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Book A Webb Family History in America

Download or read book A Webb Family History in America written by Raymond Dennis Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Webb was born 2 October 1712 in Northumberland County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth in about 1739. They had six children. Thomas died in 1783. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Illinois, Tennessee, Texas and Arizona.

Book The History of William Webb  Composed by Himself

Download or read book The History of William Webb Composed by Himself written by William Webb and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of William Webb: Composed by Himself

Book The American Genealogist

Download or read book The American Genealogist written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Born Fighting

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  • Author : Jim Webb
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2005-10-11
  • ISBN : 0767922956
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Born Fighting written by Jim Webb and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character. Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music. Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.

Book Webb Family History and Genealogy  1769 1982

Download or read book Webb Family History and Genealogy 1769 1982 written by Earl Francis Webb and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Writings of Elizabeth Webb

Download or read book The Writings of Elizabeth Webb written by Elizabeth Webb and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of the writings of Elizabeth Webb, a Quaker missionary who traveled and taught in England and America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Book Writings on American History

Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library and Manuscript Genealogies of the American College for Genealogical Registry  Family History and Heraldry

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library and Manuscript Genealogies of the American College for Genealogical Registry Family History and Heraldry written by Leavitt, George A., & co., auctioneers and publishers and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986

Download or read book Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986 written by Library of Congress and published by Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.

Book The American Historical Register

Download or read book The American Historical Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genealogy and American Local History in the Michigan State Library

Download or read book Genealogy and American Local History in the Michigan State Library written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cottrell Lashbrook Brashear Campbell Family Lineage Volume I Cottrell Ancestry

Download or read book Cottrell Lashbrook Brashear Campbell Family Lineage Volume I Cottrell Ancestry written by TC Cottrell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This four volume set the author traces his Cottrell, Lashbrook, Brashear, and Campbell Family Lineage from Europe to the present day. Details on descendants of each generation is carried down through at least four descendant generations when known. Volume I and II cover the author's Father's beginnings (Cottrell and Lashbrook Lines). Volume III and IV cover the author's Mother's beginnings (Brashear and Campbell Lines). Sources are extensively documented. Timeline and ancestor charts are also included as well an "all name" index for each volume that provides page number references for each individual found in the respective volume. This Volume (Volume I) traces the author's Cottrell ancestry to William Cottrell who was born around 1615 in Stockport, England. William's son Thomas Cottrell, the author's seventh great-grandfather, who was also born in Stockport in 1635 was the first Cottrell in the author's lineage to immigrate to the New World and settle in New Kent County, Virginia.

Book Source Books on American History

Download or read book Source Books on American History written by L. C. Harper and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Indigenous Peoples  History of the United States

Download or read book An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.

Book Writings on American History

Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genealogies in the Library of Congress

Download or read book Genealogies in the Library of Congress written by Marion J. Kaminkow and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.

Book The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland written by Patrick Hanks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.