Author: Library of Congress. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Catalog of Broadsides in the Rare Book Division: Author
Author: Library of Congress. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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New York City Newspapers, 1820-1850
Author: Louis Hewitt FoxPublisher:
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Accessions of Manuscripts, Broadsides and British Transcripts
Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
Author: Bibliographical Society of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Bulletin of the Indiana State Library
Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Monthly Bulletin
Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Fourth Estate
Author: Compassionate Stranger
Author: Maureen O'Rourke MurphyPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815652895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a school teacher, Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 “to personally investigate the condition of the Irish poor.” She walked alone throughout nearly every county in Ireland and reported on conditions in rural Ireland on the eve of the Great Irish Famine. She published Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger, an account of her travels in 1847. She returned to Ireland in December 1846 to do what she could to relieve famine suffering—first in Dublin and then in the winter of 1847–48 in the west of Ireland where the suffering was greatest. Nicholson’s precise, detailed diaries and correspondence reveal haunting insights into the desperation of victims of the Famine and the negligence and greed of those who added to the suffering. Her account of the Great Irish Famine, Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849, is both a record of her work and an indictment of official policies toward the poor: land, employment, famine relief. In addition to telling Nicholson’s story, from her early life in Vermont and upstate New York to her better-known work in Ireland, Murphy puts Nicholson’s own writings and other historical documents in conversation. This not only contextualizes Nicholson’s life and work, but it also supplements the impersonal official records with Nicholson’s more compassionate and impassioned accounts of the Irish poor.
The Great Triumvirate
Author: Merrill D. PetersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199839239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other figures have. Now Merrill D. Peterson, one of our most gifted historians, brilliantly re-creates the lives and times of these great men in this monumental collective biography. Arriving on the national scene at the onset of the War of 1812 and departing political life during the ordeal of the Union in 1850-52, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun opened--and closed--a new era in American politics. In outlook and style, they represented startling contrasts: Webster, the Federalist and staunch New England defender of the Union; Clay, the "war hawk" and National Rebublican leader from the West; Calhoun, the youthful nationalist who became the foremost spokesman of the South and slavery. They came together in the Senate for the first time in 1832, united in their opposition of Andrew Jackson, and thus gave birth to the idea of the "Great Triumvirate." Entering the history books, this idea survived the test of time because these men divided so much of American politics between them for so long. Peterson brings to life the great events in which the Triumvirate figured so prominently, including the debates on Clay's American System, the Missouri Compromise, the Webster-Hayne debate, the Bank War, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the annexation of Texas, and the Compromise of 1850. At once a sweeping narrative and a penetrating study of non-presidential leadership, this book offers an indelible picture of this conservative era in which statesmen viewed the preservation of the legacy of free government inherited from the Founding Fathers as their principal mission. In fascinating detail, Peterson demonstrates how precisely Webster, Clay, and Calhoun exemplify three facets of this national mind.
Seward
Author: Walter StahrPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439121184
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "Team of Rivals"--William Henry Seward, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century.