History of the Americas

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At the age of nineteen, Catherine Spalding (17931858) ventured into what would become a lifetime of leadership with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN)one of the most significant American religious communities for women.

The people of the Kentucky mountains and the southern Appalachians preserved a language alive with colorful turns of phrase and whimsical wit and for their amusement they created a rich vein of oral lore-songs, tales, and games.

Laura Clay was the daughter of abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay and an important and controversial figure in the woman's rights movement.

A new and more complex portrait of Thomas Jefferson, as told by Jefferson himself.

Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley.

As one of only two states in the nation to still allow slavery by the time of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Kentucky's history of slavery runs deep.

This fully illustrated history traces the Order of Canada from its establishment in 1967 to its place today as a national honour.

World War II made enormous and unprecedented demands upon the nation's civil service administration.

Chartered in 1780, Transylvania University played a significant role as an educational pioneer in the developing trans-Allegheny West and served as its first institution of higher education.

Journey through the engineering marvels, stations, and heritage sites of Canada's western mountains.

La Constitution canadienne est un livre introductif sur la loi supreme du pays.

This important original work with stylish illustrations by the author/artist F.

Of special interest to coin and bill collectors, as well as history buffs and students, is this clear, concise and intriguing explanation of the various coins and currencies used in Canada between 1600 and 1900.

The great beef-cattle industry of the American West was not born full grown beyond the Mississippi.

The Bluegrass region of Kentucky was the only part of the slaveholding South Abraham Lincoln knew intimately.

Inside the Museums views Toronto's heritage museums for the first time as a single community - linked by events, personalities, and function.

Latin American women were among those who led the suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their opposition to military dictatorships has galvanized more recent political movements throughout the region.

The name Albert Kirwan is inextricably bound with the University of Kentucky-in sports, scholarship, and administration.

Ruinas jesuiticas, paisajes de la memoria explora el derrotero seguido por las misiones jesuiticas de guaranies desde su fundacion, en los siglos XVII y XVIII, hasta la actualidad.

In the 1880s, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty that engulfed the postbellum South.

Tennessee played a critical and vital role in national politics in the mid-nineteenth century.

Few rules of law can so quickly strike terror into the hearts of lawyers as the Rule against Perpetuities.

From 1901 to 1938 the Lake Shore Electric claimed to be-and was considered by many-"e;The Greatest Electric Railway in the United States.

Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America.

Will Dowd takes us on a whimsical journey through one year of New England weather in this engaging collection of essays.

In this special two-book bundle you'll meet remarkable women in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc.

2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award - NominatedBuried beneath Toronto s streets is a centuries-old trail that was once the road to wealth, adventure, or violent death for thousands of travellers.

Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River-Cutshin and Greasy creeks-folklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain family of gifted memory and imagination.

In 1873, Henry Scadding, former rector of Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity, wrote the definitive history of early Toronto.

To Go Upon Discovery begins with Cook's arrival in Canada in 1758 and ends with his appointment to take Endeavour to the South Pacific.

The history of the oldest parish church in the Toronto area is also the history of North Toronto and a changing culture.

Confederate John Singleton Mosby forged his reputation on the most exhilarating of military activities: the overnight raid.

This volume presents a record of the Ford administration.

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016A new, expanded edition of the first-ever primer on Canada's Constitution - for anyone who wants to understand the supreme law of the land.

The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there.

Absentee landowning has long been tied to economic distress in Appalachia.

In this collection of essays poverty is viewed not merely as an economic predicament but as a "e;system with measurable properties,"e; of which a low income level is only one.

In Appalachia's Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life over time in southern Appalachia.

Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836-1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky.

En este libro analizamos la intervencion social y politica de varios abogados que, durante la primera mitad del siglo xx, participaron en la vida publica de Mexico ejerciendo un activismo juridico de corte conservador en oposicion al proyecto de la revolucion.

The casual and the serious of American history-fiddlers, yarn spinners, and riverboat gamblers, politicians, educators, and social reformers-have all concerned Thomas D.

Kentucky was the last state in the South to introduce racially segregated schools and one of the first to break down racial barriers in higher education.

In 1893, the year that marked the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Columbus in the New World, Chicago was host to an exposition to mark the occasion.

Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book.

This study focuses attention of the People's party which existed for a short time in the 1890s.

The crossing of America's first great divide-the Appalachian Mountains-has been a source of much fascination but has received little attention from modern historians.

Inside Hamilton's Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada's steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural destination.

The three Kentucky presidents-Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis-were profoundly shaped by their experiences in Kentucky, poised as it was on the border between the North and the South, the East and the Western Frontier.