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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at America's first president, whose face is as familiar as the dollar bill but whom most of us hardly know. By using high-tech tools and scientific techniques, archaeologists, scientists, and historians are uncovering new clues about who George Washington really was.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about their lives and their feelings about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing--Americans. Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called "the infant...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the wife of the first president of the United States, from her childhood in Virginia through her marriage to George Washington to her role in the American Revolution and the early years of the new country's history.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows Washington's journey to each of the original thirteen states, during which he brought the government to the people and promoted the idea of a strong federal union.
18) The letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794: nation building and enterprise in the new American republic
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
lxv, 370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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