Download or read book The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lincoln written by David Herbert Donald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln’s character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union—in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society written by Maine Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings written by Maine Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Notes Queries for Somerset and Dorset written by Hugh Norris and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biennial Report written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Novel Histories written by Lisa Kasmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 explores issues of historical and literary genres, historiography, and the gendering of civic and literary roles. It demonstrates the new and sometimes subversive ways that women authors pushed the limits of writing history in order to participate in contemporary national civic life otherwise closed to them.

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.

Download or read book The Journal of the Friends Historical Society written by Friends' Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Battle Hymn of the Republic written by John Stauffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001. Perhaps no other song has held such a profoundly significant--and contradictory--place in America's history and cultural memory than the "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." In this sweeping study, John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis show how this Civil War tune has become an anthem for cause after radically different cause. The song originated in antebellum revivalism, with the melody of the camp-meeting favorite, "Say Brothers, Will You Meet Us." Union soldiers in the Civil War then turned it into "John Brown's Body." Julia Ward Howe, uncomfortable with Brown's violence and militancy, wrote the words we know today. Using intense apocalyptic and millenarian imagery, she captured the popular enthusiasm of the time, the sense of a climactic battle between good and evil; yet she made no reference to a particular time or place, allowing it to be exported or adapted to new conflicts, including Reconstruction, sectional reconciliation, imperialism, progressive reform, labor radicalism, civil rights movements, and social conservatism. And yet the memory of the song's original role in bloody and divisive Civil War scuttled an attempt to make it the national anthem. The Daughters of the Confederacy held a contest for new lyrics, but admitted that none of the entries measured up to the power of the original. "The Battle Hymn" has long helped to express what we mean when we talk about sacrifice, about the importance of fighting--in battles both real and allegorical--for the values America represents. It conjures up and confirms some of our most profound conceptions of national identity and purpose. And yet, as Stauffer and Soskis note, the popularity of the song has not relieved it of the tensions present at its birth--tensions between unity and discord, and between the glories and the perils of righteous enthusiasm. If anything, those tensions became more profound. By following this thread through the tapestry of American history, The Battle Hymn of the Republic illuminates the fractures and contradictions that underlie the story of our nation.

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Download or read book Librarianship and Literature written by A. T. Milne and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays are produced in honour of the seventieth birthday of Dr J. H. Pafford, Goldsmith's Librarian of the University of London from 1945 to 1967, and reflect his interests in librarianship, textual editing and local history.

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Download or read book Tecumseh and the Prophet written by Peter Cozzens and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders."⁠ —H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator The first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. But award-winning historian Peter Cozzens now shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader--admired by the same white Americans he opposed--it was Tenskwatawa, called the "Shawnee Prophet," who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest. Detailed research of Native American society and customs provides a window into a world often erased from history books and reveals how both men came to power in different but no less important ways. Cozzens brings us to the forefront of the chaos and violence that characterized the young American Republic, when settlers spilled across the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the British in the War of Independence, disregarding their rightful Indian owners. Tecumseh and the Prophet presents the untold story of the Shawnee brothers who retaliated against this threat--the two most significant siblings in Native American history, who, Cozzens helps us understand, should be writ large in the annals of America.