Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1997-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
For two centuries George Washington has stood First in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Author : George Washington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 23,92 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The Papers of George Washington, a grant-funded project, was established in 1968 at the University of Virginia, under the joint auspices of the University and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, to publish a comprehensive edition of Washington's correspondence. Letters written to Washington as well as letters and documents written by him are being published in the complete edition that will consist of approximately ninety volumes. The work is now (2011) more than two-thirds complete. The edition is supported financially by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, the University of Virginia, and gifts from private foundations and individuals. Today there are copies of over 135,000 Washington documents in the project's document room. This is one of the richest collections of American historical manuscripts extant. There is almost no facet of research on life and enterprise in the late colonial and early national periods that will not be enhanced by material from these documents. The publication of Washington's papers will make this source material available not only to scholars but to all Americans interested in the founding of their nation. - Publisher.
Author : George Washington
Publisher : Calkins Creek
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
A collection of letters, diary entries, speeches, and other documents written by George Washington, with brief introductions and archival photographs.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Generals
ISBN : 9780813930237
Originally published: New York: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, c2007.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258502386
Author : George Washington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
This volumed compilation of the writings of George Washington brings together important speeches, letters, and other official correspondence from the professional life of the Commander-in-Chief. Special attention is paid to documents relating to his military business and political career, but also with personal correspondence to add a more holistic examination into Washington. The editor provides his own summary of Washington's life in the first volume, before the autobiographical documents begin.
Author : George Washington
Publisher : Liberty Fund
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Based almost entirely on materials reproduced from: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799 / John C. Fitzpatrick, editor. Includes indexes.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 1907
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Edward G. Lengel
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0061877719
George Washington wrote an astonishing number of letters, both personal and professional. The majority—about 140,000 documents—are from his years as commander in chief during the Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783. This Glorious Struggle presents a selection of Washington's most important and interesting letters from that time, including many that have never been published. Washington's lively and often surprisingly candid notes to his wife and family, friends, Congress, fellow soldiers—and even the enemy—chronicle his most critical tactical and strategic decisions, while offering a rare glimpse of the extremes of depression and exultation into which he was cast by the fortunes of war. The letters are arranged chronologically and give a dramatic sense of the major phases of the war, from Boston, Trenton, and Valley Forge, to Monmouth and Yorktown. The more personal missives show us a Washington who worried about his wife's well-being and who appreciated a good joke and a well-laid table, not to mention the company of the ladies. This Glorious Struggle brings Washington to vivid life, offering a fresh and intimate sense of this most towering American figure and the critical role he played in the creation of our country.
