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  • Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613

    Merry Worlds

    For many people in early modern England the Reformation turned the past into another country: the 'merry world'. Nostalgia for this imaginary time, both widespread and widely contested, was commodified by a burgeoning entertainment industry. This book offers a new perspective on the making of 'Merry England', arguing that it was driven both by the desires of audiences and the marketing strategies ... Read more

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  • A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts

    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the 'how-to's' of completing an excellent scholarly edition. The Handbook is primarily a practical guide rather than a theoretical forum; it airs common problems and offers a number of solutions to help a range of interested readers, from the lone editor of an ... Read more

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  • The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution

    With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons

    The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution shines a light on the overlooked contributions of African Americans during the Revolutionary War. First published in 1855, this seminal work by abolitionist William C. Nell features biographical sketches of black soldiers who fought courageously for America's independence.Nell's groundbreaking research documents the participation of men like Crispus ... Read more

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  • Jersey City and Its Historic Sites

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Heritage of Jersey City's Landmarks and Architecture

    In "Jersey City and Its Historic Sites," Harriet Phillips Eaton meticulously documents the rich tapestry of history and architecture that defines Jersey City. Through a blend of engaging narrative and thorough research, Eaton navigates the city's storied past, from its early colonial roots to its vibrant present, employing a descriptive literary style that invites readers to visualize the ... Read more

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  • Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood

    International Research and Practice

    Series series Child Welfare Outcomes
    The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation.In Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood leading academics gather together the latest international research relating to the transition of young people leaving care, outlining and ... Read more

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    Enriched Edition. Complete Edition

    Joel Cook's America (Vol. 1–6) is an ambitious panoramic survey of the United States, combining travel narrative, geographical description, historical recollection, and civic interpretation. Written in a richly descriptive nineteenth-century prose style, the work moves across regions, cities, landscapes, industries, and monuments, presenting the nation as both a physical expanse and a historical ... Read more

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  • How John Wilkes Booth Crossed the Potomac River

    This is the story of how John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, eluded Federal authorities, escaped from Washington DC, hid in southern Maryland and fled to Virginia across the Potomac River via covert Confederate river-crossing operations, as published in CENTURY magazine’s April 1884 edition. The book also describes the Confederate smuggling system to exchange mail with ... Read more

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  • Lake Champlain: As Centuries Pass

    A.P Beach's love of Lake Champlain and his desire to increase people's knowledge and understanding of its history and culture inspired him to write Lake Champlain: As Centuries Pass in 1959.A.P. Beach was a man of vision and energy—and he had a passion for Lake Champlain. Like anyone with a passion, he didn't let things stand in the way of his goals. He was always looking for innovations, and when ... Read more

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  • John Wilkes Booth and Robert Lincoln - Rivals in Love?

    Reprinted in its entirety, is the fascinating tale of jealous rivalry for the affections of the beautiful socialite, (Lucy) Bessie Hale — her suitors being none other than John Wilkes Booth and Robert Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln — the date being 1865 in the days leading up to the President’s assassination. The eye-witness account is that of a Mrs. Temple, who lived at the National ... Read more

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  • The "True" History of the USA

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    Facts in a nude state are not liable criminally, any more than bright and beautiful children commit a felony by being born thus; but it is the solemn duty of those having these children in charge to put appropriate, healthful, and even attractive apparel upon them at the earliest possible moment.It is thus with facts. They are the frame-work of history, not the drapery. They are like the cold, ... Read more

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  • The WPA Guide to New York

    The Empire State

    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

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  • There Goes Maine!

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    Maine's nationally acclaimed chronicler proves here that "the entire history of North America began in Maine."Long before Columbus sold Isabella his idea of a passage to Cathay, Irish fishermen went ashore in Maine to dry their cod. It's all here in this wild surmising history, from a columnist for the Christian Science Monitor. ... Read more

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