Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 868

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Author: New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Lisa Grunwald
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0307493334
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 833

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Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.

Author: Michael J. Crawford
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Charles Austin Beard
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: John Marshall
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Edmund Burke
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: John Ferling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608195430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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One of America's foremost historians brilliantly brings to life the fierce struggle - both public and, ultimately, bitterly personal - between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton - two rivals whose opposing visions of what the United States should be continue to shape our country to this day.

Author: Wilson Waters
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Category : Chelmsford (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 1016

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Author: James Madison
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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