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Book The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton

Download or read book The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton written by Mrs. Ellen Douglas (Birdseye) Wheaton and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton

Download or read book The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton written by Mrs Ellen Douglas (Birdseye) Wheaton and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton

Download or read book The Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton written by Ellen Birdseye Wheaton and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton and Family History

Download or read book Diary of Ellen Birdseye Wheaton and Family History written by Katharine Wagner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-12 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family history as American History. Even if you are not a descendant of this early American family, you will experience the day to day life of an Upstate New York family that was engaged in the shaping of the United States of America from its earliest days to the Civil War. If you are exploring family history broadly or are one of the many descendants of the individuals in this book, you will quickly discover how interesting family can be. If you are not a descendant of this early family, you will surely be inspired to document your personal story for the benefit of future generations of Americans.

Book American Diaries

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Matthews
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book American Diaries written by William Matthews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Day at a Time

Download or read book A Day at a Time written by Margo Culley and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1985 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.

Book Diary of Ellen Birdsey Wheaton

Download or read book Diary of Ellen Birdsey Wheaton written by Donald Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anonymous Was a Woman

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  • Author : Mirra Bank
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1995-09-15
  • ISBN : 9780312134303
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Anonymous Was a Woman written by Mirra Bank and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-09-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In print since it was first published in 1979, this book is a glorious collection of American folk art by "ordinary" women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Filled with beautiful four-color reproductions of samplers, quilts, paintings, and needle-pictures along with excerpts from diaries and letters, sampler verse, books, and magazines of the period, Anonymous Was a Woman celebrates the daily experiences and inner lives of women who, in acts of love and duty, created many masterpieces of American folk art.

Book The History of Reading

Download or read book The History of Reading written by S. Towheed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers to the diverse approaches used to recover the evidence of reading through history in different societies, and asks whether reading practices are always conditioned by specific local circumstances or whether broader patterns might emerge.

Book The Inevitable Hour

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  • Author : Emily K. Abel
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2013-05
  • ISBN : 1421409194
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book The Inevitable Hour written by Emily K. Abel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.

Book John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier

Download or read book John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier written by Merlin Stonehouse and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography is the absorbing and significant story of a frontier life in America in the nineteenth century. John Wesley North was a carpetbagger in the best sense of the word, and professor Stonehouse points out that no fallacy is more persistent in Am.

Book Hearts of Wisdom

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  • Author : Emily K. Abel
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674020022
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Hearts of Wisdom written by Emily K. Abel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the female caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination we might assume that such caregiving would have attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years, this has hardly been the case. While caring for sick and disabled family members was commonplace for women in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America, that caregiving, the caregivers' experience of it, and the medical profession's reaction to it took diverse and sometimes unexpected forms. A complex series of historical changes, Abel shows, has profoundly altered the content and cultural meaning of care. Hearts of Wisdom is an immersion into that "world of care." Drawing on antebellum slave narratives, white farm women's diaries, and public health records, Abel puts together a multifaceted picture of what caregiving meant to American women--and what it cost them--from the pre-Civil War years to the brink of America's entry into the Second World War. She shows that caregiving offered women an arena in which experience could be parlayed into expertise, while at the same time the revolution in bacteriology and the transformation of the formal health care system were weakening women's claim to that expertise. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: 1850-1890 1. "Hot Flannels, Hot Teas, and a Great Deal of Care": Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888 2. An Overview of Nineteenth-Century Caregiving 3. "Tried at the Quilting Bees": Con'icts between "Old Ladies" and Aspiring Professionals Part Two: 1890-1940 4. A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890-1924 5. "Just as You Direct": Caregiver Translations of Medical Authority 6. Negotiating Public Health Directives: Poor New Yorkers at the Turn of the Century Reviews of this book: This excellent historical review of female caregiving within families as a transformative experience identifies conditions that make this form of human connectedness rewarding and meaningful. --J.E. Thompson, Choice This is a breathtaking work in terms of its depth and its breadth. Emily Abel's research is impressive in its time frame, wide range of topics, and wonderful source material. What she has given us, for the first time, is a full-length study of the female support network, not only for childbirth but for a whole range of health issues. With her pleasing writing style and clear, readable prose, she gives us much more than mere glimpses of anonymous people--she provides the reader with a sense of the texture of human lives. --Susan L. Smith, University of Alberta The reader of Hearts of Wisdom is surprised by the topic and content, but is left with the sense that the most central story of human possibility has been left out of all other history books. The work offers a substantive contribution to history, feminist scholarship, caregiving professions, and informal caregivers. --Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D, University of California, San Francisco

Book Siblings

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  • Author : C. Dallett Hemphill
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0190215895
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Siblings written by C. Dallett Hemphill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of sibling relations in America. Illuminating the evolution of the modern family system, Siblings shows how brothers and sisters have helped each other in the face of the dramatic political, economic, and cultural changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As Hemphill demonstrates, siblings function across all races as humanity's shock-absorbers as well as valued kin and keepers of memory.

Book The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women

Download or read book The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women written by Joyce D. Goodfriend and published by Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Stormy Present

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  • Author : Adam I. P. Smith
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2017-10-06
  • ISBN : 1469633906
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book The Stormy Present written by Adam I. P. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats to consider the everyday conservatism that characterized the majority of Northern voters. A sense of ongoing crisis in these Northern states created anxiety and instability, which manifested in a range of social and political tensions in individual communities. In the face of such realities, Smith argues that a conservative impulse was more than just a historical or nostalgic tendency; it was fundamental to charting a path to the future. At stake for Northerners was their conception of the Union as the vanguard in a global struggle between democracy and despotism, and their ability to navigate their freedoms through the stormy waters of modernity. As a result, the language of conservatism was peculiarly, and revealingly, prominent in Northern politics during these years. The story this book tells is of conservative people coming, in the end, to accept radical change.

Book Columbus  Shakespeare  and the Interpretation of the New World

Download or read book Columbus Shakespeare and the Interpretation of the New World written by J. Hart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-01-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's The Tempest , and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial. This book brings the comparative study of the cultural past of the Americas and the Atlantic world into focus as it relates to the present.

Book The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Download or read book The New England Historical and Genealogical Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.