Life of Arthur Lee, LL. D., Joint Commissioner of the United States to the Court of France, and Sole Commissioner to the Courts of Spain and Prussia,, Lee Richard Henry
In 2015, Bob Dylan said, "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them, back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that's fair game, that everything belongs to everyone." In Hear My Sad Story, Richard Polenberg describes the historical events that led to the writing of many famous American folk songs that served as touchstones for generations of American musicians, lyricists, and folklorists.
Those events, which took place from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, often involved tragic occurrences: murders, sometimes resulting from love affairs gone wrong; desperate acts borne out of poverty and unbearable working conditions; and calamities such as railroad crashes, shipwrecks, and natural disasters. All of Polenberg’s account of the songs in the book are grounded in historical fact and illuminate the social history of the times. Reading these tales of sorrow, misfortune, and regret puts us in touch with the dark but terribly familiar side of American history.
On Christmas 1895 in St. Louis, an African American man named Lee Shelton, whose nickname was "Stack Lee," shot and killed William Lyons in a dispute over seventy-five cents and a hat. Shelton was sent to prison until 1911, committed another murder upon his release, and died in a prison hospital in 1912. Even during his lifetime, songs were being written about Shelton, and eventually 450 versions of his story would be recorded. As the song—you may know Shelton as Stagolee or Stagger Lee—was shared and adapted, the emotions of the time were preserved, but the fact that the songs described real people, real lives, often fell by the wayside. Polenberg returns us to the men and women who, in song, became legends. The lyrics serve as valuable historical sources, providing important information about what had happened, why, and what it all meant. More important, they reflect the character of American life and the pathos elicited by the musical memory of these common and troubled lives.
Автор: Lee Richard Henry Название: An Additional Number of Letters Prom [Sic] the Federal Farmer to the Republican: Leading to a Fair Examination of the System of Government Proposed b ISBN: 127582918X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781275829183 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20000.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Title: An additional number of letters prom sic] the Federal Farmer to the Republican: leading to a fair examination of the system of government proposed by the late convention, to several essential and necessary alterations in it: and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters.
Author: Richard Henry Lee
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP03779300
CollectionID: CTRG01-B3413
PublicationDate: 17880101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf. Cf. Evans. Paged continuously with his "Observations leading to a fair examination of the system of government" and contains letters VI-XVIII.
Collation: xliii]-xliv, 44]-181 p.; 18 cm
Автор: Amestoy Jeffrey L. Название: Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr. ISBN: 0674088190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674088191 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 37960.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. became a common seaman, and soon his Two Years Before the Mast became a classic. Literary acclaim did not erase the young lawyer`s memory of floggings he witnessed aboard ship or undermine his vow to combat injustice. Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana`s determination to keep that vow.
Автор: Fleck Richard F. Название: Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Native Americans ISBN: 1941821464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941821466 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first in-depth treatment of Henry Thoreau and John Muir, two great students of our natural America, to explore Native American influence on the development of America`s natural philosophies and environmental awareness.
Автор: Dana, Richard Henry Название: Two years before the mast ISBN: 1604595590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781604595598 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17460.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Snow Richard F. Название: I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford ISBN: 1451645589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451645583 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 15330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who writes with verve and a keen eye ("The New York Times Book Review"), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America. Every century or so, our republic has been remade by a new technology: 170 years ago the railroad changed Americans conception of space and time; in our era, the microprocessor revolutionized how humans communicate. But in the early twentieth century the agent of creative destruction was the gasoline engine, as put to work by an unknown and relentlessly industrious young man named Henry Ford. Born the same year as the battle of Gettysburg, Ford died two years after the atomic bombs fell, and his life personified the tremendous technological changes achieved in that span. Growing up as a Michigan farm boy with a bone-deep loathing of farming, Ford intuitively saw the advantages of internal combustion. Resourceful and fearless, he built his first gasoline engine out of scavenged industrial scraps. It was the size of a sewing machine. From there, scene by scene, Richard Snow vividly shows Ford using his innate mechanical abilities, hard work, and radical imagination as he transformed American industry. In many ways, of course, Ford s story is well known; in many more ways, it is not. Richard Snow masterfully weaves together a fascinating narrative of Ford s rise to fame through his greatest invention, the Model T. When Ford first unveiled this car, it took twelve and a half hours to build one. A little more than a decade later, it took exactly one minute. In making his car so quickly and so cheaply that his own workers could easily afford it, Ford created the cycle of consumerism that we still inhabit. Our country changed in a mere decade, and Ford became a national hero. But then he soured, and the benevolent side of his character went into an ever-deepening eclipse, even as the America he had remade evolved beyond all imagining into a global power capable of producing on a vast scale not only cars, but airplanes, ships, machinery, and an infinity of household devices. A highly pleasurable read, filled with scenes and incidents from Ford s life, particularly during the intense phase of his secretive competition with other early car manufacturers, "I Invented the Modern Age "shows Richard Snow at the height of his powers as a popular historian and reclaims from history Henry Ford, the remarkable man who, indeed, invented the modern world as we know it."
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