26 títulos para "Historic Publishing"

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture

Smith, Venture

THE following account of the life of VENTURE is a relation of simple facts, in which nothing is added in substance to what he related himself. Many other interesting and curious passages of his life might have been inserted, but on account of the bulk to which they must necessarily have swelled this...

The Works of Archimedes

Heath Sc.D., T.L.;Publishing, Historic

THIS book is intended to form a companion volume to my edition of the treatise of Apollonius on Conic Sections lately published. If it was worth while to attempt to make the work of "the great geometer" accessible to the mathematician of to-day who might not be able, in consequence of its length and...

A Woman's Wartime Journal

Lunt, Dolly Sumner

????? Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed since the Civil War, I doubt that there is in the entire South a place where it has changed less than on the Burge Plantation, near Covington, Georgia. And I do not know in the whole country a place that I should rather see again in springtime...

Former Female Slave Narratives & Interviews

Mitchell, MA Joe;Administration, Works Progress;Mitchell, Joe

American slave narratives are a unique and fascinating historical resource. Although, the narratives have their contextual limitations-they are an invaluable primary source that allows one to gain insight pertaining to slaves from their own perspective.Female Slave Narratives is the product of the a...

Tennessee Slave Narratives

Administration, Works Progress;Publishing, Historic

This title contains 26 slave detailed and historically rich narratives not orginally circulated or published from the state of Tennessee. The narratives give sensational insight into the everyday lives of the former slaves interviewed. In addition, some of the former slaves speak of traditions and o...

Extracts of Letters of Major-General Bryan Grimes, to His Wife

Grimes, Major-General Bryan

The matter contained in the succeeding pages was never intended for publication. It represents a short sketch of incidents, and participation in the late war, by the late MAJOR-GENERAL BRYAN GRIMES, and extracts from letters to his wife, written from the camp, and on the fields of battle, and such o...

The Autobiography of Brantley York

York, Brantley;Publishing, Historic

What our civilization would be today but for the old time preacher, it is hard to say. His tremendous faith and religious zeal may have filled his imagination with many realities that have no significance for the cold, practical, calculating eye of today; and judged by the standards of today he lose...

The Harvard Classics

Franklin, Benjamin / Penn, William

The Harvard Classics Volume One consists of three complete titles.1) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin2) The Journal of John Woolman3) Fruits of Solitude: William Penn

Florida Slave Narratives

Administration, Works Progress;Publishing, Historic;Mitchell, J.

LARGE PRINT EDITION Some of the slave narratives found in the Florida Slave Narratives were collected by African American employees of the Works Progress Administration's? (WPA) Florida Federal Writers? Project. Some historians believe that these narratives that had a black interviewer give a unique...

From Captivity to Fame

Merritt, Raleigh H.

The purpose of this book is to record the eminent achievements of a great agricultural chemist, Dr. George Washington Carver, of the Tuskegee Institute; to make known his interesting childhood and youth, his early struggles and later triumphs; and also to accompany him into the great creative stretc...

Virginia Slave Narratives and Interviews From Former Slaves

Mitchell, MA Joe;Project, Federal Writers'

To reflect the individual character of this document, most inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and formatting have been retained. Obvious typos and some punctuation (mostly quotation marks) have been fixed. Spelling changes are underlined in the text with a dotted line: original text appears i...

Poor Richard's Almanack

Franklin, Benjamin

Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia first published Poor Richard’s Almanack. The book, filled with proverbs preaching industry and prudence, was published continuously for 25 years and was one of the most popular publications in colonial America.Franklin was born in Boston in 1706 and was appren...