Author: Phinehas WHITEPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
An oration delivered at Dummerston, Vt., July 4th, 1815, in commemoration of the 39th anniversary of American independence
Author: Phinehas WHITEIndex to the City Documents, 1834 to 1909
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Index to the City Documents, 1834-1891
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
City Documents
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Centenary Orations, Addresses, and Poems, Commemorative of the One Hundreth Anniversary of Our National Independence
Author: Frederick SaundersAn Oration, Pronounced at Charlestown, on the 4th July, 1821
Author: Paul WillardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Gettysburg Address
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504080246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1801-1815
Author: Sealed with Blood
Author: Sarah J. PurcellPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220302X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The first martyr to the cause of American liberty was Major General Joseph Warren, a well-known political orator, physician, and president of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. Shot in the face at close range at Bunker Hill, Warren was at once transformed into a national hero, with his story appearing throughout the colonies in newspapers, songs, pamphlets, sermons, and even theater productions. His death, though shockingly violent, was not unlike tens of thousands of others, but his sacrifice came to mean something much more significant to the American public. Sealed with Blood reveals how public memories and commemorations of Revolutionary War heroes, such as those for Warren, helped Americans form a common bond and create a new national identity. Drawing from extensive research on civic celebrations and commemorative literature in the half-century that followed the War for Independence, Sarah Purcell shows how people invoked memories of their participation in and sacrifices during the war when they wanted to shore up their political interests, make money, argue for racial equality, solidify their class status, or protect their personal reputations. Images were also used, especially those of martyred officers, as examples of glory and sacrifice for the sake of American political principles. By the midnineteenth century, African Americans, women, and especially poor white veterans used memories of the Revolutionary War to articulate their own, more inclusive visions of the American nation and to try to enhance their social and political status. Black slaves made explicit the connection between military service and claims to freedom from bondage. Between 1775 and 1825, the very idea of the American nation itself was also democratized, as the role of "the people" in keeping the sacred memory of the Revolutionary War broadened.