Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington's Mount Vernon, Hardcover - Carla Killough McClafferty

Reducere. DescriptionAn illuminating look at the complex relationships between George Washington and the enslaved people of Mount Vernon, and the history sti...

Reducere. DescriptionGeorge Washington's life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon's en...

Reducere. Marie Curie's story has fascinated and inspired young readersdecades. The poor Polish girl who worked eight years to be ableto afford to attend the...

Reducere. One of America's greatest Christmas stories and also one of its very first -- from the period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the rati...

Reducere. Conceived in 1850, Mount Vernon is a young city, founded as an alternative to overcrowded New York City living by a group of ambitious middle- and ...

In September 1796, worn out by burdens of the presidency and attacks of political foes, George Washington announced his decision not to seek a thir...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary Higgins ClarkIn Mount Vernon Love Story -- famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark's long-out-of-print first novel --...

Reducere. Seen/Unseen is a vivid portrait of the complex network that created, held, and sustained a community of the enslaved. The hundreds of men and women...

Reducere. In the autumn of 1751, at the age of nineteen, George Washington sailed with his older half-brother Lawrence from Virginia to the Caribbean island ...

Reducere. This innovative gift book allows kids to peek into the mind of George Washington and the more than 100 lessons by which he lived his life. Modern t...

DescriptionRethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widesp...

Reducere. DescriptionDead drops, cyphers, and invisible ink are all part of a mystery that even spymaster George Washington would love.Sam, Derek, and Caitli...

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urb...

Reducere. Taking his inspiration from a 16th century French manual on etiquette, young George Washington compiled his own set of instructions under the title...

Description"Somewhere in the tangle of the subject's burden and the subject's desire is your story."--Alex Tizon Every human being has an epic stor...

Reducere. DescriptionThe insecurity, worry, self-doubt and social anxiety that come with caring too much about what people think can be overwhelming. Does th...

Reducere. In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to ...

Reducere. As a schoolboy in Virginia, George Washington took his first steps toward greatness by hand copying a list of 110 "Rules of Civility & Decent Behav...

Reducere. The author presents George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation with an autobiographical introduction and W...

Reducere. CULLED FROM the six volumes of The Diaries of George Washington completed in 1979, this selection of entries chosen by retired Washington Papers ed...

Contributor(s): Author: Marisa J. FuentesIn the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Ma...

Reducere. He was an American Founding Father and the new nation's first president, but before that, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732-1799) was an excruciatingly corre...

Reducere. Discover the mysteries and secrets of Pompeii, the city that disappeared in the fires of Mount Vesuvius and was buried for centuries.Pompeii was de...

Reducere. The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history's most famous revolutionary. In...

This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capi...

Reducere. Bluebonnet, dubbed "everyone's favorite armadillo" by Texas Highways magazine, is off to visit Mount Vernon, Texas, in this tenth book of the Blueb...

In this book, Professor Stephen Vicchio gives a comprehensive analysis of the religious beliefs of the first president of the United States, George...

Reducere. George Washington was first and foremost a Virginian. Born in the state's Tidewater region, he was reared near Fredericksburg and took up residence...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ferdinand MountNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 23Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. DescriptionRethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widesp...

Reducere. DescriptionDead drops, cyphers, and invisible ink are all part of a mystery that even spymaster George Washington would love.Sam, Derek, and Caitli...

Reducere. Whether you want to wander the halls of Smithsonian museums, dine at international restaurants in Adams Morgan, or stroll along the Potomac River, ...

Reducere. DescriptionNow with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author. An an...

Reducere. In a 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island, President George Washington promised that America's Jews would always enjoy the full right...

Reducere. Susan J. Dunlap offers the theological fruits of time spent working as a chaplain with people without homes. After depicting the local history of h...

Reducere. Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's bir...