Author: Robert Jefferson BreckinridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Papism in the XIX. Century, in the United States
Author: Robert Jefferson BreckinridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Bringing Down the Colonel
Author: Patricia MillerPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374715629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.” In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won. Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard’s hand—and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. But Pollard struck back, suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman, Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally. Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, America is still obsessed with women’s sexual morality. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, we’ve witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard. Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back.
Political Nativism in the State of Maryland, 1830-1860
Author: sister Mary St. Patrick McConvillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Papist Devils
Author: Robert Emmett CurranPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813225833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This is a brief highly readable history of the Catholic experience in British America, which shaped the development of the colonies and the nascent republic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Historian Robert Emmett Curran begins his account with the English reformation, which helps us to understand the Catholic exodus from England, Ireland, and Scotland that took place over the nearly two centuries that constitute the colonial period. The deeply rooted English understanding of Catholics as enemies of the political and religious values at the heart of British tradition, ironically acted as a catalyst for the emergence of a Catholic republican movement that was a critical factor in the decision of a strong majority of American Catholics in 1775 to support the cause for independence
Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375019939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
A Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846049662
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385312787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Breckinridges of Kentucky
Author: James C. KlotterPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813157102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Across more than six generations—beginning before the Revolutionary War—the Breckinridge family has produced a series of notable leaders. These often controversial men and women included a presidential candidate, a U.S. vice president, cabinet members, generals, women's rights advocates, congressmen, editors, reformers, authors, and church leaders. Along with success, the Breckinridges, like other Americans, faced hardship and war, contended with race, lived through difficult family situations—including a sex scandal—and encountered personal and political failure. An articulate, opinionated, and frank family, the Breckinridges have left a detailed record that allows us a vivid recreation of the range of American history and society.