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The Breckinridges of Kentucky
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ISBN: 9780813157108 0813157102 0813191653 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lexington The University Press of Kentucky

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Across more than six generations -- beginning before the Revolutionary War -- the Breckinridge family has produced a series of notable leaders. These often controversial men and women included a presidential candidate, a U.S. vice president, cabinet members, generals, women's rights advocates, congressmen, editors, reformers, authors, and church leaders. Along with success, the Breckinridges, like other Americans, faced hardship and war, contended with race, lived through difficult family situations -- including a sex scandal -- and encountered personal and political failure. An articulate, op


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Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Retirement Series.
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ISBN: 0691189110 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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The 618 documents in this volume span 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820. Jefferson suffers from a "colic," but with rest and medication he recovers. He spends much time dealing with the immediate effects of the

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Presidents --- Jefferson, Thomas, --- Aaron Burr. --- Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. --- Amendment. --- American Antiquarian Society. --- American Colonization Society. --- American National Biography. --- American Philosophical Society. --- Bankruptcy. --- Breckinridge family. --- Bridgewater Canal. --- Bushrod Washington. --- Civil list. --- Classical school (criminology). --- Consideration. --- County magistrate. --- David Hosack. --- DeWitt Clinton. --- Democritus. --- Dickinson College. --- Director of the United States Mint. --- Dormitory. --- Epicurus. --- Erie Canal. --- Eton College. --- Euthanasia. --- Fort Adams. --- Francis Scott Key. --- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. --- Harvard University. --- Henry Dearborn. --- His Family. --- Hugh Chisholm. --- Indian removal. --- Invoice. --- James Buchanan. --- James Maury. --- Jared Ingersoll. --- Joachim Murat. --- John A. Garraty. --- John Hemings. --- John Overton (judge). --- Joseph Addison. --- Josiah Meigs. --- Lecture. --- Lemuel Shaw. --- Loeb Classical Library. --- Martin Van Buren. --- Memoir. --- Mergenthaler Linotype Company. --- Monsieur. --- Mr. --- My Country. --- Nathaniel Bowditch. --- Of Education. --- Oliver Evans. --- Oliver Goldsmith. --- Papirius (pontifex). --- Past Service. --- Payment. --- Phillips Exeter Academy. --- Poplar Forest. --- Postmaster General. --- Primage. --- Primogeniture. --- Publication. --- Queen Ann (Pamunkey chief). --- Religious test. --- Remittance. --- Richard Gilder. --- Richard Rush. --- Robert Dale Owen. --- Salary. --- Salutation. --- Samuel Parr. --- Second Bank of the United States. --- Slavery. --- St. Lawrence University. --- Stephen Van Rensselaer. --- Tax. --- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. --- The Papers of James Madison. --- The Philosopher. --- Thomas Jefferson Randolph. --- Thomas Paine. --- Timothy Pickering. --- Tobias Smollett. --- Transylvania University. --- Unitarianism. --- University of Cambridge. --- Usury. --- V. --- Veracity (Mark Lavorato novel). --- War pension. --- Washington and Lee University. --- William H. Crawford. --- William Maclure. --- William Wirt (Attorney General). --- Williams College. --- Wisconsin Territory. --- Year.

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