Author: Clovis H. BrakebillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Revolutionary War Graves Register
Author: Clovis H. BrakebillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Proceedings of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Author: Sons of the American Revolution. New Jersey SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
New Jersey in the American Revolution
Author: Barbara J. MitnickPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 081354095X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This remarkably comprehensive anthology brings new life to the rich and turbulent late 18th-century period in New Jersey. Originally conceived for the state's 225th Anniversary of the Revolution Celebration Commission.
Revolutionary Backlash
Author: Rosemarie ZagarriPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. According to Rosemarie Zagarri, the debate over women's rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution itself. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this book explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson. Although the period after the Revolution produced no collective movement for women's rights, women built on precedents established during the Revolution and gained an informal foothold in party politics and male electoral activities. Federalists and Jeffersonians vied for women's allegiance and sought their support in times of national crisis. Women, in turn, attended rallies, organized political activities, and voiced their opinions on the issues of the day. After the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a widespread debate about the nature of women's rights ensued. The state of New Jersey attempted a bold experiment: for a brief time, women there voted on the same terms as men. Yet as Rosemarie Zagarri argues in Revolutionary Backlash, this opening for women soon closed. By 1828, women's politicization was seen more as a liability than as a strength, contributing to a divisive political climate that repeatedly brought the country to the brink of civil war. The increasing sophistication of party organizations and triumph of universal suffrage for white males marginalized those who could not vote, especially women. Yet all was not lost. Women had already begun to participate in charitable movements, benevolent societies, and social reform organizations. Through these organizations, women found another way to practice politics.
Ten Crucial Days
Author: William L. KidderPublisher: Knox Press
ISBN: 1682619621
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
On December 25, 1776, the American Revolution seemed all but defeated just six months after the Declaration of Independence had been adopted. George Washington’s army had suffered a series of defeats in New York and had retreated under British pressure across New Jersey and then the Delaware River to temporary sanctuary in Pennsylvania. This left the British army in a string of winter cantonments across the middle of New Jersey, the New Jersey state government in total disarray, and the Continental Congress fleeing Philadelphia now perceived as the next British target. Loyalists in New Jersey felt empowered and Patriots felt abandoned. Washington needed not only a battlefield victory, but also to reestablish Patriot control in New Jersey. Otherwise, it would be impossible to raise a larger, long-term army to continue the fight and convince the citizens that victory was possible. The story of these ten crucial days is one that displays Washington’s military and interpersonal abilities along with his personal determination and bravery to keep the Revolution alive through maintaining the psychological confidence of the Patriots, while reducing the psychological confidence of his British political and military opponents. Throughout these ten days, Washington was faced with changing situations requiring modifications or outright different plans and his well-thought-out actions benefitted from elements of luck—such as the weather or British decisions—which he could not control. While most books look at these ten crucial days focusing on the military actions of the armies involved, this account also considers what was happening in other parts of the world. Leaders and ordinary people in other parts of America, in Britain, and in France were also dealing with the Revolution as they understood its condition. Without the instantaneous communication we have today, they were dealing with dated information and were missing knowledge that could influence their thoughts about the Revolution. This lack of immediate communication was also true—although to lesser extent—for the individuals directly involved in the events in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
"The New Jersey Volunteers" (loyalists) in the Revolutionary War
Author: William Scudder StrykerPublisher: [Trenton, N.J.? : s.n.], 1887 (Trenton, N.J. : Naar, Day & Naar)
ISBN:
Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Real Daughters of the American Revolution
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution PePublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342562718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
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A Revolutionary People At War
Author: Charles RoysterPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807899836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war. He ranges imaginatively outside the traditional techniques of analytical historical exposition to build his portrait of how individuals and a populace at large faced the Revolution and its implications. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.
Jefferson Himself
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813903101
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
If These Stones Could Talk
Author: Elaine BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cemeteries have stories to tell and lessons from the past that we can draw upon. If These Stones Could Talk brings fresh light to a forgotten corner of American history that begins in a small cemetery in central New Jersey.