In Their Own Words 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Their Own Words 2 write by The National Archives. This book was released on 2018-09-06. In Their Own Words 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of historical events and movements providing an immediate link to the immediate and much more distant past. The book includes letters from: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lucien Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Nelson Mandela, Caitlin Thomas, Mary Whitehouse, Gandhi, George Washington among many others. Subjects covered include suffragette disturbances, obscene publications, relations between international leaders, child emigration including the Kindertransport. The book features 55 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a 3000 word introduction. There are 150 images in the book: 55 of the letters themselves, and a further 95 supplementary images.
In Their Own Words
In Their Own Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Their Own Words write by Solveig Zempel. This book was released on 2013-11-30. In Their Own Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For most Norwegians in the nineteenth century, America was a remote and exotic place until the first immigrants began to write home. Their letters were among the most valuable, accessible, and reliable sources of information about the new world and the journey to it. For many immigrants, writing letters home was their most cherished opportunity to communicate their thoughts and feelings in their native language. Through vivid translations of letters written to family and friends between 1870 and 1945, In Their Own Words traces the stories of nine Norwegian immigrants: farmer, fisherman, gold miner, politician, unmarried mother, housewife, businessman, railroad worker, contractor. Their common bond was the experience of immigration and acculturation, but their individual experiences were manifested in a wide variety of forms. Solveig Zempel has thoughtfully selected and translated letters rich in personal description and observation to present each writer’s subjective view of historical events. Often focusing on the minutiae of daily life and the feelings of the individual immigrant, the letters form a complex, intimate, and colorful mosaic of the immigrant world. Solveig Zempel is chair of the Norwegian Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
In Their Letters, in Their Words
In Their Letters, in Their Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Their Letters, in Their Words write by Mark Flotow. This book was released on 2019-10-14. In Their Letters, in Their Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A vital lifeline to home during the Civil War, the letters of soldiers to their families and friends remain a treasure for those seeking to connect with and understand the most turbulent period of American history. Rather than focus on the experiences of a few witnesses, this impressively researched book documents 165 Illinois Civil War soldiers’ and sailors’ lives through the lens of their personal letters. Editor Mark Flotow chose a variety of letter writers who hailed from counties throughout the state, served in different branches of the military at different ranks, and represented the gamut of social experiences and war outcomes. Flotow provides extensive quotations from the letters. By allowing the soldiers to speak for themselves, he captures what mattered most to them. Illinois soldiers wrote about their reasons for enlisting; the nature of training and duties; necessities like eating, sleeping, marching, and making the best of often harsh and chaotic circumstances; Southern culture; slavery; their opinions of commanding officers and the president; disease, medicine, and hospitals; their prisoner-of-war experiences; and the ways they left the army. Through letters from afar, many soldiers sought to manage their homes and farms, while some single men attempted to woo their sweethearts. Flotow includes brief biographies for each soldier quoted in the book, weaves historical context and analysis with the letters, and organizes them by topic. Thus, intimate details cited in individual letters reveal their significance for those who lived and shaped this tumultuous era. The result is not only insightful history but also compelling reading.
Lines, Squiggles, Letters, Words
Lines, Squiggles, Letters, Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lines, Squiggles, Letters, Words write by Ruth Rocha. This book was released on 2016. Lines, Squiggles, Letters, Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sensitively illustrated to show how a child might see and relate to words before learning how to read.
Magic Letters
Magic Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic Letters write by Julie Rebboah. This book was released on 2010. Magic Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book enables children to begin to recognize the letters of the alphabet, and provides a connection to the concepts they can associate with each character to gain a stronger sense of the sounds hidden in the shapes called "letters."
