The Founding Of A Nation

Author : Merrill Jensen
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647922030

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"This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence. It reconstructs the complex decisions that slowly, often painfully transformed a colonial rebellion into a genuine revolution. Jensen's well-paced narrative never loses sight of the ordinary men and women who confronted the most powerful empire in the world." --T.H. Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University

Author : Elizabeth Richards
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524692889

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The Founding of a Nation by Elizabeth Richards Pdf

The story of our country really began way back in the history of England in the year 1215 when King John of England was forced by some of his barons to sign a document called the Magna Carta. This document, among other things, prevented the king from taxing the barons without their consent. King John had driven England nearly to bankruptcy because he spent so much money to fund his continual participation in the Crusades. (The Crusades were a period in history when Christian knights tried to take back the Holy Land, which had been conquered by the Muslims.) The barons were tired of being taxed to pay for his wars. This document was essentially a document in medieval times to clarify the differences between the three powers in England at the time—the Catholic Church, the king, and the barons. This is an important document because it was the first time in history that people other than the king or the church were given some powers. It did nothing about grant rights to the peasants and the merchant class. This is important because it was the very first time in the history of the world that the king and the church had their powers curbed. Not one other country in the world at this time had a Magna Carta (many still don’t), and this is important because it was the English who were the first ones to colonize the areas of our country, which was first known as the thirteen colonies. These colonists brought with them these truly revolutionary ideas of individual freedom.

Author : Merrill Jensen
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0872207056

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"This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence. It reconstructs the complex decisions that slowly, often painfully transformed a colonial rebellion into a genuine revolution. Jensen's well-paced narrative never loses sight of the ordinary men and women who confronted the most powerful empire in the world." --T.H. Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University

Author : Stephen C. Schlesinger
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786729708

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Act of Creation by Stephen C. Schlesinger Pdf

In Act of Creation, Stephen C. Schlesinger tells a pivotal and little-known story of how Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and the new American President, Harry Truman, picked up the pieces of the faltering campaign initiated by Franklin Roosevelt to create a "United Nations." Using secret agents, financial resources, and their unrivaled position of power, they overcame the intrigues of Stalin, the reservations of wartime allies like Winston Churchill, the discontent of smaller states, and a skeptical press corps to found the United Nations. The author reveals how the UN nearly collapsed several times during the conference over questions of which states should have power, who should be admitted, and how authority should be divided among its branches. By shedding new light on leading participants like John Foster Dulles, John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Nelson Rockefeller, and E. B White, Act of Creation provides a fascinating tale of twentieth-century history not to be missed.

Author : Colin Woodard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101544457

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American Nations by Colin Woodard Pdf

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an “American” or “Canadian” culture, but rather into one of the eleven distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, and the rivalries and alliances between its component nations, which conform to neither state nor international boundaries. He illustrates and explains why “American” values vary sharply from one region to another. Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how intranational differences have played a pivotal role at every point in the continent's history, from the American Revolution and the Civil War to the tumultuous sixties and the "blue county/red county" maps of recent presidential elections. American Nations is a revolutionary and revelatory take on America's myriad identities and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and are molding our future.

Author : Elizabeth Richards
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : United States
ISBN : 1606043455

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Now, when the hard-earned rights and freedoms we enjoy are taken for granted, we need to rediscover what life was like without them and how difficult, conflicted, and tenuous the development of our democracy was. Elizabeth Richards provides for children a highly readable and essential history of our democracy's founding. Her book helps to lay a sound basis for understanding the challenges our form of government faced and the difficulties faced by those who labored to create our democratic republic. a "Alan Wadsworth, retired social studies teacher and school administrator

Author : Warren M. Billings
Publisher : Thomas Publications (PA)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCSC:32106019235230

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Jamestown and the Founding of the Nation by Warren M. Billings Pdf

Author : Adolph L. Dial,David K. Eliades
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815603606

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The Only Land I Know by Adolph L. Dial,David K. Eliades Pdf

This is the standard history of the Lumbee Indian people of southwestern North Carolina, the largest Indian community in population east of the Mississippi. Dial and Eliades trace the history of this group through 1974. Among the subjects covered are the Lumbee during the colonial period and the revolutionary War; the Lowrie war; the infamous Lowrie Band of the Civil War; the development of the Lumbee educational system; Lumbee folklore; and the modern Lumbee.

Author : Peter H. Russell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487514488

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Canada's Odyssey by Peter H. Russell Pdf

150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation. In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned scholar Peter H. Russell provides an expansive, accessible account of Canadian history from the pre-Confederation period to the present day. By focusing on what he calls the "three pillars" of English Canada, French Canada, and Aboriginal Canada, Russell advances an important view of our country as one founded on and informed by "incomplete conquests". It is the very incompleteness of these conquests that have made Canada what it is today, not just a multicultural society but a multinational one. Featuring the scope and vivid characterizations of an epic novel, Canada’s Odyssey is a magisterial work by an astute observer of Canadian politics and history, a perfect book to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

Author : Richard B. Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Founding Fathers of the United States
ISBN : 9780190273514

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The Founding Fathers by Richard B. Bernstein Pdf

This is a concise contribution to the 'Very Short Introductions' series which reintroduces the history that shaped the founding fathers, the history that they made, and what history has made of them.

Author : Steven Rabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735816426

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The Founders' Speech to a Nation in Crisis by Steven Rabb Pdf

If the Founding Fathers surveyed our nation today and together composed a single speech to America, what would they say? To answer that question, the words of the Founding Fathers have been meticulously curated from their documents and letters and crafted into a narrative that defines and defends America's founding principles. The Founders' Speech To A Nation In Crisis is a tapestry of liberty woven into ten themed chapters that culminate with a robust defense of the Constitution, private property, the rule of law, and a call to action for every American.

Author : Frank Moody 1864- [From Old Cata Gregg
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359437738

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The Founding of a Nation by Frank Moody 1864- [From Old Cata Gregg Pdf

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Author : Jon Meacham
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812976663

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American Gospel by Jon Meacham Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham reveals how the Founding Fathers viewed faith—and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, American Gospel draws on the past to offer a new perspective. Meacham re-creates the fascinating history of a nation grappling with religion and politics–from John Winthrop’s “city on a hill” sermon to Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence; from the Revolution to the Civil War; from a proposed nineteenth-century Christian Amendment to the Constitution to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call for civil rights; from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. Debates about religion and politics are often more divisive than illuminating. Secularists point to a “wall of separation between church and state,” while many conservatives act as though the Founding Fathers were apostles in knee britches. As Meacham shows in this brisk narrative, neither extreme has it right. At the heart of the American experiment lies the God of what Benjamin Franklin called “public religion,” a God who invests all human beings with inalienable rights while protecting private religion from government interference. It is a great American balancing act, and it has served us well. Meacham has written and spoken extensively about religion and politics, and he brings historical authority and a sense of hope to the issue. American Gospel makes it compellingly clear that the nation’s best chance of summoning what Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature” lies in recovering the spirit and sense of the Founding. In looking back, we may find the light to lead us forward. Praise for American Gospel “In his American Gospel, Jon Meacham provides a refreshingly clear, balanced, and wise historical portrait of religion and American politics at exactly the moment when such fairness and understanding are much needed. Anyone who doubts the relevance of history to our own time has only to read this exceptional book.”—David McCullough, author of 1776 “Jon Meacham has given us an insightful and eloquent account of the spiritual foundation of the early days of the American republic. It is especially instructive reading at a time when the nation is at once engaged in and deeply divided on the question of religion and its place in public life.”—Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation

Author : Frank M. Gregg
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1017131554

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The Founding of a Nation: The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers, Their Voyage On the Mayflower, Their Early Struggles, Hardships and Dangers, and the by Frank M. Gregg Pdf

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Author : Frank Moody Gregg
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1346568006

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The Founding of a Nation by Frank Moody Gregg Pdf

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