Author: Ezra StilesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Letters & Papers of Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College, 1778-1795
Author: Ezra StilesPast and Prologue
Author: Michael D. HattemPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300256051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain In Past and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists’ changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Americans stopped thinking of the British past as their own history and created a new historical tradition that would form the foundation for what subsequent generations would think of as “American history.” This change was a crucial part of the cultural transformation at the heart of the Revolution by which colonists went from thinking of themselves as British subjects to thinking of themselves as American citizens. Rather than liberating Americans from the past—as many historians have argued—the Revolution actually made the past matter more than ever. Past and Prologue shows how the process of reinterpreting the past played a critical role in the founding of the nation.
American Religious Leaders
Author: Timothy L. HallPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108060
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Profiles the lives and achievements of more than 270 spiritual leaders, arranged alphabetically, who made major contributions to the history of American religious life.
Native Apostles
Author: Edward E. AndrewsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674073479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic, most evangelists were not Anglo-Americans but were members of the groups that missionaries were trying to convert. Native Apostles reveals the way Native Americans, Africans, and black slaves redefined Christianity and addressed the challenges of slavery, dispossession, and European settlement.
From Its European Antecedents to 1791
Author: Parker C. ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Chaplains, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Place of Stone
Author: Douglas HunterPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469634414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock's markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people alike on both sides of the Atlantic. The glyphs have been erroneously assigned to an array of non-Indigenous cultures: Norsemen, Egyptians, Lost Tribes of Israel, vanished Portuguese explorers, and even a prince from Atlantis. In this fascinating story rich in personalities and memorable characters, Douglas Hunter uses Dighton Rock to reveal the long, complex history of colonization, American archaeology, and the conceptualization of Indigenous people. Hunter argues that misinterpretations of the rock's markings share common motivations and have erased Indigenous people not only from their own history but from the landscape. He shows how Dighton Rock for centuries drove ideas about the original peopling of the Americas, including Bering Strait migration scenarios and the identity of the "Mound Builders." He argues the debates over Dighton Rock have served to answer two questions: Who belongs in America, and to whom does America belong?
The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790
Author: Merrill JensenPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299095109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
On spine: The first Federal elections, 1788-1790.Vols. 2-3: Gordon DenBoer, editor, Lucy Trumbull Brown, associate editor, Charles D. Hagermann, editorial assistant; v. 4: Gordon DenBoer, editor ... [et al.]. Includes bibliographies and indexes.
The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in Its Literature
Author: Henry Martyn DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description