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Picking up where Lewis and Clark had left off, the Long Expedition of 1819-20 was the first federally sponsored exploratory expedition that was accompanied by professional artists. Under the command of Major Stephen Harriman Long, artists Samuel Seymour, a Philadelphia landscape painter, and Titian Ramsay Peale, a natural historian and the son of artist-scientist and museum proprietor Charles Willson Peale, together produced more than four hundred drawings and paintings capturing the journey that extended up the Missouri River and through vast stretches of the Louisiana territory. Their work introduced American viewers to the landscapes, wildlife, and Native American inhabitants of the far West. Though widely publicized after the artists' return to Philadelphia, the works were gradually dispersed. This book unites the core body of extant paintings and drawings, providing a detailed account of the expedition through close visual readings that reveal Seymour's and Peale's complex and unique responses to the contradictory goals of their assignment. Such work is argued to have greatly influenced future artistic expression in the genres of landscape, ethnographic portraiture, and scientific illustration. Though the subject matter is linked largely to the history of the West both the art and the expedition itself were eastern in origin, influence, and institutional affiliation. As the leading cultural center of the time, Philadelphia gave focus to the American interest in understanding the world through both scientific and artistic forms of representation. Such a duality, Haltman argues, informed the work of Seymour and Peale, who struggled in their art to reconcile the conflict between their scientific obligations to the mission and their private imaginative and artistic ambitions.

Picking up where Lewis and Clark had left off, the Long Expedition of 1819-20 was the first federally sponsored exploratory expedition that was accompanied by professional artists. Under the command of Major Stephen Harriman Long, artists Samuel Seymour, a Philadelphia landscape painter, and Titian Ramsay Peale, a natural historian and the son of artist-scientist and museum proprietor Charles Willson Peale, together produced more than four hundred drawings and paintings capturing the journey that extended up the Missouri River and through vast stretches of the Louisiana territory. Their work introduced American viewers to the landscapes, wildlife, and Native American inhabitants of the far West. Though widely publicized after the artists' return to Philadelphia, the works were gradually dispersed. This book unites the core body of extant paintings and drawings, providing a detailed account of the expedition through close visual readings that reveal Seymour's and Peale's complex and unique responses to the contradictory goals of their assignment. Such work is argued to have greatly influenced future artistic expression in the genres of landscape, ethnographic portraiture, and scientific illustration. Though the subject matter is linked largely to the history of the West both the art and the expedition itself were eastern in origin, influence, and institutional affiliation. As the leading cultural center of the time, Philadelphia gave focus to the American interest in understanding the world through both scientific and artistic forms of representation. Such a duality, Haltman argues, informed the work of Seymour and Peale, who struggled in their art to reconcile the conflict between their scientific obligations to the mission and their private imaginative and artistic ambitions.

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Dr. Lebaron and His Daughters: A Story of the Old Colony by Jane G. Austin Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New A WORD OF EXPLANATION. It is with some hesitation that I offer to the public this story of Doctor LeBaron, including, as it does, so many other of the Old Colony chronicles and this, for the trite old reason that truth is stranger than fiction, and therefore more incredible. It is these incredible truths,

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Dr. Lebaron and His Daughters: A Story of the Old Colony by Jane G. Austin Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New A WORD OF EXPLANATION. It is with some hesitation that I offer to the public this story of Doctor LeBaron, including, as it does, so many other of the Old Colony chronicles and this, for the trite old reason that truth is stranger than fiction, and therefore more incredible. It is these incredible truths,

This is an ebook version of the original 1906 book entitled The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, by his daughter Mary Eleanor “Nettie” Mudd. The book describes Dr. Mudd's life from birth to death, with emphasis on the events of his life in connection with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It includes the complete text of letters written from, to, and about Dr. Mudd during his incarceration at the Fort Jefferson military prison, where he saved many lives during a yellow fever epidemic in 1867.

James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division-America's first airborne division and the first to fight in World War II. In 1944, Slim JimGavin, as he was known to his troops, at the age of thirty-seven became the 82nd's commanding general-the youngest Army officer to become a major general since the Civil War. At war's end, this soldier's soldier had become one of our greatest generals-and the 82nd's most decorated officer.Now James Gavin's letters home to his nine-year-old daughter Barbara provide a revealing portrait of the American experience in World War II through the eyes of one of its most dynamic officers. Written from ship decks, foxholes, and field tents-often just before or after a dangerous jump-they capture the day-to-day realities of combat and Gavin's personal reactions to the war he helped to win. And provide an invaluable self-portrait of a great general, and a great American, in war and peace.The book's more than 200 letters begin at Fort Bragg in 1943 and continue to December 1945, as Gavin came home to lead the 82nd at the head of the Victory parade in New York. This correspondence constitutes the majority of Gavin's private wartime letters, but except for rare appearances in regimental newsletters, it has never before been published. In her Introduction, Epilogue, and Notes, Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy gives a privileged glimpse of the private man. Edited by Gayle Wurst, the book features historical overviews by Starlyn Jorgensen, a preface by noted Gavin biographer Gerard M. Devlin, and a foreword by Rufus Broadaway, Gavin's aide-de-camp.

This is an ebook version of the original 1906 book entitled The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, by his daughter Mary Eleanor “Nettie” Mudd. The book describes Dr. Mudd's life from birth to death, with emphasis on the events of his life in connection with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. It includes the complete text of letters written from, to, and about Dr. Mudd during his incarceration at the Fort Jefferson military prison, where he saved many lives during a yellow fever epidemic in 1867.

Samuel Prescott rode into history like a streak of lightning and out of it as quick as a flash. If it were not for Paul Revere s deposition of his own famous midnight ride, history might never remember Samuel. He was a young physician courting a clockmaker s daughter and planning to dedicate his life to the practice of medicine until the American Revolution rewrote his destiny. But this is not only his story; it is also that of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, William Dawes, Paul Revere, Thomas Hutchinson, Jonas Clark, the Mullikens, and those who died at Lexington and Concord and at Breed s and Bunker hills.

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] [Read by Bernard Mayes] James Boswell forever changed the genre of biography when he painstakingly transformed a scholarly profusion of detail into a perceptive, lifelike portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities and is the source of much of what we know about one of the towering figures of English literature. Boswell spent a great deal of time with Johnson in his final years and from his scrupulously accurate memory and copious journal was able to faithfully record the brilliance and wit of Dr. Johnson's conversation. Boswell's aim and achievement was completeness; no detail was too small for him. On this point Dr. Johnson remarked to him, ''There is nothing, sir, too little for so little a creature as man.'' Boswell's thirst for detail makes this indisputably the finest of many biographies of Johnson. This biography gained its unique place in literary history from the fact that its style was revolutionary. The usual style of biographers of that era was to record dry facts from the subject's public life only. Boswell differed by incorporating actual conversations of Dr. Johnson, which Boswell had previously noted down in journals, and by including many more details of personal life. The result revolutionized the genre. For both its subject and its style, The Life of Samuel Johnson is still popular with modern critics and students of the history of English thought and of English literature.

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Dr. Samuel Johnson - (1786) by James Boswell Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Details ISBN 1443733717 ISB