Author: H. Sheldon Porter MattesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Mattesons in America
Author: H. Sheldon Porter MattesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
Author: John MattesonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American. Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause. A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful.
Matteson
Author: Paul W. JaenickePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439633118
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The village of Matteson was founded in 1855 and named after the 10th governor of Illinois, Joel Matteson. German immigrants were the areas first settlers, seeking agriculture and business opportunities. The Illinois Central and Michigan Central Railroads provided the stimulus for the growth of one of the first communities to the south of Chicago. The area became popular in the 1890s, when Chicago residents rode special trains to visit the amusement park run by Moses and Freeman Elliott. By the mid-20th century, the town had established itself as a growing bedroom community due to the electrification of the Illinois Central suburban service in 1926 and an increase in residential housing designed for American GIs returning home after World War II. Transportation has always played a key role in the development of the village, which sits at the crossroads of Americas first land grant railroad, the Illinois Central, and the countrys first transcontinental road, the Lincoln Highway. Since the 1970s, Matteson has grown into a vibrant retail and commercial area for Chicagos south suburbs.
Side Trips
Author: Louis B. CasagrandePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Partial summary: Includes a number of photographs taken on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Author: John MattesonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393077578
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.
A True American
Author: Wendy Jean KatzPublisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823298582
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized. In an era of industrialization, nativism’s erection of barriers to immigration appealed to artisans, a category that included most male artists at some stage in their careers. But as importantly, its patriotic message about the nature of the American republic also overlapped with widely shared convictions about the necessity of democratic reform. Movements directed toward improving the human condition, including anti-slavery and temperance, often consigned Catholicism, along with monarchies and slavery, to a repressive past, not the republican American future. To demonstrate the impact of this political effort by humanitarian reformers and nativists to define a Protestant character for the country, this book tracks the work and practice of artist William Walcutt. Though he is little known today, in his own time his efforts as a painter, illustrator and sculptor were acclaimed as masterly, and his art is worth reconsidering in its own right. But this book examines him as a case study of an artist whose economic and personal ties to artisanal print culture and cultural nationalists ensured that he was surrounded by and contributed to anti-Catholic publications and organizations. Walcutt was not anti immigrant himself, nor a member of a nativist party, but his kin, friends, and patrons publicly expressed warnings about Catholic and foreign political influence. And that has implications for better-known nineteenth-century historical and narrative art. Precisely because Walcutt’s profile and milieu were so typical for artists in this period, this book is able to demonstrate how central this supposedly fringe movement was to viewers and makers of American art.
The Lives of Margaret Fuller
Author: John MattesonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393068056
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This is the biography of American writer, adventurer and social critic Margaret Fuller.
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Author: Matteson PerryPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501101439
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"A real-life romantic comedy about a guy and a girl and twenty-nine other girls: a memoir about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being single, and how a nice guy survived dating in the twenty-first century"--
The American Nation: Matteson, D. M. Analytic index
Author: Albert Bushnell HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The American Nation: a History: Matteson, D. M. Analytic index
Author: Albert Bushnell HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description