The historical titles have been especially useful as additional resources for various articles on this website. The reviews are broken down into four sections: Pictorial (books featuring many illustrations), Historical (factual reading), Video Documentaries (obviously, self-explanatory), and Children's (for the kids, with a railroad theme). I am deeply grateful to the many authors and publishers who, for whatever reason, felt having my thoughts about their title(s) presented here would somehow help promote their work. It has been incredibly flattering and humbling to receive so many inquiries on this subject over the years. Those listed largely spotlight such titles although there are a few featured from my own collection. In 1787 representatives of the federation of states met in Philadelphia to shape the national government of their new republic four months later they had composed the Constitution of the United States, which included a Bill of Rights.I had never intended on highlighting various books in a review format but thought otherwise after receiving an increasing number of requests to do so over the past few years. Washington circulated as that of a likely king, he refused that office and its symbols of status, the crown and scepter, asserting his faith in electoral democracy. The Declaration of Independence in 1776 was the official announcement of American intent to be free from foreign monarchs. Seventeenth-century settlers in North America made a( n) prudent gesture of eponymously honoring their monarchs by naming the colony of Virginia after the very powerful Virgin Queen Elizabeth 1 and Jamestown, the first permanent settlement, after King James 1.īy the 1760s and 1770s, however, the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, tea tax, and other monetary pressures influenced the colonists to rebel against the political dominance of the British crown. Replace the word or phrase in italics with a key word (or any of its forms). He began writing Walden in 1846 as a lecture in response to the questions of townsp eople who were curious about what he was doing out at the pond, but it soon grew into his second book. His nature study and the writing of Walden would develop later during his stay at the pond. His main purposes in moving to the pond were to write h is first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, as a tribute to his brother John, and to conduct an economic experiment to see if it were possible to live by working one day and devoting the other six to more Transcendental concerns, thus reversing the Yankee habit of working six days and resting one. He bought building supplies and a chicken coop (for the boards), and built himself a small cabin there, moving in on the Fourth of July. ln 1845 he received permission from Emerson to use a piece of land that Emerson owned on the shore of Walden Pond. He developed a plan to build such a cabin for himself where he could find privacy to write. Work in the pencil factory was tedious and tiring, and, since his mother took in boarders, there was little quiet or privacy in the house. But life in his parents' home held problems for the budding writer.
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