Download or read book True Stories from History and Biography Classic Reprint written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from True Stories From History and Biography Grandfather again shoves his great Chair before the youthful public, and desires to make them acquainted with a new dynasty of occupants. The iron race of Puritans, whose rigid figures sat bolt upright against its oaken back, in the first Epoch of our History, have now given place to quite a different set of men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book True Stories From History Classic Reprint written by Hugh De Normand and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from True Stories From HistoryThe claims of Mr. Williams to identity with that personage, I have endeavored to state fairly, and as.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Story Life of Lincoln written by Wayne Whipple and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story-Life of Lincoln: A Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories Told by Abraham Lincoln and His Friends, Selected From All Authentic Sources, and Fitted Together in Order, Forming His Complete Life History You can not be more anxious than I am constantly; and I say to you now that if it were not for this occasional vent I should die. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Story Life of Lincoln written by Wayne Whipple and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story-Life of Lincoln: A Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories Told by Abraham Lincoln and His Friends, Selected From All Authentic Sources, and Fitted Together in Order, Forming This Complete Life History Stories: - Abraham Lincoln, the President's Grandfather - Uncle Mor decai - Boyhood of Lincoln's Father - Nancy Hanks, Lincoln's Mother - Marriage of His Father and Mother - How T om and Nancy Began Life together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book True Stories of Renowned Men and Women Classic Reprint written by L. G. Stahl and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from True Stories of Renowned Men and Women It often seems as if it were an advantage to a boy to be born poor. Many of our Presidents and other famous men and women have begun life under very hard circumstances and have had to fight poverty through many weary years. This sometimes makes it seem as if it required poverty and hardship to make a great man. This advantage George Washington did not have, and it was given him to prove that a rich boy as well as a poor one may rise to high places and fill them nobly. A man may live nobly though in a palace, said the old Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Washington's opportunities were of a very different kind from those of Lincoln, but no one can find much fault with the result in either case. Perhaps any kind of circumstances may be an advantage to a boy if he is only the right kind of boy to begin with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The True Story of Christopher Columbus Called the Great Admiral Classic Reprint written by Elbridge S. Brooks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The True Story of Christopher Columbus Called the Great Admiral This True Story of Christopher Columbus is offered and inscribed to the boys and girls of America as the opening volume in a series especially designed for their reading, and to be called Children's Lives of Great Men. In this series the place of honor, or rather of position, is given to Columbus the Admiral, because had it not been for him and for his pluck and faith and perseverance there might have been no young Americans, such as we know to-day, to read or care about the world's great men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A True Story of the Christiana Riot Classic Reprint written by David R. Forbes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A True Story of the Christiana Riot His work is, perhaps, more the offspring of love for local history, than the belief that it is a necessity. Entire originality is not claimed therefore, while much, to the gen eral reader, will be new, no doubt some passages will be found familiar, and, like old friends, it is hoped their reappearance will be hailed with pleasure. In its preparation the most serious consideration has been given to truthfulness. Neither time nor labor has been spared to verify the statements herein contained. The ground has been critically examined, old residents interviewed, and the story as published in the quarryville sun has with stood the censure of a discriminating public and received only words of praise. On the strength of this it is now presented in a more convenient and less perishable form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ten American Girls From History Classic Reprint written by Kate Dickinson Sweetser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ten American Girls From History My first aim in bringing the lives of these ten American girls from history to the attention of the girls of to-day has been to inspire them to like deeds of patriotism and courage. Second only to that purpose is a desire to make young Americans realize as they read these true stories of achievement along such Widely varying lines Of work, that history is more thrilling than fiction, and that if they will turn from these short sketches to the longer biographies from which the facts Of these stories have been taken, they will find interesting and absorbing reading. May the book accomplish its twofold Object, and so justify its publication at this time of the testing of all true Americans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The True Story of George Washington Called the Father of His Country Classic Reprint written by Elbridge Streeter Brooks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The True Story of George Washington Called the Father of His Country AS the second in the series of Children's Lives of Great Men, following the life of Columbus, the discoverer, comes the true story of George Washington, the founder of the country which to-day calls him its father. America has had no greater, no nobler, no truer man. Every land has honored him, every race has sung his praise. As the years go by, his real worth becomes more apparent and needs none of the over wrought little stories that have so long been told to boys and girls, to strengthen his character or give point to his record. The true story of his life is fine enough and full enough to interest, to inspire and to help, without adding the things that would make a prig of the boy and a god of the man who was always a truth-teller, truth-liver, and truth-doer, both as boy and man. One of the best of modern Americans, James Russell Lowell, who was born on the same day of the month as Washington, February twenty-second, wrote, shortly before his death, to a schoolgirl whose class proposed noticing his own birthday: Whatever else you do on the twenty-second of February, recollect, first of all, that on that day a really great man was born, and do not fail to warm your hearts with the memory of his service, and to brace your minds with the contemplation of his character. The rest of us must wait uncovered till he be served. Which is a good text for those boys and girls who may be led to read this true story of George Washington. The name of Washing ton is one which America will ever reverence, and one, before which, American boys and girls may well stand, hats off, uncovered in memory, respect and love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Red True Story Book Classic Reprint written by Andrew Lang and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Red True Story Book The Red True Story Book needs no long Introduction. The Editor, in presenting The Blue True Story Book, apologised for offering tales so much less thrilling and romantic than the legends of the Fairies, but he added that even real facts were, sometimes, curious and interesting. Next year he promises something quite as true as History, and quite as entertaining as Fairies! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The True Story of Lafayette written by Elbridge Streeter Brooks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The True Story of Lafayette: Called the Friend of America IN a series devoted to telling the true stories of great Americans or of those whose lives had a direct bearing upon the splendid story of the United States Of America, no man has better right to a place than the Marquis de Lafayette, the young and gallant Frenchman whose love for liberty led to a love for America that outlasted even the romantic story Of the way in which he fought for her independence. For the whole life Of Lafayette was a long struggle for constitutional liberty, the freedom he had seen America secure and which he so ardently desired for France. Had it not been for Lafayette, American independence would not have been so speedily secured; had it not been for America, the liberation of France from her long bondage in tyranny would scarcely have come so soon. Thus Lafayette and America are inseparably connected, and it is most fitting that, in a series devoted to the makers and defenders of America, Lafayette, as the Friend of America, should have an honored place. But this book aims to do more. At a time when interest in Lafayette has been revived by the erection of a monument to his memory in the Paris he loved so well, by the boys and girls of the America he helped to make great, it seeks to show how his entire life was devoted to the cause of freedom and the glory of France, and to tell, in the whole story of his eventful life, what one man has done for the progress Of humanity and the bettering of the world. If, from these pages, young Americans may learn not only to revere the memory of the noble Frenchman, but to learn lessons Of per sistence, fidelity, unshaken loyalty to conviction, to truth, to honor, and to manly endeavor, then the story of Lafayette will not have been retold in vain, and Americans may learn anew to honor, respect, and remember him, as not only the friend of America, but the benefactor of his race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Black Church written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Download or read book The True History of the First Mrs Meredith and Other Lesser Lives written by Diane Johnson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life. “Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the table—a quiet person, now muffled by time, shadowy, whose heart pounded with love, perhaps, or rage.” So begins The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, an uncommon biography devoted to one of those “lesser lives.” As the author points out, “A lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one.” Such sympathy and curiosity compelled Diane Johnson to research Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith (1821–1861), the daughter of the famous artist Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) and first wife of the equally famous poet George Meredith (1828–1909). Her life, treated perfunctorily and prudishly in biographies of Peacock or Meredith, is here exquisitely and unhurriedly given its due. What emerges is the portrait of a brilliant, well-educated woman, raised unconventionally by her father only to feel more forcefully the constraints of the Victorian era. First published in 1972, Lesser Lives has been a key text for feminists and biographers alike, a book that reimagined what biography might be, both in terms of subject and style. Biographies of other “lesser” lives have since followed in its footsteps, but few have the wit, elegance, and empathy of Johnson’s seminal work.
Download or read book A True Teacher written by Minerva Brace Norton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A True Teacher: Mary Mortimer; A Memoir The closing decade of the nineteenth century has no more distinguishing characteristic than the enlarged opportunities which it offers to women. The education which enables women to enter upon these opportunities has been the preparatory work of the whole century. Its sources are in rills which appeared, mostly in New England, in the first quarter of the century, and which gathered volume in the second quarter, notably in the opening of Oberlin, a co-educational college, in 1833, and of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837. The third quarter witnessed greatly increased growth and momentum, by reason of the founding of Vassar and other colleges for women which approach the standard of the best colleges for men; and the fourth quarter, not yet completed, has seen the remarkable enlargement of this far-reaching movement. The great world-story of this new factor in history must be written in succeeding centuries. At present, its phenomena are attracting chief attention. The present is also the time when contributions to the study of the movement must be secured. Some of its early phases are of surpassing interest and importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History Historians and Autobiography written by Jeremy D. Popkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though history and autobiography both claim to tell true stories about the past, historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts as subjective and therefore unreliable. What then, asks Jeremy D. Popkin in History, Historians, and Autobiography, are we to make of the ever-increasing number of professional historians who are publishing stories of their own lives? And how is this recent development changing the nature of history-writing, the historical profession, and the genre of autobiography? Drawing on the theoretical work of contemporary critics of autobiography and the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Popkin reads the autobiographical classics of Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams and the memoirs of contemporary historians such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Peter Gay, Jill Ker Conway, and many others, he reveals the contributions historians' life stories make to our understanding of the human experience. Historians' autobiographies, he shows, reveal how scholars arrive at their vocations, the difficulties of writing about modern professional life, and the ways in which personal stories can add to our understanding of historical events such as war, political movements, and the traumas of the Holocaust. An engrossing overview of the way historians view themselves and their profession, this work will be of interest to readers concerned with the ways in which we understand the past, as well as anyone interested in the art of life-writing.
Download or read book The Force of Truth written by Thomas Scott and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Force of Truth: An Authentic Narrative He feels thankful, that the leading desire of his heart, in publishing a work which seems to relate almost exclusively to himself and his own little concerns, has not been Wholly disappointed but he would earnestly request the prayers of all who favour the doc trines he inculcated, for a more abundant and extensive blessing on this, and all his other feeble endeavours to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The First American and Other Sunday Evening Studies in Biography Classic Reprint written by Charles Jacobs Baldwin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The First American and Other Sunday Evening Studies in Biography But does not this ascribed pre-eminence conflict with the well-known epithet which crowns George Washington as first in war first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen? Noz - In the sense intended by the poet, it is true that, as a new birth of the new soil of this Republic, Lincoln was its most typical production. He was the first American as embodying most fully the peculiar elements of the new nation of the western world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
