George Washington, Oscar Wilde, T.E. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Wendell Holmes, E.B. White, Vera Nabokov, J.P. Morgan — if any of these vivid predecessors still belong to us in some fragmented private way, it’s because of their letters or diaries (which are letters to ourselves...
Collecting 101: Estimating a George Washington Autograph for Auction A question I am frequently asked by non-collectors or people new to collecting is, “How do you estimate the value of an autograph?” The question is not easy to answer… October 17, 2024 Books & Manuscripts Specialists in...
George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, and others, John H. Rhodehamel (ed.) - American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglas, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy...
Steven L. Brunton - University of Washington "George Haller has written a clear, well-illustrated text that step-by-step explains the mathematics needed to understand and quantify fluid motions that cause mixing and describes and identifies the corresponding transport barriers to mixing processes. The...
Paul Gardullo, Johanna Obenda, and Anthony Bogues, eds., with a foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch III,In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World(Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2024), 240 pages, ISBN: 978-1588347794, $40. ...
Washington Irving is best known for short stories like "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". These tales were written in a distinctive humorous and witty style. Create an account to start this course today Used by over30 million studentsworldwide ...
“The last thing George Washington Crosby remembered as he died was Christmas dinner, 1953…” By this time George had the family who will figure in his dying days—the wife and children who at book’s beginning gathered around to care for him. The remembered Christmas was the last time ...
Hughes was also then in the midst of writing a well-regarded multi-volume biography of George Washington. Vicki Baum. The Austrian-born Baum was riding a wave of success from her novel, Menschen im Hotel, which became a best-seller in the U.S. as Grand Hotel and, in turn, the 1932 ...
He finds that 1778-81 were the decisive years of the Revolution. During those years — the times that tried Americans’ souls — independence was won. Along the way, the author also re-evaluates one of the Revolution’s leading figures, George Washington’s adversary, British General Sir Henr...
allan keyes of st. george, vt.: daily observations of daily walks by a poet and naturalist who writes well and understands how to attend to the present moment. “each page written in its own season, out-of-doors, in its own locality.” i have been reading and annotating thoreau’s ...