The Journal Of Major John Norton Of 1816

William Apess broke the mold by writing this autobiography titled A Son of the Forest in 1829, considering it was not a common literary form for his time. Apess also set the bar as the earliest autobiography written and published by a Native American. Throughout the piece we learn his highs and lows, the prejudices he encountered, his different jobs, and his ordainment and success as a minister.

John Mack Faragher was born in Phoenix, Arizona 1948 but was raised in Southern California all the way up into college where he attended University of California, Riverside to earn a bachelor’s degree in social work. He soon later attended Yale to finish his college earning a Ph.D. degree. Exiting out of college Faragher became a professor in Mount Holyoke College teaching for 15 years. His interest was in U.S. frontier and western history, Native American borderlands, and the Native American history. Faragher has written many books, including: Women and Men on the Overland Trail, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer, The American West: A new interpretive History, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland, Frontiers: A Short History of the American West, and his newest Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in the Frontier Los Angeles. Throughout those books Faragher had many different publications for their publishing. W.W. Norton and Company was one of his biggest publishers; however, he had more than just one. Additionally, there was Henry Holt and Company, Prentice Hall, and Yale University Press. Faragher only won two awards consisting of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and A Great and Noble Scheme both presented in the book Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer.

John Adams was born on October 30th, 1735 (History.com). Adams was the oldest of three sons and his father was a shoemaker/farmer and an official for the local government (History.com). John Adams was a very hard working student and his hard work payed off when he graduated from Harvard in 1755 (History.com). In the beginning Adams taught for many years and then went on to study law (History.com). John Adams went on to marry Abigail Smith in 1764 and they decided to have six children throughout the years (History.com). When Adams started his law career in 1758, he because an outstanding attorney in Boston (History.com).

From 1776 onwards, the United States of America had a strong foundation for government and tradition. Great men such as the Founding Fathers established these foundations for incoming future generations. One of these great men included John Adams. As an American colonist, as a voice of the American Revolution, as a Founding Father and as second President of the United States, John Adams was one of the most influential men in U.S history.

Through her research as an historian and her own personal experiences as an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Doctor Akers brings the past and present together. Born and raised in Oklahoma and north Texas, Akers grew up among the Choctaw people and continues her relationship with them today. While her family—members of the Oklafalaya clan—comes from the “old Choctaw nation near Wheelock academy and Hugo,” Akers’ Choctaw lineage goes back into the “distant mists of the ancient Choctaw nation in Mississippi.” Importantly, she is a direct descendant of Thomas LeFlore and his wife, Sukey. As the relative of Greenwood Leflore, Thomas and Sukey witnessed firsthand the tensions that developed between the federal administration

Most of his attention is on the Native American Indian culture and events occurring in the west after the Civil War; a period when few remnants of their original culture remained. “My interest in Ohio of the seventeenth century is because many lived traditional lives. They were capable of living and largely surviving as spiritual, militarily and political entities on their own.”

Research on Elias Boudinot, the translator of the rare book Cherokee Hymns that is on exhibit at the UGA special collections library, resulted in this biography produced by the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. This web page is an unbiased, fact based publication that presents a timeline of Boudinot's life. This compilation of all of Boudinot's accomplishments in the the world of literature is categorized by historical significance. The most significant being his sole creation of the newspaper “Cherokee Phoenix”, the first bilingual text in the New World, and concluding with his signing of the Treaty of New Echota and his work to prove

This essay is going to discuss the events that occurred between the time period of 1789-1860. One of them was the conflict that congress cannot set limits of U.S armed forces. Congress has declared war about 5 times in the U.S history. The military went to many different states & cities, It was over 99 million people in the military, many people give their lives up to protect and fight for our country & we don't even take the time to appreciate or mention them in any way.

The online platform has helped to share history with anyone, anywhere and has allowed anyone, anywhere to contribute to history. The ethnographic project this semester would have been much more of a challenging journey had we not had access to resources such as Locating Lynching and Ancestry.com. Using Ancestry.com in an attempt to track down possible consultants, we found the challenge of genealogical research was that there can either be a hyperabundance of information or a frustrating scarcity of

Samuel Colt’s development of the revolving pistol had a rough start. However, after the Colt Walker got its chance during the Mexican-American War it proved to be a handy side arm in giving America the upper hand. The Mexican army had outdated weaponry and could not upgrade as they would have to wait for the shipment to be imported from overseas. The new concept of a revolving multishot firearm has influenced our military and police force.

Joseph J. Ellis was born on July 18, 1943; he continued to excel in school all the way through college, when he received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. In 1969, Ellis had earned both his Masters Degree and PhD from Yale University, yet went on to teach U.S. History at West Point. Currently, Ellis teaches at the University of Massachusetts where he inspires many students to pursue careers in historical studies; however, most of Ellis’ impact on the world comes from his writing. Based on his eight books, one can infer that Joseph J. Ellis has a passion for American history and the leaders that played a role to form it.

While it is possible to regard Faulkner’s writing without the knowledge of his Southern heritage, Faulkner enthusiast and literary Critic Cleanth Brooks argues that in order to understand him, one must realize the importance of his being born in a particular time and place. Faulkner himself has made this connection and simply admitted to writing about what he knew best: his “own little postage stamp of native soil” (Brooks, Time 251). Brooks further develops the notion that Faulkner uses his personal knowledge and experience in his essay “Faulkner and the Muse of History.” He describes Faulkner’s surrounding acquaintances stating that, “…the people that he knew had clinging to their lives a great deal of the stuff of history—the history that had produced them and had helped them mold the culture out of which them came” (266). The South of Faulkner’s youth was still very much alive with pre-war memories being passed down through generations and weaving a culture all of its own. This Southern culture, also the culture Faulkner wrote about, held family very central to it. Society placed an emphasis on manners and honour, and was characterized by close personal relationships (Brooks, Muse). Even despite the region’s “quite rigid black-white caste system” there was

When december hit we really started to get knee-deep in research. We had gone to the University of Iowa’s library with the rest of our Nation History Day club and had found multiple websites that were only available at that library. Because of this we tried to write down and take note of the things we thought we would need and were relevant. Breanna had been researching and found a man named Wesley Everest who

From the Colonial Biographies the first collection I chose was Lachlan McGillivray who was an Indian Trader on the Southern Colonial Frontier dating back from 1719-1799 who lived as a British spy, interpreter, and adviser. He had journeys, entered in partnerships, became chief Indian expert with the most influential Creek headmen living in his towns. This is a man who was in danger of his life and had to flee, he had demanding tasks of his life and used his family as leverage for any help such as John McGillivray. He received triumph from New York and their lives continued on. Lachlan did not cause the changed that occurred on the southern frontier, or in his native, he only exemplified them. Lachlan acted as intermediaries between the great

Henry James was born on April 15, 1843, in New York City. He was the second child, after his brother William, to his father Henry James, Sr. and his mother Mary Walsh Robertson. He also had three younger siblings named respectively as Garth Wilkinson, Robertson, and Alice.