Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806313994
Category : American monthly magazine (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Genealogical Guide
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806313994
Category : American monthly magazine (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Portrait and Biographical Album of Stephenson County, Ill
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ISBN:
Category : Stephenson County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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The Selected Papers of Jane Addams
Author: Mary Lynn BryanPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252090677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Filling a void in Jane Addams scholarship, this first volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams collects extant documents from the formative years of the major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author. Documenting the early development of Addams's social principles, the documents reveal the leadership skills that led her into a life of public commitment. For all her public compassion and visibility as an outspoken pacifist, Progressive reformer, and founder of Hull-House, Addams was an intensely private person who revealed her personal side only to family and close friends. Drawing on letters, diaries, and other writings from her childhood in Cedarville, Illinois, and her education at the Rockford Female Seminary, this volume provides heretofore unavailable insight into her developing ideas, educational experiences, and personal relationships. More than just biographical records, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams defines the era in which Addams lived. Unique yet representative of the spiritual ideals and political sensibilities of post-Civil War women and society, Addams's lesser-known, personal writings are necessary reading for scholars and historians. The volume explores important themes, including the migration of families westward, the first generation of college women, and the religious and domestic lives of nineteenth-century Americans. The editors' rich annotation of individuals and events featured in the documents and appendix of biographical profiles represent a trove of primary research and place the documents in historical context.
The History of Stephenson County, Illinois
Author: County Courthouse Book
Author: Elizabeth Petty BentleyPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317977
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"The County Courthouse Book is a concise guide to county courthouses and courthouse records. It is an important book because the genealogical researcher needs a reliable guide to American county courthouses, the main repositories of county records. To proceed in his investigations, the researcher needs current addresses and phone numbers, information about the coverage and availability of key courthouse records such as probate, land, naturalization, and vital records, and timely advice on the whole range of services available at the courthouse. Where available he will also need listings of current websites and e-mail addresses." -- Publisher website.
The Selected Papers of Jane Addams
Author: Jane AddamsPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252090373
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
Venturing into Usefulness, the second volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, documents the experience of this major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author between June 1881, when at twenty-one she had just graduated from Rockford Female Seminary, and early 1889, when she was on the verge of founding the Hull-House settlement with Ellen Gates Starr. During these years she was developing into the social reformer and advocate of women's rights, socioeconomic justice, and world peace she would eventually become. She evolved from a high-minded but inexperienced graduate of a women's seminary into an educated woman and seasoned traveler well-exposed to elite culture and circles of philanthropy. Artfully annotated, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams offers an evocative choice of correspondence, photographs, and other primary documents, presenting a multi-layered narrative of Addams's personal and emerging professional life. Themes inaugurated in the previous volume are expanded here, including dilemmas of family relations and gender roles; the history of education; the dynamics of female friendship; religious belief and ethical development; changes in opportunities for women; and the evolution of philanthropy, social welfare, and reform ideas.
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Author: Writings on American History
Author: Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin
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ISBN:
Category : Grant County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania
Author: John Woolf JordanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fayette County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description