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Book The Story of Some French Refugees and Their  Azilum   1793 1800

Download or read book The Story of Some French Refugees and Their Azilum 1793 1800 written by Louise Welles Murray and published by [Athens, Pa.] : Tioga Point Historical Society. This book was released on 1903 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Azilum

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elsie Murray
  • Publisher : Athens, Pa. : Tioga Point Museum
  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book Azilum written by Elsie Murray and published by Athens, Pa. : Tioga Point Museum. This book was released on 1940 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heritage of the Endless Mountains  Pennsylvania

Download or read book Heritage of the Endless Mountains Pennsylvania written by Bonnie Stacy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of friends and families only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across the country, survive as telling reminders of an important era in America's history. This fascinating new history of Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains showcases more than two hundred of the best vintage postcards available.

Book Archaeological Perspectives on the French in the New World

Download or read book Archaeological Perspectives on the French in the New World written by Elizabeth M. Scott and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has essentially created a new field of study with a surprising range of insights on the ethnicity, class, gender, and foodways of French speakers of European and African descent adapting to life under British, Spanish, or American political regimes."--Gregory A. Waselkov, author of A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814 "Significant and intriguing. Strengthens the view that French colonists and their descendants are an important part of American heritage and that the worlds they created are significant to our understanding of modern life."--John A. Walthall, editor of French Colonial Archaeology: The Illinois Country and the Western Great Lakes Correcting the notion that French influence in the Americas was confined mostly to Québec and New Orleans, this collection reveals a wide range of vibrant French-speaking communities both during and long after the end of French colonial rule. This volume highlights the complexity of Francophone societies, the persistence of their cultural traditions, and the innovative means they employed to cope with the cultural and environmental demands of living in the New World. Analyzing artifacts including clay pipes, colonoware, and food remains alongside a rich body of historical records, contributors focus on how French descendants impacted North America, the Caribbean, and South America even after 1763. Taken together, the essays argue that communities do not need to be located in French colonies or contain French artifacts to be considered Francophone, and they show that many Francophone groups were composed of a mix of ethnic French, Métis, Native Americans, and African Americans. The contributors emphasize the important roles that French colonists and their descendants have played in New World histories. Elizabeth M. Scott, former associate professor of anthropology at Illinois State University, is the editor of Those of Little Note: Gender, Race, and Class in Historical Archaeology.

Book Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collections in Pennsylvania

Download or read book Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collections in Pennsylvania written by Historical Records Survey of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume represents a group of Pennsylvania institutions in whose libraries manuscripts are housed. It lists historical societies, public libraries, museums, and academic institutions, but is not intended to cover the vast number of manuscript collections in the archives of families and commercial enterprises, and in the hands of private collectors."--Pref.

Book Holstein Friesian Herd book

Download or read book Holstein Friesian Herd book written by Holstein-Friesian Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Pennsylvania Historical Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1939
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Pennsylvania Historical Commission and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pennsylvania Ghost Towns

Download or read book Pennsylvania Ghost Towns written by Susan Tassin and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia -- Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster County.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Pennsylvania. Department of Public Instruction
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1939
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Pennsylvania. Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions

Download or read book Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions written by Jan C. Jansen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals new connections between war, revolution and forced migration in an era usually associated with a quest for liberty.

Book The Peoples of Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Peoples of Pennsylvania written by David E. Washburn and published by Inquiry International. This book was released on 1981 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Waiting for the Queen

Download or read book Waiting for the Queen written by Joanna Higgins and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two girls—one a Pennsylvania Quaker, the other a refugee from the French Revolution—form an unlikely friendship in this “rewarding” novel (School Library Journal). Fifteen-year-old Eugenie de La Roque and her family have barely escaped the French Revolution with their lives. Along with several other noble families, they sail to America, where an area that would come to be known as French Azilum is being carved out of the rugged Pennsylvania wilderness. Hannah Kimbrell is a young Quaker who’s been chosen to help prepare French Azilum for the arrival of the aristocrats. In this wild place away from home, Eugenie and Hannah seem a mismatched pair—but find more in common than they first realize. With much to learn from each other, the girls unite to help free several slaves from their tyrannical French owner, a dangerous scheme that requires personal sacrifice in exchange for the slaves’ freedom. A story of friendship against all odds, Waiting for the Queen is a loving portrait of the values of a young America, and a reminder that true nobility is more than a royal title. “Based on the true story of a group of families who sought asylum in Pennsylvania, this title vividly captures the hardships faced by the teen and her parents as they adjust to a life without luxuries . . . Eugenie’s growth as she begins to understand what is really important to her is beautifully and convincingly portrayed.” —School Library Journal “The story shifts between Hannah and Eugenie’s well-developed and distinct perspectives, both of which strongly reflect their respective upbringings and cultures. A meticulously detailed work of historical fiction about the challenges of the new and unfamiliar, and about looking beyond oneself toward the greater good.” —Publishers Weekly

Book The Restoration of French Azilum

Download or read book The Restoration of French Azilum written by French Azilum, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Historical Novel in Europe  1650 1950

Download or read book The Historical Novel in Europe 1650 1950 written by Richard Maxwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the French invention and the Scottish re-invention of historical fiction prepared the genre's popularity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Book The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase

Download or read book The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase written by Larry Neal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pennsylvania Histories

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  • Author : Sheldon Spear
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2015-10-22
  • ISBN : 1611462088
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book Pennsylvania Histories written by Sheldon Spear and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a consciously eclectic approach to the rich history of Pennsylvania in the period from 1740 to 1950. Combining original research with syntheses of relevant work by other historians, Pennsylvania Histories seeks to appeal to both professional historians and general readers by presenting a range of significant individuals, groups, and events that are likely to be less familiar to audiences interested in the history of Pennsylvania. The Moravians, for example, emerge as a denomination whose involvement in proselytization activities sets them apart from the quietism of the Amish and other well-known sects. Although the book concentrates on Pennsylvania, the subject matter is also germane to wider issues in the areas of economics, race and ethnicity, religion, and gender studies. Among the many topics discussed, Pennsylvania Histories considers the French and British refugees who settled near the Susquehanna River during the late eighteenth century, the burning of the town of Chambersburg by Confederate raiders in 1864, and the semi-public executions in Pennsylvania towns that persisted into the early twentieth century.

Book The Death of the French Atlantic

Download or read book The Death of the French Atlantic written by Alan Forrest and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power.The first was war, especially war at sea against France's most consistent enemy and commercial rival in the eighteenth century, Great Britain. A series of colonial wars, from the Seven Years' War and the War of American Independence to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars did much to drive Franceout of the North Atlantic.The second was anti-slavery and the rise of a new moral conscience which challenged the right of Europeans to own slaves or to sacrifice the freedom of others to pursue national economic advantage.The third was the French Revolution itself, which not only raised French hopes of achieving the Rights of Man for its own citizens but also sowed the seeds of insurrection in the slave societies of the New World, leading to the loss of Saint-Domingue and the creation of the first black republic inHaiti at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This proved critical to the economy of the French Caribbean, driving both colons and slaves from Saint-Domingue to seek shelter across the Atlantic world, and leaving a bitter legacy in the French Caribbean. It has also created an uneasy memory ofthe slave trade in French ports like Nantes, La Rochelle, and Bordeaux, and has left an indelible mark on race relations in France today.