John D. Hicks (1890-1972) was a member of the history department at the University of California at Berkeley for thirty years. This book was written for college level students. He wrote several other books. His scholarship centered on the transition of the United States from the agricultural and small-town society still dominant in the Middle West of his youth, to the industrial and urban society increasingly dominant after the First World War.
Contents
Chapters: The morning of america 1492-1763 --- Founding the Nation1763-1787 --- Evolution in Democracy 1787-1818 --- The jacksonian Era1818-1837 --- Expansion and its consequences 1837-1850 --- The sectional controversy 1850-1865
Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a transcript of the pension list of the United States
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Southern Book Co.,
Date of Publication
1953.
Physical Description
47 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Originally published: Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a transcript of the pension list of the United States. Washington : A. and G. Way, printers, 1813.
Heads of families in Mifflin County, Pa. 1790 : (including present Mifflin, Juniata, and part of Centre County), from the federal census and county tax lists : arranged alphabetically by townships
Of interest to Lancaster readers, Arnold's wife, Peggy Shippen, was a member of a wealthy Philadelphia family that had links to Lancaster. Major John Andre, the British spy, also had links to Lancaster. He had been captured earlier in the Revolution and had been a prisoner of war in Lancaster . As was the custom for interned officers, he was housed in a private home and was permitted to walk freely in the city.
Summary
"An account of the traitorous trio ( Arnold, his wife, and John Andre ) who almost toppled the American nation at its birth. Benedict Arnold offered to sell his soldiers, with the key fortress of West Point, and to deliver to the enemy, dead or alive, George Washington. The plot promised to destroy the American battle of freedom." [from the publisher]
