Author: Katherine Duncan SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Story of Thomas Duncan and His Six Sons
Author: Katherine Duncan SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Papers of
Author: Ulysses Simpson GrantPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809308842
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Experimental Man
Author: David Ewing DuncanPublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1118031644
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Bestselling author David Ewing Duncan takes the ultimate high-tech medical exam, investigating the future impact of what's hidden deep inside all of us David Ewing Duncan takes "guinea pig" journalism to the cutting edge of science, building on award-winning articles he wrote for Wired and National Geographic, in which he was tested for hundreds of chemicals and genes associated with disease, emotions, and other traits. Expanding on these tests, he examines his genes, environment, brain, and body, exploring what they reveal about his and his family's future health, traits, and ancestry, as well as the profound impact of this new self-knowledge on what it means to be human. David Ewing Duncan (San Francisco, CA) is the Chief Correspondent of public radio's Biotech Nation and a frequent commentator on NPR's Morning Edition. He is a contributing editor to Portfolio, Discover, and Wired and a columnist for Portfolio. His books include the international bestseller Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (978-0-380-79324-2). He is a former special producer and correspondent for ABC's Nightline, and appears regularly on CNN and programs such as Today and Good Morning America.
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Author: An American Planter
Author: Martha Jane BrazyPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807142751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787–1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling new portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan's multifaceted personal networks in both the South and the North. Duncan grew up in an elite Pennsylvania family with strong business ties in Philadelphia. There was little indication, though, that he would become a cosmopolitan entrepreneur who would own over fifteen plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana, collectively owning more than two thousand slaves. With style and substance, Martha Jane Brazy describes both the development of Duncan's businesses and the lives of the slaves on whose labor his empire was constructed. According to Brazy, Duncan was a hybrid, not fully a southerner or a northerner. He was also, Brazy shows, a paradox. Although he put down deep roots in Natchez, his sphere of influence was national in scope. Although his wealth was greatly dependent on the slaves he owned, he predicted a clash over the issue of slave ownership nearly three decades before the onset of the Civil War. Perhaps more than any other planter studied, Duncan contradicts historians' definition of the southern slaveholding aristocracy. By connecting and contrasting the networks of this elite planter and those he enslaved, Brazy provides new insights into the slaveocracy of antebellum America.
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant [v.9]
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Author: Ulysses S. GrantPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809309795
Category : Manuscripts, American
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
The Rocket: Or, the Story of the Stephensons, Father and Son. A Book for Boys
Author: Helen Cross KNIGHTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: Richard Henry GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. in Two Volumes. Volume I
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
This work contains all of the articles on Rhode Island families that had been published in "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" since 1846. Except for articles relating to the immigrant origins of Rhode Island families, which have appeared elsewhere, this has many of the best genealogical articles of the last 140 years, many by leading genealogists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A lengthy Introduction by Gary B. Roberts, Director of Publications at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, gives a picture of the current state of Rhode Island genealogy and has an updating of his Bibliography of 100 Colonial Rhode Island Families.