Download or read book Wonder of Wonders Or The Remarkable Discovery of an American Hermit who Lived Upwards of 220 Years written by James Buckland and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Wonder of Wonders Or The Remarkable Discovery of an American Hermit written by James Buckland and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Author index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Historical Collections of the Essex Institute written by Essex Institute and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Subject index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essex Institute Historical Collections written by Essex Institute and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Date index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Hairy Men in Caves written by Marlin Bressi and published by Sunbury Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-09-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hairy Men in Caves: True Stories of America's Most Colorful Hermits profiles the lives of over 80 of the most eccentric hermits from the 18th century to the 20th century. It is the largest compendium of historical American hermits ever assembled. CONTENTS: Part I: Hermits of the Northeast Old Shep (New York) The Prodigal Father (New York) The Hermit of West 16th Street (New York) The Hermit of Broadway (New York) Amos Wilson (Pennsylvania) "She Was Too Cruel" (Pennsylvania) The Hermit of Buckingham Mountain (Pennsylvania) The Hermit of Blue Hill (Pennsylvania) Arthur Carey (Massachusetts) The Hermit of Melrose (Massachusetts) Old Gold Toes (Vermont) The Hermit of Hoot Owl Pond (Vermont) Jeff Bryant (Vermont) The Hermit of Avalon (New Jersey) The Tramp of West Hoboken (New Jersey) Kneeling Francis (New Jersey) The Killer Mosquitoes of the Hackensack (New Jersey) The Highwire Hermit (Connecticut) English Jack (New Hampshire) Edward Young: The Socialist Hermit (Maine) Part II: Hermits of the South Wild Man of the Chattahoochee (Georgia) An Inventive Hermit (Georgia) Mason Evans (Tennessee) The Tree Dweller (Tennessee) From the White House to the Wilderness (Tennessee) Mum the Meat-Eater (Kentucky) Thirteen Years in Darkness (Kentucky) Pig Jack (Kentucky) Polly of the Pines (Kentucky) Basil Hayden (Kentucky) The Hunchback of Chulafinnee Mountain (Alabama) A Lesson in Karma (North Carolina) Robert Harrill (North Carolina) The Coward of Blacksburg (South Carolina) Cole Carrington (West Virginia) Miss Jennie Senkhart (Mississippi) The Storm King (Florida) Silas Dent (Florida) From Riches to Rags (District of Columbia) Aunt Nancy (District of Columbia) Part III: Hermits of the Midwest Hugh Cameron (Kansas) Rudolph Myers (Kansas) Fred Kupler (Kansas) The Strange Funeral of Otto Shaffer (Kansas) The Hermit of Swan Lake (Minnesota) William Knight (Iowa) Captain Stubbs (Iowa) The Nun and the One-Eyed Hermit (Iowa) The Hardshell Harpers (Indiana) Diana of the Dunes (Indiana) The Heroic Henry Malone (Michigan) The Man Who Turned Pebbles to Gold (Michigan) The Robinson Crusoe of Lake Huron (Michigan) Edgar Donne (Michigan) The Man Who Lived in a Cage (Missouri) Patrick Welsh (South Dakota) The Angry Englishman (Wisconsin) The Treetop Hermit (Ohio) Charles Allenton Comes Home (Ohio) Gottlieb Leitsof (Illinois) Part IV: Hermits of the West John Stink (Oklahoma) Pierre the Prophet (Oklahoma) The Mysterious Adolph Hauserhufen (Oklahoma) A Sad Story of What Might Have Been (Oklahoma) The Tragic Fate of William Hamley (Idaho) An Ogre's Ship Comes In (Idaho) Anton Glasmann (Colorado) The Ballad of Beatrice and John (Colorado) Old Man Reavis (Arizona) Lord Neville of the Garbage Dump (Arizona) The Green River Hermit (Wyoming) Upside-Down Mullen (Wyoming) The Skunk Whisperer (Washington) Ike Powell (Oregon) Sailor Jack Seeks a Bride (Oregon) The Frontier Pharmacist (Texas) The Hermit Priest of Old Baldy (New Mexico) Billy Pester Goes Hollywood (California) The Hermitess of Santa Anita Canyon (California) Roscoe Overhardt (Montana)

Download or read book American Holocaust written by David E. Stannard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous richness and diversity of life in the Americas prior to Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the path of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and Central and South America, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and finally out across the Great Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched--and in places continue to wage--against the New World's original inhabitants. Advancing a thesis that is sure to create much controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate.

Download or read book Life and Adventures of Robert the Hermit of Massachusetts Who Has Lived 14 Years in a Cave Secluded from Human Society written by Robert Voorhis and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts, Who Has Lived 14 Years in a Cave is a fascinating account of a man named Robert.

Download or read book A History of the American People written by Paul Johnson and published by Harper. This book was released on 1998-02-17 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." Johnson's history is a reinterpretation of American history from the first settlements to the Clinton administration. It covers every aspect of U.S. history--politics; business and economics; art, literature and science; society and customs; complex traditions and religious beliefs. The story is told in terms of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character. Wherever possible, letters, diaries, and recorded conversations are used to ensure a sense of actuality. "The book has new and often trenchant things to say about every aspect and period of America's past," says Johnson, "and I do not seek, as some historians do, to conceal my opinions." Johnson's history presents John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Cotton Mather, Franklin, Tom Paine, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison from a fresh perspective. It emphasizes the role of religion in American history and how early America was linked to England's history and culture and includes incisive portraits of Andrew Jackson, Chief Justice Marshall, Clay, Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis. Johnson shows how Grover Cleveland and Teddy Roosevelt ushered in the age of big business and industry and how Woodrow Wilson revolutionized the government's role. He offers new views of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his role as commander in chief during World War II. An examination of the unforeseen greatness of Harry Truman and reassessments of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush follow. "Compulsively readable," said Foreign Affairs of Johnson's unique narrative skills and sharp profiles of people. This is an in-depth portrait of a great people, from their fragile origins through their struggles for independence and nationhood, their heroic efforts and sacrifices to deal with the `organic sin' of slavery and the preservation of the Union to its explosive economic growth and emergence as a world power and its sole superpower. Johnson discusses such contemporary topics as the politics of racism, education, Vietnam, the power of the press, political correctness, the growth of litigation, and the rising influence of women. He sees Americans as a problem-solving people and the story of America as "essentially one of difficulties being overcome by intelligence and skill, by faith and strength of purpose, by courage and persistence...Looking back on its past, and forward to its future, the auguries are that it will not disappoint humanity." This challenging narrative and interpretation of American history by the author of many distinguished historical works is sometimes controversial and always provocative. Johnson's views of individuals, events, themes, and issues are original, critical, and admiring, for he is, above all, a strong believer in the history and the destiny of the American people.

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Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.