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Book The American Museum

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  • Author : George Washington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1792
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 101 pages

Download or read book The American Museum written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Summer of 1787

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  • Author : David O. Stewart
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-04-10
  • ISBN : 1416554041
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Summer of 1787 written by David O. Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation—then and now. George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia Convention as the delegates hammered out the charter for the world’s first constitutional democracy. Relying on the words of the delegates themselves to explore the Convention’s sharp conflicts and hard bargaining, David O. Stewart lays out the passions and contradictions of the, often, painful process of writing the Constitution. It was a desperate balancing act. Revolutionary principles required that the people have power, but could the people be trusted? Would a stronger central government leave room for the states? Would the small states accept a Congress in which seats were allotted according to population rather than to each sovereign state? And what of slavery? The supercharged debates over America’s original sin led to the most creative and most disappointing political deals of the Convention. The room was crowded with colorful and passionate characters, some known—Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, Edmund Randolph—and others largely forgotten. At different points during that sultry summer, more than half of the delegates threatened to walk out, and some actually did, but Washington’s quiet leadership and the delegates’ inspired compromises held the Convention together. In a country continually arguing over the document’s original intent, it is fascinating to watch these powerful characters struggle toward consensus—often reluctantly—to write a flawed but living and breathing document that could evolve with the nation.

Book Sexual Revolution in Early America

Download or read book Sexual Revolution in Early America written by Richard Godbeer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Alternate Selection of the History Book Club In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed "ante-nuptial fornication" as anything scandalous or sinful. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, described the region as a "stage of debauchery" in which polygamy was "very common," "concubinage general," and "bastardy no disrepute." These depictions of colonial North America's sexual culture sharply contradict the stereotype of Puritanical abstinence that persists in the popular imagination. In Sexual Revolution in Early America, Richard Godbeer boldly overturns conventional wisdom about the sexual values and customs of colonial Americans. His eye-opening historical account spans two centuries and most of British North America, from New England to the Caribbean, exploring the social, political, and legal dynamics that shaped a diverse sexual culture. Drawing on exhaustive research into diaries, letters, and other private papers, as well as legal records and official documents, Godbeer's absorbing narrative uncovers a persistent struggle between the moral authorities and the widespread expression of popular customs and individual urges. Godbeer begins with a discussion of the complex attitude that the Puritans had toward sexuality. For example, although believing that sex could be morally corrupting, they also considered it to be such an essential element of a healthy marriage that they excommunicated those who denied "conjugal fellowship" to their spouses. He next examines the ways in which race and class affected the debate about sexual mores, from anxieties about Anglo-Indian sexual relations to the sense of sexual entitlement that planters held over their African slaves. He concludes by detailing the fundamental shift in sexual culture during the eighteenth century towards the acceptance of a more individualistic concept of sexual desire and fulfillment. Today's moral critics, in their attempts to convince Americans of the social and spiritual consequences of unregulated sexual behavior, often harken back to a more innocent age; as this groundbreaking work makes clear, America's sexual culture has always been rich, vibrant, and contentious.

Book American Bibliography  1790 1792

Download or read book American Bibliography 1790 1792 written by Charles Evans and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Bibliography

Download or read book American Bibliography written by Charles Evans and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of American Magazines  1741 1850

Download or read book A History of American Magazines 1741 1850 written by Frank Luther Mott and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1938 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The five volumes of A History of American Magazines constitute a unique cultural history of America, viewed through the pages and pictures of her periodicals from the publication of the first monthly magazine in 1741 through the golden age of magazines in the twentieth century"--Page 4 of cover.

Book American Bibliography  1793 1794

Download or read book American Bibliography 1793 1794 written by Charles Evans and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Early American Magazines 1741 1789

Download or read book A History of Early American Magazines 1741 1789 written by Lyon Norman Richardson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1978 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations  Number IV

Download or read book Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations Number IV written by Joseph Stancliffe Davis and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Jersey History

Download or read book New Jersey History written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Disability Modern

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  • Author : Bess Williamson
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-07-23
  • ISBN : 1350070440
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Making Disability Modern written by Bess Williamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics. The contributors reveal the social role of objects - particularly those designed for use by people with disabilities, such as walking sticks, wheelchairs, and prosthetic limbs - and consider the active role that makers, users and designers take to reshape the material environment into a usable world. But it also aims to make clear that definitions of disability-and ability-are often shaped by design.