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Sewall Wright Taught Me

By: Robert Evan Sloan,Joe Cain,Sewall Wright

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Sewall Wright Taught Me

By: Robert Evan Sloan,Joe Cain,Sewall Wright

While a master's student at the University of Chicago in 1951-1952, Robert Sloan attended Sewall Wright's lecture courses. He made copious notes, which provide a detailed record of Wright's teaching. This book reprints those notes.

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1906267049

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Sewall Wright Taught Me: Evolution

By: Robert Evan Sloan,Joe Cain,Sewall Wright

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Sewall Wright Taught Me: Evolution

By: Robert Evan Sloan,Joe Cain,Sewall Wright

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1906267022

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9781906267025

The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton

The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father

By: Douglas Ambrose,Robert W. T. Martin

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The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton

The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father

By: Douglas Ambrose,Robert W. T. Martin

This anthology presents a variety of scholarly perspectives on the nation’s most enigmatic Founding Father. Revolutionary War officer, co-author of the Federalist Papers, our first Treasury Secretary, Thomas Jefferson’s nemesis, and victim of a fatal duel with Aaron Burr: Alexander Hamilton’s legacy is complex, multifaceted, and difficult to pin down. On the one hand, Hamilton was the quintessential Founding Father, playing a central role in every key debate and event in the Revolutionary and Early Republic eras. On the other hand, he has received far less popular and scholarly attention than his brethren. Was Hamilton a closet monarchist or a sincere republican? A victim of partisan politics or one of its most active promoters? A lackey for British interests or a foreign policy mastermind? The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton addresses these and other perennial questions. Leading Hamilton scholars, both historians and political scientists alike, present fresh evidence and new, sometimes competing, interpretations of the man, his thought, and the legacy he has had on America and the world.

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311

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NYU Press

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081470770X

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9780814707708

Black Powder and Hand Steel

Miners and Machines on the Old Western Frontier

By: Otis E. Young,Robert Lenon

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Black Powder and Hand Steel

Miners and Machines on the Old Western Frontier

By: Otis E. Young,Robert Lenon

Mining in the western United States entered its great era after 1860 through use of the double-jack, black powder, hand steel, Bickford fuse, wire rope, and the steam engine. Those were the years of bonanza strikes: Henry Wickenburg’s Vulture Mine in Arizona Territory; the main hard-rock gold strike in the desert Southwest; Ed Schieffelin’s discovery of vast silver deposits in Tombstone, Arizona; and the Tonopah-Goldfield strike in Nevada, which netted over one hundred million dollars. Black Powder and Hand Steel describes the miners and the machinery they used. Otis E. Young, Jr., gives an account of the miners, particularly the Cornish and Irish, their origins, character, social life, pleasures, and, most important, their labors. The miner’s lot depended on the tools he used, and the author traces the evolution of the miner’s most important tools: from hoisting bucket to mine elevator, cold mining to dynamite, ore car to skip, hemp to wire rope, and slow match to Bickford fuse. Young reveals the difficulties of prospecting and mining two of the West’s most valuable ores, gold and silver, and gives readers a firsthand look at the challenges of working even the most successful strikes. A companion volume to Young’s Western Mining, Black Powder and Hand Steel is written in the same lively style—informative and entertaining for general readers and scholars. It is also well illustrated, with drawings by Buck O’Donnell.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806155639

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9780806155630

The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro

The Final Days of the Army of Tennessee, April 1865

By: Robert M. Dunkerly

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The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro

The Final Days of the Army of Tennessee, April 1865

By: Robert M. Dunkerly

Drawing upon more than 200 eyewitness accounts, this work chronicles the largest troop surrender of the Civil War, at Greensboro--one of the most confusing, frustrating and tension-filled events of the war. Long overshadowed by Appomattox, this event was equally important in ending the war, and is much more representative of how most Americans in 1865 experienced the conflict's end. The book includes a timeline, organizational charts, an order of battle, maps, and illustrations. It also uses many unpublished accounts and provides information on Confederate campsites that have been lost to development and neglect.

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McFarland

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0786473622

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9780786473625

New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912

By: Robert W. Larson

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New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912

By: Robert W. Larson

Why did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state? Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organized style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territory’s extraordinary six-decade struggle for statehood. This book is no mere chronology of political moves, however. It is the history of a turbulent frontier state, sweeping into the current almost every colorful character of the territory. Not only politicians but ranchers, outlaws, soldiers, newspapermen, Indians, merchants, lawyers, and people from every walk of life were involved. This is a book for the reader who is interested in any aspect of southwestern territorial history.

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UNM Press

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0826329470

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9780826329479

Confounding Father

Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time

By: Robert M. S. McDonald

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Confounding Father

Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time

By: Robert M. S. McDonald

Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson stood out as the most controversial and confounding. Loved and hated, revered and reviled, during his lifetime he served as a lightning rod for dispute. Few major figures in American history provoked such a polarization of public opinion. One supporter described him as the possessor of "an enlightened mind and superior wisdom; the adorer of our God; the patriot of his country; and the friend and benefactor of the whole human race." Martha Washington, however, considered Jefferson "one of the most detestable of mankind"--and she was not alone. While Jefferson’s supporters organized festivals in his honor where they praised him in speeches and songs, his detractors portrayed him as a dilettante and demagogue, double-faced and dangerously radical, an atheist and "Anti-Christ" hostile to Christianity. Characterizing his beliefs as un-American, they tarred him with the extremism of the French Revolution. Yet his allies cheered his contributions to the American Revolution, unmasking him as the now formerly anonymous author of the words that had helped to define America in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson, meanwhile, anxiously monitored the development of his image. As president he even clipped expressions of praise and scorn from newspapers, pasting them in his personal scrapbooks. In this fascinating new book, historian Robert M. S. McDonald explores how Jefferson, a man with a manner so mild some described it as meek, emerged as such a divisive figure. Bridging the gap between high politics and popular opinion, Confounding Father exposes how Jefferson’s bifurcated image took shape both as a product of his own creation and in response to factors beyond his control. McDonald tells a gripping, sometimes poignant story of disagreements over issues and ideology as well as contested conceptions of the rules of politics. In the first fifty years of independence, Americans’ views of Jefferson revealed much about their conflicting views of the purpose and promise of America. Jeffersonian America

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University of Virginia Press

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081393897X

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9780813938974

Grahams of Rowan & Iredell Counties, North Carolina

By: Robert L. Graham

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Grahams of Rowan & Iredell Counties, North Carolina

By: Robert L. Graham

The book has a lot of historical content along with some poetry and humor. The main part is falily history including some of the sescenants of James Gram born in Scotland in 1670 along with documentation on the descendants

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1468575643

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9781468575644

The History of Arizona

By: Robert Woznicki,Woznicki

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The History of Arizona

By: Robert Woznicki,Woznicki

Just as Arizona's geography is grand and diverse, so is its history. Arizona's development has been influenced by all manner of people. Find out the history behind the geography, explorers, settlers, counties, government, symbols and much more.

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0961809434

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One Day of the Civil War

America in Conflict, April 10, 1863

By: Robert L. Willett

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One Day of the Civil War

America in Conflict, April 10, 1863

By: Robert L. Willett

Focuses on April 10, 1863 as a microcosm of American life during the Civil War, detailing battles, train raids, military blunders, illnesses, boredom, homesickness, and courage.

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0452279771

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Sewall Wright Taught Me

Sewall Wright Taught Me

Sewall Wright Taught Me: Evolution

Sewall Wright Taught Me: Evolution

The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton

The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton

Black Powder and Hand Steel

Black Powder and Hand Steel

The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro

The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro

New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912

New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912

Confounding Father

Confounding Father

Grahams of Rowan & Iredell Counties, North Carolina

Grahams of Rowan & Iredell Counties, North Carolina

The History of Arizona

The History of Arizona

One Day of the Civil War

One Day of the Civil War

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