Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park to Boston's Emerald Necklace to Stanford University's campus, Olmsted was also an influential journalist, early voice for the environment, and abolitionist credited with helping dissuade England from joining the South in the Civil War. This momentous career was shadowed by a tragic personal life, also fully portrayed here.
Most of all, he was a social reformer. He didn't simply create places that were beautiful in the abstract. An awesome and timeless intent stands behind Olmsted's designs, allowing his work to survive to the present day. With our urgent need to revitalize cities and a widespread yearning for green space, his work is more relevant now than it was during his lifetime. Justin Martin restores Olmsted to his rightful place in the pantheon of great Americans.

Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Biographies & Memoirs

Martin, Justin

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

The full and definitive biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, influential abolitionist, ardent social reformer and conservationist, and the visionary designer of Central Park Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park to Boston's Emerald Necklace to Stanford University's campus, Olmsted was also an influential journalist, early voice for the environment, and abolitionist credited with helping dissuade England from joining the South in the Civil War. This momentous career was shadowed by a tragic personal life, also fully portrayed here.Most of all, he was a social reformer. He didn't simply create places that were beautiful in the abstract. An awesome and timeless intent stands behind Olmsted's designs, allowing his work to survive to the present day. With our urgent need to revitalize cities and a widespread yearning for green space, his work is more relevant now than it was during his lifetime. Justin Martin restores Olmsted to his rightful place in the pantheon of great Americans.

Humor & Entertainment

In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever written about the colorful group of artists- regulars at Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan-rightly considered America's original Bohemians. Besides a young Whitman, the circle included actor Edwin Booth; trailblazing stand-up comic Artemus Ward; psychedelic drug pioneer and author Fitz Hugh Ludlow; and brazen performer Adah Menken, famous for her Naked Lady routine. Central to their times, the artists managed to forge connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, and even Abraham Lincoln. This vibrant tale, packed with original research, offers the pleasures of a great group biography like The Banquet Years or The Metaphysical Club. Justin Martin shows how this first bohemian culture-imported from Paris to a dingy Broadway saloon-seeded and nurtured an American tradition of rebel art that thrives to this day.

Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

On September 17, 1862, the "United States" was on the brink, facing a permanent split into two separate nations. America's very future hung on the outcome of a single battle--and the result reverberates to this day. Given the deep divisions that still rive the nation, given what unites the country, too, Antietam is more relevant now than ever. The epic battle, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was a Civil War turning point. The South had just launched its first invasion of the North; victory for Robert E. Lee would almost certainly have ended the war on Confederate terms. If the Union prevailed, Lincoln stood ready to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. He knew that freeing the slaves would lend renewed energy and lofty purpose to the North's war effort. Lincoln needed a victory to save the divided country, but victory would come at a price. Detailed here is the cannon din and desperation, the horrors and heroes of this monumental battle, one that killed 3,650 soldiers, still the highest single-day toll in American history. Justin Martin, an acclaimed writer of narrative nonfiction, renders this landmark event in a revealing new way. More than in previous accounts, Lincoln is laced deeply into the story. Antietam represents Lincoln at his finest, as the grief-racked president--struggling with the recent death of his son, Willie--summoned the guile necessary to manage his reluctant general, George McClellan. The Emancipation Proclamation would be the greatest gambit of the nation's most inspired leader. And, in fact, the battle's impact extended far beyond the field; brilliant and lasting innovations in medicine, photography, and communications were given crucial real-world tests. No mere gunfight, Antietam rippled through politics and society, transforming history. A Fierce Glory is a fresh and vibrant account of an event that had enduring consequences that still resonate today.

A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

History

Americas

Grammar Tales. Scjp;astoc. Illustrated by Matt Phillips. 16 pages.

Grammar Tales: The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization Machine

Education & Teaching

MARTIN, JUSTIN MCCORY

Schools & Teaching

scholastic

Who swiped Mr. McGillicutty's prized poka-dot socks? Ace reporter Steve Scoop uses the tools of his trade-his trusty notebook and quotation marks-to solve this hilarious whodunit. This is a super-funny story designed to help kids grasp the essential rules of quotation marks.

Grammar Tales: The Mystery of the Missing Socks

Part of the Grammar Tales Series, Proofreading.

Grammar Tales: Francine Fribble, Proofreading Policewoman

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

Engaging 16-page books on must-know, inspiring Americans. Features lively text, captions, realistic illustrations, glossaries, diagrams, and more. Correlate with Guided Reading Levels I and J. For use with Grades K–2.

Easy Reader Biographies: Alexander Graham Bell: A Famous Inventor

Children's Books

Biographies

Help build the oral fluency of even the most reluctant readers with high-interest plays that provide the repeated practice students need to read with speed, automaticity, and expression. This collection of funny plays is designed to help keep kids interested and focused. And with parts at different reading levels, every student in the class can have a chance to participate. Includes background and suggestions for building fluency and comprehension. For use with Grades 4Ð6.

Funny Read-Aloud Plays With Leveled Parts: 12 Reproducible, High-Interest Plays That Help Students at Different Reading Levels Build Fluency

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Scholastic Teaching Resources

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Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

Grammar Tales: The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization Machine

Grammar Tales: The Mystery of the Missing Socks

Grammar Tales: Francine Fribble, Proofreading Policewoman

Easy Reader Biographies: Alexander Graham Bell: A Famous Inventor

Funny Read-Aloud Plays With Leveled Parts: 12 Reproducible, High-Interest Plays That Help Students at Different Reading Levels Build Fluency