Maloy Island Memories
Maloy Island Memories

Author: Irene Maloy Haroldson

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2009-02

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1606968963

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Read about the adventures of a young Norwegian girl living on Målöy Island surrounded by family and friends. This idyllic island life comes to an end with the uncertainties of World War II and the family's journey to the United States.

Memories of My Three Years Aboard Destroyer Escorts
Memories of My Three Years Aboard Destroyer Escorts

Author: John J. Sheehan

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-02-18

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1493170031

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John J. Sheehan, LTJG USN (ret.) John Joseph Sheehan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 27. 1935 to Margaret and Joseph Sheehan, Sr. He attended St. Timothy Parochial School in the Mayfair section of the city. He is a 1952 graduate of St. Josephs Preparatory School, (The Prep) and St. Josephs College (now University) in 1956. John enlisted in the United States Navy and graduated from the Naval Officers Candidate School in 1956. John served as Communications Officer on the USS Cross and the USS Chamber until his honorable discharge as a Lieutenant JG in 1959. Upon his retirement from the City of Philadelphia Comptrollers Office, John use the logs from the Library of Congress to research material from his real life experiences aboard ship. John lives in Philadelphia with his wife of fifty years, Ellen. He is the father of Ann Marie Matekovic, John Sheehan, Jr. and Ellyn Taylor and the grandfather of Katelyn and Laura Matekovic, Casey and Megan Sheehan and Charles, Kelley and Joseph Taylor.

The Colonial American Origins of Modern Democratic Thought
The Colonial American Origins of Modern Democratic Thought

Author: J. S. Maloy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-09-22

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1139473476

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This first examination in almost forty years of political ideas in the seventeenth-century American colonies reaches some surprising conclusions about the history of democratic theory more generally. The origins of a distinctively modern kind of thinking about democracy can be located, not in revolutionary America and France in the later eighteenth century, but in the tiny New England colonies in the middle seventeenth. The key feature of this democratic rebirth was honoring not only the principle of popular sovereignty through regular elections but also the principle of accountability through non-electoral procedures for the auditing and impeachment of elected officers. By staking its institutional identity entirely on elections, modern democratic thought has misplaced the sense of robust popular control which originally animated it.

Civil War Monuments and Memory
Civil War Monuments and Memory

Author: Jon Tracey

Publisher: Savas Beatie

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1611216346

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The American Civil War left indelible marks on the country. In the century and a half since the war, Americans have remembered the war in different ways. Veterans placed monuments to commemorate their deeds on the battlefield. In doing so, they often set in stone and bronze specific images in specific places that may have conflicted with the factual historical record. Erecting monuments and memorials became a way to commemorate the past, but they also became important tools for remembering that past in particular ways. Monuments honor, but they also embody the very real tension between history and the way we remember that history—what we now today call “memory.” Civil War Monuments and Memory: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War explores some of the ways people monumented and memorialized the war—and how those markers have impacted our understanding of it. This collection of essays brings together the best scholarship from Emerging Civil War’s blog, symposia, and podcast—all of it revised and updated—coupled with original pieces, designed to shed new light and insight on the monuments and memorials that give us some of our most iconic and powerful connections to the battlefields and the men who fought there.