History of Braintree, Massachusetts (1639-1708)
Author : Charles Francis Adams
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Braintree (Mass.)
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Author : Charles Francis Adams
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Braintree (Mass.)
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Author : Charles Francis Adams
Publisher :
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 1996-11-01
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ISBN : 9780832855566
Author : Charles Allcott Flagg
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Cities and towns
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Author : Heli Meltsner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786490977
Ever since the English settled in America, extreme poverty and the inability of individuals to support themselves and their families have been persistent problems. In the early nineteenth century, many communities established almshouses, or "poorhouses," in a valiant but ultimately failed attempt to assist the destitute, including the sick, elderly, unemployed, mentally ill and orphaned, as well as unwed mothers, petty criminals and alcoholics. This work details the rise and decline of poorhouses in Massachusetts, painting a portrait of life inside these institutions and revealing a history of constant political and social turmoil over issues that dominate the conversation about welfare recipients even today. The first study to address the role of architecture in shaping as well as reflecting the treatment of paupers, it also provides photographs and histories of dozens of former poorhouses across the state, many of which still stand.
Author : Phyllis Lee Levin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1137474629
A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams's destiny was foreordained. He was not only "The Greatest Traveler of His Age," but his country's most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincy's world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early and late Napoleonic Age. As his diplomat father's adolescent clerk and secretary, he met everyone who was anyone in Europe, including America's own luminaries and founding fathers, Franklin and Jefferson. All this made coming back to America a great challenge. But though he was determined to make his own career he was soon embarked, at Washington's appointment, on his phenomenal work abroad, as well as on a deeply troubled though loving and enduring marriage. But through all the emotional turmoil, he dedicated his life to serving his country. At 50, he returned to America to serve as Secretary of State to President Monroe. He was inaugurated President in 1824, after which he served as a stirring defender of the slaves of the Amistad rebellion and as a member of the House of Representatives from 1831 until his death in 1848. In The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams, Phyllis Lee Levin provides the deeply researched and beautifully written definitive biography of one of the most fascinating and towering early Americans.
Author : Lyman Henry Butterfield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674032750
A collection of letters exchanged by members of the Adams family through three full generations and part of a fourth beginning with the courtship of John Adams and Abigail Smith and ending with the death of Abigail Brooks Adams, wife of the first Charles Francis Adams, United States minister to London during the American Civil War.
Author : Stanislaus Vincent Henkels
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Books
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Author : Charles Deane
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1898
Category : America
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Author : Boston Public Library
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Boston (Mass.)
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Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 1893
Category : New York (State)
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