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| phoebe fraunces facts: 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof J. A. Rogers, 2012-07-25 White supremacy-busting facts that ran in the black publication the Pittsburgh Courier, written by the renowned African American author and journalist. First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. Patterned after the look of Ripley’s popular Believe It or Not the multiple vignettes in each episode recount short items from Rogers’s research. The feature began in the Pittsburgh Courier in November 1934 and ran through the 1960s. “I have been intrigued by this book, and by its author, since I first encountered it as a student in an undergraduate survey course in African-American history at Yale . . . Sometimes, [Rogers] was astonishingly accurate; at other times, he seems to have been tripping a bit, shall we say.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Root “Rogers made great contribution to publishing and distributing little know African history facts through books and pamphlets such as 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof and The Five Negro Presidents . . . The common thread in Roger’s research was his unending aim to counter white supremacist propaganda that prevailed in segregated communities across the United States against people of African descent.” —Black History Heroes |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Phoebe the Spy Judith Berry Griffin, 2002-08-01 Phoebe, daughter of a free black man, goes undercover to discover and foil a would-be assassin of General Washington. Based on historical fact. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Amazing Facts in U.S. History, Grades 5 - 8 Blattner, 2010-08-06 Bring history to life for students in grades 4 and up with Amazing Facts in U.S. History! Students will love to explore little-known historical facts, folklore, and “facts” often taught in school that are either untrue or undocumented in this captivating text. Topics covered in this 128-page book include the Fountain of Youth, the first Thanksgiving, the colonies, the Revolutionary War, George Washington, the Cherokee nation, the Gold Rush, the Wild West, and American Presidents. The book includes questions, explanations, historical mysteries, quizzes, puzzles, logic problems, and answer keys. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America's Past Reader's Digest, Robert Dolezal, 1989 At head of title: Reader's Digest. Over 600 true stories delve into history and come up with all-American entertainment. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: The Book of New York Firsts Henry Moscow, 1995-04-01 Everything you wanted to know about the unusual, arcane, and fascinating in the life of New York City. The term only in New York takes on new meaning in page after page of this intriguing survey of firsts in one of the world's greatest cities—from extraordinary people to ghosts and graves, from troubles and aspirations to crimes and disasters. For six years, the City had a governor who dressed in his wife's clothes and paraded along Broadway until his soldiers dragged him home. The City's first subway, dug in secret under Broadway in 1870, had elegant cars propelled by wind from a big fan. The City's first settlers were not Dutchmen, but French-speaking Protestant Belgians in 1624 who were followed by African Blacks in 1625. The first City Hall had a tavern on the premises to quench the thirst of City Fathers with beer and schnapps. The City's first bagel was produced in Clinton Street in 1896, but its ancestors date back to fourteenth-century German boar hunts. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: The Great New York City Trivia & Fact Book B. Kim Taylor, 1998-05-01 The Great New York City Trivia and Fact Book is a celebration of the people and institutions that have given New York it's unique character among the great cities of the world |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Women Engaged in War in Literature for Youth Hilary S. Crew, 2007 Women at War portrays books and other resources that feature girls, young women, and adult women actively involved in various ways in battles, wars, and war-time activities, including their roles as nurses, doctors, spies, soldiers, correspondents, photographers, as well as their roles on the home front. Fiction, picture books, nonfiction, biographies, autobiographies, collective biographies, oral narratives, reference books, journal and periodical articles, and non-print and electronic resources are included. Teachers and librarians will find this to be an excellent curriculum-planning resource. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: The Crisis , 1916-12 The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: George Washington's Expense Account Marvin Kitman, 2001-01-04 Just in time for President's Day, Kitman shows how Washington brilliantly turned his noble gesture of refusing payment for his services as commander in chief of the Continental Army into an opportunity to indulge his insatiable lust for fine food and drink, extravagant clothing, and lavish accommodations. Ben Stiller will direct a feature film for New Line Cinema based on Kitman's George Washington books, starring Steve Martin and John Cleese. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Dictionary of American Biography: Fraunces-Grimké , 1931 Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. The DAB records the lives of prominent Americans who died by Dec. 31, 1980. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Books to Build On E.D. Hirsch, Jr., 2009-10-14 The invaluable grade-by-grade guide (kindergarten—sixth) is designed to help parents and teachers select some of the best books for children. Books to Build On recommends: • for kindergartners, lively collections of poetry and stories, such as The Children’s Aesop, and imaginative alphabet books such as Bill Martin, Jr.’s Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Lucy Micklewait’s I Spy: An Alphabet in Art • for first graders, fine books on the fine arts, such as Ann Hayes’s Meet the Orchestra, the hands-on guide My First Music Book, and the thought-provoking Come Look with Me series of art books for children • for second graders, books that open doors to world cultures and history, such as Leonard Everett Fisher’s The Great Wall of China and Marcia Willaims’s humorous Greek Myths for Young Children • for third graders, books that bring to life the wonders of ancient Rome, such as Living in Ancient Rome, and fascinating books about astronomy, such as Seymour Simon’s Our Solar System • for fourth graders, engaging books on history, including Jean Fritz’s Shh! We're Writing the Constitution, and many books on Africa, including the stunningly illustrated story of Sundiata: Lion King of Mali • for fifth graders, a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream that retains much of the original language but condenses the play for reading or performance by young students, and Michael McCurdy’s Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass • for sixth graders, an eloquent retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the well-written American history series, A History of US . . . and many, many more! |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Independent Dames Laurie Halse Anderson, 2011-11-01 Read about the forgotten half of the American Revolution and those tough, independent dames who helped make it happen. Listen up! You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part? Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched information and thoughtfully detailed illustrations, acclaimed novelist and picture-book author Laurie Halse Anderson and charismatic illustrator Matt Faulkner prove the case in this entertaining, informative, and long overdue homage to those independent dames! |
| phoebe fraunces facts: History Comes Alive Teaching Unit Jacqueline Glasthal, 2003-04 A fun, learning-packed teaching resource that will help your students remember American history! |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Crisis William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 1916 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: 5 People Who Died During Sex Karl Shaw, 2007-02-13 All in perfectly bad taste Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts from across the ages and around the world. Did you know… …that Pope Benedict XII was such a hardened boozer that he inspired the expression “drunk as a pope”? (From “10 Historic Drunks”) …that as a special honeymoon treat, Prince Charles read Princess Diana passages from the works of Carl Jung and Laurens van der Post? (From “History’s 10 Least Romantic Honeymoons”) …that the best-dressed gentlemen in medieval England exposed their genitals below a short-fitting tunic? (From “History’s 10 Greatest Fashion Mistakes”) …that Alfred Hitchcock suffered from ovophobia—fear of eggs? (From “10 Phobias of the Famous”) …that King Louis XIV only took three baths in his lifetime, each of them under protest? (From “10 Great Unwashed”) …that in 1930, Sears customers became enraged when the catalog was first printed on glossy, non-absorbent paper? (From “12 Magical Moments in Toilet Paper History”) |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Beer in America: The Early Years--1587-1840 Gregg Smith, 1998-09-18 A definitive and fresh account of the role of beer in our country’s founding and formative years. Beginning with the colonial era and ending with America’s emergence as an industrial power, Beer in America contains many surprising revelations, including the reason the Mayflower really landed at Plymouth, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as homebrewers, and forging the Constitution after hours over beer. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: At the Table of Power Diane M. Spivey, 2022-09-13 At the Table of Power is both a cookbook and a culinary history that intertwines social issues, personal stories, and political commentary. Renowned culinary historian Diane M. Spivey offers a unique insight into the historical experience and cultural values of African America and America in general by way of the kitchen. From the rural country kitchen and steamboat floating palaces to marketplace street vendors and restaurants in urban hubs of business and finance, Africans in America cooked their way to positions of distinct superiority, and thereby indispensability. Despite their many culinary accomplishments, most Black culinary artists have been made invisible—until now. Within these pages, Spivey tells a powerful story beckoning and daring the reader to witness this culinary, cultural, and political journey taken hand in hand with the fight of Africans in America during the foundation years, from colonial slavery through the Reconstruction era. These narratives, together with the recipes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, expose the politics of the day and offer insight on the politics of today. African American culinary artists, Spivey concludes, have more than earned a rightful place at the table of culinary contribution and power. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Let No Man Be My Albatross Nicholas Borelli, 2012-02-18 What if your daughter met a tortured demise? What would a father think to do? Rage and revenge would be the desire of many fathers. As the U.S. Attorney, Nick de’Conti allowed the system that nurtured his legal career to exact justice. It just wasn’t enough justice. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: The Black World in Literature for Children Joyce White Mills, 1975 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Forgotten Patriots Eric Grundset, 2008 By offering a documented listing of names of African Americans and Native Americans who supported the cause of the American Revolution, we hope to inspire the interest of descendents in the efforts of their ancestors and in the work of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Scott, Foresman Reading , 1989 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Understanding American History Through Children's Literature Maria Perez-Stable, Mary H. Cordier, 1994 Students connect with Americans of the past through quality works of fiction, nonfiction, biography, folktale, and legend. American history ceases to be remote and unfamiliar and becomes the story of real individuals--colonists, pioneers, Native Americans, immigrants--with diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This book is an excellent support for a literature-based history or social studies curriculum. This book closely integrates American history and children's literature by combining the best features of an annotated bibliography of children's historical literature with the best features of a teaching guide. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: New Books Kids Like Association for Library Service to Children, 2001-05 This is a collection of more than 500 annotated book recommendations. Organized around 44 topics considered by the panel to be 'the most frequently requested', this readers' advisory guide for children's literature (includes titles) on everything from dogs and diaries to adventure and science. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: The Black Aesthetic Addison Gayle, Addison Gayle (Jr.), 1971 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: No Useless Mouth Rachel B. Herrmann, 2019-11-15 Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis―all based on extensive archival research―produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative.―The Journal of American History In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war. In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay. Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were useful mouths—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution. Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era. Thanks to generous funding from Cardiff University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: First Ladies Betty Caroli, 2010-07-15 Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. This expanded and updated fourth edition includes Laura Bush's tenure, Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, and an in-depth look at Michelle Obama, one of the most charismatic and appealing First Ladies in recent history. Covering all forty-one women from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama and including the daughters, daughters-in-law, and sisters of presidents who sometimes served as First Ladies, Caroli explores each woman's background, marriage, and accomplishments and failures in office. This remarkably diverse lot included Abigail Adams, whose remember the ladies became a twentieth-century feminist refrain; Jane Pierce, who prayed her husband would lose the election; Helen Taft, who insisted on living in the White House, although her husband would have preferred a judgeship; Eleanor Roosevelt, who epitomized the politically involved First Lady; and Pat Nixon, who perfected what some have called the robot image. They ranged in age from early 20s to late 60s; some received superb educations for their time, while others had little or no schooling. Including the courageous and adventurous, the emotionally unstable, the ambitious, and the reserved, these women often did not fit the traditional expectations of a presidential helpmate. Here then is an engaging portrait of how each First Lady changed the role and how the role changed in response to American culture. These women left remarkably complete records, and their stories offer us a window through which to view not only this particular sorority of women, but also American women in general. Impressive...Caroli's profiles and observations of American first ladies and their relationship to the media are intelligent and perceptive. --Philadelphia Inquirer |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Brothers at Arms Larrie D. Ferreiro, 2016-11-15 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year Award The remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain, and places the Revolution in the context of the global strategic interests of those nations in their fight against England. In this groundbreaking, revisionist history, Larrie Ferreiro shows that at the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. In his detailed accounts Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial support of the French and Spanish, the American cause would never have succeeded. France and Spain provided close to the equivalent of $30 billion and 90 percent of all guns used by the Americans, and they sent soldiers and sailors by the thousands to fight and die alongside the Americans, as well as around the world. Ferreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish diplomats, merchants, soldiers, and sailors whose contribution is at last given recognition. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, Brothers at Arms reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: The Scott, Foresman Anthology of Children's Literature Zena Sutherland, Myra Cohn Livingston, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1984 An anthology of nursery rhymes, poetry, folk literature, fantasy, realistic fiction, historical fiction, biography, and nonfiction. Also includes a list of major books, a list of highlights in the history and development of children's literature, and essays for adults working with children. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Black Chronology Ellen Irene Diggs, 1983 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books , 1991 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Congressional Record United States. Congress, 1981 The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873) |
| phoebe fraunces facts: The Crisis , 1969 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Early American Taverns Kym S. Rice, 1983 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art , 1977 Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback). |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow, 2017-08-10 Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Few figures in American history are more controversial. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. He charts his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Monroe and Burr; his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds; his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza; and the notorious duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death in July 1804. The book was adapted into a hugely successful Broadway musical - winner of 11 Tony awards - which opens at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London in November 2017. |
| phoebe fraunces facts: This is Progress Robert H. DeCoy, 1969 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Free-lance Writing for a Living Paul William Kearney, 1953 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Berkshire Parish Registers , 1914 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Robert H. DeCoy's This is Progress Robert H. DeCoy, Roselle Kahn, 1969 |
| phoebe fraunces facts: Harlem, a Community in Transition John Henrik Clarke, 1970 |
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Mnemosyne - Mythopedia
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