Download or read book Wheatland and Lancaster County written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of this scrapbook focuses on Lancaster County's history, historic locations, and places such as the Horse-Shoe Trail, Conestoga Valley, Columbia, and Wheatland in Lancaster County. Other locations in Pennsylvania that are referenced are Valley Forge, Manada Gap, and Wrightsville. The volume contains newspaper clippings that recall the historic event known as the Burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge. Some articles of interest portray historical occupations and the indentured servants that served in those occupations throughout Lancaster. There is also information on Robert Fulton and his birthplace located in Southern Lancaster County. The latter half of the scrapbook describes the history of Wheatland and James Buchanan. Several newspaper clippings reveal the development of Historic Wheatland and the excavation of the property. The articles also discuss the opening of the site to the public.
Download or read book President James Buchanan s Wheatland written by Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 2009* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertising card for a museum at 1120 Marietta Ave., Lancaster, PA.
Download or read book Lancaster County Communities written by John Ward Willson Loose and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War written by John W. Quist and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As James Buchanan took office in 1857, the United States found itself at a crossroads. Dissolution of the Union had been averted and the Democratic Party maintained control of the federal government, but the nation watched to see if Pennsylvania's first president could make good on his promise to calm sectional tensions. Despite Buchanan's central role in a crucial hour in U.S. history, few presidents have been more ignored by historians. In assembling the essays for this volume, Michael Birkner and John Quist have asked leading scholars to reconsider whether Buchanan’s failures stemmed from his own mistakes or from circumstances that no president could have overcome. Buchanan's dealings with Utah shed light on his handling of the secession crisis. His approach to Dred Scott reinforces the image of a president whose doughface views were less a matter of hypocrisy than a thorough identification with southern interests. Essays on the secession crisis provide fodder for debate about the strengths and limitations of presidential authority in an existential moment for the young nation. Although the essays in this collection offer widely differing interpretations of Buchanan's presidency, they all grapple honestly with the complexities of the issues faced by the man who sat in the White House prior to the towering figure of Lincoln, and contribute to a deeper understanding of a turbulent and formative era.
Download or read book The Story of Wheatland written by Philip Shriver Klein and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wheatland Documents Collection written by James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland has made a copy of each manuscript document in the Foundation's collection. These copies have been placed in off-site storage at the Lancaster County Historical Society and, by agreement, are available for research. No index is available.
Download or read book Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society written by Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes minutes of the Society's meetings.
Download or read book Wheatland written by Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1938* with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book They Wanted to Turn Wheatland Into a Cemetery written by John Ward Willson Loose and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lancaster County written by Ed Klimuska, Keith Baum, Jerry Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our local experts tell the whole story of this remarkable area.
Download or read book Hang Tough written by Erik Dorr and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Dick Winters of the 101st Airborne gained international acclaim when the tale of he and his men were depicted in the celebrated book and miniseries Band of Brothers. Hoisted as a modest hero who spurned adulation, Winters epitomized the notion of dignified leadership. His iconic World War II exploits have since been depicted in art and commemorated with monuments. Beneath this marble image of a reserved officer is the story of a common Pennsylvanian tested by the daily trials and tribulations of military duty. His wartime correspondence with pen pal and naval reservist, DeEtta Almon, paints an endearing portrait of life on both the home front and battlefront—capturing the humor, horror, and humility that defined a generation. Interwoven with previously unpublished diary entries, military reports, postwar reminiscences, private photos, personal artifacts, and rich historical context, Winters’s letters offer compelling insights on the individual costs and motivations of World War II service members. Winters’s heartfelt prose reveals his mindset of the moment. From stateside training to the hedgerows of Normandy, his correspondence immerses readers in the dramatic experiences of the 1940s. Via the lost art of letter writing, the immediacy and honesty of Winters’s observations takes us beyond the traditional accounts of the fabled 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment’s Easy Company. This engaging narrative offers a unique blend of personal wit, leadership ethics, and broader observations of a world at war. Hang Tough is a deeply intimate, timely reflection on a rising officer and the philosophies that molded him into a hero among heroes. Hang Tough “will help people better understand the man I knew and respected so much. Folks should know what we all went through during the war.” —Bradford Freeman, Foreword
Download or read book Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society written by Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes minutes of the Society's meetings.
Download or read book Wheatland s Landscape written by John Shenk and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Sites in Lancaster County written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings that focus on the histories of popular historic sites throughout Lancaster County. The Hans Herr House, Historic Rock Ford Plantation, Central Market and Wheatland are among the notable historic locations. Articles on education and schools, including Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Business College, Lancaster Bible College and McCaskey High School, compose approximately half of the scrapbook. The prominent people cited consist of James Buchanan, Blanche Nevin and Milton Hershey.
Download or read book Thaddeus Stevens written by Bruce Levine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America. Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution—a chance to remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the war, he was a leader of the young Republican Party’s radical wing, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These policies—including welcoming black men into the Union’s armies—would prove crucial to the Union war effort. During the Reconstruction era that followed, Stevens demanded equal civil and political rights for Black Americans—rights eventually embodied in the 14th and 15th amendments. But while Stevens in many ways pushed his party—and America—towards equality, he also championed ideas too radical for his fellow Congressmen ever to support, such as confiscating large slaveholders’ estates and dividing the land among those who had been enslaved. In Thaddeus Stevens, acclaimed historian Bruce Levine has written a “vital” (The Guardian), “compelling” (James McPherson) biography of one of the most visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion for racial justice in America.
Download or read book Worst President Ever written by Robert Strauss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening—and highly entertaining!—account of poor James Buchanan’s presidency to prove once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse. But author Robert Strauss does much more, leading readers out of Buchanan’s terrible term in office—meddling in the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, exacerbating the Panic of 1857, helping foment the John Brown uprisings and “Bloody Kansas,” virtually inviting a half-dozen states to secede from the Union as a lame duck, and on and on—to explore with insight and humor his own obsession with presidents, and ultimately the entire notion of ranking our presidents. He guides us through the POTUS rating game of historians and others who have made their own Mount Rushmores—or Marianas Trenches!—of presidential achievement, showing why Buchanan easily loses to any of the others, but also offering insights into presidential history buffs like himself, the forgotten "lesser" presidential sites, sex and the presidency, the presidency itself, and how and why it can often take the best measures out of even the most dedicated men.
