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3) A magnificent catastrophe: the tumultuous election of 1800 : America's first presidential campaign
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xi, 335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sweetgrass Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 697 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Author and cultural historian Larry Len Peterson details the collision of European and Native American civilizations and the bloody aftermath that doomed a once-thriving people. Wide-ranging and brimming with fresh in- sights, American Trinity focuses on how the West was shaped by three implacable forces: Christian imperialism, Thomas Jefferson's Doctrine of Discovery, and George Armstrong Custer's hubris. As Peterson says, 'History is important....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the great historian of the American Revolution, NYT-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough...
Publisher
Buffalo 8
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (63 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life, contributions, and erasure of America's culinary founding father are explored by food historians, celebrated chefs, experts on race and the African American diaspora. Through their words and the persistence of a curious chef, Ashbell McElveen, the life of America's missing icon comes into focus. Mac & Cheese, French fries, whipped cream, and many other foodie favorites disseminated from a slave kitchen in Charlottesville from the hands of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 180 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Thomas Jefferson is a two-part portrait of one of the most fascinating and complicated figures ever to walk across America’s public stage – our enigmatic and brilliant third president. Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of our most sacred document, the Declaration of Independence, he gave voice to our fervent desire for freedom, but he also owned more than 150 human...
Author
Publisher
Mascot Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The little dog follows a scent into a rabbit hole and, when he pops out at the other end, finds himself wearing a tri-corn hat. He meets Thomas Jefferson and his granddaughters, Ellen and Cornelia, and realizes he has been transported into the past. The book follows Colonial Klaus as he inspects the landscape and octagonal house at Poplar Forest, meeting members of the enslaved community of people who labor on the plantation to make Jefferson's life...
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