Author: Samuel CheckleyPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Diary of the Rev. Samuel Checkley, 1735
Author: Samuel CheckleyPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Author: Colonial Society of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Primarily consists of: Transactions, v. 1, 3, 5-8, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, 32, 34-35, 38, 42-43; and: Collections, v. 2, 4, 9, 15-16, 22-23, 29-31, 33, 36-37, 39-41; also includes lists of members.
Writings on American History
Author: Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Author: Colonial Society of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Transactions
Author: Colonial Society of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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We Are What We Remember
Author: Laura Mattoon D’AmorePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144384585X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that commemoration captures history, but actually commemoration creates new narratives about history that allow people to interact with the past in a way that they find meaningful. As our social values change (race, gender, religion, sexuality, class), our commemorations do, too. We Are What We Remember: The American Past Through Commemoration, analyzes current trends in the study of historical memory that are particularly relevant to our own present – our biases, our politics, our contextual moment – and strive to name forgotten, overlooked, and denied pasts in traditional histories. Race, gender, and sexuality, for example, raise questions about our most treasured myths: where were the slaves at Jamestowne? How do women or lesbians protect and preserve their own histories, when no one else wants to write them? Our current social climate allows us to question authority, and especially the authoritative definitions of nation, patriotism, and heroism, and belonging. How do we “un-commemorate” things that were “mis-commemorated” in the past? How do we repair the damage done by past commemorations? The chapters in this book, contributed by eighteen emerging and established scholars, examine these modern questions that entirely reimagine the landscape of commemoration as it has been practiced, and studied, before.
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1
Author: J. A. Leo LemayPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812238540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Representing a lifetime of research by the dean of Franklin scholars, this seven-volume biography will give enthusiasts and scholars an important resource for understanding Benjamin Franklin's character and place in American history. This first volume chronicles the early years of Franklin, from his birth to his marriage in 1730.
In a Rebellious Spirit
Author: John P. ReidPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271072938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
A fresh view of the legal arguments leading to the American Revolution, this book argues that rebellious acts called "lawless" mob action by British authorities were sanctioned by "whig law" in the eyes of the colonists. Professor Reid also holds that leading historians have been misled by taking both sides' forensic statements at face value. The focus is on three events. First was the Malcom Affair (1766), when a Boston merchant and his friends faced down a sheriff's party seeking smuggled goods, arguing that the search warrant was invalid. Second was a parade in Boston to celebrate the second anniversary (1768) of the repeal of the Stamp Act—an occasion when some revenue officials were hanged in effigy. Third was the Liberty "riot" (1768), when customs officers boarded John Hancock's ship and were carried off by a crowd including the aforementioned Malcom. Legal inquires into the three events were marked by hyperbole on both sides. Whigs depicted Crown officials as lawless trespassers serving a foreign tyrant. Tories painted the Sons of Liberty as lawless mobs of almost savage ferocity. Both sides, as the author shows, had extralegal motives: whigs to enlist supporters in the other colonies for the cause of independence; tories to bring British troops and warships to Massachusetts in support of the status quo. Both succeeded in their polemical aims, and both have gulled most historians.
A Forgotten Prime Meridian
Author: Horace Everett WarePublisher:
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Category : Geomagnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This report and its supplement contain scholarly studies of the early works on the prime meridian.
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