The Baron of Beacon Hill
Author | : William M. Fowler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William M. Fowler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William M. Fowler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Looks closely at Hancock's life as both a merchant and a statesman to provide insight into the social history of the entire Revolutionary period.
Author | : Christine Whiting Parmenter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Little, Brown and Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Publishers and publishing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert E. Guarino |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625842147 |
The grand mansions and the elegant attached row houses of Beacon Street are the homes of Bostons elite and a backdrop for the citys long history. The iconic street is crowned with Charles Bullfinchs magnificent 1798 Massachusetts Statehouse overlooking the legendary Boston Common, where the British occupiers trained and cows once roamed freely. Historian Robert E. Guarino deftly narrates the development of the street, from its expansion as land from the top of Mount Vernon extended its length to Horace Grays efforts in 1837 to found the Public Garden. Join Guarino as he takes a fascinating and nostalgic journey down the historic and storied highway of Beacon Street.
Author | : Louis Joseph Gallagher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Boston (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bruce Chadwick |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2009-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1402247702 |
From noted historian Bruce Chadwick—acclaimed as "a writer incapable of dull storytelling"—Triumvirate is the dramatic story of the uniting of a nation and the unlikely alliance at the heart of it all. When the smoke cleared from Revolutionary War battlefields, independent-minded Americans turned against each other. Strong individuals with wildly different personalities, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay joined forces to convince wary Americans and thirteen headstrong states to unite as one. Together they wrote the startlingly original Federalist Papers not as an exercise in governmental philosophy, but instead aimed at overcoming the common man's fears. Their relentless efforts laid the groundwork for ratifying the Constitution against rampant opposition. United by an intense love for their emerging nation, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay forged its legacy in pen and ink. "Dr. Chadwick tells an exciting story. His analysis will provoke further debate about this momentous period in American history." Dr. Paul Clemens, the Chairman of the Rutgers University Department of History PRAISE FOR TRIUMVIRATE "The author effectively details the fi erce debates in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York and the serpentine political machinations that helped bring about the birth of a nation…Not just a history lesson, but an examination of the fundamental ideas that gave birth to the United States." Kirkus Reviews "Chadwick tells an exciting story…His analysis will provoke further debate about this momentous period in American history." Dr. Paul Clemens, Rutgers University "If you think you know how America's founding document came about, think again. In this remarkable new book, Bruce Chadwick reminds us of the three extraordinary men who worked state by state, individual by individual, to ensure passage of the Constitution. It's a fascinating tale, well told." Terry Golway, author of Washington's General and Ronald Reagan's America PRAISE FOR BRUCE CHADWICK "A writer incapable of dull storytelling." Kirkus Reviews "Chadwick vividly brings to life a time of turmoil and hope in a book that should endure as a fi ne example of historical journalism." Willard Sterne Randall, author of George Washington: A Life
Author | : Marylou Morano Kjelle |
Publisher | : Mitchell Lane |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2020-02-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1545749957 |
Born to a clergyman and his wife and raised by a wealthy aunt and uncle, John Hancock truly went from rags to riches. While still a young man, Hancock lent his name, money, and position in Bostons society to the ever-growing group of colonists calling for a complete break from England. He was labeled a traitor by King George III, who put a price of 500 pounds on his head, and was hunted by members of the kings army. Hancock made his way from Massachusetts to Connecticut to Philadelphia, where, in 1775, he represented Massachusetts at the Second Continental Congress. Hancocks life progressed from wealthy businessman to rebel to Founding Father.Born to a clergyman and his wife and raised by a wealthy aunt and uncle, John Hancock truly went from rags to riches. While still a young man, Hancock lent his name, money, and position in Bostons society to the ever-growing group of colonists calling for a complete break from England. He was labeled a traitor by King George III, who put a price of 500 pounds on his head, and was hunted by members of the kings army. Hancock made his way from Massachusetts to Connecticut to Philadelphia, where, in 1775, he represented Massachusetts at the Second Continental Congress. Hancocks life progressed from wealthy businessman to rebel to Founding Father.
Author | : Yvonne Fuentes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000393135 |
This edited collection of essays focuses on the topic of protest during the Enlightenment of the long eighteenth century (roughly 1670-1833). Resistance in the eighteenth century was extensive, and the act of protest to foment meaningful societal change took on many forms from the circulation of ballads, swearing of oaths, to riots and work stoppages, or the composition of essays, novels, posters, caricatures, political cartoons, as well as theater and opera. The contributors to this volume examine the causes of protest as well as the broad ways in which common artifacts such as poles, trees, drums, conchs, and songs acted as flashpoints for conflict and vehicles of protest. Rather than approaching the topic with strict geographical, temporal, and structural limitations, this book focuses on the time period from an international perspective and an interdisciplinary scope. Because of its wide scope, this book is an important contribution to the subject that will be of interest to both faculty and students of the history of protest, resistance and the changes that these forces bring as it also reminds us that the protests of today are rooted in historical resistances of the past.
Author | : William M. Fowler Jr. |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080271935X |
Empires at War captures the sweeping panorama of this first world war, especially in its descriptions of the strategy and intensity of the engagements in North America, many of them epic struggles between armies in the wilderness. William M. Fowler Jr. views the conflict both from British prime minister William Pitt's perspective-- as a vast chessboard, on which William Shirley's campaign in North America and the fortunes of Frederick the Great of Prussia were connected-- and from that of field commanders on the ground in America and Canada, who contended with disease, brutal weather, and scant supplies, frequently having to build the very roads they marched on. As in any conflict, individuals and events stand out: Sir William Johnson, a baronet and a major general of the British forces, who sometimes painted his face and dressed like a warrior when he fought beside his Indian allies; Edward Braddock's doomed march across Pennsylvania; the valiant French defense of Fort Ticonderoga; and the legendary battle for Quebec between armies led by the arisocratic French tactical genius, the marquis de Montcalm, and the gallant, if erratic, young Englishman James Wolfe-- both of whom died on the Plains of Abraham on September 13, 1759.