Download or read book Some Letters of Colonial Days written by Sir Edward Colpoys Midwinter and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters Journals Diaries of ye Colonial America written by Don Corbly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 93 stories provide a unique insight into the lives of mostly ordinary colonial people who lived in extraordinary times. Read the first description of the New World in the exploring ship captain's logbook, a letter from the first indentured servant, and the trial of Bridget Bishop, the first person hung for witchcraft in Salem. Compare the diary of the richest man in Virginia to Mary Cooper's diary wherein she longed for rest from her labors.Read 16-year-old George Washington's Rules of Civility, the pathetic letter from near-destitute indentured Elizabeth Sprig, Benjamin Franklin's account of Grime's confession and hanging, John Adams' defense of British soldiers in the Boston Massacre, and the first prayer given in the First Continental Congress.Read 16-year-old Sally Wister's diary of the battle of Germantown, a journal of the participants in the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's account of his Midnight Ride, and newspaper accounts of President Washington's death and funeral.
Download or read book Letters from Colonial Children 1907 written by Eva March Tappan and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Some Letters of Colonial Days written by Sir Edward C. Midwinter and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonial Days and Dames written by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Colonial Days and Dames is a historical non-fiction book written by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. The book takes readers on a journey back in time to the colonial era of America, exploring the daily lives of the women who lived during that time. The author provides a vivid and detailed account of the social customs, traditions, and lifestyles of colonial women, including their roles in the family, community, and society at large. Through a series of anecdotes and stories, readers are introduced to a range of fascinating characters, from wealthy socialites to hardworking farmers and artisans. The book also delves into the political and cultural landscape of the colonial period, providing insight into the events and ideas that shaped the early American experience. With its engaging prose and rich historical detail, Colonial Days and Dames is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of America and the lives of its early settlers." --
Download or read book Colonial Days Dames written by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Initial Studies in American Letters written by Henry Augustin Beers and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Life in Colonial Days written by Alice Morse Earle and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains many topics of interest: babyhood, dress, school life, hornbook, primers, penmanship, diaries, discipline, manners and courtesy, religious thought and training, books, needlecraft, decorative arts, games, toys, and flower lore.
Download or read book Colonial Days Ways as Gathered from Family Papers written by Helen Evertson Smith and published by New York The Century Company 1900.. This book was released on 1900 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Jewish Women A History from Colonial Times to Today written by Pamela Nadell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people—from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity. The twin threads binding these women together, she argues, are a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Nadell recounts how Jewish women have been at the forefront of causes for centuries, fighting for suffrage, trade unions, civil rights, and feminism, and hoisting banners for Jewish rights around the world. Informed by shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity, these women’s lives have left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.
Download or read book For Cause and Comrades written by James M. McPherson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, over and over again, through countless bloody battles and four long, awful years ? Why did the conventional wisdom -- that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as war progresses -- not hold true in the Civil War? It is to this question--why did they fight--that James McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, now turns his attention. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. Motivated by duty and honor, and often by religious faith, these men wrote frequently of their firm belief in the cause for which they fought: the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and patriotism. Soldiers on both sides harkened back to the Founding Fathers, and the ideals of the American Revolution. They fought to defend their country, either the Union--"the best Government ever made"--or the Confederate states, where their very homes and families were under siege. And they fought to defend their honor and manhood. "I should not lik to go home with the name of a couhard," one Massachusetts private wrote, and another private from Ohio said, "My wife would sooner hear of my death than my disgrace." Even after three years of bloody battles, more than half of the Union soldiers reenlisted voluntarily. "While duty calls me here and my country demands my services I should be willing to make the sacrifice," one man wrote to his protesting parents. And another soldier said simply, "I still love my country." McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities, and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war. Battle Cry of Freedom, McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson's masterful prose and the soldiers' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account of the men who fought it.
Download or read book Home Life in Colonial Days written by Alice Morse Earle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Morse Earle's 'Home Life in Colonial Days' takes readers on a journey through the daily lives of Colonial Americans. Earle's meticulous research, coupled with her elegant writing style, makes this an engaging and informative read. The book covers everything from the shapes and sizes of Colonial homes to the production of clothes and tools, and everything in between. Earle's descriptions of the unending labor required to survive during that time serve as a humbling reminder of how far we have come.
Download or read book The Old Trunk Or Sketches of Colonial Days written by Powhatan Bouldin and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Initial Studies in American Letters written by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers The writings of our colonial era have a much greater importance as history than as literature. It would be unfair to judge of the intellectual vigor of the English colonists in America by the books that they wrote; those "stern men with empires in their brains" had more pressing work to do than the making of books. The first settlers, indeed, were brought face to face with strange and exciting conditions-the sea, the wilderness, the Indians, the flora and fauna of a new world-things which seem stimulating to the imagination, and incidents and experiences which might have lent themselves easily to poetry or romance. Of all these they wrote back to England reports which were faithful and sometimes vivid, but which, upon the whole, hardly rise into the region of literature. "New England," said Hawthorne, "was then in a state incomparably more picturesque than at present." But to a contemporary that old New England of the seventeenth century doubtless seemed any thing but picturesque, filled with grim, hard, work-day realities. The planters both of Virginia and Massachusetts were decimated by sickness and starvation, constantly threatened by Indian Wars, and troubled by quarrels among themselves and fears of disturbance from England. The wrangles between the royal governors and the House of Burgesses in the Old Dominion, and the theological squabbles in New England, which fill our colonial records, are petty and wearisome to read of. At least, they would be so did we not bear in mind to what imperial destinies those conflicts were slowly educating the little communities which had hardly yet secured a foothold on the edge of the raw continent. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies written by John Dickinson and published by New York : Outlook Company. This book was released on 1903 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Woman s Life in Colonial Days written by Carl Holliday and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Woman's Life in Colonial Days" by Carl Holliday. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Home Life in Colonial Days Unabridged written by Alice Morse Earle and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to step back in time and experience daily life in America's colonial past? Join Alice Morse Earle's captivating audiobook, "Home Life in Colonial Days." Journey beyond history textbooks and delve into the hearths, kitchens, and workshops of early America. Discover how colonists built their homes, illuminated their nights, and prepared their meals. Learn about the tools they used, the clothes they wore, and the challenges they faced. "Home Life in Colonial Days" is a rich tapestry woven from diaries, letters, and forgotten customs, offering a fascinating glimpse into a bygone era. Prepare to be surprised by the ingenuity and resourcefulness of America's colonial ancestors.
