Name: Native American Place Names of MA
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SKU: 9781557095428
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Native American Place Names of MA

9781557095428

$9.95

This dictionary of Native American places was originally published in 1909. Alphabetically arranged by Native American name, this reference work gives insight into the Native origins of Massachusetts cities, towns, rivers, streams, lakes, and other locales. The current state of Massachusetts retains the name of the once inhabiting tribe, although its people were decimated by illness and disorganized by warfare around 1617. Massachusetts is a word meaning "hill in the form of an arrow-head."

Union Song Book

9781557095510

$5.95

This remarkable book, filled with popular American tunes of the 1860s, features classic patriotic songs and heroic ballads like "Her Own Brave Volunteer," "Let Cowards Shrink," "All Hail to the Stars and Stripes," and many more. Lyrics only.

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

9781429016537

$24.95

Canadian-born Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds (nee Edmondson) recounts her sensational life on the front lines of the American Civil War. As a young woman she ran away from home. To avoid being discovered, she assumed the identity of a man, taking the name Franklin "Frank" Thompson. Frank worked for awhile as a Bible salesman, but in 1865 joined the Union Army as a nurse. Frank, already a master of disguise, eventually volunteered to be a spy and penetrated the enemy lines multiple times in various forms: as a slave and, curiously, as a woman. Frank eventually deserted the army, and Sarah Emma Edmonds returned, enlisting in the army as a nurse.

America and the American Church

9781557095299

$24.95

Rev. Henry Caswall emigrated to the U.S. from England as a young man but then returned to England as an adult. He came back to America in the 1860s, where he remained until his death. America, and the American Church examines the success of the American Episcopalian church and its congregations in different parts of the United States during this period.

Algerine Captive

9781429015011

$17.95

After the Revolutionary War, American sailors lost the protection of Britain's Royal Navy and were easy prey for the pirates of the North African coast, who captured ships and cargo, enslaved crew, and demanded ransom from the U.S. Motivated by these events, Royall Tyler, the first American-born playwright, poet, and novelist, wrote "The Algerine Captive." Originally published anonymously in 1797, it tells the tale of fictitious Boston native Dr. Updike Underhill, his capture by Barbary pirates, and their efforts to convert him to their Muslim faith. Written in an entertaining and satiric style that predated Mark Twain, Tyler's novel reveals his patriotic pride and anti-slavery beliefs. His comments on the religious and cultural divide between Western and Islamic beliefs of the day still resonate today.

Looking Backward

9781557095060

$14.95

Set in Boston on December 26, 2000, but written before the turn of the nineteenth century, this classic Utopian novel is more significant and relevant than ever with its reappearance this millennium. Addressing moral and material concerns of late nineteenth century industrial America through romantic narrative, Bellamy suggests a fictionalized society in which war, poverty, and malice do not exist.

Extracts from Adam's Diary/Eve's Diary

9781557094988

$9.95

Written at the end of Twain's career, Extracts from Adam's Diary was first published in 1897 and Extracts from Eve's Diary in 1905. Twain's Adam was based on himself while Eve was modelled after his wife Livy. It is fitting that these two essays be joined together in one package.

Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw

9781557095084

$15.95

Originally published in 1854, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room was the most important American temperance novel, rivaling Uncle Tom's Cabin for popularity at the time. It satisfied the appetite for the sensational and the lurid, yet at the same time was endorsed by all the clergy.

Civil Disobedience

9781557094179

$12.95

Originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government, Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied Thoreau's principles.

Cover image for Civil Disobedience, isbn: 9781557094179

History of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont

9781429015165

$17.95

This Civil War history of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, follows the officers and men who served, from the time they went into camp at Brattleboro and were mustered into the United States service on September 1, 1862 to the fall of Richmond and their triumphant return to Burlington, battle-scarred and war-weary, in June of 1865. Of the one thousand and sixteen men who left in '62, only 451 remained.

Land of Little Rain

9781557095077

$9.95

Originally published in 1903, this classic nature book by Mary Austin evokes the mysticism and spirituality of the American Southwest. Vibrant imagery of the landscape between the high Sierras and the Mojave Desert is punctuated with descriptions of the fauna, flora and people that coexist peacefully with the earth.

History of Ohio in Words of One Syllable

9781557095541

$14.95

One syllable words tell the history of the struggles and triumphs of what is now the state of Ohio, from her birth through the year 1888, when this book was originally published. Richly illustrated, this patriotic, instructive and historical book makes the history of Ohio both instructive and interesting to the little people for whom it is written.

History of Ohio in Words of One Syllable

Medical Recollections of the Army of the

9781429015189

$14.95

Medical Recollections is the memoir of one of American medicine's most important figures, Dr. Jonathan Letterman, the father of battlefield medicine. Letterman served of the Army of the Potomac from July 1862 to January 1864. During that time he reinvented medical operations in the field and created a revolutionary system for evacuating and treating wounded soldiers quickly and effectively. The Letterman Plan would become Federal Law by the end of the Civil War and today remains the basis for much of battlefield, emergency, and disaster medicine around the world. Written immediately after the war, the memoirs detail Letterman's experiences as Medical Director and the process by which he came to revolutionize emergency medicine.

Medical Recollections of the Army of the

Cosmic Consciousness

9781557094995

$14.95

This classic book on mystical experience was originally published in 1901. Bucke's personal experience with divine illumination led to his theory that we are witnessing a continued psychical revolution of the individual. He believed that individuals like Buddha, Jesus, Spinoza, Whitman, and others were the forerunners of the beings who will eventually inhabit the earth.

Hair Culture

9781557095022

$12.95

Bernarr Macfadden, physical fitness enthusiast and successful publisher of the early Twentieth Century, originally published this hair care guide in 1922. In it, he shares facts and techniques everyone should know about hair and how to care for it, enhancing its beauty and strength.

Budge on Tennis

9781557095176

$12.95

Published originally in 1939, Budge, the inventor of the greatest tennis stroke of all time, the J. Donald Budge Backhand, tells how he became one of the world's greatest tennis players and shares his secrets to winning. In 1938, Budge defined the Grand Slam by becoming the first player to win the 4 major tennis championships in a single year.

Kentucky Housewife

9781557095145

$19.95

Originally published in 1839, this long-lost classic of Southern cooking includes more than 1,300 recipes, all cooked and seasoned in a hot climate. The foods and recipes featured in this kitchen classic are derived from American Indian, European, and African sources and reflect a merging of the three distinct cultures in the American South.

My Cave Life in Vicksburg

9781429015349

$14.95

A rare first-hand account from a Southern woman of life in dugout caves during the month-and-a-half siege of Vicksburg by the Union army.

Pictorial History of the Civil War V1

9781429015820

$29.95

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed that historian Benson J. Lossing did more than any other man to make history interesting and popular. Lossing wrote his comprehensive three-volume history of the Civil War at a time when the facts were still fresh. Originally published in 1866, Volume One covers the period from the political conventions held in the spring of 1860 to midsummer 1861 and the Battle of Bull Run. Lossing accompanies his narratives of marches, battles, and sieges with maps and plans, includes biographical sketches of the prominent people from both sides of the conflict, and illustrates his history with hundreds of drawings and engravings by the author and others.

Six Months at the White House w Lincoln

9781429015271

$23.95

Author Francis Bicknell Carpenter, a New York artist, believed that the Emancipation Proclamation was "an act unparalleled for moral grandeur in the history of mankind." Carpenter had a deep respect for Lincoln‚Äôs action, and he had an impulse to capture it on canvas, to exalt the moment of the first reading of the proclamation. About a year after President Lincoln made his famous proclamation, Carpenter acted on this impulse. He asked Owen Lovejoy, an Illinois Representative, to arrange for him to paint the subject at the White House-in fact, eventually, to set up a studio in the State Dining Room. On February 6, 1864, Carpenter met Lincoln, and the project began. His extraordinary extended residence in the White House resulted in the painting and in this informative, sometimes moving, 1866 memoir, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln. The painting hangs today in the U.S. Capitol over the west staircase in the Senate wing.

Roses, and How to Grow Them

9781429013819

$17.95

Leonard Barron's 1905 book is a complete guide to growing roses in both outdoor and greenhouse environments.

Profitable Culture of Vegetables

9781429014755

$28.95

The aim of this 1913 work by Thomas Smith is to supply the small-scale grower with all the information needed to maintain a productive vegetable business, from preparing the soil to marketing the vegetables.

Diary of A Little Girl in Old New York

9781557095244

$10.95

This diary describes the memories of the author as a ten year old girl growing up in New York City from August 1849 through June 1850. She relates wonderful stories of people and places of old New York as seen through the eyes of a child.

Paris with the Lid Lifted

9781429093163

$17.95

For Adults Only! Newly published under the Applewood After Dark imprint is a facsimile of this lighthearted "guide book" to Parisian nightlife in the 1920s, written by Bruce Reynolds. Subtitled "A new sort of 'Travel Cocktail' that works fast and kicks hard, and opens the gates to a 'million dollars' worth of frolic--IN PARIS," this humorously-illustrated travelogue was originally published in 1927. It offers "inside information to make your next trip to Paris a whirlwind of joy." "All you need to have a good time is money and alibis," says Reynolds, and his hilarious, and naughty, look at all Paris has to offer the visiting American not only is sure to amuse, but provides useful information on the sights, sounds, tastes, and attractions of the City of Light during the Jazz Age.

Story of Aunt Becky's Army-life

9781429016100

$17.95

In this "unpretending story" published in 1867, Sarah Palmer, known to the Union soldiers she nursed during the Civil War as "Aunt Becky," tells simply and directly one woman's tale of war. Palmer, believed to have been the first woman to serve as a Union Army nurse, cared for countless sick, wounded, and dying soldiers during her three years of army service. Said one soldier, "I never knew a woman so much thought of as she was by the boys - she never showed any partiality - we all got the same attention - officers no more than privates."

New Family Receipt-book

9781429014922

$27.95

This 1820 volume is a collections of over eight hundred practical domestic recipes.

Civil War History Crossword Puzzles

9780984415687

$4.95

Three million Americans fought during the Civil War. Six hundred thousand were killed or wounded. Learn about the war that tore a nation in two, the events leading up to it, the generals who fought it, and the country that will never forget it. Twelve puzzles are dedicated to the people and places that defined our nation's most costly war.

Voyages and Travels

9781557099198

$24.95

Originally published in 1791 in England, this personal account of an Indian interpreter and trader describes the manners and customs of the North American Indians, with an account of the posts situated on the St. Laurence River, Lake Ontario, etc. The book also includes a vocabulary of the Chippewa language, along with word lists in Iroquois, Mohegan, Shawanee, and Eskimo and a table showing a comparison of the Algonquin and Chippewa languages.

When Mother Lets Us Garden

9781429014793

$10.95

Part of the "When Mother Lets Us..." series, Frances Duncan's 1909 work provides clear and simple instructions designed to help young people develop their own gardens.

Abraham Lincoln Crossword Puzzles

9780983641612

$3.95

From a log cabin to the White House, from the Black Hawk War to the Civil War, learn more about these 16th president of the United States. Travel with Lincoln to Richmond and Gettysburg, fight with the troops at Antietam and Shiloh, and try to bridge the gap between the North and the South.

Twelve Years a Slave

9781429015929

$22.95

Solomon Northup was born a free black man in upstate New York in 1808. By 1841, he had become a husband, a father, a raftsman, and a talented fiddle-player. That year, while his family was away, he agreed to accompany two men to Washington DC, on what he thought would be a brief trip performing for a circus. Instead, these new employers turned out to be con men, and Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. Northup was transported to New Orleans and remained a slave for the next twelve years, working for a number of masters in Louisiana--some brutal, some kind. Although Northup never stopped longing for home and thinking about how he could escape, it seemed impossible to trust anyone with the facts of his life. He remained a slave for a dozen years, until he finally met a Canadian abolitionist who was able to get a letter to his family and eventually gained his freedom. After his release, Northup told his story to David Wilson, an upstate New York-based white lawyer and legislator. Northup's memoir, edited by Wilson, was published in 1853 as Twelve Years A Slave. Northup's story and his firsthand observations of plantation life and the cruel reality of slavery make this book an important document of the American south and American history.

Hospital Life in the Army of the Potomac

9781429016094

$14.95

From the preface: "The manuscript was written to preserve, for the writer's own satisfaction, a record of a valuable personal experience. As it grew under his hand, old memories were quickened, old comnpanionships seemed to be renewed, former scenes were revived, and the splendid examples of heroism which were daily and hourly witnessed kindled an impulse which has resulted in this work."

Hospital Life in the Army of the Potomac

Uncle Tom's Cabin vol 1

9781429015998

$20.95

Volume One of the Harriet Beecher Stowe classic. Originally published beginning June 5, 1851 as a serial in The National Era, an abolitionist weekly published in Washington, DC., Stowe's anti-slavery novel was finished forty-three chapters and one year later. John Jewet's small publishing house published the book on March 20, 1852, a couple of weeks before the serial ended. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and is credited with significantly advancing the abolitionist cause. Its historical impact was so great that it spawned the mythical story that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe near the start of the Civil War, was heard to say, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."

Success

9781557094223

$7.95

From the "Quotes of Inspiration" Series. This little collection of over 100 inspirational and motivational quotations from famous Americans is separated into two parts. The first is the Quote section in which there are the most poignant quotes on success; the second is the Unquote section, in which the more humorous side of success is revealed. These little gems are destined to find an honored place in every shop and home.

Uncle Tom's Cabin vol 2

9781429016032

$21.95

Volume Two of the Harriet Beecher Stowe classic. Originally published beginning June 5, 1851 as a serial in The National Era, an abolitionist weekly published in Washington, DC., Stowe‚Äôs anti-slavery novel was finished forty-three chapters and one year later. John Jewett‚Äôs small publishing house published the book on March 20, 1852, a couple of weeks before the serial ended. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and is credited with significantly advancing the abolitionist cause. Its historical impact was so great that it spawned the mythical story that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe near the start of the Civil War, was heard to say, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."