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Author : Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.)
Release : 1944*
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Book Synopsis A Pioneer College Prepares for the Greater Northwest by : Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.)
Download or read book A Pioneer College Prepares for the Greater Northwest written by Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.). This book was released on 1944*. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cornelius Willet Gillam Hyde
Release : 1901
Genre : Minnesota
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Book Synopsis History of the Great Northwest and Its Men of Progress by : Cornelius Willet Gillam Hyde
Download or read book History of the Great Northwest and Its Men of Progress written by Cornelius Willet Gillam Hyde. This book was released on 1901. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 1974
Genre : Union catalogs
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Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by :
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Author : Association of American Colleges and Universities
Release : 2007
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis College Learning for the New Global Century by : Association of American Colleges and Universities
Download or read book College Learning for the New Global Century written by Association of American Colleges and Universities. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "College Learning for the New Global Century, published through the LEAP (Liberal Education and America's Promise) initiative, spells out the essential aims, learning outcomes, and guiding principles for a 21st century college education. It reports on the promises American society needs to make - and keep - to all who seek a college education and to the society that will depend on graduates' future leadership and capabilities." -- Foreword (p. vii).
Author : David McCullough
Release : 2019-05-07
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Pioneers by : David McCullough
Download or read book The Pioneers written by David McCullough. This book was released on 2019-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
