The Revolutions Last Men

Author : Don N. Hagist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594162541
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolution's Last Men written by Don N. Hagist and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don N. Hagist reevaluat es] the sources and evidence of the wartime experiences of Hillard's men. . . . It's long overdue."--Maureen Taylor, author of The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation During the Civil War that threatened to tear the United States apart came the realization that only a handful of veterans of the American Revolution still survived--men who had fought the war that created the nation. Six of these men were photographed and interviewed for a book by Reverend E. B. Hillard that appeared late in 1864. Their images have captivated generations since then; but--through a combination of faded memories and the interviewer's patriotic agenda--the biographies accompanying these amazing photographs were garbled and distorted, containing information that ranged from inaccurate to implausible. Now for the first time the military careers of these men have been researched in detail using a wide range of primary sources. The result is a new perspective on the actual service of these soldiers, from enlistment to discharge, along with new details of their relatively quiet postwar lives. The Revolution's Last Men presents the original biographical interviews published in 1864, pension depositions and other first-hand accounts given by each man later in life, and an up-to-date biography examining each soldier's service and discussing the inaccuracies and uncertainties of the previously published accounts. To complement the photographs taken in 1864, original drawings depict the men as they may have appeared when they were soldiers, using current research on military artifacts and material culture. Also included are additional photographs of some of the men that were not part of the 1864 collection but taken when their status as the last known survivors of the American Revolution made them celebrities. While the photographs of these aged veterans continue to inspire, this book puts their service into perspective and allows these men to be appreciated for who they really were and for their great and unique service to their country.

Author : Don N. Hagist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594165955
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolution's Last Men written by Don N. Hagist and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During a Civil War that threatened to tear the United States apart came the realization that only a handful of veterans of the American Revolution still survived -- men who had fought the war that created the nation. Six of these men were photographed and interviewed for a book that appeared late in 1864. Their images have captivated generations since then; but -- through a combination of faded memories and the interviewer's patriotic agenda -- the biographies accompanying these amazing photographs were garbled and distorted, containing information that ranged from inaccurate to implausible. Now for the first time the military careers of these men have been researched in detail using a variety of primary sources. The result is a fascinating new perspective on the actual service of these soldiers, from enlistment to discharge, along with new details of their relatively quiet post-war lives" -- Publisher's description.

Author : Elias Brewster Hillard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Men of the Revolution written by Elias Brewster Hillard and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839973
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Men and Great Proprietors written by Alan Taylor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along the American frontier that served to define and complete the American Revolution. Taylor shows how Maine's militant settlers organized secret companies to defend their populist understanding of the Revolution.

Author : Wael Ghonim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547774044
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution 2.0 written by Wael Ghonim and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Google executive and political activist tells the story of the Egyptian revolution he helped ignite through the power of social media. In the summer of 2010, thirty-year-old Google executive Wael Ghonim anonymously launched a Facebook page to protest the death of an Egyptian man at the hands of security forces. The page’s following expanded quickly and moved from online protests to a nonconfrontational movement. On January 25, 2011, Tahrir Square resounded with calls for change. Yet just as the revolution began in earnest, Ghonim was captured and held for twelve days of brutal interrogation. After he was released, he gave a tearful speech on national television, and the protests grew more intense. Four days later, the president of Egypt was gone. In this riveting story, Ghonim takes us inside the movement and shares the keys to unleashing the power of crowds in the age of social networking. “A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Revolution 2.0 excels in chronicling the roiling tension in the months before the uprising, the careful organization required and the momentum it unleashed.” —NPR.org

Author : James H. Billington
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0765804719
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Minds of Men written by James H. Billington and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.

Author : Lauren Tarshis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545919754
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 (I Survived #15) written by Lauren Tarshis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the American Revolution in this latest installment of the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling I Survived series. Bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the American Revolution in this latest installment of the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling I Survived series. British soldiers were everywhere. There was no escape. Nathaniel Fox never imagined he'd find himself in the middle of a blood-soaked battlefield, fighting for his life. He was only eleven years old! He'd barely paid attention to the troubles between America and England. How could he, while being worked to the bone by his cruel uncle, Uriah Storch? But when his uncle's rage forces him to flee the only home he knows, Nate is suddenly propelled toward a thrilling and dangerous journey into the heart of the Revolutionary War. He finds himself in New York City on the brink of what will be the biggest battle yet.

Author : Artemas Bowers Muzzey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences and Memorials of Men of the Revolution and Their Families written by Artemas Bowers Muzzey and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : ELIAS BREWSTER. HILLARD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033001424
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LAST MEN OF THE REVOLUTION written by ELIAS BREWSTER. HILLARD and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elias Brewster Hillard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The last men of the revolution written by Elias Brewster Hillard and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of the seven remaining veterans of the Revolutionary War (two of the seven have died since this book began preparation). The seven (and their present homes) are: (1) Samuel Downing (b.1761) of Edinburgh, Saratoga County, New York; (2) Daniel Waldo (1762-1864) of Syracuse, New York; (3) Lemuel Cook (b.1759) of Clarendon (near Rochester), Orleans County, New York; (4) Alexander Milliner (b.1760) of Adam's Basin (a few miles from Clarendon), New York; (5) William Hutchings (b.1764) of Penobscot Bay, Maine; (6) Adam Link (1761-1864) of Sulphur Springs, Crawford County, Ohio; (7) James Barham (b.1764) of Greene County, Missouri.