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Born in Seattle, [1] Beeman published multiple books, and was the John Walsh Centennial Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] Beeman was the 2003-4 Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History. He also served as the director of the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, on the board of trustees of the ...
David Freeman Hawke (died 1999 at age 75) was an American historian. His book Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfly became a National Book Award nominee in 1972. Hawke was born in Philadelphia and held degrees from Swarthmore College, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at Pace College for 14 years before ...
t. e. The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization ...
Martha Ballard. Martha Moore Ballard (February 20, 1735 – June 9, 1812) was an American midwife and healer. Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insight into colonial frontier-women's lives. [1] Ballard was made famous by the publication ...
Thomas Fleet (printer) (1685-1758) Booksellers, printer; established the Boston Evening Post. John Foster (printer) 1648–1681. Printer and engraver; credited with producing the first engravings in British colonial America and the official seals of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Daniel Fowle (printer) 1715–1787.
William Beverley (grandson) William Byrd I (1652 – December 4, 1704) was an English-born Virginia colonist and politician. He came from the Shadwell section of London, where his father John Bird (c. 1620–1677) was a goldsmith. His family's ancestral roots were in Cheshire. [1]
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from Self-Help, an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help. Self-help books moved from a niche position ...
Marion O'Brien Donovan (October 15, 1917 – November 4, 1998) was an American inventor and entrepreneur. Recognized as one of the era's most prominent female inventors, [1] she secured a total of 20 patents for her creations. In 1946, she created a reusable, impermeable diaper cover.