Author: Jonathan TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The Trumbull Papers
Author: Jonathan TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society;
Author: Massachusetts Historical SocietyPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780530983073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Louis Leonard TuckerPublisher: Massachusetts Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
When Jeremy Belknap and seven associates met in Boston on January 24, 1791, to establish the Massachusetts Historical Society, there was nothing like it anywhere in North America. Belknap, concerned that accident and carelessness were jeopardizing America's documentary heritage, proposed an organization to provide a secure repository for rare manuscripts and printed works and a publication program to "multiply the copies" of these valuable items. The Society that eight Boston gentlemen created that evening was the first institution anywhere for "the collection and preservation of materials for a political and natural history of the United States". The Massachusetts Historical Society: A Bicentennial History, 1791-1991, is a candid and detailed account of this remarkable institution's first two centuries. Despite its location and its name, the Society has never been a provincial institution, dedicated to chronicling the story of a single city or state. Through its incomparable library and publications, as well as through the writings of such illustrious members as Belknap, Francis Parkman, William Hickling Prescott, Samuel Eliot Morison, and scores of modern scholars, the Society has been - and continues to be - a profound influence on the study of a nation's history.
The Heath Papers
Author: William HeathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Numismatics of Massachusetts
Author: Malcolm StorerPublisher: [Cambridge, Mass.] : Massachusetts Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"Primarily it is a catalogue of the pieces in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society...."--Pref.
COLLECTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Author: Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution
Author: Gardner Weld AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
"A privateer, strickly speaking, was a private armed vessel carrying no cargo and devoted exclusively to warlike use."--Intro., p. 14.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: COLLECTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Author: City on a Hill
Author: Abram C. Van EngenPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A fresh, original history of America’s national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase “City on a Hill,” from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop’s speech, its changing status throughout time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon. This sermon’s rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how those tales continue to influence competing visions of the country—the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.