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Book A Report from Natchitoches in 1807

Download or read book A Report from Natchitoches in 1807 written by John Sibley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Golden Breastplate from Cuzco  Peru

Download or read book A Golden Breastplate from Cuzco Peru written by Marshall H. Saville and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Publications of the Museum of the American Indian

Download or read book List of Publications of the Museum of the American Indian written by Bruno Oetteking and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Notes and Monographs

Download or read book Indian Notes and Monographs written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Louisiana Historical Quarterly

Download or read book The Louisiana Historical Quarterly written by John Wymond and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voices of the U S  Latino Experience  3 volumes

Download or read book Voices of the U S Latino Experience 3 volumes written by Rodolfo F. Acuña Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and experiences of the diverse groups labeled Latinos in this country are abundantly documented in this major new collection. From the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1803 to remembrances of life on the frontier, to the Young Lords platform of 1969, to a discussion of Latinos and the war on Iraq today, this 3-volume collection showcases more than 400 crucial primary documents from and concerning the major Latino groups in the United States. Sources include letters, memoirs, speeches, articles, essays, interviews, treaties, government reports, testimony, and more. The voices include whites as well as Latinos, prominent and obscure, and Americans as well as foreigners. The bulk of the primary documents concern Mexico and the United States and Mexican Americans, who paved the way for immigrants from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Central and South America to come. The scope also includes primary documents pertaining to events in Latin American and Caribbean history that have had an impact on these groups. Each primary document has a short introduction, placing it in historical and cultural context. An introduction that gives an historical overview, a chronology, a selected bibliography chock full of useful websites, and a set index provide added value. Sample documents: memoirs of early Texas, commentary by a Mexican diplomat on the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of 1848, essay on the social condition of New Mexico in 1852, Cuban independence leader Jose Marti in New York on race (1894), El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez— a ballad about a Mexican who stood up to the Texas Rangers in 1901, excerpts from an autobiography by Ella Winter on school segregation in the 1930s, a Latino soldier's reminiscences of World War II, testimony from a Bracero worker in the 1950s, article on Cuban Miami in the 1960s, socioeconomic profile of Dominicans in the United States in 2000, interview with Subcomandante Marcos from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

Book Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Download or read book Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book We Never Retreat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward A. Bradley
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2015-03-15
  • ISBN : 1623492610
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book We Never Retreat written by Edward A. Bradley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “filibuster” often brings to mind a senator giving a long-winded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century—invasion of foreign lands by private military forces. Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given short shrift in the studies of American-based filibustering, these expeditions were led by colorful men such as Augustus William Magee, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, John Robinson, and James Long. Previous accounts of their activities are brief, lack the appropriate context to fully understand filibustering, and leave gaps in the historiography. Ed Bradley now offers a thorough recounting of filibustering into Spanish Texas framed through the lens of personal and political motives: why American men participated in them and to what extent the US government was either involved in or tolerated them. “We Never Retreat” makes a major contribution by placing these expeditions within the contexts of the Mexican War of Independence and international relations between the United States and Spain.

Book A Fire Bell in the Past

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey L. Pasley
  • Publisher : University of Missouri Press
  • Release : 2021-06-25
  • ISBN : 0826274587
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book A Fire Bell in the Past written by Jeffrey L. Pasley and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the House of Representatives passed the Tallmadge Amendment banning slavery from the prospective new state in February 1819, it set off a two-year political crisis in which growing northern antislavery sentiment confronted the southern whites’ aggressive calls for slavery’s westward expansion. The Missouri Crisis divided the U.S. into slave and free states for the first time and crystallized many of the arguments and conflicts that would later be settled violently during the Civil War. The episode was, as Thomas Jefferson put it, “a fire bell in the night” that terrified him as the possible “knell of the Union.” Drawing on the participants in two landmark conferences held at the University of Missouri and the City University of New York, this first of two volumes finds myriad new perspectives on the Missouri Crisis. Celebrating Missouri’s bicentennial the scholarly way, with fresh research and unsparing analysis, this eloquent collection of essays from distinguished historians gives the epochal struggle over Missouri statehood its due as a major turning point in American history. Contributors include the editors, Christa Dierksheide, David N. Gellman, Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, Robert Lee, Donald Ratcliffe, Andrew Shankman, Anne Twitty, John R. Van Atta, and David Waldstreicher.

Book The Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Download or read book The Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Missouri Historical Review

Download or read book Missouri Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Dunbar

Download or read book William Dunbar written by Arthur H. DeRosierJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish-born William Dunbar (1750–1810) is recognized by Mississippi and Southwest historians as one of the most successful planters, agricultural innovators, explorers, and scientists to emerge from the Mississippi Territory. Despite his successes, however, history books abridge his contributions to America's early national years to a few passing sentences or footnotes. William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest rectifies past neglect, paying tribute to a man whose life was driven by the need to know and the willingness to suffer in pursuit of knowledge. From the beginning, research, contemplation, and scholarship formed the template by which Dunbar would structure his life. His mother's insistence on education motivated him throughout his youth, and in 1771, he sailed to America, prepared to seize any and all opportunities. Settling in the Mississippi territory, Dunbar embarked on the endeavors that would soon gain him renown. He surveyed the boundary between Spanish West Florida and the United States and contributed heavily to the rise of cotton culture through his inventions and innovations in agricultural technology. In 1804, at the same time that Lewis and Clark were making their way up the Missouri River, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Dunbar—now a fellow member of the prestigious American Philosophical Society—to lead a similar exploration of the southern Louisiana Purchase territory. The 103-day expedition captured the imagination of Americans looking to move westward and yielded the first information about the geographical, geological, and meteorological characteristics of the old Southwest. Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. traces Dunbar's life from his ambition as a youth to his development into a man recognized by his contemporaries as a leader in many scientific fields. Drawing upon the private journal of Dunbar's granddaughter Virginia Dunbar McQueen and neglected historical annals, William Dunbar examines Dunbar's public and private life, the scope of his interests, and the lasting contributions he left to a country and people he loved.

Book Magnolia Mound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lois Elmers Bannon
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing
  • Release : 1999-05-31
  • ISBN : 9781455608089
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Magnolia Mound written by Lois Elmers Bannon and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-31 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnolia Mound, situated on a ridge overlooking the meandering Mississippi River, stands as Baton Rouge's most notable eighteenth-century structure. This volume, researched and written under the direction of the Magnolia Mound Board of Trustees, traces the origin and development of this splendid Creole raised cottage, providing an intimate look at plantation life and the economic system that supported it. In 1985 Magnolia Mound won a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History. Authors Lois Bannon, Martha Yancey Carr, and Gwen Anders Edwards have long been active in restoring Magnolia Mound and presenting its history. Bannon is the author and coauthor of two books on naturalist John James Audubon, Handbook of Audubon Prints, published by Pelican.

Book Heritage of the Great Plains

Download or read book Heritage of the Great Plains written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles on the literature, language, folklore, history, art, and music of the Great Plains.

Book Sibley s Harvard Graduates

Download or read book Sibley s Harvard Graduates written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voices of the U S  Latino Experience

Download or read book Voices of the U S Latino Experience written by Rodolfo Acuña and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2008 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Desert to Bayou

Download or read book From Desert to Bayou written by Morgan Wolfe Merrick and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Wolfe Merrick's detailed description and sketches of campaigns during the Civil War in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Lousiana, and Arkansas. Includes sketches of Mescalero Apache chiefs, battle scenes and Western frontier encampments.