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Author: George Jones
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Published: 1829
Total Pages: 388
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Published: 1829
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles E. Brodine
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780945274544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is a training manual for members of the crew of the 1797 United States frigate Constitution, the world's oldest warship in commission. The venerable vessel, which earned its nickname, "Old Ironsides," during the War of 1812, is today permanently berthed in the Charlestown Navy Yard, across the Charles River from its building site in Boston, Massachusetts. The historic frigate is open to visitors year round, with tours provided by the crew, active sailors in the United States Navy. The lessons in the manual are divided among three groups, corresponding to the three skill levels of the tour guides, Basic, Advanced, and Master. In addition to the chronology and major events in the history of USS Constitution, the manual explains the historical contexts in which those events took place. The text is written in an engaging and accessible manner that will make it attractive to anyone interested in USS Constitution or in the early U.S. Navy in general.
Author: Harold D Langley
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2015-03-15
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1612517757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the decades before the American Civil War various political, social, and religious groups agitated for reforms in American society that would be in keeping with its professed democratic and national principles. One such organization was the American Seaman’s Friend Society, which lobbied for improvements in the enlistment, discipline, and treatment of sailors in the Merchant Marine and the Navy. Their causes were embraced by some naval officers, members of Congress, and a few Secretaries of the Navy. This history explores the circumstances and people in and out of the Navy who eventually convinced Congress to enact reforms to improve the conditions of service of naval enlisted men and to lay the foundation for a career enlisted force.
Author: Thomas Truxtun Moebs
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Preface--Established in 1800 with a small collection of books that served the Secretary of the Navy, the [Navy Department Library] holds the most comprehensive collection of U.S. navy literature. For the past two hundred years, it has collected the books, documents, journals, and manuscripts the record the Navy's achievement in combat, international diplomacy, exploration, technological development, medicine, education, and social reform. This literature described in the catalog chronicles the more significant events, customs and traditions, organizations, and personalities in navel history, providing insight into the origins and development of Navy doctrine.
Author: Claude Berube
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0817321071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A detailed account of how the US Navy modernized itself between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, through strategic approaches to its personnel, operations, technologies, and policies, among them an emerging officer corps, which sought to professionalize its own ranks, modernize the platforms on which it sailed, and define its own role within national affairs and in the broader global maritime commons"--
Author: Agnes C. Doyle
Publisher: Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Myra C. Glenn
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780873958127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCampaigns against Corporal Punishment explores the theory and practice of punishment in Antebellum America from a broad, comparative perspective. It probes the concerns underlying the naval, prison, domestic, and educational reform campaigns which occurred in New England and New York from the late 1820s to the late 1850s. Focusing on the common forms of physical punishment inflicted on seamen, prisoners, women, and children, the book reveals the effect of these campaigns on actual disciplinary practices. Myra C. Glenn also places the crusade against corporal punishment in the context of various other contemporary reform movements such as the crusade against intemperance and that against slavery. She shows how regional and political differences affected discussions of punishment and discipline.
Author: Philip Van Buskirk
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-10-21
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 078645489X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis diary is one of the most unusual produced during the Civil War because it contains very little about military life. Early in the war Van Buskirk abandoned his regiment, working as a schoolmaster, farmhand, and casual laborer. He wrote of the suffering civilians endured at the hands of contending armies. But he also found time to chronicle his fascination with handsome young lads he encountered during his life as a deserter--unwittingly providing modern readers an illuminating glimpse of class differences and sexual mores. Naval, social and sexual historians, in particular, will find much valuable source material.
Author: Harold Frederick Smith
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780810835542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. Updated from the 1969 edition with titles subsequently discovered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
