Description
Noble Living and Grand Achievement – Giants of the Republic is a chronicle of American history and biographical information from the perspective when written in the late 1800s. This collection of concise information about American history was originally published in 1895. It is selected as culturally important by scholars. The subtitle speaks directly to what can be found in this volume: “Lives, Deeds, and Personal Traits of Eminent Statesmen, Great Generals, Noted Reformers, Successful Men of Business, Distinguished Literary Men, and Famous Women.”
This chronicle of American history tome includes the following sections:
Book 1, Giant Founders of the Republic, details George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson.
Book 2, Giant Builders of Our Union, details Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, and Samuel Houston.
Book 3, Giants of the Civil War, details Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Charles Sumner, Ulysses S. Grant, The Story of the Civil War, William T. Sherman, George B. McClellan, Philip H. Sheridan, George G. Meade, George H. Thomas, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
Book 4, Giants of the American Navy, details John Paul Jones, Oliver Perry, and David G. Farragut.
Book 5, Giants of the Re-united Country, details James A. Garfield, Samuel J. Tilden, James G. Blaine.
Book 6, Giants of Inventive Achievement, details Robert Fulton, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas A Edison, and Other Great Inventors and Their Invention.
Book 7, Giant Men of Business, details John Jacob Astor, George Peabody, Cornelius Vanderbilt, The Story of the Railroad, Cyrus W. Field, Leland Stanford, George W. Childs, Marshall Field, and John Wanamaker.
Book 8, Giants of Religious and Social Reform, details, Henry Ward Beecher, William Lloyd Garrison, The Story of American Slavery, Frances E. Willard.
Book 9, Giants of American Literature, details Henry W. Longfellow, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar A. Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry D. Thoreau, John G. Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Louisa M. Alcott, Horace Greeley, Newspapers and Journalism, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Authors/ Contributors and dates of death:
- Edward Everett Hale, D.D.: Died June 10, 1909
- Hamilton Wright Mabie: Died December 31, 1916
- John S. C. Abbott: Died June 17, 1877
- W. W. Birdsall: Died March 17, 1909
- J. H. Vincent: Died May 9, 1920
- James Parton: Died October 17, 1891
- Frances E. Willard: Died February 17, 1898
- Fletcher Johnson: Died March 29, 1931
The goal of Our House Treasures was to produce an extremely comfortable read of GIANTS OF THE REPUBLIC, resulting in more than simply a scanned book. We worked diligently to preserve the entire original work — maintaining grammatical and spelling errors, as well as honoring the vernacular of the 19th Century. There may be certain words, phrases or images in this work that Our House Treasures does not condone using in our current world.
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