Download or read book Western Massachusetts written by John Hoyt Lockwood and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lexington written by Kim Wickens and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse The powerful true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained international fame in the tumultuous Civil War–era South, and became the most successful sire in American racing history The early days of American horse racing were grueling. Four-mile races, run two or three times in succession, were the norm, rewarding horses who brandished the ideal combination of stamina and speed. The stallion Lexington, named after the city in Kentucky where he was born, possessed these winning qualities, which pioneering Americans prized. Lexington shattered the world speed record for a four-mile race, showing a war-torn nation that the extraordinary was possible even in those perilous times. He would continue his winning career until deteriorating eyesight forced his retirement in 1855. But once his groundbreaking achievements as a racehorse ended, his role as a sire began. Horses from his bloodline won more money than the offspring of any other Thoroughbred—an annual success that led Lexington to be named America’s leading sire an unprecedented sixteen times. Yet with the Civil War raging, Lexington’s years at a Kentucky stud farm were far from idyllic. Confederate soldiers ran amok, looting freely and kidnapping horses from the top stables. They soon focused on the prized Lexington and his valuable progeny. Kim Wickens, a lawyer and dressage rider, became fascinated by this legendary horse when she learned that twelve of Thoroughbred racing's thirteen Triple Crown winners descended from Lexington. Wickens spent years meticulously researching the horse and his legacy—and with Lexington, she presents an absorbing, exciting account that transports readers back to the raucous beginning of American horse racing and introduces them to the stallion at its heart.

Download or read book Washington s End written by Jonathan Horn and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular historian and former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn “provides a captivating and enlightening look at George Washington’s post-presidential life and the politically divided country that was part of his legacy” (New York Journal of Books). Beginning where most biographies of George Washington leave off, Washington’s End opens with the first president exiting office after eight years and entering what would become the most bewildering stage of his life. Embittered by partisan criticism and eager to return to his farm, Washington assumed a role for which there was no precedent at a time when the kings across the ocean yielded their crowns only upon losing their heads. In a different sense, Washington would lose his head, too. In this riveting read, bestselling author Jonathan Horn reveals that the quest to surrender power proved more difficult than Washington imagined and brought his life to an end he never expected. The statesman who had staked his legacy on withdrawing from public life would feud with his successors and find himself drawn back into military command. The patriarch who had dedicated his life to uniting his country would leave his name to a new capital city destined to become synonymous with political divisions. A “movable feast of a book” (Jay Winik, New York Times bestselling author of 1944), immaculately researched, and powerfully told through the eyes not only of Washington but also of his family members, friends, and foes, Washington’s End is “an outstanding biographical work on one of America’s most prominent leaders (Library Journal).

Download or read book The First Century of American Newspapers written by William Adelbert Dill and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wilderness the Nation and the Electronic Era written by Elmer J. O'Brien and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era: American Christianity and Religious Communication 1620-2000: An Annotated Bibliography contains over 2,400 annotations of books, book chapters, essays, periodical articles, and selected dissertations dealing with the various means and technologies of Christian communication used by clergy, churches, denominations, benevolent associations, printers, booksellers, publishing houses, and individuals and movements in their efforts to disseminate news, knowledge, and information about religious beliefs and life in the United States from colonial times to the present. Providing access to the critical and interpretive literature about religious communication is significant and plays a central role in the recent trend in American historiography toward cultural history, particularly as it relates to numerous collateral disciplines: sociology, anthropology, education, speech, music, literary studies, art history, and technology. The book documents communication shifts, from oral history to print to electronic and visual media, and their adaptive uses in communication networks developed over the nation's history. This reference brings bibliographic control to a large and diverse literature not previously identified or indexed.

Download or read book NJ Archives Vol XXVI Newspaper Extracts 1768 1769 1904 written by and published by Digital Antiquaria. This book was released on with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Letters of Centinel written by Samuel Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ohio Newspaper written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publications written by Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journalism Series written by Ohio State University and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Book in America 5 volume Omnibus E book written by David D. Hall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 4704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five volumes in A History of the Book in America offer a sweeping chronicle of our country's print production and culture from colonial times to the end of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary, collaborative work of scholarship examines the book trades as they have developed and spread throughout the United States; provides a history of U.S. literary cultures; investigates the practice of reading and, more broadly, the uses of literacy; and links literary culture with larger themes in American history. Now available for the first time, this complete Omnibus ebook contains all 5 volumes of this landmark work. Volume 1 The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World Edited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall 664 pp., 51 illus. Volume 2 An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840 Edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley 712 pp., 66 illus. Volume 3 The Industrial Book, 1840-1880 Edited by Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship 560 pp., 43 illus. Volume 4 Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940 Edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway 688 pp., 74 illus. Volume 5 The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America Edited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson 632 pp., 95 illus.

Download or read book Transactions American Philosophical Society vol 8 1843 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States written by Simon Newton Dexter North and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Western Massachusetts written by Josiah Gilbert Holland and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Waterways Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Federalist Party in Massachusetts to the Year 1800 written by Anson Ely Morse and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Palmer s Index to The Times Newspaper written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: