Author: John AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
Author: John AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Edited by Max Farrand
Author: United StatesThe Letters of Centinel
Author: Samuel BryanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781892355010
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cato's Letters
Author: John TrenchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Women's Letters
Author: Lisa GrunwaldPublisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0307493334
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
Constitution
Author: United StatesAn Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Author: Charles Austin BeardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay ...: 1781-1782
Author: John JayAn Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain
Author: Arthur LeeEngineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. WalkerPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9781410201737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution. Lacking trained military engineers, the Americans relied heavily on foreign officers, mostly from France, for sorely needed technical assistance. Native Americans joined the foreign engineer officers to plan and carry out offensive and defensive operations, direct the erection of fortifications, map vital terrain, and lay out encampments. During the war Congress created the Corps of Engineers with three companies of engineer troops as well as a separate geographer's department to assist the engineers with mapping. Both General George Washington and Major General Louis Lebéque Duportail, his third and longest serving Chief Engineer, recognized the disadvantages of relying on foreign powers to fill the Army's crucial need for engineers. America, they contended, must train its own engineers for the future. Accordingly, at the war's end, they suggested maintaining a peacetime engineering establishment and creating a military academy. However, Congress rejected the proposals, and the Corps of Engineers and its companies of sappers and miners mustered out of service. Eleven years passed before Congress authorized a new establishment, the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.