Author: Franklin Benjamin SanbornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Young Reporter of Concord
Author: Franklin Benjamin SanbornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Royal Family of Concord
Author: Paula Ivaska RobbinsPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462837883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Royal Family of Concord chronicles the lives of the most important family in nineteenth century Concord. Squire Samuel Hoar was a lawyer and congressman; he and his son were founders of the anti-slavery Republican Party in Massachusetts. Rockwood Hoar was a judge, US Attorney General under Grant, and a congressman. His daughter, Elizabeth, was engaged to Charles, the brilliant younger brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who tragically died just before they were to wed. She became the sister, assistant, and muse to Waldo and a close friend of many in the Transcendental circle, especially Margaret Fuller.
The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott
Author: Louisa May AlcottPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820317403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Collects the writer's letters, revealing her observations, struggles, and triumphs
The Remarkable Mrs. Ripley
Author: Joan W. GoodwinPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555533687
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A biography as distinctive as the celebrated woman scholar it depicts.
The young reporter: a guide to short-hand writing. With a dictionary of Latin quotations
Author: Young reporterTo Set this World Right
Author: Sandra Harbert PetrulionisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801441578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the first book to recover and examine the voices, events, and influence of the antebellum antislavery movement in Concord. In addressing fundamental questions about the origin and nature of radical abolitionism in this most American of towns, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis frames the antislavery ideology of Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson--two of Concord's most famous residents--as a product of family and community activism and presents the civic context in which their outspoken abolitionism evolved. In this historic locale, radical abolitionism crossed racial, class, and gender lines as a confederation of neighbors fomented a radical consciousness, and Petrulionis documents how the Thoreaus, Emersons, and Alcotts worked in tandem with others in their community, including a slaveowner's daughter and a former slave. Additionally, she examines the basis on which Henry Thoreau--who cherished nothing more than solitary tramps through his beloved woods and bogs--has achieved lasting fame as a militant abolitionist. This book marshals rich archival evidence of the diverse tactics exploited by a small coterie of committed activists, largely women, who provoked their famous neighbors to action. In Concord, the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins was clothed and fed as he made his way to freedom. In Concord, the adolescent daughters of John Brown attended school and recovered from their emotional distress after their father's notorious public hanging. Although most residents of the town maintained a practiced detachment from the plight of the enslaved, women and men whose sole objective was the moral urgency of abolishing slavery at last prevailed on the philosophers of self-culture to accept the responsibility of their reputations.
COMBEE
Author: Edda L. Fields-BlackPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019755279X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
COMBEE is based upon original research and offers the first full account of Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee River Raid. In the process, it also offers the story of enslaved families living in bondage and fighting for their freedom, and does so using their own distinct and individual voices.
Husband
Author: Joanne BlackwelderPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514434199
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In the beginning JoAnne thought her relationship with Steve was exhilarating and fun. Though she knew he had bisexual interests, she trusted their love for each other and felt ready to accept an unconventional marriage in the spirit of the rebellious and sexually charged 1960s. Excitement was in the air as they moved to Brooklyn Heights, wrote screenplays together, met a mobster killer, and were repeatedly robbed and mugged themselves. But gradually problems developed, as Steve drank too much, began cruising in bad neighborhoods, drifted into dangerous liaisons, and lied to her about his secret life, which repeatedly put the family in danger. Meanwhile, JoAnne felt nearly overwhelmed by other crises, including her recurring breast cancer and her parents being critically injured in their house fire. As she became convinced her husband was gay, JoAnne prepared for divorce, but neither she nor Steve really wanted to separate. Still best friends, the two continued living together. They remained close, loving their daughters and feeling rooted in the house that over the years had cost them so much. When Steve died, JoAnne sought to understand their strange and troubled relationship by drawing on her memories and Steves journals about his gay encounters and fantasies. Her memoir is a brave and brutally honest account of a troubled but enduring love. Recent research suggests that some 4 million women may be married to closeted gay men. Husband is the story of one such relationship that lasted nearly 40 years.
Correspondence of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, the Transcendentalist
Author: Kenneth Walter CameronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
BORN INTO JOURNALISM: Memoir of a Newspaper Reporter
Author: KAYODE SOYINKAPublisher: Kayode Soyinka
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book is the perfect guide and self-help book for young journalists who are aspiring to pursue their career by following their ideals. The true essence of journalism has been kept alive in this book for everyone to understand the demands and benefits of this profession. There is a lot more than what meets the eye.