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Founded upon a variety of original source records, this volume treats a fair cross-section of the 17th- and 18th-century population of Long Island. You may find your missing ancestor among one of the seventy genealogies found in this volume.
On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in what he envisioned part of a scheme to plunge the federal government into chaos and gain a reprieve for the struggling Confederacy. The plan failed. By April 26, Booth was killed resisting capture and eight of the nine conspirators eventually charged in Lincoln's murder were in custody. Their trial would become one of the most famous and most controversial in U.S. history. New president Andrew Johnson's executive order on May 1 directed that persons charged with Lincoln's murder stand trial before a military tribunal. The trial lasted more than fifty days, and 366 witnesses gave testimony. Benn Pitman...
This book of poetry and musings is a passionate reminder of the beauty and pain that we face in life. It also reminds us that we must keep our faith in our destiny as we embrace love, family, and the simplest of tasks that we forget along the way. This book of poetry will give the reader food for the soul and comfort in knowing that we are not alone as we move toward our destiny.
Richard Greggory Johnson III, Phi Beta Kappa, is Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Program and faculty in the Masters of Public Administration Program at the University of Vermont. He is widely published and serves as an executive editor for Peter Lang's Black Studies and Critical Thinking series. Dr. Johnson is a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. --Book Jacket.