Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912
Author: John Wilson Townsend
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 412
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Author: John Wilson Townsend
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Wilson Townsend
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 412
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Published: 1974
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emily Foster
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 081314941X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.
Author: James Flint
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 352
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur G. Pettit
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2004-12-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780813191409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. Mark Twain and the South was the first book on this major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in his writing from 1863 until his death. Arthur G. Pettit clearly demonstrates that Mark Twain's feelings on race and region moved in an intelligible direction from the white Southern point of view he was exposed to in his youth to self-censorship, disillusionment, and, ultimately, a deeply pessimistic and sardonic outlook in which the dream of racial brotherhood was forever dead. Approaching his subject as a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters. An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.
Author: John Wilson Townsend
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Published: 1913
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Reuben Gold Thwaites
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard Edelman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002-06-04
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780393323047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 25 years after the official end of the Vietnam War, "Dear America" allows readers to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served there. Excerpt in "Time" magazine.