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Book The Scribner Family American History

Download or read book The Scribner Family American History written by Douglas M. Scribner and published by . This book was released on 200? with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah Banker Scribner, son of Lucius Scribner and Eveline Aldridge, was born in 1842 in Beekmantown, New York. He married Frances Elizabeth Wood (1855-1912) in 1873 in Peru, Illinois. They had four sons. He died in 1923 in San Diego, California. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany, Scotland, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin and California.

Book The History of the Scribner Families in America

Download or read book The History of the Scribner Families in America written by Charles Nelson Sinnett and published by . This book was released on 1925* with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Scribner Family

Download or read book A History of the Scribner Family written by Edwin Monroe Scribner and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Scribner married Hannah Crampton 5 March 1679/1680 in Norwalk, Connecticut. They had nine children. Benjamin died in 1704. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut, New Jersey and Ohio.

Book Scribner Family

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1777
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Scribner Family written by and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scribners

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  • Author : Charles Scribner III
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2023-11-07
  • ISBN : 1493079980
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Scribners written by Charles Scribner III and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scribners tells the inside story of five generations—over 150 years—at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York, continuing through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore and down to the present day. The author, the fifth of the Charleses to work at that house of celebrated authors, provides here an inside view—"between the covers" of illustrious and notorious books—of the family members, editors, and authors of this colorful literary history. Among the writers who illuminate this story, we find in the early years Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy, and the artists Charles Dana Gibson, N. C. Wyeth, and Maxfield Parrish, who illustrated Scribner's Magazine as well as Scribner books. Then with the arrival of "editor of genius" Max Perkins, the story takes off into the heights of twentieth-century fiction with Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Marcia Davenport, Alan Paton, James Jones and—above all—Ernest Hemingway, that most loyal and enduring author whose works were published by four generations of Scribners. Famous children's classics The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, and The Yearling also take their place of honor in the firm's contribution to new generations of readers. This engaging personal account of family history—both in and out of the office—includes the most colorful controversies: from Mussolini and Trotsky to Lindbergh and C. P. Snow, as well as behind-the-scenes adventures of the author's father as he navigated the seas with industry storms and publishing corsairs before finding a safe harbor at Macmillan and finally, after the demise of tycoon Robert Maxwell, Simon & Schuster. The author, an art historian, found himself for thirty years in the company of writers by "an accident of birth." But it proved an adventure beyond his reckoning, here told with the candor and informality of a family gathering, as well as with humor and affection for his father, P. D. James, Louis Auchincloss, Andrew Greeley, and other authors with whom he worked personally. As Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "If it wasn't life, it was magnificent."

Book The Scribner Families in America

Download or read book The Scribner Families in America written by Charles Nelson Sinnett and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript genealogy concerning Scribers in England; Matthew Screvener of Virginia; Benjamin Scrivener of Norwalk, Conn.; William Scriven of Kittery, Me.; and, in particular, descendants of John Scribner of Dover, N.H.

Book Cuba  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Download or read book Cuba Winner of the Pulitzer Prize written by Ada Ferrer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington—Barack Obama’s opening to the island, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden—have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba; “readers will close [this] fascinating book with a sense of hope” (The Economist). Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States—as well as the author’s own extensive travel to the island over the same period—this is a stunning and monumental account like no other.

Book Encyclopedia of American Social History

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Social History written by Mary Kupiec Cayton and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of the scholarship of historians, and work in ethnology, gender study, geography, literature, religion, anthropology, and sociology.

Book A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present

Download or read book A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present written by Arthur Wallace Calhoun and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. I. Colonial period -- v. II. From Independence through the Civil War -- v. III. Since the civil war.

Book The Fight for Local Control

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  • Author : Campbell F. Scribner
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-12
  • ISBN : 1501704117
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The Fight for Local Control written by Campbell F. Scribner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment to those values was shifting and selective. In The Fight for Local Control, Campbell F. Scribner demonstrates how, in the decades after World War II, suburban communities appropriated legacies of rural education to assert their political autonomy and in the process radically changed educational law. Scribner's account unfolds on the metropolitan fringe, where rapid suburbanization overlapped with the consolidation of thousands of small rural schools. Rural residents initially clashed with their new neighbors, but by the 1960s the groups had rallied to resist government oversight. What began as residual opposition to school consolidation would transform into campaigns against race-based busing, unionized teachers, tax equalization, and secular curriculum. In case after case, suburban conservatives carved out new rights for local autonomy, stifling equal educational opportunity. Yet Scribner also provides insight into why many conservatives have since abandoned localism for policies that stress school choice and federal accountability. In the 1970s, as new battles arose over unions, textbooks, and taxes, districts on the rural-suburban fringe became the first to assert individual choice in the form of school vouchers, religious exemptions, and a marketplace model of education. At the same time, they began to embrace tax limitation and standardized testing, policies that checked educational bureaucracy but bypassed local school boards. The effect, Scribner concludes, has been to reinforce inequalities between districts while weakening participatory government within them, keeping the worst aspects of local control in place while forfeiting its virtues.

Book The Scribner Family

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  • Author : Joseph Scribner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 19??
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book The Scribner Family written by Joseph Scribner and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Magazine of American History

Download or read book The Magazine of American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scribner House of New Albany  A Bicentennial Commemoration

Download or read book The Scribner House of New Albany A Bicentennial Commemoration written by Anne Caudill and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scribner House stands proudly on the banks of the Ohio River, a testament to the community it has seen through two centuries. Joel, Nathaniel and Abner Scribner founded New Albany when they arrived by flatboat from Pennsylvania in the early nineteenth century. Those pioneers built a thriving town--the largest in Indiana until after the Civil War. Join Piankeshaw Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution on a fascinating trip through the halls of the house they preserve. These expert stewards tell the stories of the Scribner House's tenants and the history of New Albany that happened both in its halls and outside its front door.

Book A Social History of the American Family  From 1865 to 1919

Download or read book A Social History of the American Family From 1865 to 1919 written by Arthur Wallace Calhoun and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Social Origins of Private Life

Download or read book The Social Origins of Private Life written by Stephanie Coontz and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form, Stephanie Coontz traces the complexity and variety of family arrangements in American history, from Native American kin groups to the emergence of the dominant middle-class family ideal in the 1890s. Surveying and synthesizing a vast range of previous scholarship, as well as engaging more particular studies of family life from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, Coontz offers a highly original account of the shifting structure and function of American families. Her account challenges standard interpretations of the early hegemony of middle-class privacy and “affective individualism,” pointing to the rich tradition of alternative family behaviors among various ethnic and socioeconomic groups in America, and arguing that even middle-class families went through several transformations in the course of the nineteenth centure. The present dominant family form, grounded in close interpersonal relations and premised on domestic consumption of mass-produced household goods has arisen, Coontz argues, from a long and complex series of changing political and economic conjunctures, as well as from the destruction or incorporation of several alternative family systems. A clear conception of American capitalism’s combined and uneven development is therefore essential if we are to understand the history of the family as a key social and economic unit. Lucid and detailed, The Social Origins of Private Life is likely to become the standard history of its subject.

Book Lake Champlain  Key to Liberty

Download or read book Lake Champlain Key to Liberty written by Ralph Nading Hill and published by Woodstock, Vt. : Countryman Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Social History of the American Family

Download or read book A Social History of the American Family written by Arthur W.. Calhoun and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: