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Author : Alexander Dyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:B3386135
Author : William STEVEN (Head Master of George Heriot's Hospital.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018551300
Author : William Steven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
ISBN : BSB:BSB10735168
Author : Lawrence Augustus Gobright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011852688
Author : Hampton Newsome
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700633470
On June 14, 1863, US Major General John Adams Dix received the following directive from General-in-Chief Henry Halleck: “All your available force should be concentrated to threaten Richmond, by seizing and destroying their railroad bridges over the South and North Anna Rivers, and do them all the damage possible.” With General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia marching toward Gettysburg and only a limited Confederate force guarding Richmond, Halleck sensed a rare opportunity for the Union cause. In response, Dix, who had lived a life of considerable public service but possessed limited military experience, gathered his men and began a slow advance. During the ensuing operation, 20,000 US troops would threaten the Confederate capital and seek to cut the railroads supplying Lee’s army in Pennsylvania. To some, Dix’s campaign presented a tremendous chance for US forces to strike hard at Richmond while Lee was off in Pennsylvania. To others, it was an unnecessary lark that tied up units deployed more effectively in protecting Washington and confronting Lee’s men on Northern soil. In this study, Newsome offers an in-depth look into this little-known Federal advance against Richmond during the Gettysburg Campaign. The first full-length examination of Dix’s venture, this volume not only delves into the military operations at the time, but also addresses concurrent issues related to diplomacy, US war policy, and the involvement of enslaved people in the Federal offensive. Gettysburg’s Southern Front also points to the often-unrecognized value in examining events of the US Civil War beyond the larger famous battles and campaigns. At the time, political and military leaders on both sides carefully weighed Dix’s efforts at Richmond and understood that the offensive had the potential to generate dramatic results. In fact, this piece of the Gettysburg Campaign may rank as one of the Union war effort’s more compelling lost opportunities in the East, one that could have changed the course of the conflict.
Author : Shaukat Hassan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781664141902
Every person has a story to tell. This is the story of a Bangladeshi who was born one cold December morning in the village of Lostimanika in East Pakistan and went on to traverse the world during the next sixty plus years. It is a story of growing up in the peaceful Hindu-Muslim community of Narayanganj, of a Muslim boy being educated in Catholic schools, and of leaving home to study in the West when he was merely seventeen. That started a fifty-year journey from his homeland to his present home in Canada. Through it all, he lived and worked in six continents and experienced the beauty and diversity as well as the complexities and hardships faced by peoples worldwide. This book is a personal story, a collection of snippets from his eventful journey through life. The author shares many delightful anecdotes, the scary moments that spelt danger, and his occasional brush with death. It is also a story of visits to many historical, cultural, and religious sites, and of learning about man’s contribution to humanity. The author has worked with many governments, civil society organizations, academics, the military, and the media under challenging circumstances and often in hazardous environments. It is in the end a story of surmounting all obstacles and of having lived a full and happy life.
Author : Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439124611
Chronicles the 1850s appeals of Western territories to join the Union as slave or free states, profiling period balances in the Senate, Henry Clay's attempts at compromise, and the border crisis between New Mexico and Texas.
Author : Alexander Maksik
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385679183
Alexander Maksik's electrifying novel tracks a woman's journey from the horrors of Charles Taylor's Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a Greek island, where she must grapple with a haunted past and find a way back into human society. On an island somewhere in the Aegean, Jacqueline, a young Liberian woman, veers between starvation and satiety, between the brutality of her past and the precarious uncertainty of her present in the aftermath of experiences so unspeakable that she prefers homeless numbness to the psychological confrontation she knows is inevitable. Hypnotic, highly sensual, exquisitely written, and extraordinary in its depiction of both pleasure and pain, of excruciating physical and spiritual hungers, A Marker to Measure Drift is a novel about memory, how we live with what we know, and whether and how we go forward, intact and whole, after the ravages of loss. It is beautiful, lacerating, impossible to put down. A breakthrough work from a prodigiously gifted young writer.
Author : Simona Ghetti,Patricia J. Bauer
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195340792
The ability to remember unique, personal events is at the core of what we consider to be "memory." Contributors to this volume use state-of-the-art theories and methods to address questions of how the vivid experience of reinstatement of our past emerges, and how recollection contributes to our life histories.
Author : Howard Eichenbaum,Neal J. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190292324
This cutting-edge book offers a theoretical account of the evolution of multiple memory systems of the brain. The authors conceptualize these memory systems from both behavioral and neurobiological perspectives, guided by three related principles. First, that our understanding of a wide range of memory phenomena can be advanced by breaking down memory into multiple forms with different operating characteristics. Second, that different forms of memory representation are supported by distinct brain pathways with circuitry and neural coding properties. Third, that the contributions of different brain systems can be compared and contrasted by distinguishing between dedicated (or specific) and elaborate (or general) memory systems. A primary goal of this work is to relate the neurobiological properties of dedicated and elaborate systems to their neuropsychological counterparts, and in so doing, account for the phenomenology of memory, from conditioning to conscious recollection.
Author : William J. Reese
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300079435
An analysis of the social changes and political debates that shaped 19th-century American high schools. It reveals what students studied and how they behaved, what teachers expected of them and how they taught, and how boys and girls, whites and blacks, experienced high school.
Author : Robert Rogers Hubach
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814328091
First published in 1961, Early Midwestern Travel Narratives records and describes first-person records of journeys in the frontier and early settlement periods which survive in both manuscript and print. Geographically, it deals with the states once part of the Old Northwest Territory-Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota-and with Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Robert Hubach arranged the narratives in chronological order and makes the distinction among diaries (private records, with contemporaneously dated entries), journals (non-private records with contemporaneously dated entries), and "accounts," which are of more literary, descriptive nature. Early Midwestern Travel Narratives remains to this day a unique comprehensive work that fills a long existing need for a bibliography, summary, and interpretation of these early Midwestern travel narratives.
Author : Michael R. Gardner
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0809388960
Given his background, President Truman was an unlikely champion of civil rights. Where he grew up--the border state of Missouri--segregation was accepted and largely unquestioned. Both his maternal and paternal grandparents had owned slaves, and his beloved mother, victimized by Yankee forces, railed against Abraham Lincoln for the remainder of her ninety-four years. When Truman assumed the presidency on April 12, 1945, Michael R. Gardner points out, Washington, DC, in many ways resembled Cape Town, South Africa, under apartheid rule circa 1985. Truman's background notwithstanding, Gardner shows that it was Harry Truman--not Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, or John F. Kennedy--who energized the modern civil rights movement, a movement that basically had stalled since Abraham Lincoln had freed the slaves. Gardner recounts Truman's public and private actions regarding black Americans. He analyzes speeches, private conversations with colleagues, the executive orders that shattered federal segregation policies, and the appointments of like-minded civil rights activists to important positions. Among those appointments was the first black federal judge in the continental United States. Gardner characterizes Truman's evolution from a man who grew up in a racist household into a president willing to put his political career at mortal risk by actively supporting the interests of black Americans.
Author : Eben Alexander
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781451695199
Shares an account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness.
Author : Samuel Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Table-talk
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPWY3
