twelfth First Lady’s complex but essential part in American feminism.
Catalogue of the Public Library, Winchester, Mass. 1892
Author: Winchester Public Library (Winchester, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Twelve Generations of Lewises in America, 1634-1997
Author: Delbert Franklin LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Edmund Lewis (1601-1651), his wife, Mary, and their two young sons, immigrated to America in 1634 and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts. Edmund and Mary had seven children, 1631-1648. The family moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, ca. 1642. Edmund Lewis died at Lynn. Descendants listed lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey. Ontario, Illinois and elsewhere.