Author: Abby Isabel Brown BulkleyPublisher:
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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The Chad Browne Memorial
Author: Abby Isabel Brown BulkleyPublisher:
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Field Genealogy; Being the Record of All the Field Family in America, Whose Ancestors Were in this Country Prior to 1700
Author: Frederick Clifton PiercePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Sons of Providence
Author: Charles RappleyePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743266889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
From the author of "American Mafioso" comes the story of the Brown brothers, leading slave merchants of Providence, Rhode Island, during the time of the American Revolution.
The Letters of Margaret Fuller
Author: Margaret FullerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725211
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The fifth volume of the collected letters of Margaret Fuller traces a period of great emotional turbulence, reflecting the personal struggles she faced in motherhood and the external strife of revolutionary Europe in 1848. The book opens as she takes up residence in Rome, where she continued to write essays for the New-York Daily Tribune and kept up a steady flow of commentary on the political situation for her family and friends. Among Fuller's correspondents are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Giovanni Ossoli, William Wetmore Story, Giuseppe Mazzini, Horace Greeley, George William Curtis, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Many of the letters were written in Italian and are translated here for the first time. Since Fuller was more centrally involved in the Italian Risorgimento than any other American, they constitute an entirely new documentary source for historians of nineteenth-century Italy.
Annual Report
Author: Providence AthenaeumPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Grappling with Legacy
Author: Sylvia BrownPublisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480844187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
This is a fascinating and intellectually honest work about a remarkable family that has played a major role in the history of Providence and Rhode Island. Sylvia Brown has made a tremendous contribution in writing this wonderful book. It is clearly a labor of love, and we should all be grateful to her for it. Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York, former President of Brown University A splendid work of history---an honest, clearly written, and solidly based account of the private and public lives through four centuries of one of Americas most important and fascinating families. Gordon Wood, Pulitzer Prize for History, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University What fuels a familys compulsion for philanthropy? Self-interest? A feeling of guilt? A sense of genuine altruism? Charitable giving is such an intrinsic part of American culture that its story deserves to be told, not in a dry, academic tome but through the tale of a colorful, multifaceted family. Since 1638, the Browns of Rhode Island have provided community leaders in one of the nations most idiosyncratic states. In the 18th century, they excelled at maritime commerce, were pioneers of the American industrial revolution, and adorned their hometown of Providence with public buildings, churches, and a university. In the 19th century, they pioneered the modern notion that universities can be forces for social good. And, in the 20th century, they sought to transform the human experience through great art and architecture. Over three hundred years, the Browns also wrestled with societys toughest issuesslavery, immigration, child labor, the dispossessedand with their own internal family tensions. Author Sylvia Brown tells the story of the ten generations of Browns that came before her with warmth and lucidity. Today, in an era of wealth creation and philanthropic innovation not seen since the Gilded Age, Grappling with Legacy provides fascinating insights into a unique aspect of Americas heritage.
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