State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols
State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols

Author: Benjamin F. Shearer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2001-10-30

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0313092362

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This must-have third revised and newly expanded edition of the only single reference source for information about state symbols features over 300 information updates plus three new chapters, updated license plate illustrations, and a newly formatted design for ease of use. Libraries that hold earlier editions of this work need this edition to keep their information on the states and territories current. With the addition of new chapters on state and territory universities, state and territory governors throughout U.S. history, state professional sports teams, and a complete revision of the chapter on state and territory fairs and festivals, the work now totals 17 chapters of essential information that is a treasure trove for students. This completed redesigned reference work features chapters on state and territory names and nicknames, mottoes, seals, flags, capitals, flowers, trees, birds, songs, legal holidays and observances, license plates, postage stamps, miscellaneous designations, fairs and festivals, universities, governors, professional sports teams, and a bibliography of state and territory histories. The work features full-color illustrations of every state and territory seal, flag, flower, tree, bird, commemorative postage stamp, and license plate (updated for this edition).

State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols
State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols

Author: Benjamin F. Shearer

Publisher: Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13:

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A reference source for information about state symbols, featuring chapters on official state and territory names and nicknames, mottoes, seals, flags, capitols, flowers, trees, birds, songs, and miscellaneous designations. This edition updates and doubles the coverage of the original 1987 volume, adding four new chapters on state and territory legal holidays and observances, automobile license plates, festivals and fairs, and selected US postage stamps issued in honor of the states and territories. Color illustrations of seals, flags, flowers, trees, birds, license plates, and postage stamps complement the text. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Reading the Early Republic
Reading the Early Republic

Author: Robert A. FERGUSON

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780674036802

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Reading the Early Republic focuses attention on the forgotten dynamism of thought in the founding era. In every case, the documents, novels, pamphlets, sermons, journals, and slave narratives of the early American nation are richer and more intricate than modern readers have perceived. Rebellion, slavery, and treason--the mingled stories of the Revolution--still haunt national thought. Robert Ferguson shows that the legacy that made the country remains the idea of what it is still trying to become. He cuts through the pervading nostalgia about national beginnings to recapture the manic-depressive tones of its first expression. He also has much to say about the reconfiguration of charity in American life, the vital role of the classical ideal in projecting an unthinkable continental republic, the first manipulations of the independent American woman, and the troubled integration of civic and commercial understandings in the original claims of prosperity as national virtue. Reading the Early Republic uses the living textual tradition against history to prove its case. The first formative writings are more than sacred artifacts. They remain the touchstones of the durable promise and the problems in republican thought