On Whitman
On Whitman

Author: C. K. Williams

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0691176108

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Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.

The Insurgent Delegate
The Insurgent Delegate

Author: George Thacher

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780997519105

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George Thatcher served as a U.S. representative from Maine throughout the Federalist Era (1789-1801)--the most critical and formative period of American constitutional history. A moderate on most political issues, the Cape Cod native and Harvard-educated lawyer proved a maverick in matters relating to education, the expansion of the slave interest, the rise of Unitarianism, and the separation of church and state. Written over his forty-year career as a country lawyer, national legislator, and state supreme court justice, the over two hundred letters and miscellaneous writings selected for this edition will appeal to historians, lawyers and legal scholars, teachers, and genealogists as an encyclopedic resource on the Founding generation, and to all readers captivated by the dramatic immediacy and inherent authenticity of personal letters. Following Thatcher's journey as a New England Federalist, abolitionist, religious dissenter, and pedagogical innovator is to add depth and complexity to our understanding of the early American Republic. Distributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

A Merrill Memorial
A Merrill Memorial

Author: Samuel Merrill

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 762

ISBN-13:

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Nathaniel Merrill (1601-1654/1655), son of Nathaniel and Mary Merrill, married Susanna Jordan and immigrated in 1635 from England to Newbury, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, California and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Quebec and elsewhere in Canada.

Surveys and Surveyors of the Public Domain, 1785-1975
Surveys and Surveyors of the Public Domain, 1785-1975

Author: Lola Cazier

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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"Cadastral surveys are performed to create, mark, and define, or to retrace the boundaries between abutting land owners, and, more particularly, between land of the Federal Government and private owners or local governments. As referred to here, cadastral surveys were performed only by the General Land Office during its existence and by the Bureau of Land Management. The Bureau of Land Management is the only agency that is currently authorized to determine the boundaries of the public lands of the United States. Proper understanding of the basis for performance of cadastral surveys includes an understanding of the history of the public land surveys. An understanding of that history requires some consideration of the people who performed these surveys and of the people whose land was affected by them. These chapters were written to be used as an aid in training cadastral surveyors in the application of surveying principles. The learner is expected to gain from the factual material on survey laws and their formation, as well as from a study of the people who performed the surveys. Many of the men who had an important role in the history of cadastral surveying are still living, but only those who have retired are included in the present document."--Foreword.