Family Relationships Of George Washington

Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.7P/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Relationships of George Washington written by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Relationships of George Washington written by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Moore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Family Life of George Washington written by Charles Moore and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Family Relationships of George Washington written by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Miriam Anne Bourne
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393015317
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Family written by Miriam Anne Bourne and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing heavily on family letters, this study reveals that Washington's family life significantly affected his decisions, opinions, reactions, character, and disposition

Author : Martha Saxton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721335
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Widow Washington written by Martha Saxton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington’s mother, based on archival sources. Her son’s biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial and an obstacle to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story. Mary Ball, the daughter of a wealthy planter and a formerly indentured servant, was orphaned young and grew up working hard, practicing frugality and piety. Stepping into Virginia’s upper class, she married an older man, the planter Augustine Washington, with whom she had five children before his death eleven years later. As a widow deprived of most of her late husband’s properties, Mary struggled to raise her children, but managed to secure them places among Virginia’s elite. In her later years, she and her wealthy son George had a contentious relationship, often disagreeing over money, with George dismissing as imaginary her fears of poverty and helplessness. Yet Mary Ball Washington had a greater impact on George than mothers of that time and place usually had on their sons. George did not have the wealth or freedom to enjoy the indulged adolescence typical of young men among the planter class. Mary’s demanding mothering imbued him with many of the moral and religious principles by which he lived. The two were strikingly similar, though the commanding demeanor, persistence, athleticism, penny-pinching, and irascibility that they shared have served the memory of the country’s father immeasurably better than that of his mother. Martha Saxton’s The Widow Washington is a necessary and deeply insightful corrective, telling the story of Mary’s long, arduous life on its own terms, and not treating her as her son’s satellite.

Author : Kenneth T. Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317259645
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family of Freedom written by Kenneth T. Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barack Obama is the first African American President, but the history of African Americans in the White House long predates him. The building was built by slaves, and African Americans have worked in it ever since, from servants to advisors. In charting the history of African Americans in the White House, Kenneth T. Walsh illuminates the trajectory of racial progress in the US. He looks at Abraham Lincoln and his black seamstress and valet, debates between President Johnson and Martin Luther King over civil rights, and the role of black staff members under Nixon and Reagan. Family of Freedom gives a unique view of US history as seen through the experiences of African Americans in the White House.

Author : George Washington Parke Custis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington written by George Washington Parke Custis and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary V. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813941844
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book "The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret" written by Mary V. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American historians began producing in-depth studies of slavery and slave life shortly after World War II, but it was not until the early 1980s that the country's museums took the first tentative steps to interpret those same controversial topics. Perhaps because of the tremendous amount of primary material related to George Washington, almost no one looked into the lives of Mount Vernon's enslaved population. Incorporating the results of detailed digging, of both the archaeological and archival varieties, the number of chapters grew as further questions arose. While a few scholars outside Mount Vernon turned their attention to Washington's changing ideas about slavery, they largely overlooked the daily lives of those who were enslaved on the estate, a subject about which visitors expressed a desire to know more. The resulting book makes use of a wide range of sources, including letters, financial ledgers, work reports, travel diaries kept by visitors to Mount Vernon, the reminiscences of family members, former slaves, and neighbors, reports by archaeologists, and surviving artifacts to flesh out the lives of a people who left few written records, but made up 90 percent of the estate's population. The book begins with a look at George and Martha Washington as slaveowners, before turning to various facets of slave life ranging from work, to family life, housing, foodways, private enterprise, and resistance. Along the way, readers will see a relationship between Washington's military career and his style of plantation management, learn of the many ways slaves rebelled against their condition, and get to know many of the enslaved people who made Mount Vernon their home"--

Author : Mary Calvi
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9781432865450
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear George, Dear Mary written by Mary Calvi and published by Thorndike Press Large Print. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal entries, Mary Calvi's debut novel explores George Washington's relationship with New York heiress Mary Philipse. Dramatic portraits capture Washington on the precipice of greatness and his ravishing Mary, whose beauty and refinement disguise a complex inner struggle. Dear George, Dear Mary reveals how Washington's bitter resentment of the British was established nearly two decades before the American Revolution, and unveils a deception long hidden from the world.