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Category : Cass County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Portrait and Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska
Author: Portrait and Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska
Author: Portrait and Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska
Author: Portrait and Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska
Author: Portrait and Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska
Author: Portrait and Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska
Author: Constructing American Lives
Author: Scott E. CasperPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about public figures and peer into the lives of strangers. In this pioneering study, Casper examines how Americans wrote, published, and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the course of a century. Campaign biographies, memoirs of pious women, patriotic narratives of eminent statesmen, "mug books" that collected the lives of ordinary midwestern farmers--all were labeled "biography," however disparate their contents and the contexts of their creation, publication, and dissemination. Analyzing debates over how these diverse biographies should be written and read, Casper reveals larger disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of American history, and the place of American literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. As much a personal experience as a literary genre, biography helped Americans imagine their own lives as well as the ones about which they wrote and read.
Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County, Nebraska
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Category : Lancaster County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
THOMAS THOMAS DESCENDANTS
Author: AUGUSTUS O. THOMAS, II, BSEE, P.E.Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1425799701
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Author’s pioneer ancestors were early settlers in the western movement, sometimes trekking roughly cleared pathways behind teams of oxen. Family meetings and marriages at New Ipswich, NH, Watervliet, NY, New Castle, KY, Richmond, IN, Old Oxford, IL, Mt. Pleasant, IW, Firth, NE, and Denver, CO, form the basis of this historical and genealogy story. Family chronicles, deeds, wills, census records, tombstones and written biological sketches form the basis for this book. Research was conducted in 87 counties in 22 states from Maine to Colorado, and also Wales, Scotland and England, over a 16 year period.
Publications - Nebraska State Historical Society
Author: Nebraska State Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description