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Book Samantha Dalena Rawson   George Washington Rose

Download or read book Samantha Dalena Rawson George Washington Rose written by William Horace Rose and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of George Washington Rose and Samantha Dalena Rawson. George was born 6 December 1859 in North Ogden, Utah. He was the son of G. Rose (born 24 July 1819 in Canada) and Mary Moore. Samantha was born 26 August 1867 in Harrisville, Utah. She was the daughter of Daniel Berry Rawson (born 16 December 1827 in Indiana) and Nancy Boss. George Rose married Samantha Rawson 25 January 1888. They lived in Utah and were the parents of eight sons and one daughter. Descendants lived in Utah, Oregon, Nevada, Montana, Texas, California and elsewhere.

Book  Liberty to the Downtrodden

Download or read book Liberty to the Downtrodden written by Matthew J. Grow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883), a crusader for antislavery, women's rights, and the downtrodden, rose to prominence in his day as the most ardent and persuasive defender of Mormons' religious liberty. Though not a Mormon, Kane sought to defend the much-reviled group from the "Holy War" waged against them by evangelical America. His courageous personal intervention averted a potentially catastrophic bloody conflict between federal troops and Mormon settlers in the now nearly forgotten Utah War of 1857-58. Drawing on extensive, newly available archives, this book is the first to tell the full story of Kane's extraordinary life. The book illuminates his powerful Philadelphia family, his personal life and eccentricities, his reform achievements, his place in Mormon history, and his career as a Civil War general. Further, the book revises previous understandings of nineteenth-century reform, showing how Kane and likeminded others fused Democratic Party ideology, anti-evangelicalism, and romanticism.

Book History May Be Searched in Vain

Download or read book History May Be Searched in Vain written by Sherman L. Fleek and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great march across the Southwest. The story of that grueling march across wide prairies, mountains, and deserts is central to the battalion's story. It symbolizes the very essence of the Mormon drama as a frontier epic, and proves more than anything else the men's loyalty, stamina, and sacrifice.

Book The County of Williams

Download or read book The County of Williams written by William Henry Shinn and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Di Wu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Di Wu
  • Publisher : Rainbow Dragon Pub
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780980363463
  • Pages : 95 pages

Download or read book Di Wu written by Di Wu and published by Rainbow Dragon Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in China, Di Wu was an editor and illustrator in one of the biggest Chinese fine arts publishing companies before coming to Australia. He won awards for the books he published in China and his first Australian picture book, Rebel (with Allan Baillie), was short-listed for CBC Picture Book of the Year. He has since released Ali Baba (retold by Jean Chapman) where his illustrations reflect the rich and mysterious world of the Middle East with the use of watercolour on traditional Chinese rice paper. Other titles include Old Magic (with Allan Baillie) and Grandpa's Mask, with text by Jing Jing Guo who was the 1997 Victorian winner in the Nestle Write Around Australia Program. More recently Di collaborated with Jane Jolly to create Glass Tears and 2008 will see the release of Peacock Girl, written by his daughter, Lily Wu, and co-illustrated with his wife, Kathy Huang.

Book No  9

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bonnie Elaine Stewart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book No 9 written by Bonnie Elaine Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety-nine men entered the cold, dark tunnels of the Consolidation Coal Company's No.9 Mine in Farmington, West Virginia, on November 20, 1968. Some were worried about the condition of the mine. It had too much coal dust, too much methane gas. They knew that either one could cause an explosion. What they did not know was that someone had intentionally disabled a safety alarm on one of the mine's ventilation fans. That was a death sentence for most of the crew. The fan failed that morning, but the alarm did not sound. The lack of fresh air allowed methane gas to build up in the tunnels. A few moments before 5:30 a.m., the No.9 blew up. Some men died where they stood. Others lived but suffocated in the toxic fumes that filled the mine. Only 21 men escaped from the mountain. No.9: The 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster explains how such a thing could happen--how the coal company and federal and state officials failed to protect the 78 men who died in the mountain. Based on public records and interviews with those who worked in the mine, No.9 describes the conditions underground before and after the disaster and the legal struggles of the miners' widows to gain justice and transform coal mine safety legislation.

Book Network Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard R. John
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-10-05
  • ISBN : 0674088131
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Network Nation written by Richard R. John and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks that were products not only of technology and economics but also of a distinctive political economy. Western Union arose in an antimonopolistic political economy that glorified equal rights and vilified special privilege. The Bell System flourished in a progressive political economy that idealized public utility and disparaged unnecessary waste. The popularization of the telegraph and the telephone was opposed by business lobbies that were intent on perpetuating specialty services. In fact, it wasnÕt until 1900 that the civic ideal of mass access trumped the elitist ideal of exclusivity in shaping the commercialization of the telephone. The telegraph did not become widely accessible until 1910, sixty-five years after the first fee-for-service telegraph line opened in 1845. Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation.

Book The Frontiersmen of New York

Download or read book The Frontiersmen of New York written by Jeptha Root Simms and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Melodious Accord

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  • Author : Alice Parker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780929650432
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Melodious Accord written by Alice Parker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trans People in Love

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  • Author : Tracie O'Keefe
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2010-07-01
  • ISBN : 1135695679
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Trans People in Love written by Tracie O'Keefe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trans People in Love is a illuminating resource for members of the trans community and their partners and families; gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and intersex people; sexologists; sex therapists; counselors; psychologists; psychotherapists; social workers; psychiatrists; medical doctors; educators; students; and couples and family therapists. Trans People in Love provides a forum for the experience of being in love and in relationships with significant others for members of the trans community. This honest and respectful volume tells clinicians, scholars, and trans people themselves of the beauty and complexity that trans identity brings to a romantic relationship, what skills and mindsets are needed to forge positive relationships, and demonstrates the reality that trans people in all stages of transition can create stable and loving relationships that are both physically and emotionally fulfilling.

Book The Sutphen Family

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  • Author : Van Tassel Sutphen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book The Sutphen Family written by Van Tassel Sutphen and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirck Jansen van Zutphen was born at Tongerle, Netherlands, in 1645. He immigrated to New Netherlands, ca. 1676 and settled at New Utrecht, Long Island. He married Elisabeth (Lybeth) Van Nuys, daughter of Aucke Jansen Van Nuys, in 1680. They had eleven children, 1681-1699. Descendants listed lived in New York, New Jersey, and elsewhere.

Book Understanding Marilynne Robinson

Download or read book Understanding Marilynne Robinson written by Alexander John Engebretson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the award-winning Midwestern author of fiction and nonfiction Alex Engebretson offers the first comprehensive study of Marilynne Robinson's fiction and essays to date, providing an overview of the author's life, themes, and literary and religious influences. Understanding Marilynne Robinson examines this author of three highly acclaimed novels and recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the Orange Prize for fiction, and the National Humanities Medal. Through close readings of the novels and essay collections, Engebretson uncovers the unifying elements of Robinson's work: a dialogue with liberal Protestantism, an emphasis on regional settings, the marked influence of nineteenth-century American literature, and the theme of home. The study begins with Housekeeping, Robinson's haunting debut novel, which undertakes a feminist revision of the Western genre. Twenty-four years later Robinson began a literary project that would bring her national recognition, three novels set in a small, rural Iowa town. The first was Gilead, which took up the major American themes of race, the legacy of the Civil War, and the tensions between secular and religious lives. Two more Gilead novels followed, Home and Lila, both of which display Robinson's gift for capturing the mysterious dynamics of sin and grace. In Understanding Marilynne Robinson, Engebretson also reviews her substantial body of non-fiction, which demonstrates a dazzling intellectual range, from the contemporary science-religion debates, to Shakespeare, to the fate of liberal democracy. Throughout this study Engebretson makes the argument for Marilynne Robinson as an essential, deeply unfashionable, visionary presence within today's literary scene.

Book Inclusive Practice in the Primary School

Download or read book Inclusive Practice in the Primary School written by Sarah Trussler and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to feel more confident when teaching children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)? Would you like to be a more inclusive teacher? This book provides clear and flexible frameworks for effective inclusive teaching, and explains how to teach and plan for supporting any child’s learning, no matter what their needs are. With case studies and activities the book: explains and contextualizes current beliefs towards SEN provides models for practice encourages you to engage in thinking about SEN and inclusion offers interactive reflection points throughout links out to research with suggestions for further reading Whether you’re training to be a primary school teacher or already in the classroom this book will make you feel confident to be the inclusive teacher you need to be.

Book Why We Fought

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  • Author : Peter C. Rollins
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2008-07-25
  • ISBN : 0813138744
  • Pages : 877 pages

Download or read book Why We Fought written by Peter C. Rollins and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “wide-ranging and sophisticated anthology” comparing theaters of war to wars in the movie theater (Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel). Why We Fought makes a powerful case that film can be as valuable a tool as primary documents for improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of war. A comprehensive look at war films, from depictions of the American Revolution to portrayals of September 11 and its aftermath, this volume contrasts recognized history and historical fiction with the versions appearing on the big screen. The text considers a selection of the pivotal war films of all time, including All Quiet on the Western Front, Sands of Iwo Jima, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Saving Private Ryan—revealing how film depictions of the country’s wars have shaped our values, politics, and culture, and offering a unique lens through which to view American history. Named as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Book African Lusophone Writers

Download or read book African Lusophone Writers written by Mônica Rector and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Biographical entries on African Lusophone writers"--

Book Planetary Modernisms

Download or read book Planetary Modernisms written by Susan Stanford Friedman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more integrated study. Friedman moves from large-scale instances of pre-1500 modernities, such as Tang Dynasty China and the Mongol Empire, to small-scale instances of modernisms, including the poetry of Du Fu and Kabir and Abbasid ceramic art. She maps the interconnected modernisms of the long twentieth century, pairing Joseph Conrad with Tayeb Salih, E. M. Forster with Arundhati Roy, Virginia Woolf with the Tagores, and Aimé Césaire with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She reads postcolonial works from Sudan and India and engages with the idea of Négritude. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence, elevating the agencies and creative capacities of all cultures not only in the past and present but also in the century to come.