Author: Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034183
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967
Author: Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034183
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
William Dunbar
Author: Arthur H. DeRosierJr.Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318973X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Scottish-born William Dunbar (1750–1810) is recognized by Mississippi and Southwest historians as one of the most successful planters, agricultural innovators, explorers, and scientists to emerge from the Mississippi Territory. Despite his successes, however, history books abridge his contributions to America's early national years to a few passing sentences or footnotes. William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest rectifies past neglect, paying tribute to a man whose life was driven by the need to know and the willingness to suffer in pursuit of knowledge. From the beginning, research, contemplation, and scholarship formed the template by which Dunbar would structure his life. His mother's insistence on education motivated him throughout his youth, and in 1771, he sailed to America, prepared to seize any and all opportunities. Settling in the Mississippi territory, Dunbar embarked on the endeavors that would soon gain him renown. He surveyed the boundary between Spanish West Florida and the United States and contributed heavily to the rise of cotton culture through his inventions and innovations in agricultural technology. In 1804, at the same time that Lewis and Clark were making their way up the Missouri River, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Dunbar—now a fellow member of the prestigious American Philosophical Society—to lead a similar exploration of the southern Louisiana Purchase territory. The 103-day expedition captured the imagination of Americans looking to move westward and yielded the first information about the geographical, geological, and meteorological characteristics of the old Southwest. Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. traces Dunbar's life from his ambition as a youth to his development into a man recognized by his contemporaries as a leader in many scientific fields. Drawing upon the private journal of Dunbar's granddaughter Virginia Dunbar McQueen and neglected historical annals, William Dunbar examines Dunbar's public and private life, the scope of his interests, and the lasting contributions he left to a country and people he loved.
The Statutes of the Mississippi Territory, Revised and Digested by the Authority of the General Assembly
Author: MississippiPrestatehood Legal Materials
Author: Michael G. ChiorazziPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780789020567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
"[A] guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood"--Back cover.
Prestatehood Legal Materials
Author: Michael ChiorazziPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136766022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1539
Book Description
Explore the controversial legal history of the formation of the United States Prestatehood Legal Materials is your one-stop guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood. Unprecedented in its coverage of territorial government, this book identifies a wide range of available resources from each state to reveal the underlying legal principles that helped form the United States. In this unique publication, a state expert compiles each chapter using his or her own style, culminating in a diverse sourcebook that is interesting as well as informative. In Prestatehood Legal Materials, you will find bibliographies, references, and discussion on a varied list of source materials, including: state codes drafted by Congress county, state, and national archives journals and digests state and federal reports, citations, surveys, and studies books, manuscripts, papers, speeches, and theses town and city records and documents Web sites to help your search for more information and more Prestatehood Legal Materials provides you with brief overviews of state histories from colonization to acceptance into the United States. In this book, you will see how foreign countries controlled the laws of these territories and how these states eventually broke away to govern themselves. The text also covers the legal issues with Native Americans, inter-state and the Mexico and Canadian borders, and the development of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government. This guide focuses on materials that are readily available to historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and researchers. Resources that assist in locating not-so-easily accessible materials are also covered. Special sections focus on the legal resources of colonial New York City and Washington, DC—which is still technically in its prestatehood stage. Due to the enormity of this project, the editor of Prestatehood Legal Materials created a Web page where updates, corrections, additions and more will be posted.
Journal
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Journal of the House of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky...
Author: The Territorial Papers of the United States
Author: Clarence Edwin CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The Journal of Mississippi History
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
A Bibliography of Alabama
Author: Thomas McAdory OwenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description