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Book Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock  Green  Grant  Iowa and LaFayette

Download or read book Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock Green Grant Iowa and LaFayette written by Higginson Book Company and published by . This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Britain to America

    Book Details:
  • Author : William E. Van Vugt
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780252067570
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Britain to America written by William E. Van Vugt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1820 to 1860, the United States and Great Britain were the two most closely interconnected countries in the world in terms of culture and economic growth. In an important addition to immigration history, William Van Vugt explores who came to America from Great Britain during this period and why. Disruptions and economic hardships, such as the repeal of Britain's protective Corn Laws, the potato famine, and technological displacement, do not account for the great mid-century surge of British migration to America. Rather than desperation and impoverishment, Van Vugt finds that immigrants were motivated by energy, tenacity, and ambition to improve their lives by taking advantage of opportunities in America. Drawing on county histories, passenger lists of immigrant ships, census data, and manuscript collections in Great Britain and the United States, Van Vugt sketches the lives and fortunes of dozens of immigrant farmers, miners, artisans, skilled and unskilled laborers, professionals, and religious nonconformists.

Book Colonels in Blue  Illinois  Iowa  Minnesota and Wisconsin

Download or read book Colonels in Blue Illinois Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin written by Roger D. Hunt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth in a series documenting Union army colonels, this biographical dictionary lists regimental commanders from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. A brief sketch of each is included--many published here for the first time--giving a synopsis of Civil War service and biographical details, along with photos where available.

Book British Immigration to the United States  1776   1914  Volume 1

Download or read book British Immigration to the United States 1776 1914 Volume 1 written by William E van Vugt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reset edition collects immigrants' letters, immigration guides, newspaper articles, county history biographies, and promotional and advisory pamphlets published by immigrants and travellers, land and railroad companies.

Book British Immigration to the United States  17761914

Download or read book British Immigration to the United States 17761914 written by William E Van Vugt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reset edition collects immigrants' letters, immigration guides, newspaper articles, county history biographies, and promotional and advisory pamphlets published by immigrants and travellers, land and railroad companies.

Book The Basye Family in the United States

Download or read book The Basye Family in the United States written by Otto Basye and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Views from My Schoolroom Window

Download or read book Views from My Schoolroom Window written by Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENT: Views From My Schoolroom Windowis the truecoming-of-agestory of a 19thcentury schoolgirl who became a teacher upon turning 15 years old.Laurentine'snonfiction, historical account, in the form of edited diary and supplemental writings, was based in Janesville, Wisconsin 1856 -- 1870. BecauseLaurentinewas a prolificwriter and an insightful chronicler of changearound her, readers are provided, through the lens of her "father confessor" (her diary), with an engaging, richly detailed and unique set of views of family life, social relations, community debates, education standards, and the face of war -- the Civil War. Laurentine, a surprisingly modern young woman for her time,challenges us to reconsider what we think we know about 19th century women, their expectations in life, and their attitudes towards roles and duties.Laurentine's humor and escapades help us shedmisconceptions of the dark and dour cloaks of thisera in history. While it may be difficult to imagine,Laurentine's descriptions of prairie life as a schoolteacher in Janesville, Wisconsinprecededthose many of us have known fromlives in theLittle Housebooksby more than a generation! [396pp., 12 Photographs, 1 Map, Appendix, 133 Notes, Bibliographic Resources, Index]

Book Frank Lloyd Wright   The Early Years   Progressivism   Aesthetics   Cities

Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright The Early Years Progressivism Aesthetics Cities written by Donald Leslie Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence, its bulk and space, its architectural landscape. This book analyzes Wright's innovative, profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put into practice. It outlines the design methodology that he applied to domestic and non-domestic buildings and presents reasons for the recognition of two Wright Styles and a Wright School. The book also studies how his design method was applied to city planning and implications of historical and theoretical contexts of the period that surely influenced all of Wright's community and city planning.

Book Life  Death  and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds

Download or read book Life Death and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds written by Robert A. Birmingham and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life, Death, and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds is an archaeological detective story illuminating the lives of white settlers in the lead-mining region during the tragic events of the historically important conflict known as the Black Hawk War. Focusing on the strategically located Fort Blue Mounds in southwestern Wisconsin, Robert A. Birmingham summarizes the 1832 conflict and details the history of the fort, which played a major role not only in U.S. military and militia operations but also in the lives of the white settlers who sought refuge there. Birmingham then transports us to the site decades later, when he and fellow Wisconsin Historical Society archaeologists and dedicated volunteers began their search for the fort. The artifacts they unearthed provide fascinating—and sometimes surprising—insights into the life, material culture, and even the food of the frontier. Recommended for readers interested in the Black Hawk War, frontier life, Native American history, military history, and archaeology, Life, Death, and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds is grounded by a sense of place and the discovery of what a careful examination of our surroundings can tell us about the past.

Book Leaving England

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte Erickson
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-24
  • ISBN : 1501734261
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Leaving England written by Charlotte Erickson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Isles provided more overseas settlers than any country in continental Europe during the nineteenth century, but English emigrants to North America have remained largely invisible, partly for lack of records about their departure or their experiences. Here Charlotte Erickson uses new sources to understand this long-neglected group and the nature of their lives in a new land.

Book British Immigration to the United States  1776   1914  Volume 3

Download or read book British Immigration to the United States 1776 1914 Volume 3 written by William E van Vugt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reset edition collects immigrants' letters, immigration guides, newspaper articles, county history biographies, and promotional and advisory pamphlets published by immigrants and travellers, land and railroad companies.

Book Microhistories of Communication Studies

Download or read book Microhistories of Communication Studies written by Pat J. Gehrke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an academic discipline is usually conveyed in grand movements and long spans, but it can also be told through the lives of individual scholars, through the development of specialties, through the creation and change of departments, and through the formation and transformation of organizations. Using twelve histories of micro-dimensions of communication studies, this volume shows how sometimes small decisions, single scholars, individual departments, and marginalized voices can have dramatic roles in the history and future of an academic discipline. As a compilation of micro-histories with macro-lessons this volume stands alone in communication studies. Read as a companion to A Century of Communication Studies, the National Communication Association’s centennial volume, it offers rich detail, missing links, and local narratives that fully flesh out the discipline. In either case, no education in communication studies is complete without an understanding of the themes, challenges, and triumphs embodied by the twelve micro-histories offered in this book. This book was originally published as two special issues of Review of Communication.

Book Pharos  Influences

    Book Details:
  • Author : Silas H. Shepherd Research Lodge #1843
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2013-05-10
  • ISBN : 1304026302
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Pharos Influences written by Silas H. Shepherd Research Lodge #1843 and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharos II: Influences Collected research about the influences Freemasonry has had on our society as envisioned by Todd W. Krohn, Allan E. Iding, Ralph F. Knowlton, John D. Mitchell, Rick E. Gustafson, Dan Bast, Khristian E. Kay, William O'Haver, David P. Hullinger, Dennis V. Siewert, William F. Milz, Ross O. Ranzau, Silas H. Shepherd, Roe Parham Fulkerson, Frank W. Bobb

Book The Payne Butrick Papers  Volumes 4  5  6

Download or read book The Payne Butrick Papers Volumes 4 5 6 written by John Howard Payne and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark two-volume set is the richest and most important extant collection of information about traditional Cherokee culture. Because many of the Cherokees own records were lost during their forced removal to the west, the Payne-Butrick Papers are the most detailed written source about the Cherokee Nation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the 1830s John Howard Payne, a respected author, actor, and playwright, and Daniel S. Butrick, an American Board missionary, hastened to gather information on Cherokee life and history, fearing that the cultural knowledge would be lost forever. Butrick, who was conversant with the Cherokees culture and language after having spent decades among them, recorded what elderly Cherokees had to say about their lives. The collection also contains much of the Cherokee leaders correspondence, which had been given to Payne for safekeeping. This amazing repository of information covers nearly all aspects of traditional Cherokee culture and history, including politics, myths, early and later religious beliefs, rituals, marriage customs, ball play, language, dances, and attitudes toward children. It will inform our understanding and appreciation of the history and enduring legacy of the Cherokees.

Book British Immigration to the United States  1776   1914

Download or read book British Immigration to the United States 1776 1914 written by William E van Vugt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reset edition collects immigrants' letters, immigration guides, newspaper articles, county history biographies, and promotional and advisory pamphlets published by immigrants and travellers, land and railroad companies.