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Author : Leonard Victor Huber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Advertising
ISBN : UOM:39015009820484
Author : Charles E. Pearson,Allen R. Saltus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Archaeological surveying
ISBN : ERDC:35925003644520
Author : Andrew W. Hall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614237495
Many imagine the settlement of the American West as signaled by the dust of the wagon train or the whistle of a locomotive. During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, though, the growth of Texas and points west centered on the seventy-mile water route between Galveston and Houston. This single vital link stood between the agricultural riches of the interior and the mercantile enterprises of the coast, with a round of operations that was as sophisticated and efficient as that of any large transport network today. At the same time, the packets on the overnight Houston-Galveston run earned a reputation as colorful as their Mississippi counterparts, complete with impromptu steamboat races, makeshift naval gunboats during the Civil War, professional gamblers and horrific accidents.
Author : John P. Parker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393348019
"Surpasses all previous slave narratives…Usually we need to invent our American heroes. With the publication of Parker's extraordinary memoir, we seem to have discovered the genuine article." —Joseph J. Ellis, Civilization In the words of an African American conductor on the Underground Railroad, His Promised Land is the unusual and stirring account of how the war against slavery was fought—and sometimes won. John P. Parker (1827—1900) told this dramatic story to a newspaperman after the Civil War. He recounts his years of slavery, his harrowing runaway attempt, and how he finally bought his freedom. Eventually moving to Ripley, Ohio, a stronghold of the abolitionist movement, Parker became an integral part of the Underground Railroad, helping fugitive slaves cross the Ohio River from Kentucky and go north to freedom. Parker risked his life—hiding in coffins, diving off a steamboat into the river with bounty hunters on his trail—and his own freedom to fight for the freedom of his people.
Author : Ann Ostendorf
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820341361
Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras. During this period a resounding call to create a distinctively American music culture emerged as a way to bind together the varied, changing, and uncertain components of the new nation. This played out with particular intensity in the lower Mississippi River valley, and New Orleans especially. Ann Ostendorf argues that this region, often considered an exception to the nation—with its distance from the center of power, its non-British colonial past, and its varied population—actually shared characteristics of many other places eventually incorporated into the country, thus making it a useful case study for the creation of American culture. Ostendorf conjures the territory’s phenomenally diverse “music ways” including grand operas and balls, performances by church choirs and militia bands, and itinerant violin instructors. Music was often associated with “foreigners,” in particular Germans, French, Irish, and Africans. For these outsiders, music helped preserve collective identity. But for critics concerned with developing a national culture, this multitude of influences presented a dilemma that led to an obsessive categorization of music with racial, ethnic, or national markers. Ultimately, the shared experience of categorizing difference and consuming this music became a unifying national phenomenon. Experiencing the unknown became a shared part of the American experience.
Author : Paul F. Paskoff
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807155035
In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted for the largest number of steamboat disasters. This daunting array of river hazards required a similarly broad range of efforts to remove or at least ameliorate them. Against a variety of obstacles -- natural, political, and technological -- the river improvements program succeeded in reducing the rate of steamboat loss, even as steamboat traffic dramatically increased. Its success, Paskoff argues, demonstrates that the federal government was far more active than generally thought in promoting economic growth and development in the years leading up to the Civil War.The river improvements program was one of the most volatile issues in national, sectional, and state politics, touching on questions of economic development, constitutional law, partisan politics, and sectional rivalry. Paskoff examines the controversial program from its beginnings during the early republic to 1844, giving careful attention to the policies of Andrew Jackson's administration. He explores the array of objections to the program -- some grounded in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and others in a concern over alleged federal wantonness, corruption, and waste -- and follows the political story through the administration of James K. Polk forward to secession. Paskoff also explains the fiscal, economic, and technological aspects of the hazard problem and its solution, analyzing the federal government's fiscal condition, its capacity to undertake such an ambitious program, and the influence of conditions in the larger economy, including effects of the Mexican War, upon the federal government's finances.Paskoff's lively analysis rests on a bedrock of impressive quantitative evidence, including databases containing every documented steamboat wreck -- more than 1,200 -- on American rivers, lakes, and coastal waters; construction and engine data for more than 600 steamboat packets; and all relevant federal appropriations and expenditures measures, more than 2,300 spending projects in all. Vigorously researched and vividly told, Troubled Waters is an essential contribution to the history of internal improvements in the antebellum United States.
Author : Mark Michael Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199759989
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege, historian Mark M. Smith considers how all five senses, including sight, shaped the experience of the Civil War and thus its memory, exploring its full sensory impact on everyone from the soldiers on the field to the civilians waiting at home. From the eardrum-shattering barrage of shells announcing the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter; to the stench produced by the corpses lying in the mid-summer sun at Gettysburg; to the siege of Vicksburg, once a center of Southern culinary aesthetics and starved into submission, Smith recreates how Civil War was felt and lived. Relying on first-hand accounts, Smith focuses on specific senses, one for each event, offering a wholly new perspective. At Bull Run, the similarities between the colors of the Union and Confederate uniforms created concern over what later would be called friendly fire and helped decide the outcome of the first major battle, simply because no one was quite sure they could believe their eyes. He evokes what it might have felt like to be in the HL Hunley submarine, in which eight men worked cheek by jowl in near-total darkness in a space 48 inches high, 42 inches wide. Often argued to be the first total war, the Civil War overwhelmed the senses because of its unprecedented nature and scope, rendering sight less reliable and, Smith shows, forcefully engaging the nonvisual senses. Sherman's March was little less than a full-blown assault on Southern sense and sensibility, leaving nothing untouched and no one unaffected. Unique, compelling, and fascinating, The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege, offers readers way to experience the Civil War with fresh eyes.
Author : Steven M. Mayeux
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1572335769
Mayeux does more than just tell the story of the fort from the military perspective; it goes deeper to closely examine the lives of the people that served in-and lived around-Fort DeRussy. Through a thorough examination of local documents, Mayeux has uncovered the fascinating stories that reveal for the first time what wartime life was like for those living in central Louisiana. In this book, the reader will meet soldiers and slaves, plantation owners and Jayhawkers, elderly women and newborn babies, all of whom played important roles in making the history of Fort DeRussy. Mayeux presents an unvarnished portrait of the life at the fort, devoid of any romanticized notions, but more accurately capturing the utter humanity of those who built it, defended it, attacked it, and lived around it.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 2006 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281013
Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
Author : Mary Yeater Rathbun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Dams
ISBN : UCR:31210023605833
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Steamboat lines
ISBN : IOWA:31858045115411
Author : Leonard Victor Huber
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : New Orleans (La.)
ISBN : 1455609315
Author : Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Rare Book Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Inland water transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015024230412
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Steamboat lines
ISBN : UOM:39015022356243
Author : Paul Forsythe Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822000479154
