Yankee Destinies
Yankee Destinies

Author: Peter R. Knights

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780807819692

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This book reconstructs important milestones in the lives of 2,808 white, native-born men who resided in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1860 or 1870. Selected systematically from the census for those two years, these men represent two cross-sections of those vi

Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record

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Publisher:

Published: 1865

Total Pages: 1022

ISBN-13:

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A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.

Portsmouth Women
Portsmouth Women

Author: Laura Pope

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-05-21

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1625845537

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In the history of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, countless women rose above a rigid society to make their marks on the seaport city. In the eighteenth century, Allice Shannon Hight became a successful tavern keeper, outliving two husbands and providing for ten children. Others flourished in more scandalous ventures, like Alta Roberts, otherwise known as the Black Mystery of Portsmouth--always donned in black, she operated a successful brothel at the Roberts House Saloon in the nineteenth century. Even greater achievements would come in later years from the likes of Mary Carey Dondero, who became one of the first women elected mayor in New England. This collection of essays, compiled by author and historian Laura Pope, celebrates the victories--large and small--of Portsmouth's notable women.