Author: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.
The African American National Biography: Brown, S.-Diggs
Author: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.
The African American National Biography: Uggams-Zuber
Author: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.
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American National Biography
Author: John A. Garraty
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199771499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199771499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.
The Tie That Bound Us
Author: Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801469449
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown’s raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution. Less well known is his devotion to his family, and they to him. Two of Brown’s sons were killed at Harpers Ferry, but the commitment of his wife and daughters often goes unacknowledged. In The Tie That Bound Us, Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz reveals for the first time the depth of the Brown women’s involvement in his cause and their crucial roles in preserving and transforming his legacy after his death. As detailed by Laughlin-Schultz, Brown’s second wife Mary Ann Day Brown and his daughters Ruth Brown Thompson, Annie Brown Adams, Sarah Brown, and Ellen Brown Fablinger were in many ways the most ordinary of women, contending with chronic poverty and lives that were quite typical for poor, rural nineteenth-century women. However, they also lived extraordinary lives, crossing paths with such figures as Frederick Douglass and Lydia Maria Child and embracing an abolitionist moral code that sanctioned antislavery violence in place of the more typical female world of petitioning and pamphleteering. In the aftermath of John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, the women of his family experienced a particular kind of celebrity among abolitionists and the American public. In their roles as what daughter Annie called “relics” of Brown’s raid, they tested the limits of American memory of the Civil War, especially the war’s most radical aim: securing racial equality. Because of their longevity (Annie, the last of Brown’s daughters, died in 1926) and their position as symbols of the most radical form of abolitionist agitation, the story of the Brown women illuminates the changing nature of how Americans remembered Brown’s raid, radical antislavery, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801469449
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown’s raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution. Less well known is his devotion to his family, and they to him. Two of Brown’s sons were killed at Harpers Ferry, but the commitment of his wife and daughters often goes unacknowledged. In The Tie That Bound Us, Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz reveals for the first time the depth of the Brown women’s involvement in his cause and their crucial roles in preserving and transforming his legacy after his death. As detailed by Laughlin-Schultz, Brown’s second wife Mary Ann Day Brown and his daughters Ruth Brown Thompson, Annie Brown Adams, Sarah Brown, and Ellen Brown Fablinger were in many ways the most ordinary of women, contending with chronic poverty and lives that were quite typical for poor, rural nineteenth-century women. However, they also lived extraordinary lives, crossing paths with such figures as Frederick Douglass and Lydia Maria Child and embracing an abolitionist moral code that sanctioned antislavery violence in place of the more typical female world of petitioning and pamphleteering. In the aftermath of John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, the women of his family experienced a particular kind of celebrity among abolitionists and the American public. In their roles as what daughter Annie called “relics” of Brown’s raid, they tested the limits of American memory of the Civil War, especially the war’s most radical aim: securing racial equality. Because of their longevity (Annie, the last of Brown’s daughters, died in 1926) and their position as symbols of the most radical form of abolitionist agitation, the story of the Brown women illuminates the changing nature of how Americans remembered Brown’s raid, radical antislavery, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Author: Diane Silcox-Jarrett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American college administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Eighteen-year old Charlotte Hawkins arrived in North Carolina in 1901 to teach a rural black school. When told to move on, she opened the Palmer Memorial Institute that survived for 70 years.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American college administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Eighteen-year old Charlotte Hawkins arrived in North Carolina in 1901 to teach a rural black school. When told to move on, she opened the Palmer Memorial Institute that survived for 70 years.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Includes cumulative subject index of the entire set. 1 v.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Includes cumulative subject index of the entire set. 1 v.
American National Biography: Supplement 2
Author: Mark C. Carnes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195222029
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Told more as stories than history lessons, the biographies in American National Biography, Supplement 2 recount the tales of all the different people who shaped America--leaders, composers, entertainers, entrepreneurs, writers, scientists, and outlaws. Each one written by an expert in the field and masterfully woven together to present the most accurate and up-to-date information, the entries bring forth a powerful narrative of America's past and some of the most important figures that went into its formation.As the second in a series, iSupplement 2r includes a fascinating miscellany of 450 lives, ranging from 19th-century eccentric Joshua Abraham Norton who died in 1880, to President Reagan and Rodney Dangerfield, who died in 2004. Supplement 2 includes hundreds of figures of note from the past not included in the original edition of the ANB or Supplement 1.New biographies not in the original set as well as articles first published in the ANB Online are included in the Supplement. The result is hour after absorbing hour spent exploring the literary worlds of Ken Kesey and Eudora Welty, the music of Tito Puente and Perry Como, numerous statesmen and politicians and many, many others.With over 500 new listings, bibliographies after each entry, and a cumulative revised index of occupations and realms of renown, Supplement 2 continues the ANB tradition of bringing the people who have meant so much to this country to the forefront.Visit www.anb.org for more information
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195222029
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Told more as stories than history lessons, the biographies in American National Biography, Supplement 2 recount the tales of all the different people who shaped America--leaders, composers, entertainers, entrepreneurs, writers, scientists, and outlaws. Each one written by an expert in the field and masterfully woven together to present the most accurate and up-to-date information, the entries bring forth a powerful narrative of America's past and some of the most important figures that went into its formation.As the second in a series, iSupplement 2r includes a fascinating miscellany of 450 lives, ranging from 19th-century eccentric Joshua Abraham Norton who died in 1880, to President Reagan and Rodney Dangerfield, who died in 2004. Supplement 2 includes hundreds of figures of note from the past not included in the original edition of the ANB or Supplement 1.New biographies not in the original set as well as articles first published in the ANB Online are included in the Supplement. The result is hour after absorbing hour spent exploring the literary worlds of Ken Kesey and Eudora Welty, the music of Tito Puente and Perry Como, numerous statesmen and politicians and many, many others.With over 500 new listings, bibliographies after each entry, and a cumulative revised index of occupations and realms of renown, Supplement 2 continues the ANB tradition of bringing the people who have meant so much to this country to the forefront.Visit www.anb.org for more information
A History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore
Author: Carole C. Marks
Publisher: Delaware Heritage Press
ISBN: 9780924117121
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Delaware Heritage Press
ISBN: 9780924117121
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Official Congressional Directory
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Includes maps of the U.S. Congressional districts.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Includes maps of the U.S. Congressional districts.