Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor

Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor

Author: Richard R. Beeman

Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 046502629X

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Describes the political, diplomatic, and military challenges faced by the delegates from the 13 colonies at the Continental Congress and how they came together to agree to free themselves from British rule and forge independence for America.


Our Sacred Honor

Our Sacred Honor

Author: William John Bennett

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 068484138X

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The stories, songs, letters, and speeches collected in Our Sacred Honor are an inspiring celebration of American exceptionalism, produced by a collection of exceptional Americans.


Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor

Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor

Author: Mark Cole

Publisher:

Published: 2007-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780595431236

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In July of 1776, the members of the Second Continental Congress were meeting in Philadelphia. After approving the resolution for independence, they adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. In the Declaration, each of the men pledged his life, fortune and sacred honor to the cause of American independence. These are the stories of those men.


Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother

Author: Roberto Cintli Rodríguez

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0816530610

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Weaving archival records, ancient maps and narratives, and the wisdom of the elders, Roberto Cintli Rodriguez offers compelling evidence that maíz is the historical connector between Indigenous peoples of this continent. Rodriguez brings together the wisdom of scholars and elders to show how maíz/corn connects the peoples of the Americas.


Sacred Honor

Sacred Honor

Author: David Roth

Publisher: HarperPrism

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780061008498

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A biography of General Powell, one of the most respected and popular military leaders of his time, and a peerless role model for African-Americans. Covers his life from the early days in Harlem to his rise as the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff.


The Founders' Fortunes

The Founders' Fortunes

Author: Willard Sterne Randall

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1524745928

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An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty, justice, and the fate of the fledgling United States of America? In this landmark account, historian Willard Sterne Randall investigates the private financial affairs of the Founders, illuminating like never before how and why the Revolution came about. The Founders’ Fortunes uncovers how these leaders waged war, crafted a constitution, and forged a new nation influenced in part by their own financial interests. In an era where these very issues have become daily national questions, the result is a remarkable and insightful new understanding of our nation’s bedrock values.


Inventing America

Inventing America

Author: Garry Wills

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2017-02-15

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0385542836

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From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. "No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" —(Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books)


Sacred Ground

Sacred Ground

Author: Edward Tabor Linenthal

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780252061714

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"Examines how different groups of Americans have competed to control, define, and own cherished national stories relating to events at four battlefields."--Amazon.com.