HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Miller, Marla R.
Subjects
Ross, Betsy, 1752-1836.
Revolutionaries -- United States -- Biography.
Flags -- United States -- History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Miller, Marla R.
by title:
Betsy Ross and the m...
MARC Display
Betsy Ross and the making of America / Marla R. Miller.
by
Miller, Marla R.
New York : Henry Holt, 2010.
Subjects
Ross, Betsy, 1752-1836.
Revolutionaries -- United States -- Biography.
Flags -- United States -- History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
ISBN:
9780805082975
0805082972
Description:
467 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Six hundred miles nearer the sun. -- The light within -- A nursery to the lord -- Pins and needles -- Crafting comfort -- The furnace of affliction. -- Combustible matters -- Domestic rebellions -- Union and disunion -- Mr. and Mrs. Ross -- Meditations in trouble -- True colors. -- Crafting colors -- Signals of independence -- The mariner's bride -- The occupied city -- Privateer to prisoner -- Peace and prosperity. -- Third time's a charm -- Lord and empire -- Brotherly love -- Fever -- The federal edifice -- Endings and beginnings. -- War, redux -- A port in the storm.
Requests:
0
Summary:
A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, her fabled creation of "the first flag," and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
973.3092 Ross Mi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
973.3092 Ross Mi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Mililani Public Library
Adult Biography
B Ross Mi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.