I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived #16)

I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived #16)
Author: Lauren Tarshis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545919797

Bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the Children's Blizzard of 1888 in this latest installment of the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling I Survived series. Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's midwest without warning. Within hours, America's prairie would be buried under ten feet of snow. Hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified and lost and freezing. John never wanted to move to the wide-open prairie. He's a city kid, not a tough pioneer! But his inner strength is seriously tested when he finds himself trapped in the blinding snow, the wind like a giant crushing hammer, pounding him over and over again. Will John ever find his way home?

Gilded Age Cato

Gilded Age Cato
Author: Charles W. Calhoun
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813161797

Union general, federal judge, presidential contender, and cabinet officer—Walter Q. Gresham of Indiana stands as an enigmatic character in the politics of the Gilded Age, one who never seemed comfortable in the offices he sought. This first scholarly biography not only follows the turns of his career but seeks also to find the roots of his disaffection. Entering politics as a Whig, Gresham shortly turned to help organize the new Republican Party and was a contender for its presidential nomination in the 1880s. But he became popular with labor and with the Populists and closed his political career by serving as secretary of state under Grover Cleveland. In reviewing Gresham's conduct of foreign affairs, Charles W. Calhoun disputes the widely held view that he was an economic expansionist who paved the way for imperialism. Gresham, instead, is seen here as a traditionalist who tried to steer the country away from entanglements abroad. It is this traditionalism that Calhoun finds to be the clue to Gresham's career. Troubled with self-doubt, Gresham, like the Cato of old, sought strength in a return to the republican virtues of the Revolutionary generation. Based on a thorough use of the available resources, this will stand as the definitive biography of an important figure in American political and diplomatic history, and in its portrayal of a man out of step with his times it sheds a different light on the politics of the Gilded Age.

City of Snow

City of Snow
Author: Linda Oatman-High
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2004-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0802789102

A fictionalized account, told in free-verse poems, of a young girl's experience living through the 1888 "Great Blizzard" in New York City.

Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1888

Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1888
Author: Lloyd's Register Foundation
Publisher: Lloyd's Register
Total Pages: 1316
Release: 1888-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Lloyd's Register of Shipping records the details of merchant vessels over 100 gross tonnes, which are self-propelled and sea-going, regardless of classification. Before the time, only those vessels classed by Lloyd's Register were listed. Vessels are listed alphabetically by their current name.

The Boulanger Affair Reconsidered

The Boulanger Affair Reconsidered
Author: William D. Irvine
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1989
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0195053346

Recent scholarship on General Boulanger's bid for power in France's Third Republic has focused on the combination of socialism and national chauvinism in the movement supporting his campaign, seeing in this alliance the left-wing origins of 20th-century fascism. In this groundbreaking study, based on archival materials only recently made available to scholars, Irvine challenges that analysis, arguing that royalist and conservative supporters provided the crucial financial and electoral backing to the Boulanger movement.

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1984899023

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic vision that took the nation as its subject. Unlike many other editions of Leaves of Grass, which reproduce various short, early versions, this Modern Library Paperback Classics "Death-bed" edition presents everything Whitman wrote in its final form, and includes newly commissioned notes.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 724
Release: 1893
Genre: Zoology, Economic
ISBN: