John and William Bartram : Travelers in Early America 9781561648146, 9781561647859

A juvenile biography of father and son, John and William Bartram, naturalists who lived in the late 18th and early 19th

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John and William Bartram : Travelers in Early America
9781561648146, 9781561647859

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of

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aA classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century sou

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Searching through journals, almanacs, sermons, tracts, orations, and volumes of verse, Professor Sensabaugh traces Milto

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Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era

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In the first full-length biography of John William Dawson (1820-1899), eminent scientist and principal of McGill Univers

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History passed in review along the highways of Texas in the century 1761–1860. This was the century of exploration and s

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of Ameri

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Alternately vilified as a publicity-seeking egoist and lauded as a rambunctious, fearless advocate, William Kunstler con

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Reprint No. 1

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"These 12 short, highly focused essays analyze how experiences with death and the imagery associated with it influe

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