The Gentlemen and the Roughs
Title | The Gentlemen and the Roughs PDF eBook |
Author | Lorien Foote |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2013-06-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1479897841 |
In this contribution to Civil War and gender history, Lorien Foote reveals that internal battles were fought against the backdrop of manhood. Clashing ideals of manliness produced myriad conflicts when educated, refined, and wealthy officers found themselves commanding a hard-drinking group of fighters.
Daily Life through American History in Primary Documents [4 volumes]
Title | Daily Life through American History in Primary Documents [4 volumes] PDF eBook |
Author | Randall M. Miller |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 1208 |
Release | 2011-12-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1610690338 |
With this book, students, teachers, and general readers get a most important look at primary documents—essentially history's "first draft"—revealing rare insights into how American life in past eras really was, and also about how professional historians begin their work. Daily Life through American History in Primary Documents presents a large sweep of American history through the voices of the American people themselves. This multivolume work explores the daily lives of American people from colonial times to the present through primary documents that include diaries, letters, memoirs, speeches, sermons, pamphlets, and all manner of public and private writings from "the people." The emphasis is on the variety of people's experiences as they ordered and lived their daily lives. The cast includes Americans of every class and condition, men and women, parents and children, free and "unfree," native-born and immigrant. Hundreds of images further illustrate American life as it developed over more than four centuries and as Americans moved across a continent. Organized both chronologically and topically, this collection invites many uses by students, teachers, librarians, and anyone wanting to discover what counted in American lives at any one time and over time. Its focus on primary documents encourages readers of the volume to explore specific and critical events by taking a firsthand look at the actual documents from which those events draw historical meaning. The documents show Americans at work, at home, at play, in the public square, in places of worship, and on the move. As such, they perfectly complement the acclaimed Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America and will enrich any American history, social science, and sociology classroom.
Congressional Record
Title | Congressional Record PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1262 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
The Gentleman from Indiana
Title | The Gentleman from Indiana PDF eBook |
Author | Booth Tarkington |
Publisher | |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Farm Crisis Act of 1982
Title | Farm Crisis Act of 1982 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Acreage allotments |
ISBN |
Mark Twain's Literary Resources
Title | Mark Twain's Literary Resources PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Gribben |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 1124 |
Release | 2024-10-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1588385663 |
Dr. Alan Gribben, a foremost Twain scholar, made waves in 1980 with the publication of Mark Twain's Library, a study that exposed for the first time the breadth of Twain's reading and influences. Prior to Gribben's work, much of Twain's reading history was assumed lost, but through dogged searching Gribben was able to source much of Twain's library. Mark Twain's Literary Resources is a much-expanded examination of Twain's library and readings. Volume I included Gribben's reflections on the work involved in cataloging Twain's reading and analysis of Twain's influences and opinions. This volume, long awaited, is an in-depth and comprehensive accounting of Twain's literary history. Each work read or owned by Twain is listed, along with information pertaining to editions, locations, and more. Gribben also includes scholarly annotations that explain the significance of many works, making this volume of Mark Twain's Literary Resources one of the most important additions to our understanding of America's greatest author.
House documents
Title | House documents PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 878 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | |
ISBN |