epub |eng | | Author:Thomas S. Kidd

Whitefield longed to return to America, but following up his work in Scotland seemed more pressing. God had wrought a great renewal in the wake of his visit; exuberant Scottish ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:James Thacher

epub |eng | | Author:Charles Rappleye

Philadelphia in 1775 was the largest city in America, more than ten times the size of Providence, with wharves that stretched two miles along the shore of the Delaware River. ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Andrew Burstein

Fig. 14b. Henry Clay of Kentucky, portrait accompanying the 1852 obituary address. The statesmanlike pose belies his reputation as a gambler. Fig. 14a. John Randolph of Roanoke, from Henry Adams’s ...

epub |eng | 2006-12-27 | Author:Franklin, Benjamin";Benjamin Franklin ["Franklin, Benjamin";Benjamin Franklin]

[67] A famous Greek philosopher, who lived about 582-500 B. C. The Golden Verses here ascribed to him are probably of later origin. "The time which he recommends for this ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Thomas Fleming

THE BATTLES of Springfield and Connecticut Farms reminded many in the American army of the fighting that had convulsed Massachusetts in April 1775. The rush of militia to the battle ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:James Burke

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Samuel Chase SAMUEL CHASE (MD) was thirty-five. And either a “universally despised…foul-mouthed rabble-rouser” or a man of “energetic eloquence.” On the day of the Declaration vote this lawyer ...

epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

____________________ ADAMS WAS AHEAD of his time. The country reacted to the prospective collapse of its political arrangements by making one more effort to prop them up. It was the ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

* * * AN EDICT BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA (1773) A prolific political journalist, Franklin generally considered his political writings ephemeral. When asked for a gathering of such pieces ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-20 | Author:Friedrich Katz

Carrancista and Villista Agrarian Policies Villa’s abstention from matters of ideology and social legislation on a national scale ended in May 1915, when he decreed an agrarian law. It is ...

epub |eng | | Author:Yvonne Kapp

On the 28th the stampede back to the factory ceases: many of those who went in two days before are now resolved to stay out. Eleanor tells the meeting that ...

epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

CHAPTER TEN Radicals in Power W ASHINGTON APPOINTED Morris, relying on their long friendship and on Morris’s firsthand knowledge of the country. But when the nomination went to the Senate, ...

epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Melissa Lukeman Bohrer

Lydia Darragh, the daughter of John Barrington, was born about 1728 and raised in Dublin, Ireland. Little is known of her childhood except that she was part of a large ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-04 | Author:Joseph Plumb Martin [Martin, Joseph Plumb]

Chapter VI. Campaign of 1780 Table of Contents The soldier defending his country's rights, Is griev'd when that country his services slights; But when he remonstrates and finds no relief, ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:John Rhodehamel [Rhodehamel, John]

9 “The Destiny of Unborn Millions” AMERICA’S FIRST CITIZEN returned home after an absence of eight and a half years to find his private affairs in disarray. Mount Vernon was ...