John Codman: 10 books

Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations. John Codman Ropes was not only a lawyer of the first order, but also a military history of great note. Intimately involved in supporting troops from his native Massachusetts in the American...

John Codman Ropes was not only a lawyer of the first order, but also a military history of great note. Intimately involved in supporting troops from his native Massachusetts in the American Civil War (he could not serve directly himself due to a childhood illness), he later diligently collected information...

John Codman Ropes (18361899) was an American military historian and lawyer and was the co-founder of law firm Ropes & Gray. After the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Ropes turned his attention principally to military history. He ceaselessly assisted with business and personal help and friendship the...

This book, written by the American military historian John Codman, provides a detailed look Benedict Arnold's famous expedition to Quebec during the early parts of the Revolutionary War. A table of contents is included.

Transcendentalist-inspired Brook Farm was an 1840s agrarian, socialist, and utopian community in Massachusetts. Among its residents was Nathaniel Hawthorne, who fictionalized the society in The Blithedale Romance (1852). John Codman joined in 1843 at the age of twenty-seven. In this 1894 memoir he remembers Brook Farm as a place of hope, with undercurrents of religious strife.

One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the...

STUDENTS' AND INQUIRERS' LETTERS Student Life—Explanations and Answers to Objections—Letter on Social Equality—Religious Views. INTRODUCTION. There were two distinct phases in the Associated life at Brook Farm. The first was inaugurated by the pioneers, who introduced a school, and combined...

The following pages form an abridged translation of a book published in 1916 by Freiherrn von Forstner, commander of the first German U-boat. It was written with the somewhat careless haste of a man who took advantage of disconnected moments of leisure, and these moments were evidently subject to abrupt...

According to Wikipedia: "Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s. It was founded by former Unitarian minister George Ripley...