Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Writings of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Massacre of the Conestogas
Author: Jack BrubakerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 161423275X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
A gripping account of how a vigilante mob of Pennsylvania frontiersmen butchered a Native American tribe—and got away with it. On two chilly December days in 1763, bands of armed men raged through camps of peaceful Conestoga Indians. They killed twenty Susquehannock women, children and men, effectively wiping out the tribe. These murderous rampages by Lancaster County’s Paxton Boys were the tragic culmination of a gruesomely violent conflict between European settlers and native tribes. The Paxton Boys then journeyed to Philadelphia, not to evade the law but to confront it. They openly threatened to commit more of the same violence if their demands were not met. In Massacre at the Conestogas, Lancaster journalist Jack Brubaker gives a blow-by-blow account of the massacres, examines their aftermath, and investigates how the Paxton Boys got away with murder.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Genocide and International Justice
Author: Rebecca Joyce FreyPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816073104
Category : Crimes against humanity
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Presents a guide to the issues of genocide and international justice, including global and primary sources, important documents, research tools, organizations, and notable persons.
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, written by himself
Author: Benjamin FranklinLife of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself
Author: Benjamin FranklinThe Life of Benjamin Franklin
Author: John BigelowPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385235588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Life
Author: Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin
Author: Christopher J. MurreyPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590333846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin is generally considered one of America's most versatile and talented statesmen, scientists, and philosophers. His achievements include publisher of Poor Richard's Almanac and many articles on political, economic, religious, philosophical and scientific subjects. He was the inventor of bifocals, the Franklin stove, lightening rod, he was one of the signers of the 'Declaration of Independence', and the founder of, what is now the University of Pennsylvania. This book presents a detailed and riveting review of Franklin's life based on excerpts from the renowned 1899 book on Franklin by Sydney George Fisher. This overview is augmented by a substantial selective bibliography, which features access through title, subject and author indexes.
The Common Cause
Author: Robert G. ParkinsonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic. In a fresh reading of the founding moment, Parkinson demonstrates the dual projection of the "common cause." Patriots through both an ideological appeal to popular rights and a wartime movement against a host of British-recruited slaves and Indians forged a racialized, exclusionary model of American citizenship.