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Webster's American biographies

Webster's American biographies

Charles Lincoln Van Doren

Fox-Jencken, Katherine, see under Fox, Margaret Fox, Richard Kyle (1846-1922) , publisher. ... At his death in Red Bank, New Jersey, on November 14, 1922, Fox left an estate of some $3 million, including the Gazette which passed to his sons ...
A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future

A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future

Charles Lincoln Van Doren

Covers every aspect of knowledge--scientific, intellectual, and historical--from the beginning of the human experience into the twenty-first century and beyond Clifton Fadiman Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club
Nuclear Arms Control: Background and Issues

Nuclear Arms Control: Background and Issues

National Academy of Sciences

We would also like to thank Charles van Doren for his assistance on the chapter on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Lynn Rusten and Steve Olson for their editorial assistance, and Barbara Wollison for her secretarial support in ...
Abraham Lincoln on Screen: Fictional and Documentary ...

Abraham Lincoln on Screen: Fictional and Documentary ...

Mark S. Reinhart

... Booth Clark), Dorothea Hammond (Mary Lincoln), Donald Hotten (Charles Dana), Gregg Nickerson (Robert Lincoln), Richard Sanders (Dr. Leale), Done- gan Smith (Capt. Gleason), Cynthia Thomas (Laura Keene), Michael Tucker (Gen .
Lincoln's Quest for Union: A Psychological Portrait

Lincoln's Quest for Union: A Psychological Portrait

Charles B. Strozier

"This is a remarkable book with extraordinary insights about the inner life of Abraham Lincoln. It will be read and studied for years to come." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lincoln in Indiana

Lincoln in Indiana

Brian R. Dirck

Lincoln in Indiana offers a fascinating account of Lincoln's boyhood in Indiana, setting the relationships, values, and environment that fundamentally shaped Lincoln's character within the context of frontier and farm life in early ...
Art at Lincoln Center: The Public Art and List Print and ...

Art at Lincoln Center: The Public Art and List Print and ...

Charles A. Riley, II

The first volume to showcase both Lincoln Center's fabulous public art and the List Poster and Print collection, Art at Lincoln Center begins with a tour of the campus and the art that has been collected since its inception.
Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners

Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners

Elizabeth A. Brennan

The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (Bush, Warren E., ed. ) ... Archibald MacLeish, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1971; Mullaly, Edward J. Archibald MacLeish: A Checklist, Kent, OH: Kent State University, 1973 ; ...
Papers and Proceedings of the Connecticut Valley Historical ...

Papers and Proceedings of the Connecticut Valley Historical ...

Connecticut Valley Historical Society

JAMEs, Monson TYLER, ALBERT A., Holyokc TYLER, WILLIAM S., Amhcrsl UNDERWOOD, PORTER, HolyOkc VAN VLAcx, WILLIAM C. VAN VLAL'K, CHARLEs VAN VLACK, MRs. CHARLEs WALKER, FRANK C. WALKER, FREDERICK D.
De baby in de spiegel: over het ontstaan van bewustzijn

De baby in de spiegel: over het ontstaan van bewustzijn

Charles Fernyhough

De geboorte van zijn dochter Athena was voor Charles Fernyhough het moment waarop hij met zijn werk overnieuw kon beginnen.
Journalism in the Fallen Confederacy

Journalism in the Fallen Confederacy

Debra Reddin van Tuyll

David W. Bulla, Lincoln's Censor: Milo Hascall and the Freedom of the Press in Civil War Indiana (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009), 2; David W. Bulla, “Abraham Lincoln and Press Suppression Reconsidered” American ...
The Annotated Lincoln

The Annotated Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

No U.S. president has faced the problems Lincoln confronted, nor expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment.
Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of ...

Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of ...

Charles B. Strozier

Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln is a rich analysis of a relationship that was both a model of male friendship and a specific dynamic between two brilliant but fascinatingly flawed men who played off each other’s strengths and weaknesses ...
The Fox and the Flies: The Criminal World of the Whitechapel ...

The Fox and the Flies: The Criminal World of the Whitechapel ...

Charles van Onselen

In this brilliant study, Charles van Onselen situates the private life of one man amidst the demi-monde of the Atlantic world and casts a brilliant light on the most infamous serial killer of all time - Jack the Ripper.
Monthly Bulletin

Monthly Bulletin

Ohio State Library

The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln; by James Henry Lea. B-L638 . The boyhood of Lincoln: by Eleanor Atkinson. B-L638 . The boy's life of Abraham Lincoln; by Helen Nicolay. B-L638 . The death of Lincoln; the story of Booth's plot, his deed and ...
Charles Stearns Wheeler: friend of Emerson

Charles Stearns Wheeler: friend of Emerson

John Olin Eidson

... in the building of Lincoln, see Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr., A Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America (Boston: American College of Genealogy, 1914), passim; and William F. Wheeler's history of Lincoln in the ...
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of ...

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of ...

Bernard Burke

1877, Charles Ellison Terrot, of NetherHewarth Hall, co. Durham, Lieut.-Col. ... Charles Pratt Terrot, Vicar of Wispington, co. Lincoln. 4. .... James Shand d. in 1837, and left, with other issue, a son, SIR CHARLEs FARQUHAR SHAND, Knt., LL.
Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s

Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s

John Reid

Raymond Massey (Abe Lincoln), Ruth Gordon (Mary Todd), Mary Howard (Ann Rutledge), Gene Lockhart (Stephen A. Douglas), Harvey ... (Ben Mattling), Esther Dale (cook), Andy Clyde (stage driver), Elizabeth Risdon (Sarah Lincoln), Charles Middleton (Tom Lincoln), ... Bowling Green), Louis- Jean Heydt (Mentor Graham), Harlan Briggs (Denton Offut), Leona Roberts (Mrs Rutledge), Florence Roberts ...
Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered

Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered

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LoWell Hayes Harrison, Lincoln of Kentucky (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), 135; see also David Lindsey, “Review of The Civil War in Kentucky by Lowell H. Harrison,” Iournal ofAmerican History 63 (1976): 136. 17. Charles ...
Concerning the Van Bunschoten or Van Benschoten family in ...

Concerning the Van Bunschoten or Van Benschoten family in ...

William Henry Van Benschoten

Oct. 19, 1872, at Ridgefield, Conn., dau. of Charles Davis Page and Mary Ann Holmes. He lives at New Haven; was chief clerk to the Gen. Manager of, now contract agent for, the N.Y. N.H. & H. R.R. Child: 1309. I. Catrina, b. Aug. 5, 1899, at ...
Walter Van Beirendonck: de controversieelste van de ...

Walter Van Beirendonck: de controversieelste van de ...

Agnes Goyvaerts

Chronologisch en op interviews gebaseerd verslag van de totstandkoming van 43 collecties van de Antwerpse modeontwerper.
Lincoln: A Photobiography

Lincoln: A Photobiography

Russell Freedman

The book's final chapter is a moving account of that tragic evening in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Concludes with a sampling of Lincoln writings and a detailed list of Lincoln historical sites.
The Lincoln Legacy: A Quarterly Publication of the Lincoln ...

The Lincoln Legacy: A Quarterly Publication of the Lincoln ...

David A. Warren

LINCOLN, LAND, AND LABOR, 1809-60 By Olivier Fraysse Translated By Sylvia Neely ******************************** Reviewed by Steven K. Rogstad The title of this book may cause many non- academics to avoid reading it, which would be ...
Lincoln on Democracy

Lincoln on Democracy

Abraham Lincoln

Back in print after ten years, this unique book brings together 141 speeches, speech excerpts, letters, fragments, and other writings by Lincoln on the theme of democracy.
Citizen Lincoln

Citizen Lincoln

Ward McAfee

In modern times, some critics have belittled Abraham Lincoln's antislavery resolve as shallow. Some have portrayed him as a passive president, waiting upon the bold initiatives of others. 'Citizen Lincoln' regards him differently.
The Worcester Directory Containing a General Directory of ...

The Worcester Directory Containing a General Directory of ...

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122 Lincoln Paine Charles Mrs. house 15 West Paine Charles A. yardmaster, house 40 Hanover lb. 3 Bigelow ct» Paine Chas. T. pistolmaker, 76 Grafton, Paine Charles W. stairbuilder, rear 31 Mechanic, bds. 582 Main Paine David H. armorer, ...
Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in ...

Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in ...

Jackie Hogan

William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story ofa Great Life. ... Guelzo, Ahraham Lincoln: Redeemer President; H. Donald Winkler, The Women in Lincoln's Life: How the Sixteenth American President Was Shaped ...

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