Download or read book Publication of the Oswego County Historical Society written by Oswego County Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When It Was Grand written by LeeAnna Keith and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Civil War Monitor best book of 2020 A group biography of the activists who defended human rights and defined the Republican Party’s greatest hour In 1862, the ardent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison summarized the events that were tearing apart the United States: “There is a war because there was a Republican Party. There was a Republican Party because there was an Abolition Party. There was an Abolition Party because there was Slavery.” Garrison’s simple statement expresses the essential truths at the heart of LeeAnna Keith’s When It Was Grand. Here is the full story, dramatically told, of the Radical Republicans—the champions of abolition who helped found a new political party and turn it toward the extirpation of slavery. Keith introduces us to the idealistic Massachusetts preachers and philanthropists, rugged Midwestern politicians, and African American activists who collaborated to protect escaped slaves from their captors, to create and defend black military regiments and win the contest for the soul of their party. Keith’s fast-paced, deeply researched narrative gives us new perspective on figures ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Brown, to the gruff antislavery general John Fremont and his astute wife, Jessie Benton Fremont, and the radicals’ sometime critic and sometime partner Abraham Lincoln. In the 1850s and 1860s, a powerful faction of the Republican Party stood for a demanding ideal of racial justice—and insisted that their party and nation live up to it. Here is a colorful, definitive account of their indelible accomplishment.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York State written by Peter Eisenstadt and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 1960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.
Download or read book Faith and Friendship written by David J. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Publications written by Historical Society of Southern California and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Maps of the Wilderness written by Bradley Gottfried and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maps of the Wilderness: An Atlas of the Wilderness Campaign, May 2-7, 1864 continues Bradley M. Gottfried’s efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War’s Eastern Theater. This is his fifth book in the ongoing Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series. The previous four were The Maps of Gettysburg (2007), The Maps of First Bull Run (2009), The Maps of Antietam (2012), and The Maps of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns (2013). This latest magisterial work breaks down the entire campaign (and all related operational maneuvers) into 24 map sets or “action-sections” enriched with 120 original full-page color maps. These spectacular cartographic creations bore down to the regimental and battery level. The Maps of the Wilderness includes an assessment of the winter of 1863-1864, the planning for the campaign, the crossing of the Rapidan River, and two days of bloody combat and the day of watchful stalemate thereafter. At least one—and as many as eight—maps accompany each “action-section.” Opposite each map is a full facing page of detailed footnoted text describing the units, personalities, movements, and combat (including quotes from eyewitnesses) depicted on the accompanying map, all of which make the story of the first large-scale combat of 1864 come alive. Each cartographic snapshot also serves to unlock everything ever written on the subject. This detailed coverage also includes an order of battle, interview with the author, bibliography, and an index. This original presentation leads readers on a journey through the epic battle that would prove to be the opening salvo in a prolonged fight that would not end until the Confederates surrendered at Appomattox in April 1865. The Wilderness Campaign has two unique characteristics. First, although he did not command the Army of the Potomac, the battle was Ulysses S. Grant’s first against General Robert E. Lee. Second, the Wilderness fighting—prolonged, bloody, and inconclusive—is widely viewed as the most confusing action of the entire war. The dense thickets and deep smoke obscured much of what occurred during the two days of combat. Gottfried’s book cuts through the confusion to deliver a clear account of the horrendous struggle. Perfect for the easy chair or for walking hallowed ground, The Maps of the Wilderness is a seminal work that, like his earlier studies, belongs on the bookshelf of every serious and casual student of the Civil War, or in the hands of an avid enthusiast out walking the Hallowed Ground.
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950 1977 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 2352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada written by American Association for State and Local History and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-functional reference is a useful tool to find information about history-related organizations and programs and to contact those working in history across the country.
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of San Diego The glory years by R F Pourade written by Richard F. Pourade and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goldfield written by Ted Faye and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a time when Goldfield, Nevada, was known around the world as a city growing in the desert, seemingly out of nowhere, with no natural resources except for the extremely rich and plentiful mineral found in the ground--gold! In England, they were afraid the amount of gold mined in Goldfield would flood the market, making gold worthless. In Germany, gold seekers heard of the riches and made their way to the remote desert site. Those that had gone to Alaska for the great Klondike rush were now headed to Nevada. Goldfield was the last great gold rush on the American frontier. Discovered in 1902, its boom lasted about a decade and then came the inevitable and fateful decline. Yet its story is largely unknown. Nevada historians and scholars have documented Goldfield for years; others have amassed vast collections of ephemera, artifacts, and photographs; and some have even collected and restored the town's most impressive buildings. Through personal photo albums and accounts of those who were there, this book reflects life in Goldfield, Nevada, the last great American gold rush.
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Snowstorms of Central New York written by Jim Farfaglia and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central New York, a region renowned as one of the snowiest in the world, has a long and stormy relationship with its winters. From the Lake Ontario port in Oswego to the busy streets of Syracuse and Utica, every community in the region has found themselves buried from brutal snowstorms. Author Jim Fafaglia draws from personal memories, family diaries and newspaper accounts to craft a two-hundred year history of Central New York's whiteouts, blizzards and snowstorms.
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Finance written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Museologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Token Refuge written by Sharon R. Lowenstein and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives the background to the story of a group of 1,000 refugees, mostly Jewish, admitted by President Roosevelt in 1944 to the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, NY, a token gesture which marked the failure of Roosevelt's plans to resettle large numbers of Jews in undeveloped territory in view of strong antisemitic and resrictionist feeling. A campaign led by the Bergson Group in 1943-44 had focused public attention on the charge that the Administration was not doing enough for the Jews of Europe and proposed the establishment of temporary refugee havens in the USA. Most of the book is an account of the refugees' experiences in the camp and in the USA.
