Author: Virginia. GovernorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia: The letters of Thomas Jefferson
Author: Virginia. GovernorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia: The letters of Thomas Nelson and Benjamin Harrison
Author: Virginia. GovernorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia: The letters of Thomas Nelson and Benjamin Harrison
Author: Virginia. GovernorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Journal of the House of Delegates of Virginia, March 1781 Session
Author: Virginia. General Assembly. House of DelegatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author: Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: VirginiaAnnual Bulletin of Historical Literature
Author: Historical Association (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The American Revolution Reborn
Author: Patrick SperoPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812248465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The American Revolution Reborn parts company with the American Revolution of our popular imagination and renders it as a time of intense ambiguity and frightening contingency. With an introduction by Spero and a conclusion by Zuckerman, this volume heralds a substantial and revelatory rebirth in the study of the American Revolution.
Wellspring of Liberty
Author: John A. RagostaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199750947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established Church of England were subject to numerous legal infirmities and serious persecution. By 1786, no state more fully protected religious freedom. This profound transformation, as John A. Ragosta shows in this book, arose not from a new-found cultural tolerance. Rather, as the Revolution approached, Virginia's political establishment needed the support of the religious dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists, for the mobilization effort. Dissenters seized this opportunity to insist on freedom of religion in return for their mobilization. Their demands led to a complex and extended negotiation in which the religious establishment slowly and grudgingly offered just enough reforms to maintain the crucial support of the dissenters. After the war, when dissenters' support was no longer needed, the establishment leaders sought to recapture control, but found they had seriously miscalculated: wartime negotiations had politicized the dissenters. As a result dissenters' demands for the separation of church and state triumphed over the establishment's efforts and Jefferson's Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom was adopted. Historians and the Supreme Court have repeatedly noted that the foundation of the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty lies in Virginia's struggle, turning primarily to Jefferson and Madison to understand this. In Wellspring of Liberty, John A. Ragosta argues that Virginia's religious dissenters played a seminal, and previously underappreciated, role in the development of the First Amendment and in the meaning of religious freedom as we understand it today.
Thomas Barclay (1728-1793)
Author: Priscilla H. RobertsPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780934223980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
"This is the first-ever biography of Thomas Barclay, the first American consul to serve the United States abroad and the man who, in 1786, successfully negotiated our first treaty with an Arab, African, or Muslim nation. It is the story of an Ulster-born immigrant building his fortune as a Philadelphia merchant in international trade, then losing it as he gives priority to his adopted country's fight to gain and build on independence. It tells how, after emigrating to Philadelphia in the 1760s, Barclay became a leading member of the Irish community, a successful merchant/ship owner, and political activist. This biography follows his move to France with his wife and three small children when the Continental Congress named him consul in 1781. There, before an American consular service existed, before Congress knew a consul from a consul general, Thomas Barclay did whatever was needed, wherever it was needed. To shipping, naval, and other tasks, Congress added an audit of American public expenditures in Europe since 1776. Then Jefferson and Adams added diplomacy in Barbary, where Barclay negotiated a rare tribute-free treaty of commerce and amity with the Sultan of Morocco. His personal relationships with Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson reveal as much about them as about him. On assignment for President Washington in 1793, he became the first American diplomat to die in a foreign country in the service of the United States."--BOOK JACKET.