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Book The Papers of George Washington  January September 1788

Download or read book The Papers of George Washington January September 1788 written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Papers of George Washington, a grant-funded project, established in 1968 at the University of Virginia, under the joint auspices of the University and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, to publish a comprehensive edition of Washington's correspondence. Letters written to Washington as well as letters and documents written by him are being published in the complete edition that will consist of approximately ninety volumes. The work is now (2011) more than two-thirds complete. The edition is supported financially by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, the University of Virginia, and gifts from private foundations and individuals. Today there are copies of over 135,000 Washington documents in the project's document room. This is one of the richest collections of American historical manuscripts extant. There is almost no facet of research on life and enterprise in the late colonial and early national periods that will not be enhanced by material from these documents. The publication of Washington's papers will make this source material available not only to scholars but to all Americans interested in the founding of their nation. - Publisher.

Book Catalog of Manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Download or read book Catalog of Manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society written by Massachusetts Historical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Whiskey Rebellion

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  • Author : Thomas P. Slaughter
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1988-01-14
  • ISBN : 0199923353
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Whiskey Rebellion written by Thomas P. Slaughter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S. government under the Constitution. This classic confrontation between champions of liberty and defenders of order was long considered the most significant event in the first quarter-century of the new nation. Thomas P. Slaughter recaptures the historical drama and significance of this violent episode in which frontier West and cosmopolitan East battled over the meaning of the American Revolution. The book not only offers the broadest and most comprehensive account of the Whiskey Rebellion ever written, taking into account the political, social and intellectual contexts of the time, but also challenges conventional understandings of the Revolutionary era.

Book Index  The Papers of the Continental Congress  1774 1789

Download or read book Index The Papers of the Continental Congress 1774 1789 written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Papers of George Washington

Download or read book The Papers of George Washington written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letter from Alexander Hamilton  Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams  Esq   President of the United States

Download or read book Letter from Alexander Hamilton Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams Esq President of the United States written by Alexander Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heath Papers

Download or read book The Heath Papers written by William Heath and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and Correspondence of H  Knox

Download or read book Life and Correspondence of H Knox written by Francis Samuel DRAKE and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain

Download or read book An Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain written by Arthur Lee and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ratification

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  • Author : Pauline Maier
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-06-07
  • ISBN : 0684868555
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book Ratification written by Pauline Maier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the first new account of this seminal moment in American history in years.

Book Index to the Henry Knox Papers Owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society and Deposited in the Massachusetts Historical Society

Download or read book Index to the Henry Knox Papers Owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society and Deposited in the Massachusetts Historical Society written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shays s Rebellion

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  • Author : Leonard L. Richards
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2014-11-29
  • ISBN : 0812203194
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Shays s Rebellion written by Leonard L. Richards and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful armed rebellion against the state of Massachusetts. Their desperate struggle was fueled by the injustice of a regressive tax system and a conservative state government that seemed no better than British colonial rule. But despite the immediate failure of this local call-to-arms in the Massachusetts countryside, the event fundamentally altered the course of American history. Shays and his army of four thousand rebels so shocked the young nation's governing elite—even drawing the retired General George Washington back into the service of his country—that ultimately the Articles of Confederation were discarded in favor of a new constitution, the very document that has guided the nation for more than two hundred years, and brought closure to the American Revolution. The importance of Shays's Rebellion has never been fully appreciated, chiefly because Shays and his followers have always been viewed as a small group of poor farmers and debtors protesting local civil authority. In Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle, Leonard Richards reveals that this perception is misleading, that the rebellion was much more widespread than previously thought, and that the participants and their supporters actually represented whole communities—the wealthy and the poor, the influential and the weak, even members of some of the best Massachusetts families. Through careful examination of contemporary records, including a long-neglected but invaluable list of the participants, Richards provides a clear picture of the insurgency, capturing the spirit of the rebellion, the reasons for the revolt, and its long-term impact on the participants, the state of Massachusetts, and the nation as a whole. Shays's Rebellion, though seemingly a local affair, was the revolution that gave rise to modern American democracy.

Book Travels in New England and New York

Download or read book Travels in New England and New York written by Timothy Dwight and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: