Genealogies in the Library of Congress

Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. Kaminkow
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 882
Release: 2012-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780806316673

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

Robert Toombs

Robert Toombs
Author: Mark Scroggins
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786487119

Robert Toombs of Georgia stands as one of the most fiery and influential politicians of the nineteenth century. Sarcastic, charming, egotistical, and gracious, he rose quickly from state office to congressman to senator in the decades before the Civil War. Though he sought sectional reconciliation throughout the 1840s and 1850s, he eventually became one of the South's most ardent secessionists. This thorough biography chronicles his days as a student and young lawyer in Georgia, his boisterous political career, his appointment as the Confederacy's first Secretary of State, his unsuccessful stint as a Confederate general, and his role as a proud, unreconstructed rebel after the war. An exploration of Toombs' career reveals the political forces and missteps that drove him--and people like him--to want to secede from the United States.

Doing Literary Criticism

Doing Literary Criticism
Author: Tim Gillespie
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571108424

One of the greatest challenges for English language arts teachers today is the call to engage students in more complex texts. Tim Gillespie, who has taught in public schools for almost four decades, has found the lenses of literary criticism a powerful tool for helping students tackle challenging literary texts. Tim breaks down the dense language of critical theory into clear, lively, and thorough explanations of many schools of critical thought---reader response, biographical, historical, psychological, archetypal, genre based, moral, philosophical, feminist, political, formalist, and postmodern. Doing Literary Criticism gives each theory its own chapter with a brief, teacher-friendly overview and a history of the approach, along with an in-depth discussion of its benefits and limitations. Each chapter also includes ideas for classroom practices and activities. Using stories from his own English classes--from alternative programs to advance placement and everything in between--Tim provides a wealth of specific classroom-tested suggestions for discussion, essay and research paper topics, recommended texts, exam questions, and more. The accompanying CD offers abbreviated overviews of each theory (designed to be used as classroom handouts, examples of student work, collections of quotes to stimulate discussion and writing, an extended history of women writers, and much more. Ultimately, Doing Literary Criticism offers teachers a rich set of materials and tools to help their students become more confident and able readers, writers, and critical thinkers.

Gottfried Semper

Gottfried Semper
Author: Harry Francis Mallgrave
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780300066241

Biografie van de Duitse architect en architectuurtheoreticus (1803-1879)

Genealogy of the Descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland, With Records of a Few Allied Families

Genealogy of the Descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland, With Records of a Few Allied Families
Author: Emma Siggins White
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 884
Release: 2018-09-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781390912326

Excerpt from Genealogy of the Descendants of John Walker of Wigton, Scotland, With Records of a Few Allied Families: Also War Records and Some Fragmentary Notes Pertaining to the History of Virginia, 1600-1902 There was a Walker family in Virginia (supposed to have come from England), prior to the coming of our ancestor, of which Dr. Thomas Walker of Castle Hill was probably the best known repre sentative. I am of the Opinion that he and our progenitor, J ohn Walker, were related my Opinion is based chiefly upon the fact of a similarity of Christian names in the two families, and then it will be remembered that soon after coming to America J ohn Walker and several members of his household left Chester County, Pennsylvania, where they had made a temporary home, and went down into Vir ginia and settled not far from the home of this Dr. Walker, Whose presence there was probably known to his kinsmen, if they were re lated, who were seeking homes in a new country. 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.

Backcountry Revolutionary

Backcountry Revolutionary
Author: William T. Graves
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2012-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 098599990X

Biography of Col. James Williams, 1740-1780, the highest ranking officer who died from wounds suffered at the Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) during the American Revolutionary War.

Paul Revere's Ride

Paul Revere's Ride
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1907
Genre: Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
ISBN: