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Vocabulum, Or, The Rogue's Lexicon: Compiled from the Most ...

Vocabulum, Or, The Rogue's Lexicon: Compiled from the Most ...

George Washington Matsell

Matsell, George W., Compiler. Vocabulum; Or, The Rogue's Lexicon. Compiled From the Most Authentic Sources. New York: Published by George W. Matsell & Co., [1859]. vi, 130 pp. Reprint available January, 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

John Perry

George Washington Carver goes beyond the public image to chronicle the adventures of one of history's most inspiring and remarkable men. George Washington Carver was born a slave.
The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York

The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York

Patricia Cline Cohen

Under the editorship of George Wilkes and later George Matsell and Richard Kyle Fox, the National Police Gazette abandoned the egalitarian agenda of the flash press. Undoubtedly certain themes and methods persisted: advertisements for ...
George Washington and Slavery: A Documentary Portrayal

George Washington and Slavery: A Documentary Portrayal

Fritz Hirschfeld

George Washington and Slavery will be an essential addition to the historiography of eighteenth-century America and of Washington himself.
George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design ...

George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design ...

Joseph Manca

Based on careful study of Washington’s personal diaries and correspondence and on the lively accounts of visitors to his estate, this richly illustrated book introduces a George Washington unfamiliar to many readers—an avid art ...
George Washington's Military Genius

George Washington's Military Genius

Dave Richard Palmer

Confronting the critics who say Washington's battlefield success and ultimate victories were a function of luck, George Washington's Military Genius proves why the father of our country also deserves the title of America's preeminent ...
George Washington

George Washington

Augusta Stevenson

Get to know George Washington as a kid and discover what made him the ultimate all-star in American history.
George Washington

George Washington

Mark Lardas

Despite his lack of formal military training, George Washington may be one of history's must underrated commanders.
Crossing the Delaware: George Washington and the Battle of ...

Crossing the Delaware: George Washington and the Battle of ...

Arlan Dean

General George Washington leads a surprise attack against British troops in Trenton, New Jersey, in the cold winter of 1776.
Designing the Nation's Capital: The 1901 Plan for Washington, DC

Designing the Nation's Capital: The 1901 Plan for Washington, DC

Sue A. Kohler

Antoinette J. Lee, (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University Center for Washington Area Studies, Occasional Paper ... For their assistance with this essay, I should like to thank Pamela Scott, Fred Bauman of the Manuscript Division, ...
What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports

What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports

George Allen

And George Allen—former U.S. Senator, former Virginia Governor, and son of the great NFL coach George Allen, Sr.—brings these two worlds together in his new book, The Triumph of Character: What Washington Can Learn From the Principles ...
Black Empire

Black Empire

George Samuel Schuyler

"Imagine W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and Marcus Garvey rolled into one fascist superman, and there you have Dr. Henry Belsidus. . . [The novels] are an Afrocentrist's dream.
Meet George Washington

Meet George Washington

Joan Heilbroner

This valiant story of how young George Washington was drawn into his country's struggle for independence gives readers a vivid perspective on a crucial era in American history--and on the life of a revolutionary hero.
George Washington Reconsidered

George Washington Reconsidered

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With three essays written specifically for this volume, George Washington Reconsidered is the first collection of its kind to be published in over thirty years.
George Washington and the Jews

George Washington and the Jews

Fritz Hirschfeld

This volume explores the background and circumstances that brought about a milestone relationship between George Washington and the Jews.
The General in the Garden: George Washington's Landscape at ...

The General in the Garden: George Washington's Landscape at ...

Adam T. Erby

Designing the beautiful: General Washington's landscape improvements, 1784-1787 / Adam T. Erby -- George Washington's gardens: under the watchful eye of the Mount Vernon Ladies / J. Dean Norton -- "Laid out in squares, and boxed with great ...
George Washington: Revolutionary Leader & Founding Father

George Washington: Revolutionary Leader & Founding Father

Sari Earl

Provides a biography of George Washington covering his childhood, family life, military service during the Revolutionary War, and years as President of the United States.
Res Gestae: Pub. by the Students of the George Washington ...

Res Gestae: Pub. by the Students of the George Washington ...

Thomas Marshall Spaulding

Pub. by the Students of the George Washington University Law School, Fiftieth Anniversary, 1915 Thomas Marshall Spaulding, George Washington University. Law School. Zllrrshmen +*l' '1'-IHAROLD G. SOWDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Ohio ...
Princeton Portraits

Princeton Portraits

Donald Drew Egbert

GEORGE WASHINGTON MUSGRAVE 1804 . 1882 FIGURE 143 The Rev. George Washington Musgrave was one of those leading Presbyterian divines of the nineteenth century who served both as a trustee of the College of New Jersey and ...
George Washington: The Crossing

George Washington: The Crossing

Jack E. Levin

Featuring Revolution-era artwork, portraiture, and maps, George Washington: The Crossing imparts the same vivid, intimate telling, that of a father to his sons—the kind of history lesson that lives in the heart forever.
Religion and the American Presidency

Religion and the American Presidency

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... 1961), chapter V. For an elaboration of George Washington's position, see Vincent Phillip Muñoz, “George Washington on Religious Liberty,” The Review of Politics, 65 (Winter 2003): 11–33. The Washingtonian classical republican position ...
A Companion to George Washington

A Companion to George Washington

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... Vernon, Virginia, and the Wider Atlantic World” in George Washington's South, Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien, eds. ... Library of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Author of Hugh Wynne, Books, Autographs, Prints, and Historical Relics, to be Sold at ...
Faith and the Presidency From George Washington to George W. ...

Faith and the Presidency From George Washington to George W. ...

Gary Scott Smith

In fact, Gary Scott Smith shows, none of this is new. Religion has been a major part of the presidency since George Washington's first inaugural address.
Journal of the New England Garden History Society

Journal of the New England Garden History Society

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George Washington Cable and the Carnegie Gardening Competition in Northampton, Massachusetts MAY BRAWLEY HILL AUTHOR AND SOCIAL REFORMER GEORGE Washington Cable (1844-1925), a New Orleans native who achieved ...
The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel

The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel

Michael Aaron Rockland

This rich narrative offers both a personal and historic account of the George Washington Bridge spanning New York and New Jersey and presents diverse perspectives on this majestic structure that encompass such areas as history, architecture ...
George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol

George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol

Linda O. McMurry

How did George Washington Carver, whose concrete accomplishments on paper did not amount to much more that "doing something" with peanuts, sweet potatoes, homemade paint and recipes, come to be known as a great man who made brilliant ...

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