Download or read book Our Flag Was Still There written by Jessie Hartland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bank Street Best Book of the Year “So much to like about this, including the folk art–style artwork with childlike appeal, the emphasis on the women who constructed the flag, and the important ways a symbol can influence a country for generations.” —Booklist (starred review) From beloved author-illustrator Jessie Hartland comes a whimsical nonfiction picture book that tells the story of the American flag that inspired the poem and our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” If you go to the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, you can see a massive American flag: thirty feet tall and forty-two feet long. That’s huge! But how did it get there? And where did it come from? Well… The story of this giant flag begins in 1812 and stars a major on the eve of battle, a seamstress and her mighty helpers, and a poet named Francis Scott Key. This isn’t just the story of one flag. It’s the story of “The Star Spangled-Banner,” a poem that became our national anthem, too. Dynamically told and stunningly illustrated, Jessie Hartland brings this fascinating and true story to life.

Download or read book Capture the Flag written by Kate Messner and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three kids get caught up in an adventure of historic proportions!Anna, José, and Henry are complete strangers with more in common than they realize. Snowed in together at a chaotic Washington D.C. airport, they encounter a mysterious tattooed man, a flamboyant politician, and a rambunctious poodle named for an ancient king. Even stranger, news stations everywhere have announced that the famous flag that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner" has been stolen! Anna, certain that the culprits must be snowed in too, recruits Henry and José to help catch the thieves and bring them to justice. But when accusations start flying, they soon realize there's more than justice at stake. As the snow starts clearing, Anna, José, and Henry find themselves in a race against time (and the weather!) to prevent the loss of an American treasure.

Download or read book A Flag Worth Dying For written by Tim Marshall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Elliott and Thompson Limited as: Worth dying for: the power and politics of flags.

Download or read book Star Spangled Banner written by Lonn Tatlor and published by . This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Francis Scott Key saw the United States flag still flying over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland - signifying that the city had withstood the overnight British bombardment - he immediately sat down and wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner." Since that September morning in 1814, the flag and the national anthem have occupied a special place in the hearts of Americans. The flag that withstood the "bombs bursting in air" and inspired the anthem has been cared for by the Smithsonian and exhibited to the public for almost a century. Here is the dramatic story." --Back cover.

Download or read book That Star Spangled Banner written by Gabrielle Stewart and published by Christian Living Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2015 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10-year old author tells the story of the origin of the Star-spangled Banner.

Download or read book The Dawn s Early Light written by Walter Lord and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of America’s second war with England, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the great powers of Western Europe treated the United States like a disobedient child. Great Britain blocked American trade, seized its vessels, and impressed its sailors to serve in the Royal Navy. America’s complaints were ignored, and the humiliation continued until James Madison, the country’s fourth president, declared a second war on Great Britain. British forces would descend on the young United States, shattering its armies and burning its capital, but America rallied, and survived the conflict with its sovereignty intact. With stunning detail on land and naval battles, the role Native Americans played in the hostilities, and the larger backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this is the story of the turning points of this strange conflict, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” and led to the Era of Good Feelings that all but erased partisan politics in America for almost a decade. It was in 1812 that America found its identity and first assumed its place on the world stage. By the author of A Night to Remember, the classic account of the sinking of the Titanic—which was not only made into a 1958 movie but also led director James Cameron to use Lord as a consultant on his epic 1997 film—as well as acclaimed volumes on Pearl Harbor (Day of Infamy) and the Battle of Midway (Incredible Victory), this is a fascinating look at an oft-forgotten chapter in American history.

Download or read book Under Two Flags written by Ouida and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sweet Fragrance Of LOVE written by Bairister Sharma and published by Bairister Sharma. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOVE IS THE FOOD OF OUR HEART, MIND AND SOUL. Love is breath of our life. Without love our life is death or lifeless or meaningless or worthless. We can’t think or imagine anything without love. It is only love which gives us new meaning of our life. It is only love which teaches us the purpose of our life. Love is the foundation of every relationship. Without love no relationships ever survive in this world. Love is the mother of everything in this world. Love is the only medicine which heals every wound of our life. We can state that love is the herb of our life. Without love every creature will die in this world. Love is the only source of life in this entire world. Love is the life saving energy of every creature; love is the only power which combines and binds everything in one knot of togetherness. Love brings everything under one roof or in oneness. Love is like air we breathe. Love is like water we drink. Love is like fire we get warm. Love is like earth where we live. Love is like the sky which is above us. Love is the element of our life. Love yourself. Love your life. Love your world. Love your beloved ones. Love your friends. Love your neighbors. Love every creature of this world. Love is the only way to live in this world with happiness and peace. It is only love which will change your life. It is only love which will change your world. Only love can change you. Only love can change your life. Only love can change your world. ---***--- HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BOOK: • THIS BOOK TEACHES YOU THE TRUE MEANING OF LOVE. • THIS BOOK PREACHES YOU HOW TO LOVE YOURSELF AND OTHERS. • THIS BOOK UNEARTHS THE DIVINITY OF LOVE. • THIS BOOK GUIDES YOU TO BECOME LOVABLE AND COMPASSIONATE IN YOUR LIFE. • THIS BOOK LEADS YOU TO THE REALMS OF TRUE LOVE. • THIS BOOK TELLS YOU THE REAL POWER OF LOVE. • THIS BOOK SHOWS YOU THE TRUE WORTH OF LOVE IN YOUR LIFE.

Download or read book Star Spangled Banner written by Francis Scott Key and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Flag and the Cross written by Philip S. Gorski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short primer, Gorski and Perry explain what white Christian nationalism is and is not; when it first emerged and how it has changed; where it's headed and why it threatens democracy. Tracing the development of this ideology over the course of three centuries and especially its influence over the last three decades, they show how white Christian nationalism motivates the anti-democratic, authoritarian, and violent impulses on display in our current political moment.

Download or read book Lust for Liberty written by Samuel Kline COHN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Popular revolts were remarkably common--not the last resort of desperate people. Leaders were largely workers, artisans, and peasants. Over 90 percent of the uprisings pitted ordinary people against the state and were fought over political rights--regarding citizenship, governmental offices, the barriers of ancient hierarchies--rather than rents, food prices, or working conditions. After the Black Death, the connection of the word liberty with revolts increased fivefold, and its meaning became more closely tied with notions of equality instead of privilege. The book offers a new interpretation of the Black Death and the increase of and change in popular revolt from the mid-1350s to the early fifteenth century. Instead of structural explanations based on economic, demographic, and political models, this book turns to the actors themselves--peasants, artisans, and bourgeois--finding that the plagues wrought a new urgency for social and political change and a new self- and class-confidence in the efficacy of collective action.

Download or read book The Confederate Battle Flag written by John M. COSKI and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the Confederate flag has become as much a news item as a Civil War relic. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitols, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or adorning the T-shirts and jeans of public school children. To some, this piece of cloth is a symbol of white supremacy and enduring racial injustice; to others, it represents a rich Southern heritage and an essential link to a glorious past. Polarizing Americans, these flag wars reveal the profound--and still unhealed--schisms that have plagued the country since the Civil War. The Confederate Battle Flag is the first comprehensive history of this contested symbol. Transcending conventional partisanship, John Coski reveals the flag's origins as one of many banners unfurled on the battlefields of the Civil War. He shows how it emerged as the preeminent representation of the Confederacy and was transformed into a cultural icon from Reconstruction on, becoming an aggressively racist symbol only after World War II and during the Civil Rights movement. We gain unique insight into the fine line between the flag's use as a historical emblem and as an invocation of the Confederate nation and all it stood for. Pursuing the flag's conflicting meanings, Coski suggests how this provocative artifact, which has been viewed with pride, fear, anger, nostalgia, and disgust, might ultimately provide Americans with the common ground of a shared and complex history.

Download or read book The Black Banners written by Ali Soufan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan, join that army, even if you have to crawl over ice; no power will be able to stop them' Hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad The Black Banners is the ultimate insider's account of the realities of counter-terrorism. During a decade on the front lines, as the FBI's lead investigator into Al Qaeda, Ali Soufan thwarted plots around the world and won some of the most important confessions from terrorists - without laying so much as a hand on them. Most of these stories have never been reported before, and never by anyone with such intimate firsthand knowledge. Soufan takes us into the interrogation rooms, into the hideouts. He even gives us a ringside seat at bin Laden's personal celebration of the 9/11 bombings. This is a gripping blow-by-blow account of the ten-year hunt for the most dangerous and well-connected Islamist terrorists - some of whom are still at large. In The Black Banners Soufan also explains why the pervasive use of torture is not helping in the 'War on Terror', and how a more enlightened approach to intelligence is not only possible, but essential. This is a story not just of intrigue and bravery, but of empathy. He shows us how terrorists think and operate. And he shows that through this understanding, they can be stopped and finally brought to justice. Ali Soufan knows the truth about the successes and failures of countering terrorism. His knowledge is essential to us all.

Download or read book United States Code written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States Code is the official codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States of America. The Code was first published in 1926, and a new edition of the code has been published every six years since 1934. The 2012 edition of the Code incorporates laws enacted through the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, the last of which was signed by the President on January 15, 2013. It does not include laws of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, enacted between January 2, 2013, the date it convened, and January 15, 2013. By statutory authority this edition may be cited "U.S.C. 2012 ed." As adopted in 1926, the Code established prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States. The underlying statutes reprinted in the Code remained in effect and controlled over the Code in case of any discrepancy. In 1947, Congress began enacting individual titles of the Code into positive law. When a title is enacted into positive law, the underlying statutes are repealed and the title then becomes legal evidence of the law. Currently, 26 of the 51 titles in the Code have been so enacted. These are identified in the table of titles near the beginning of each volume. The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives continues to prepare legislation pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 285b to enact the remainder of the Code, on a title-by-title basis, into positive law. The 2012 edition of the Code was prepared and published under the supervision of Ralph V. Seep, Law Revision Counsel. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the contributions by all who helped in this work, particularly the staffs of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Government Printing Office"--Preface.

Download or read book Under the Banner of Heaven written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.

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Download or read book History of the Star Spangled Banner from 1814 to the Present written by George J. Svejda and published by . This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Spangled Banner from 1814 to the Present is a study of the writing and subsequent history of America's national anthem. It also includes details on the anthem's first publication as a poem, its later adaptation to music, the background of the music, when it was first sung, the development of its popularity after 1815, its various musical arrangements, and the efforts to adopt it as America's national anthem, as well as the inspirational meaning which it has held for successive generations of Americans and newcomers to these shores. Contents: Introduction The Star Spangled Banner as Flag The Star Spangled Banner as National Anthem Circumstances Surrounding the Writing of the Star Spangled Banner The Star Spangled Banner's First Appearance in the Press Media The Poetic Message The Background of the Music The Tune Early Musical Arrangements The Development of the Star Spangled Banner's Popularity The Star Spangled Banner During the Civil War The Star Spangled Banner Between 1865 and 1889; its Continued Growth in Popularity During the Post-Civil War Era, and the Beginning of the Trend Toward its Official Recognition Adoption of the Star Spangled Banner by the Navy and the Army Public Reaction to the Military Recognition of the Star Spangled Banner Proposed Standardization of the Star Spangled Banner The Efforts to Adopt the Star Spangled Banner as the National Anthem of the United States of America Criticism and Defence of the Star Spangled Banner The Star Spangled Banner Between the Time of its Congressional Recognition as the National Anthem and the Present Epilogue Appendices Bibliography