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Letter, 1819 August 27, New Haven, [Connecticut], to Epaphras Hoyt
Hitchcock writes to his uncle Epaphras Hoyt of Deerfield, Massachusetts, telling him of the English and French trigonometrical survey recently completed, books and journals he has recently read, a possible yellow fever outbreak in the area, and a court case involving grave robbing at the Medical School.
Greenfield Gazette
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Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770-1860
This innovative study draws on anthropology, archaeology, art history, folklore, and history to illuminate the rich texture of a historic landscape and the complex process by which it changed over a ninety-year period between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Focusing on Franklin County in the upper Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, a landscape that shares many characteristics with greater New England and with the rural North, Garrison describes the region's town plans, agricultural patterns, dwellings, barns, outbuildings, fences, and transportation networks--and how they changed. He demonstrates that the transformation of this rural landscape was a dynamic process, a complex in...
Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums
Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds in this latest book from noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P. Gleason. Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums follows American horse-mounted bands from the nation's military infancy through its emergence as a world power during World War II and the corresponding shift from horse-powered to mechanized cavalry. Gleason traces these bands to their origins, including the horn-blowing Celtic and Roman cavalries of antiquity and the mounted Middle Eastern musicians whom European Cr...
