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Carosa, Christopher

 
9781938465185: History Unleashed: Lafayette's Remarkable Tour of the Greater Western New York Region
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ISBN 10 : 1938465180 ISBN 13 : 9781938465185
Editeur : Pandamensional Solutions, Inc., 2024

Synopsis

What would a rock-star farewell tour have looked like in 1825?

2025 Silver Winner, Nonfiction Book Awards

Nearly fifty years after the American Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette returned to the United States as a living connection to George Washington and the nation’s founding. When he entered Greater Western New York in June 1825, communities across a region that had been frontier within living memory erupted to welcome the Nation’s Guest.

Western New Yorkers received the celebrated French general like a modern-day rock star, greeting him with processions, speeches, dinners, cannon salutes, and public celebrations.

In History Unleashed: Lafayette’s Remarkable Tour of the Greater Western New York Region, award-winning historian and journalist Christopher Carosa reconstructs Lafayette’s fast-paced journey along the roads and canals from Westfield to Auburn.

Drawing upon contemporary newspapers, eyewitness reports, local archives, and overlooked historical records, Carosa follows the journey stop by stop. The result is not merely an itinerary but an immersive account of what Lafayette saw, whom he met, and what his reception revealed about a young nation still defining itself.

Discover:

  • How Western New York’s communities prepared for Lafayette’s arrival
  • What contemporary newspapers reported as the tour unfolded
  • The overlooked people and places that shaped his reception
  • How the Erie Canal era and frontier experience influenced the celebrations
  • Where later traditions and legends depart from the surviving evidence

More than the account of one famous traveler, History Unleashed captures Greater Western New York at a turning point and reveals how Lafayette’s visit reconnected a new generation with the ideals and heroes of the American Revolution.

Extensively documented with a bibliography, endnotes, and index.

Step into the crowds and experience Lafayette’s remarkable tour as if you were there.

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Éditeur
Pandamensional Solutions, Inc.
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1938465180
ISBN 13 
9781938465185
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Nombre de pages
272
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