Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 3 Boston'and new york houghton, mifflin and company flint margin: 19m, damming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 3


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Excerpt from Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 3: Part II This Company was substantially a reincorporation of the adventurers or associates of the Northern Colony Of Virginia, with additional privileges, placing them on a footing with their rivals Of the Southern Colony, whose franchise had been twice enlarged since the issuing Of the original charter of April 10, 1606, which incorporated both companies. A notice Of this earlier enterprise will but briefly detain us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 6 Illustrations: George III., 20; Lord North, with Autograph, 21; Rocking ham, 31 Fac-simile of Glorious News, May 16, 1766, 33; John Adams, 36; Fac-simile of Adams's Writing, 37; Samuel Adams, with Autograph, 40; Samuel Adams, 41; Revere's Plan of State Street at the time of the Bos ton Massacre, 48; Autographs of the Court for the Trial following the Boston Massacre, - Benjamin Lynde, John Cushing, Peter Oliver, Edmund Trowbridge, Jonathan Sewall, Samuel Winthrop, 50; of the Counsel, Robert Treat Paine, Samuel Quincy, John Adams, Josiah Quincy, Jr., and Sampson S. Blowers, 51; Joseph Warren, 54; Fac-simile of Broadside. June 22, 1773, 55; A Contemporary Print, 59; Broadside, June 17, I774, 61. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.



















Mid-America, 1938, Vol. 20


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Excerpt from Mid-America, 1938, Vol. 20: An Historical Quarterly A complete history of education from the earliest times to the present day. Full of scholarship and brilliantly written, this textbook is remarka ble for an unusual freshness and keenness of analysis. There 15 throughout an honest attempt to recognize merit and an equally honest contempt for superficiality and sham. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




From Fact to Fiction


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Focusing on the lives and careers of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos, Fishkin offers the first full-length study to examine the tradition in American letters since the 1830s of great imaginative writers beginning their careers in journalism. Her probing examination of the poetry and fiction that followed the newspaper and magazine work of these writers reveals how each transformed fact into art and how journalismhas helped to give a distinctively American cast to American literature.