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Book Love Letters from Mount Rushmore

Download or read book Love Letters from Mount Rushmore written by Richard Cerasani and published by South Dakota State Historical Society. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the experience of sculptor Arthur Cerasani as he worked with Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in 1940.

Book Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England

Download or read book Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England written by Jennifer Phegley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the popular publications of the Victorian period, illuminating the intricacies of courtship and marriage from the differing perspectives of the working, middle, and upper classes. In contemporary culture, the near obsessive pursuit of love and monogamous bliss is considered "normal," as evidenced by a wide range of online dating sites, television shows such as Sex in the City and The Bachelorette, and an endless stream of Hollywood romantic comedies. Ironically, when it comes to love and marriage, we still wrestle with many of the same emotional and social challenges as our 19th-century predecessors did over 100 years ago. Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England draws on little-known conduct books, letter-writing manuals, domestic guidebooks, periodical articles, letters, and novels to reveal what the period equivalents of "dating" and "tying the knot" were like in the Victorian era. By addressing topics such as the etiquette of introductions and home visits, the roles of parents and chaperones, the events of the London season, model love letters, and the specific challenges facing domestic servants seeking spouses, author Jennifer Phegley provides a fascinating examination of British courtship and marriage rituals among the working, middle, and upper classes from the 1830s to the 1910s.

Book Tracing Footsteps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lillian Frazer
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2021-02-26
  • ISBN : 1665517395
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Tracing Footsteps written by Lillian Frazer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Frazer, a descendant of the Scottish Highland Clan Fraser of Lovat, came to America in the 1720s, settling in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The “Frasers,” now known as “Frazers” continued their steadfast spirit in these new lands of America. The many lives of the Frazers in this writing descended from this one man and his wife Frances. Join us as we trace their footsteps through eight generations and numerous historical events.

Book New England Families  Genealogical and Memorial

Download or read book New England Families Genealogical and Memorial written by William Richard Cutter and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Expecting Sunshine

Download or read book Expecting Sunshine written by Alexis Marie Chute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An amazingly moving and emotional story that any woman―or any parent―can easily relate to.” ―Jennifer Hamilton, Editor, Canadian Family magazine Expecting Sunshine is a multi-award-winning memoir and a Kirkus Review BEST INDIE BOOK of 2017 Anyone who has experienced—or knows someone who has experienced—miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, or other forms of pregnancy and baby loss should read Expecting Sunshine, including those considering or already pregnant again. After her son, Zachary, dies in her arms at birth, visual artist and author Alexis Marie Chute disappears into her “Year of Distraction.” She cannot paint or write or tap into the heart of who she used to be, mourning not only for Zachary, but also for the future they might have had together. It is only when Chute learns she is pregnant again that she sets out to find healing and rediscover her identity—just in time, she hopes, to welcome her next child. In the forty weeks of her pregnancy, Chute grapples with her strained marriage, shaken faith, and medical diagnosis, with profound results. Glowing with riveting and gorgeous prose, Expecting Sunshine chronicles the anticipation and anxiety of expecting a baby while still grieving for the child that came before—enveloping readers with insightful observations on grief and healing, life and death, and the incredible power of a mother’s love. Letter from a reader: I just finished your beautiful book Expecting Sunshine and felt compelled to reach out and say thank you. A few days after I found out I miscarried, a few days before my D&C, I went to Barnes & Noble in hopes of finding a guidebook or self-help book of how to heal and cope with miscarriage or loss of a child. I searched every feasible location: self-help, psychology, family planning, childcare. With tears in my eyes I was too embarrassed to ask anyone at the counter for help. There I was already utterly heartbroken and feeling more alone than ever. Not a single book for me to turn to. I pulled out my phone, googled “books about miscarriage” and found your book and ordered it on the spot. It must not have been easy for you and your family to share your story, but I hope you know what an impact you’ve had on me and likely so many other women. You’ve given me so much hope for my year ahead. —Katie Rhodes, Oakland, California www.ExpectingSunshine.com

Book After Miscarriage

Download or read book After Miscarriage written by Karen Edmisten and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Miscarriage: A Catholic Woman’s Companion to Healing and Hope is a book about grief, healing, and hope after miscarriage. Not afraid to examine the raw emotions that accompany such an experience, the author tells women that they are not alone in reacting strongly, even frighteningly, to their loss and reassures them that hope and healing will come. Having experienced multiple miscarriages herself, Karen shares excerpts from her personal journals, as well as other women’s stories, rich quotes about grieving and the healing process, and practical advice. A helpful resource section includes a wide variety of information from both Catholic and secular sources.

Book Bound in Wedlock

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tera W. Hunter
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-05-08
  • ISBN : 0674979249
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Bound in Wedlock written by Tera W. Hunter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock, but it does not end there. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Drawing from plantation records, legal documents, and personal family papers, it reveals the many creative ways enslaved couples found to upend white Christian ideas of marriage. “A remarkable book... Hunter has harvested stories of human resilience from the cruelest of soils... An impeccably crafted testament to the African-Americans whose ingenuity, steadfast love and hard-nosed determination protected black family life under the most trying of circumstances.” —Wall Street Journal “In this brilliantly researched book, Hunter examines the experiences of slave marriages as well as the marriages of free blacks.” —Vibe “A groundbreaking history... Illuminates the complex and flexible character of black intimacy and kinship and the precariousness of marriage in the context of racial and economic inequality. It is a brilliant book.” —Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother

Book Public Vows

    Book Details:
  • Author : Melissa J. Ganz
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2019-06-20
  • ISBN : 0813942438
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Public Vows written by Melissa J. Ganz and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century England, the institution of marriage became the subject of heated debates, as clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social observers began rethinking its contractual foundation. Public Vows argues that these debates shaped English fiction in crucial and previously unrecognized ways and that novels, in turn, played a central role in the debates. Like many legal and social thinkers of their day, novelists such as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Eliza Fenwick, and Amelia Opie imagine marriage as a public institution subject to regulation by church and state rather than a private agreement between two free individuals. Through recurring scenes of infidelity, fraud, and coercion as well as experiments with narrative form, these writers show the practical and ethical problems that result when couples attempt to establish and dissolve unions simply by exchanging consent. Even as novelists seek to shore up the legal regulation of marriage, however, they contest the specific forms that these regulations take. In recovering novelists’ engagements with the nuptial controversies of the Enlightenment, Public Vows challenges longstanding accounts of domestic fiction as contributing to sharp divisions between public and private life and as supporting the traditional, patriarchal family. At the same time, the book counters received views of law and literature, highlighting fiction’s often simultaneous affirmations and critiques of legal authority.

Book Religious Program Specialist 3   2

Download or read book Religious Program Specialist 3 2 written by C. Joseph Preston and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert Harris Sr  1702 1788  Descendants  Vol 2

Download or read book Robert Harris Sr 1702 1788 Descendants Vol 2 written by Grier Harris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume 2 of a 2-part genealogy of the Harris family, tracing the lineage of Robert Harris Sr. (1702-1788). This work is part of The Families of Old Harrisburg Series, compiled and published by The Harris Depot Project. (Compact, Hardbound Edition)

Book AF Manual

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book AF Manual written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Air Force Chaplain

Download or read book The Air Force Chaplain written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traditions of De coo dah

Download or read book Traditions of De coo dah written by William Pidgeon and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traditions of De Coo Dah  and Antiquarian Researches

Download or read book Traditions of De Coo Dah and Antiquarian Researches written by William Pidgeon and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traditions of De Coo Dah

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Pidgeon
  • Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
  • Release : 2007-10-01
  • ISBN : 1602068429
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Traditions of De Coo Dah written by William Pidgeon and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1852, Traditions of DE-COO-DAH is the only remembered work of American writer WILLIAM PIDGEON (1818-c.1870). Today, it is considered an amusing and telling example of the flaws and prejudices found in white researchers of the era, and has been called "a crazy masterpiece of pseudoscience." Pidgeon suggests that the various burial mounds found throughout North and South America are the work of an unknown civilization that lived in those areas prior to the American Indians. American Indian tribes could not have constructed something so grand on their own, according to Pidgeon. Even at the time of its printing, Pidgeon's work was rejected by academics and academic societies, including the Smithsonian Institute and the American Antiquarian Society. While mounds have been found in the places he describes, they do not match his descriptions in exact location, size, or arrangement. Nor has any evidence ever been found to suggest that a more advanced civilization than the American Indians would have been necessary to have built them. Students of history and archeology will find this book a valuable lesson on pitfalls of prejudice and assumption.

Book The Week in Germany

Download or read book The Week in Germany written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: