Author: Frances Manwaring CaulkinsPublisher:
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Category : New London (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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History of New London, Connecticut
Author: Frances Manwaring CaulkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New London (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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History of New London County, Connecticut
Author: Duane Hamilton HurdPublisher:
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Category : Lebanon (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
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History of New London, Connecticut
Author: Frances Manwaring CaulkinsPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
History of New London, Connecticut: From the First Survey of the Coast in 1612 To 1860 by Cecelia Griswold Frances Manwaring Caulkins, first published in 1895, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
A Modern History of New London County, Connecticut
Author: Benjamin Tinkham MarshallPublisher:
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Category : New London County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Reinventing New London
Author: John J. RuddyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738504803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
As the twentieth century dawned, New London, home to a dying whaling industry, was trying to reinvent itself as it had so many times before. When the U.S. Navy and the Coast Guard arrived, the city got a new lease on life. That is where Reinventing New London begins, chronicling the history of the Whaling City through vivid photographs taken over the next sixty years. During that time, the nation's first submarine base and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy were established, and those who were stationed there helped to win two world wars. But just as its future seemed assured, New London found itself in ruins after the catastrophic hurricane of 1938. From the ashes of the storm, the city built a seaside resort, Ocean Beach Park, on Long Island Sound. Meanwhile, New London faced its greatest challenge ever in the changing times after World War II. As residents and businesses fled to suburbia, the city undertook a bold campaign to reinvent itself yet again, and what resulted changed New London forever.
Homegrown Terror
Author: Eric D. LehmanPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819573302
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This lively biography of America’s most famous traitor offers a new perspective on his terrible legacy as well as life in Revolutionary Era Connecticut. On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,700 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion galvanized the new nation, and “Remember New London!” would become a rallying cry for troops under General Lafayette. In Homegrown Terror, Eric D. Lehman chronicles the events leading up to the attack and highlights this key transformation in Arnold—the point where he went from betraying his comrades to massacring his neighbors and destroying their homes. This defining incident forever marked him as a symbol of evil, turning an antiheroic story about weakness of character and missed opportunity into one about the nature of treachery itself. Homegrown Terror draws upon a variety of primary sources and perspectives, from the traitor himself to his former comrades like Jonathan Trumbull and Silas Deane, to the murdered Colonel Ledyard. Rethinking Benedict Arnold through the lens of this terrible episode, Lehman sheds light on the ethics of the dawning nation, and the way colonial America responded to betrayal and terror.
History of New London, Connecticut, from the First Survey of the Coast in 1612 to 1852.
Author: Frances Manwaring CAULKINSPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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MORGAN GENEALOGY
Author: NATHANIEL H. MORGANPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033148181
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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For Adam's Sake
Author: Allegra Di BonaventuraPublisher: Liveright
ISBN: 0871404303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Winner of the New England Historical Association’s James P. Hanlan Book Award Winner the Association for the Study of Connecticut History’s Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award “Incomparably vivid . . . as enthralling a portrait of family life [in colonial New England] as we are likely to have.”—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s classic, A Midwife’s Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America’s most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his remarkable diary—kept from 1711 until 1758—reveals, he was also a slave owner who owned Adam Jackson for over thirty years. In this engrossing narrative of family life and the slave experience in the colonial North, Allegra di Bonaventura describes the complexity of this master/slave relationship and traces the intertwining stories of two families until the eve of the Revolution. Slavery is often left out of our collective memory of New England’s history, but it was hugely impactful on the central unit of colonial life: the family. In every corner, the lines between slavery and freedom were blurred as families across the social spectrum fought to survive. In this enlightening study, a new portrait of an era emerges.
The Rogerenes
Author: John Rogers BollesPublisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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