Liberty's Journey

Liberty's Journey
Author: Kelly DiPucchio
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780786818761

Lady Liberty has welcomed immigrants to New York for more than one hundred years-but she's never traveled beyond her island. She's curious to see the country that has become home to the millions who have passed beneath her torch. She wants to go on an old-fashioned road trip! So one foggy morning, the giant Lady tiptoes off her pedestal and begins her journey. Down alleyways, along railroad tracks, through cities and small towns, across deserts, and over mountains, she greets surprised and delighted Americans. The country is as captivating, as Lady Liberty knew it would be, but New Yorkers miss her terribly. How can they persuade her to come home, where she belongs?

Liberty's Journey

Liberty's Journey
Author: Rebecca Padgett
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1098045963

Liberty's Journey: A Foster Child's Placement Story is the first book of this series designed to create awareness of the phases found within the foster care system. Liberty begins her journey by being placed in a foster home. This book familiarizes the reader with foster care-related terms and opens the door for discussion about how the foster care system works. If you are a foster parent, social service provider, or therapist, a user guide is included to connect conversation to the story. Liberty's Journey is designed to provide a connection for foster children but can also be read independently for any child. Liberty's journey allows foster children a voice in the placement process and serves as a tool to aid with transitions to this unique journey. Liberty's Journey was designed to serve as a voice to the children uniquely placed within the foster care process.

Liberty’s Enigma

Liberty’s Enigma
Author: Zahid Ameer
Publisher: Zahid Ameer
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2024-05-02
Genre: History
ISBN:

Discover the fascinating journey of 'Liberty’s Enigma: Unveiling the Woman Behind the Icon' as it explores the origins, symbolism, and controversies surrounding the Statue of Liberty. Delve deep into the mysteries of Lady Liberty's design, the debates over her inspiration, and her enduring legacy as a global symbol of freedom and unity.

Liberty's Quest

Liberty's Quest
Author: Liberty Kovacs MFT MSN
Publisher: Libby Kovacs
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781931741965

Liberty Kovacs' life story has all the elements of the American Dream, both its myth and its reality. Breaking free from the patriarchal rule of her Greek immigrant family, she set an uneasy but independent course that led to her becoming a nurse and marrying fellow Ohioan, the poet James Wright. Headed for the fabled Land of Happiness, Life broke in with all its unpredictable misery: living in Minneapolis with their two sons, the marriage was soon riven by alcoholism, angers, unspeakable trauma and eventually bitter divorce. Bereft but courageous, Liberty set a new course and headed west to San Francisco where she had a scholarship to study psychiatric nursing. A single mother, she experienced triumphs in her profession, married again and bore a third son - that household too fell victim to unhappiness and despairs. Yet with each blow, her spirit rose again and again, never giving up on herself or her sons, whom she writes about with disarming openness. -Merrill Leffler, publisher of Dryad Press, author of Partly Panemonium, Partly Love, Take Hold

Liberty's Captives

Liberty's Captives
Author: Daniel E. Williams
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0820328006

An astonishing variety of captivity narratives emerged in the fifty years following the American Revolution; however, discussions about them have usually focused on accounts of Native American captivities. To most readers, then, captivity narratives are synonymous with "godless savages," the vast frontier, and the trials of kidnapped settlers. This anthology, the first to bring together various types of captivity narratives in a comparative way, broadens our view of the form as it shows how the captivity narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped to shape national debates about American liberty and self-determination. Included here are accounts by Indian captives, but also prisoners of war, slaves, victims of pirates and Barbary corsairs, impressed sailors, and shipwreck survivors. The volume's seventeen selections have been culled from hundreds of such texts, edited according to scholarly standards, and reproduced with the highest possible degree of fidelity to the originals. Some selections are fictional or borrow heavily from other, true narratives; all are sensational. Immensely popular with American readers, they were also a lucrative commodity that helped to catalyze the explosion of print culture in the early Republic. As Americans began to personalize the rhetoric of their recent revolution, captivity narratives textually enacted graphic scenes of defiance toward deprivation, confinement, and coercion. At a critical point in American history they helped make the ideals of nationhood real to common citizens.

Denying Liberty

Denying Liberty
Author: Ronald Dale
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1456701193

In 1865, ten year old Veronique was allowed to attend a dinner party at her grandfather's home near Versailles, France. At this affair, her grandfather proposed a gift for America that was destined to become the Statue of Liberty. How could Veronique have ever known that, from that moment, her life and that of the statue would become intertwined for over three decades? This is the story of Liberty's and Veronique's journeys to America. Liberty's arrival will precede that of Veronique's and while Liberty may have been rejected by Americans at first, she would eventually be welcomed by hundreds of thousands of people on the day of her unveiling. Fifteen years later in the year 1901, Veronique certainly is not expecting such a welcoming. No, Veronique, with only her son, intends to enter America very quietly and with very questionable travel documentation. She is hopeful that her admittance into America will be allowed because of her special relationship with Liberty. And she is keenly aware that her entry into America could be blocked by her ancestral heritage - a secret which she must be careful not to reveal to the Immigration Inspector. Veronique arrives at Ellis Island intent on securing her passage into America by claiming she is the visage of Liberty - that she was, in fact, the model for the statue. Immigration Inspector Patrick Leary is totally enthralled by her story; but ultimately he must decide is it believable? It will be his decision alone that determines whether America will be Denying Liberty.

Saving Lady Liberty

Saving Lady Liberty
Author: Claudia Friddell
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2020-03-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1684371309

Here is the story of how the Statue of Liberty got its pedestal when Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish immigrant and famous newsman, created one of the first American crowdfunding campaigns to raise money for it. When Joseph Pulitzer first saw the Statue of Liberty's head in Paris, he shared sculptor Auguste Bartholdi's dream of seeing France's gift of friendship stand in the New York harbor. Pulitzer loved words, and the word he loved best was liberty. Frustrated that many, especially wealthy New Yorkers, were not interested in paying for the statue's needed pedestal, Pulitzer used his newspaper, the New York World, to call on all Americans to contribute. Claudia Friddell's text and Stacy Innerst's illustrations capture this inspiring story of how one immigrant brought together young and old, rich and poor, to raise funds for the completion of a treasured national monument.

Digital Liberty

Digital Liberty
Author: Matt Stroud
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2024-07-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1915054125

Digital Liberty explores the imminent convergence of three pivotal themes: data, artificial intelligence and society's intricate social graph, and wars of a looming crisis that threatens to challenge the very foundations of liberal democracies.

Answering Liberty's Call

Answering Liberty's Call
Author: Tracy Lawson
Publisher: Gray Lion Books
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1647045193

"...vivid and authentic detail....Lawson makes all the trials of the American Revolution come alive.” — Jodi Daynard, author of The Midwife's Revolt In 1778, war is men’s business. That doesn’t stop Anna Stone from getting involved in the fight. As the wife of a preacher-turned-soldier, a healer, and mother of three, Anna knows her place in this world. She tends to things at home while her husband and brothers fight for liberty. But when her loved ones face starvation at Valley Forge, she refuses to sit idly by. Armed with life-sustaining supplies, Anna strikes out alone on horseback over 200 miles of rough and dangerous terrain. Despite perilous setbacks along the way, sheer determination carries her toward her destination. When she learns of a plot to overthrow General Washington, her mission becomes more important than ever. With the fate of the American Revolution in her hands and one of the conspirators hot on her trail, Anna races to deliver a message of warning to Valley Forge before it’s too late. Based on events in the life of the author’s sixth-great-grandmother.

Liberty's First Crisis

Liberty's First Crisis
Author: Charles Slack
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802191681

“Slack engagingly reveals how the Federalist attack on the First Amendment almost brought down the Republic . . . An illuminating book of American history.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review In 1798, with the United States in crisis, President John Adams and the Federalists in control of Congress passed an extreme piece of legislation that made criticism of the government and its leaders a crime punishable by heavy fines and jail time. From a loudmouth in a bar to a firebrand politician to Benjamin Franklin’s own grandson, those victimized by the 1798 Sedition Act were as varied as the country’s citizenry. But Americans refused to let their freedoms be so easily dismissed: they penned fiery editorials, signed petitions, and raised “liberty poles,” while Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison drew up the infamous Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, arguing that the Federalist government had gone one step too far. Liberty’s First Crisis vividly unfolds these pivotal events in the early life of the republic, as the Founding Fathers struggled to define America off the page and preserve the freedoms they had fought so hard to create. “A powerful and engaging narrative . . . Slack brings one of America’s defining crises back to vivid life . . . This is a terrific piece of history.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Thomas Jefferson