History
An Oration Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the
City of Boston
by Thomas Starr King
Thomas Starr King delivered this famous address while at the pinnacle of his
career as minister of the Hollis Street Church in Boston. It was no small accomplishment in a city which, at the time, nurtured a host of famous orators.
Such acts earned from Lincoln the remark that he was “the orator who saved
the nation.”
Engineering America:
The Rise of the American Professional Class, 1838-1920
Edited by Edward Rhodes
In a single lifespan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, America
passed through an extraordinary economic and social transformation. This
study focuses on a single, unexceptional case, examining the process and
experience through the eyes of a single participant.
Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington Vol. IV
Authored by Philosophical Society Washington
This 1881 volume demonstrates the extraordinary history of the Society.
Noting that more than 200 consecutive meetings had been held, it includes
an address by E.M. Gallaudet on deafness, by John Wesley Powell on the
limits to the use of data, and no less than two addresses by Alexander Graham Bell.
How George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest
and Other Essays in Western History
by Reuben Gold Thwaites
George Rogers Clark’s expedition was of immense importance to both the
United States and Canada. But for him, Canada’s border arguably would be
much further south. His younger brother William, in partnership with Meriwether Lewis is perhaps better known for an adventure that gave Americans
a continental vision.
A Trip to Palestine and Syria
Authored by John P. Hackenbroch
In 1913, the same year that this nuanced and colorful account of the Middle East was published, a group of Arab students living in Paris proposed
an international meeting about Syria and Lebanon. Of course World War I
began in July 1914 and the Arab Congress of 1913 was not replicable. Nor
of course were the travels of John Hackenbroch in this volume.
Death Valley in '49
Authored by William Lewis Manly
The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mills in California in 1848 caused thousands
to give up their homes in the eastern states and head West. To avoid the Sierra Mountains, which in winter could be deadly, a party led by William Lewis
Manly (1820-1903) attempted to follow a trail that took them through Death
Valley.
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