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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island
Author: BIOGRAPHICAL CYCLOPEDIA OF REP
Author: Pu National Biographical Publishing CoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781360586649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island
Author: Bibliography of Rhode Island History
Author: Clarence Saunders BrighamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Earnest Men
Author: Allan G. BoguePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501722263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Taking a quantitative approach, Allan G. Bogue assesses the nature of radical and conservative Republicanism in the Civil War Senate, documents the distinctions among the senators, and clarifies the factors that encouraged or discouraged factionalism. The Earnest Men is divided into two parts: "Men, Context, and Patterns" and "The Substance of Disagreement." In Part One, Bogue investigates the backgrounds of the senators and the institutional structure of the Senate, and he examines the character of leadership exercised in the Senate chamber. He then uses roll-call analysis as a means of establishing distinctions between radical and moderate senators. To account for their voting patterns, he considers living arrangements, seating, regionalism, and election results.In Part Two, Bogue looks closely at the debates in the Senate in order to ascertain the nature of disagreements between radical and moderate Republicans in such policy-making areas as slavery, taxation, human rights, punishment and rehabilitation, and legislation affecting the border states. Taking issue with the idea that the Republicans were essentially unified on the issues of the day, he finds that their differences were widespread and important. A major study of the Senate in one of its most productive periods, The Earnest Men is a remarkable combination of systematic analysis and narrative history.
Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society
Author: Rhode Island Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Down the Warpath to the Cedars
Author: Mark R. AndersonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806169761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
In May 1776 more than two hundred Indian warriors descended the St. Lawrence River to attack Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal. In just three days’ fighting, the Native Americans and their British and Canadian allies forced the American fort to surrender and ambushed a fatally delayed relief column. In Down the Warpath to the Cedars, author Mark R. Anderson flips the usual perspective on this early engagement and focuses on its Native participants—their motivations, battlefield conduct, and the event’s impact in their world. In this way, Anderson’s work establishes and explains Native Americans’ centrality in the Revolutionary War’s northern theater. Anderson’s dramatic, deftly written narrative encompasses decisive diplomatic encounters, political intrigue, and scenes of brutal violence but is rooted in deep archival research and ethnohistorical scholarship. It sheds new light on the alleged massacre and atrocities that other accounts typically focus on. At the same time, Anderson traces the aftermath for Indian captives and military hostages, as well as the political impact of the Cedars reaching all the way to the Declaration of Independence. The action at the Cedars emerges here as a watershed moment, when Indian neutrality frayed to the point that hundreds of northern warriors entered the fight between crown and colonies. Adroitly interweaving the stories of diverse characters—chiefs, officials, agents, soldiers, and warriors—Down the Warpath to the Cedars produces a complex picture, and a definitive account, of the Revolutionary War’s first Indian battles, an account that significantly expands our historical understanding of the northern theater of the American Revolution.
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II: a House Dividing Against Itself
Author: William Lloyd GarrisonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674526617
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
This volume covers the five-year period in which Garrison's three sons were born and he entered the arena of social reform with full force.
From Sanderson's to Alley's
Author: Charles W. PartonPublisher: Charles William Parton
ISBN: 9780972637121
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In the guise of telling the story of Alley's, the author has also illuminated island history and the unsettling but inevitable process of change.
Newport Firsts
Author: Brian M. StinsonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439664218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Newport, Rhode Island, has been a city of innovation since its beginning nearly four centuries ago. Some of the claims on a national level are true, while some have been greatly distorted over the years. The first law banning the importation of slaves in the colonies was enacted in the city, and the first Methodist church in the world with a steeple and bell is located here. But was the first female lighthouse keeper in America from here? Was Newport the first place where a medical lecture was given? Author and research historian Brian M. Stinson offers a chronological collection of vignettes detailing the city's many firsts.