Traitor In Williamsburg

Author : Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Publisher : Amer Girl Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781593692971
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traitor in Williamsburg written by Elizabeth McDavid Jones and published by Amer Girl Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the time of the Revolution, Felicity must figure out who is making false accusations, saying that her father is a traitor and helping the British.

Author : Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781593692964
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traitor in Williamsburg written by Elizabeth McDavid Jones and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felicity tries to find out who is falsely accusing her friend's father of helping the British.

Author : Lou Kassem
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 038075892X
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Haunting in Williamsburg written by Lou Kassem and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1990 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staying in Colonial Williamsburg in a house once owned by her ancestors, Jayne met an old family ghost who was haunted by a terrible wrong she had done over 200 years ago and she begged Jayne to help her set it right.

Author : H. Michael Hartoonian
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 0879352604
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of America written by H. Michael Hartoonian and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debate keeps America vibrant. Debate over what course America should take. Debate over our shared, democratic values. Debate over the extent that our shared values influence public policy—and in which direction. Far from being a sign that our democratic republic is failing, this raucous, controversial, enduring debate—this Great Debate—indicates our republic is healthy. Americans continually seek, in the words of the Preamble to the Constitution, “to form a more perfect union.” Not everyone agrees on how best to do that—and that’s where civic and civil debate comes in. Americans have debated what course the nation should take since before there was a nation.

Author : Andrew Burstein
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812979001
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madison and Jefferson written by Andrew Burstein and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] monumental dual biography . . . a distinguished work, combining deep research, a pleasing narrative style and an abundance of fresh insights, a rare combination.”—The Dallas Morning News The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson’s genius overshadowing James Madison’s judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory book about their crucial partnership, both are seen as men of their times, hardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics where they struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years. With a thrilling and unprecedented account of early America as its backdrop, Madison and Jefferson reveals these founding fathers as privileged young men in a land marked by tribal identities rather than a united national personality. Esteemed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg capture Madison’s hidden role—he acted in effect as a campaign manager—in Jefferson’s career. In riveting detail, the authors chart the courses of two very different presidencies: Jefferson’s driven by force of personality, Madison’s sustained by a militancy that history has been reluctant to ascribe to him. Supported by a wealth of original sources—newspapers, letters, diaries, pamphlets—Madison and Jefferson is a watershed account of the most important political friendship in American history. “Enough colorful characters for a miniseries, loaded with backstabbing (and frontstabbing too).”—Newsday “An important, thoughtful, and gracefully written political history.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Publisher : Amer Girl Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781593694739
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Margaret's Ghost written by Elizabeth McDavid Jones and published by Amer Girl Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity runs the household while her mother and siblings are away, but is distracted by her horse's ill health, two strangers in town, and the fear that a box of family heirlooms is haunted. Includes historical information aboutlife in colonial Williamsburg.

Author : Anders Greenspan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625679
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Colonial Williamsburg written by Anders Greenspan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creating Colonial Williamsburg, Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926. The restoration was undertaken by the Rockefeller family, whose aim was to promote a twentieth-century appreciation for eighteenth-century ideals. Ironically, those ideals, including democracy, individualism, and representative government, were often promoted at the expense of a more complete understanding of the town's true history. The meaning and purpose of Colonial Williamsburg has changed over time, along with America's changing social and political landscapes, making the study of this historic site a unique and meaningful entry point to understanding the shifting modern American character. In recent years, financial struggles and declining attendance forced a new interpretation of the town, extending the presentation into the period of the American Revolution, while adding new interpretive approaches such as street theater and a greater emphasis on technology. Over its eighty-year history, says Greenspan, Colonial Williamsburg has grown and matured, while still retaining its emphasis on the importance of eighteenth-century values and their application in the modern world.

Author : Christian Di Spigna
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 055341934X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Founding Martyr written by Christian Di Spigna and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and illuminating biography of America’s forgotten Founding Father, the patriot physician and major general who fomented rebellion and died heroically at the battle of Bunker Hill on the brink of revolution Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American history, Dr. Joseph Warren, an architect of the colonial rebellion, and a man who might have led the country as Washington or Jefferson did had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775. Warren was involved in almost every major insurrectionary act in the Boston area for a decade, from the Stamp Act protests to the Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party, and his incendiary writings included the famous Suffolk Resolves, which helped unite the colonies against Britain and inspired the Declaration of Independence. Yet after his death, his life and legend faded, leaving his contemporaries to rise to fame in his place and obscuring his essential role in bringing America to independence. Christian Di Spigna’s definitive new biography of Warren is a loving work of historical excavation, the product of two decades of research and scores of newly unearthed primary-source documents that have given us this forgotten Founding Father anew. Following Warren from his farming childhood and years at Harvard through his professional success and political radicalization to his role in sparking the rebellion, Di Spigna’s thoughtful, judicious retelling not only restores Warren to his rightful place in the pantheon of Revolutionary greats, it deepens our understanding of the nation’s dramatic beginnings.

Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780833581372
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meet Felicity written by Valerie Tripp and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Felicity Merriman, a spunky, spritely nine-year-old girl who lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1774, just before the Revolutionary War. Felicity is excited to hear abut a new horse in town. But the horse is owned by Jiggy Nye, the cruel tanner, and Felicity is determined to find a way to save the horse. Part of the "American Girls" series.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199743698
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albion's Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.