Dead Certainties: (unwarranted Speculations)Simon Schama, the author of The Embarrassment of Riches and Citizens, sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing the speculations surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify - the unpredictable history of stories. |
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... George Briggs made a little jump , like the trout clearing the surface of the Housatonic . He reached for his pen . August 29 , 1850 A conspiracy of silence had been organised among George Putnam , Sheriff Eveleth and John Webster to ...
... George Briggs made a little jump , like the trout clearing the surface of the Housatonic . He reached for his pen . August 29 , 1850 A conspiracy of silence had been organised among George Putnam , Sheriff Eveleth and John Webster to ...
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... George Briggs was nominated once more as the Whig candidate for governor . Rural Baptist though he was , somehow he had come adrift from his constit- uency . For in the fall election of 1850 , the Whigs , badly split over the Webster ...
... George Briggs was nominated once more as the Whig candidate for governor . Rural Baptist though he was , somehow he had come adrift from his constit- uency . For in the fall election of 1850 , the Whigs , badly split over the Webster ...
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... George N. Briggs ( Boston , 1866 ) ; Francis George Shaw , Robert Gould Shaw 1776-1853 ( Boston , 1941 ) ; Oliver Wendell Holmes , George Parkman , A Lecture to the Medical College , November 7th , 1850 ; Samuel Eliot Morison , Three ...
... George N. Briggs ( Boston , 1866 ) ; Francis George Shaw , Robert Gould Shaw 1776-1853 ( Boston , 1941 ) ; Oliver Wendell Holmes , George Parkman , A Lecture to the Medical College , November 7th , 1850 ; Samuel Eliot Morison , Three ...
Contents
At the Face of the Cliff | 3 |
In Command | 21 |
Deep in the Forest 68986 | 40 |
Copyright | |
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