A History of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Author : Oscar Jewell Harvey
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Page : 722 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Civic leaders
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Author : Oscar Jewell Harvey
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Page : 722 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Civic leaders
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Author : Oscar Jewell Harvey
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Wilkes-Barre (Pa.)
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Author : Williams T. Blair
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Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1000343367
This book examines Freemasonry in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Drawing on fresh empirical evidence, the chapters position fraternalism as a critical component of Atlantic history. Fraternalism was a key strategy for people swept up in the dislocations of imperialism, large-scale migrations, and the socio-political upheavals of revolution. Ranging from confraternities to Masonic lodges to friendly societies, fraternal organizations offered people opportunities to forge linkages across diverse and widely separated parts of the world. Using six case studies, the contributors to this volume address multiple themes of fraternal organizations: their role in revolutionary movements; their intersections with the conflictive histories of racism, slavery, and anti-slavery; their appeal for diasporic groups throughout the Atlantic world, such as revolutionary refugees, European immigrants in North America, and members of the Jewish diaspora; and the limits of fraternal "brothering" in addressing the challenges of modernity. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.
Author : Wyoming Historical and Geological Society
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Geology
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Author : Delta Kappa Epsilon
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Page : 964 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 1907
Category : United States
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Author : William Preston Vaughn
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0813184673
Here, for the first time in more than eighty years, is a detailed study of political Antimasonry on the national, state, and local levels, based on a survey of existing sources. The Antimasonic party, whose avowed goal was the destruction of the Masonic Lodge and other secret societies, was the first influential third party in the United States and introduced the device of the national presidential nominating convention in 1831. Vaughn focuses on the celebrated "Morgan Affair" of 1826, the alleged murder of a former Mason who exposed the fraternity's secrets. Thurlow Weed quickly transformed the crusading spirit aroused by this incident into an anti-Jackson party in New York. From New York, the party soon spread through the Northeast. To achieve success, the Antimasons in most states had to form alliances with the major parties, thus becoming the "flexible minority." After William Wirt's defeat by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1832, the party waned. Where it had been strong, Antimasonry became a reform-minded, anti-Clay faction of the new Whig party and helped to secure the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison in 1836 and 1840. Vaughn concludes that although in many ways the Antimasonic Crusade was finally beneficial to the Masons, it was not until the 1850s that the fraternity regained its strength and influence.
Author : Osterhout Free Library
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
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Author : Hans L. Trefousse
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807864994
One of the most controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, Thaddeus Stevens is best remembered for his role as congressional leader of the radical Republicans and as a chief architect of Reconstruction. Long painted by historians as a vindictive 'dictator of Congress,' out to punish the South at the behest of big business and his own ego, Stevens receives a more balanced treatment in Hans L. Trefousse's biography, which portrays him as an impassioned orator and a leader in the struggle against slavery. Trefousse traces Stevens's career through its major phases: from his days in the Pennsylvania state legislature, when he antagonized Freemasons, slaveholders, and Jacksonian Democrats, to his political involvement during Reconstruction, when he helped author the Fourteenth Amendment and spurred on the passage of the Reconstruction Acts and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Throughout, Trefousse explores the motivations for Stevens's lifelong commitment to racial equality, thus furnishing a fuller portrait of the man whose fervent opposition to slavery helped move his more moderate congressional colleagues toward the implementation of egalitarian policies.