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Edward G. Gray
In a letter to his wife, Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having "a better hand at pulling down than building." Adams's dismissive remark has helped…
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Established to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development and Native American resistance, then the boundary between pro- and antislavery regimes. Edward Gray's is…
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New World Babel is an innovative cultural and intellectual history of the languages spoken by the native peoples of North America from the earliest era of European conquest through the…
By examining the lives of the colonists through their own words–in diaries, letters, sermons, newspaper columns, and poems–Colonial America: A History in Documents, Second Edition reveals how immigrants, despite their…
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During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751-1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James…
The little-known story of the architectural project that lay at the heart of Tom Paine’s political blueprint for the United States.
Jeremy Gray,Edward G. Gray
Henri Poincar (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time - he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel…
For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact…
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The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution introduces scholars, students and generally interested readers to the formative event in American history. In thirty-three individual essays, the Handbook provides readers with…
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets…
Edward G. Gray (Professor of History, Professor of History, Florida State University)
By examining the lives of the colonists through their own words-in diaries, letters, sermons, newspaper columns, and poems-Colonial America: A History in Documents, Second Edition, reveals how immigrants, despite their…
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Edward G. Longacre
Maj Gen Joseph Wheeler served in two armies, playing a major role in the development of Confederate cavalry and commanding US troops in the Spanish-American War. This book discusses his…
Thomas Gray,Edward Burnaby Greene
Title: The Latin odes of Mr. Gray, in English verse, with an ode On the death of a favorite spaniel. [Signed: E. B. G., i.e. Edward Burnaby Greene.]
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Anonymous,Robert Barnes
Title: Idyllic Pictures. Drawn by Barnes, Miss E. Edwards, P. Gray, Houghton, R. P. Leitch, Pinwell, Sandys, Small, G. Thomas, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the…