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A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time
In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family's farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington DC. As an ardent abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old Wilbur left a sad but stable life, headed toward the chaos of the Civil War, and spent most of the next several years in Alexandria devising ways to aid recently escaped slaves and hospitalized Union soldiers. A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time shapes Wilbur's diaries and other primary sources into a historical narrative sending the reader back 150 years to understand a woman who was alternately brave, self-pitying, foresighted, petty--and all too human. Paula Tarnapol Whitacre describes Wilbur's experiences against the backd...
Dollar Diplomacy
This title was first published in 2000: United States economic assistance programs in Latin America have been frequently restructured during the course of the past four decades. This book examines the evolution of US aid to the region, describes and explains US aid to the region since 1960. Focus is placed on four successive initiatives, the Alliance of Progress for the 1960s, the New Directions Mandate of the 1970s, the Private Enterprise Initiative of the 1980s and the Democracy Initiative of the 1990s. Empirical examples of actual programs, drawn from primary source documents, are used to illustrate more general propositions. The primary objectives of this study are to describe and explain US assistance policy toward Latin America during the past four decades and account for changes in the aid regime over time. Such assistance is typically linked to either the developmental needs of recipient countries, or the economic interests of transnational corporations.
Decorum
For fans of HBO's The Gilded Age, explore the dazzling world of America's 19th century elite in this lush, page-turning saga... Kaaren Christopherson's brilliantly observed novel captures the glamour and grit of one of the world's most dazzling cities during one of its most tumultuous eras—as seen through the eyes of a singularly captivating heroine. . . In 1890s New York, beautiful, wealthy Francesca Lund is an intriguing prospect for worthy suitors and fortune hunters alike. Recently orphaned, she copes by working with the poor in the city's settlement movement. But a young woman of means can't shun society for long, and Francesca's long-standing acquaintance with dashing Edmund Tracey e...
The Johnson, Berg, Westheim, and Christopherson Families
Ancestral and related families of Gena Elmona Berg. She was born in 1887 at Willmar, Minnesota, the daughter of Peter J. and Carrie Christopherson Berg. She married Charles J. Berry in 1918 at Minneapolis. Their lived first at Carlisle, Indiana, where their son, Richard Jerome Berry, was born in 1920. They moved to Minneapolis in 1921. Her father, Peter Johnson Berg, was born in 1860 at Noklebert, East Thoten, Norway, the son of John Johnson [or Johannes Johanneson] (1820-1896) and Goro Laradaughter (1821-ca. 1879). He immigrated to the United States in 1883 and settled at Willmar, Minnesota. He married Carrie (Karen) Chistopherson in 1886. They had six children, 1887-1898. Carrie Christopherson was born at Ringebo, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, in 1862, the daughter of Amund Christopherson (1838-1923) and Ingeborg Knudson (1838-1914). Her family immigrated to Minnesota in 1864.
A Genealogy of the Meisser Family (Meiser, Miser, Mizar, Mizer, Myser, Myzer)
Johann George Meiser, son of Johann Michael Meiser, was born in about 1724 in Millbach, Pennsylvania. He married Anna Feak in about 1747. They had six children. Johann died in about 1793. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Iowa, Michigan and Kansas.
