Author: Emily Hoffman Gilman "Mrs. Charles P. Noyes NoyesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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A Family History in Letters and Documents, 1667-1837
Author: Emily Hoffman Gilman "Mrs. Charles P. Noyes NoyesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Writings on American History
Author: The Land Before Her
Author: Annette KolodnyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469619555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated. Both intellectual and cultural history, this volume continues Kolodny's study of frontier mythology begun in The Lay of the Land.
Western Reserve Historical Society Publication
Author: The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
Good Wives
Author: Laurel Thatcher UlrichPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679732578
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising--and, all too often, mourning--her children, and even attaining fame as a heroine of frontier conflicts or notoriety as a murderess. Painstakingly researched, lively with scandal and homely detail, Good Wives is history at its best.
Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association
Author: Mississippi Valley Historical AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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A Noble and Independent Course
Author: Forrester A. LeePublisher: Dartmouth College Press
ISBN: 151260285X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In 1828 Edward Mitchell was the first student of African descent to graduate from Dartmouth College, more than thirty-five years before any other Ivy League school admitted a black student. This book tells Mitchell's life story with the help of a recently rediscovered trove of his college essays, notes on his religious conversion, and hand-copied versions of his sermons. Born and raised in the French slave colony of Martinique, Mitchell immigrated to the United States and came of age in Philadelphia, where he broke bread with the city's African American clerics and civic leaders. The Dartmouth trustees initially denied Mitchell admission but yielded to unified student protest. After his graduation, Mitchell continued his northward journey to serve as a Baptist preacher and evangelist in the pulpits of northern New England. His religious odyssey concluded in Lower Canada, where he was remembered as "the most profound theologian ever settled." During his travels throughout the Atlantic world in an age of revolution and religious revival, Mitchell encountered the dominant social, economic, and political realities of his time. Although long celebrated as the inspiration for Dartmouth's legacy of educating men and women of African ancestry, Mitchell's life story remained unknown for almost two centuries. This book, which embodies history as recovery, is a testament to the authors' desire to know the man behind the story.
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