South Carolina Baptists, 1670-1805

South Carolina Baptists, 1670-1805
Author: Leah Townsend
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1974
Genre: Baptists
ISBN: 0806306211

Baptist Churches of South Carolina and list of Baptists.

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Author: Richard Hofstadter
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2012-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307809676

Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor

The Diaries V. 6; Jan. , 1790-Dec. 1799

The Diaries V. 6; Jan. , 1790-Dec. 1799
Author: George Washington
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.