Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780832859380
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and District of Columbia
Author: The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and District of Columbia
Author: The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and District of Columbia
Author: National Biographical Publishing CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
George Peabody, a Biography
Author: Franklin ParkerPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826512567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A biography of George Peabody
The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island
Author: We the People
Author: Forrest McDonaldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135129962X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Charles A. Bear's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of the document as serving the economic interests of the Framers as members of the propertied class. Forrest McDonald's We the People was the first major challenge to Beard's thesis. This superbly researched and documented volume restored the Constitution as the work of principled and prudential men. It did much to invalidate the crude economic determinism that had become endemic in the writing of American history. We the People fills in the details that Beard had overlooked in his fragmentary book. MacDonald's work is based on an exhaustive comparative examination of the economic biographies of the 55 members of the Constitutional Convention and the 1,750 members of the state ratifying conventions. His conclusion is that on the basis of evidence, Beard's economic interpretation does not hold. McDonald demonstrates conclusively that the interplay of conditioning or determining factors at work in the making of the Constitution was extremely complex and cannot be rendered intelligible in terms of any single system of interpretation. McDonald's classic work, while never denying economic motivation as a factor, also demonstrates how the rich cultural and political mosaic of the colonies was an independent and dominant factor in the decision making that led to the first new nation. In its pluralistic approach to economic factors and analytic richness, We the People is both a major work of American history and a significant document in the history of ideas. It continues to be an essential volume for historians, political scientists, economists, and American studies specialists.
Bibliography of the District of Columbia
Author: Wilhelmus Bogart BryanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
An Index of the Source Records of Maryland
Author: Eleanor Phillips PassanoPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806302713
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.
Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War
Author: Jonathan W. WhitePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807142158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman petitioned Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney for release through a writ of habeas corpus. Taney issued the writ, but President Abraham Lincoln ignored it. In mid-July Merryman was released, only to be indicted for treason in a Baltimore federal court. His case, however, never went to trial and federal prosecutors finally dismissed it in 1867. In Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War, Jonathan White reveals how the arrest and prosecution of this little-known Baltimore farmer had a lasting impact on the Lincoln administration and Congress as they struggled to develop policies to deal with both northern traitors and southern rebels. His work exposes several perennially controversial legal and constitutional issues in American history, including the nature and extent of presidential war powers, the development of national policies for dealing with disloyalty and treason, and the protection of civil liberties in wartime.