The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret": George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon, Hardcover - Mary V. Thompson

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

Reducere. DescriptionAttempts by evangelical Christians to claim Washington and other founders as their own, and scholars' ongoing attempts to contradict the...

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

Talks about the myriad military and political matters with which Washington dealt during the long war for American independence. This book document...

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. 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 ...

Volume 12 of the ""Presidential Series"" continues the fourth chronological series of ""The Papers of George Washington"". This series includes the...

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. George Mason of Gunston Hall distinguished himself as a planter, revolutionary patriot, author the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and slave owner....

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...

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. What if you knew all the moments of my past that I am not proud of? What if you really knew me, the messy parts that I've hoped to forget and worke...

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. The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the ...

DescriptionAn insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's fatherThe Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Wa...

Mount Washington, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is the highest peak in the northeastern United States. It is often cited-by its ...

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...

Reducere. "Up from Slavery" is the autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a ...

Reducere. On July 3, 1869, the approximately three-mile track leading to the summit of picturesque Mount Washington opened for public use. Once, only those d...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melanie Choukas-BradleyPhotographer: Susan Austin Roth2015 IPPY Silver Medalist, Best Mid-Atlantic NonfictionTwice the size...

DescriptionViewing Mni Wiconi (Sacred Water of Life) and the No Dakota Access Movement as an isolated happening without acknowledging historical, c...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the time of Lewis and Clark, wolves were abundant throughout North America from the Arctic regions to Mexico. But man declared war on...

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Volume 13 of the ""Revolutionary War Series"" documents a crucial portion of the winter encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, when the fate of ...

Explore the Captivating Life of George WashingtonOne day at Mount Vernon, a young boy climbed into a window, fell, and hurt himself. George Washing...

Describes how Washington moved his army north from White Plains, New York, into new positions that ran from West Point to Danbury, Connecticut. His...

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

Reducere. Nearly ninety percent of Greek Jews perished during the Holocaust. Most were killed at Auschwitz/Birkenau. But on the Ionian island of Zakynthos, t...

This volume of the papers of George Washington covers the period when his attention was devoted to several matters of national significance: the Re...

Part of a series presenting public papers either written by George Washington or presented to him during both of his administrations. Volume 4 cove...

Volume 10 of the ""Presidential Series"" continues the fourth chronological series of ""The Papers of George Washington"". In the period covered by...

Covers the period 1 November 1778 through 14 January 1779. This title begins with George Washington at Fredericksburg, New York, watching New York ...

This volume covers March-September of 1791, when Washington completed a tour of the southern states. On tour and when he returned to the capital, t...

This volume presents documents written during the final sessions of the First Congress. Congress passed legislation that established a national ban...