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Author : Lawrence Augustus Gobright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011852688
Author : Lawrence Augustus Gobright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337752578
Author : L. a. 1816-1879 Gobright
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1354986601
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : L. a. (Lawrence Augustus) 181 Gobright
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1373435240
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : L. A. Gobright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1331384516
Excerpt from Recollection of Men and Things at Washington: During the Third of a Century The undersigned has resided in the city of Washington for more than the third of a century. Owing to his continuous connection with the press, either as editor, or correspondent and Congressional reporter, he was a witness of many of the things related in this book. He is aware there are omissions of not a few interesting facts; but to carefully prepare them would require more time than he could spare from his regular business pursuits, and to print them would extend this work beyond the limits of a single volume. When the author first came to this city, the travel between Baltimore and Washington was by stage, the journey occupying all the hours from the rising to the setting of the sun of the longest summer-day. But toward the close of that year - 1834 - the railroad connecting the two cities was completed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Lagobright
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1357689039
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Don Fehrenbacher,Virginia Fehrenbacher
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0804764883
This is the first comprehensive collection of remarks attributed to Abraham Lincoln by his contemporaries. Much of what is known or believed about the man comes from such utterances, which have been an important part of Lincoln biography. About his mother, for instance, he never wrote anything beyond supplying a few routine facts, but he can be quoted as stating orally that she was the illegitimate daughter of a Virginia aristocrat. Similarly, there is no mention of Ann Rutledge in any of his writings, but he can be quoted as saying when he was president-elect, “I did honestly and truly love the girl and think often, often of her now.” Did Lincoln make a conditional offer to evacuate Fort Sumter in April 1861? Did he personally make the decision to restore General McClellan to army command in September 1862? To whom did he first reveal his intention to issue an emancipation proclamation? Did he label the Gettysburg address a failure right after delivering it? Did he, just a few days before his assassination, dream of a president lying dead in the White House? All of these questions, and many others, arise from recollective quotations of Lincoln, and the answer in each instance depends upon how one appraises the reliability of such recollection.
Author : Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Washington (D.C.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044017979543
Author : Constance McLaughlin Green
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400847693
A one-volume edition, this history of Washington was originally published in two parts. Washington: Village and Capital, 1800-1878 was awarded the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Timothy Cook
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780815717287
The news media, especially television, have become a fixture on Capitol Hill in the past twenty years. Making Laws and Making News describes the interactive relationship between the press and Congress that strongly affects the news, the legislative process, and the types of laws enacted. Instead of focusing on how reporters decide who and what to cover and how news is resented, Cook examines the other side of the equation—the relationship between the media strategies of House member’s press offices and the legislative strategies of the members themselves. The book won the 1990 Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing.
Author : David T.Z. Mindich
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814756133
Describes how nineteenth-century American journalists established the goal of objectivity as the professional standard, even when adhering to it limited or distorted the information provided, and how objectivity failed when facing issues such as racism
Author : Edward Channing,Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:HWXM9T
Author : Edward Channing,Albert Bushnell Hart,Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015034593866
Author : David Hochfelder
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421407975
A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America. Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along miles of wire. The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920 examines the correlation between technological innovation and social change and shows how this transformative relationship helps us to understand and perhaps define modernity. The telegraph revolutionized the spread of information—speeding personal messages, news of public events, and details of stock fluctuations. During the Civil War, telegraphed intelligence and high-level directives gave the Union war effort a critical advantage. Afterward, the telegraph helped build and break fortunes and, along with the railroad, altered the way Americans thought about time and space. With this book, Hochfelder supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.
Author : Martin P. Johnson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700621125
Four score and seven years ago . . . . Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation’s history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now. Martin Johnson's remarkable work of historical and literary detection illuminates a speech, a man, and a moment in history that we thought we knew. Johnson guides readers on Lincoln’s emotional and intellectual journey to the speaker’s platform, revealing that Lincoln himself experienced writing the Gettysburg Address as an eventful process that was filled with the possibility of failure, but which he knew resulted finally in success beyond expectation. We listen as Lincoln talks with the cemetery designer about the ideals and aspirations behind the unprecedented cemetery project, look over Lincoln's shoulder as he rethinks and rewrites his speech on the very morning of the ceremony, and share his anxiety that he might not live up to the occasion. And then, at last, we stand with Lincoln at Gettysburg, when he created the words and image of an enduring and authentic legend. Writing the Gettysburg Address resolves the puzzles and problems that have shrouded the composition of Lincoln's most admired speech in mystery for fifteen decades. Johnson shows when Lincoln first started his speech, reveals the state of the document Lincoln brought to Gettysburg, traces the origin of the false story that Lincoln wrote his speech on the train, identifies the manuscript Lincoln held while speaking, and presents a new method for deciding what Lincoln’s audience actually heard him say. Ultimately, Johnson shows that the Gettysburg Address was a speech that grew and changed with each step of Lincoln's eventful journey to the podium. His two-minute speech made the battlefield and the cemetery into landmarks of the American imagination, but it was Lincoln’s own journey to Gettysburg that made the Gettysburg Address.