Author: Mary Anne GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Nathaniel T. Allen
Author: Mary Anne GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Nathaniel T. Allen
Author: Mary A. GreenePublisher:
ISBN: 9781331156666
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Excerpt from Nathaniel T. Allen: Teacher, Reformer, Philanthropist This is the life-story of a man who, with singleness and steadfastness of purpose, believing that the uplifting of humanity is the noblest aim in life, and that the development of character by the training of the young is the surest means to that end, devoted himself to the cause of education. He has left, as his monument, the ever-widening influence of thousands of men and women, from forty different countries, whom, when pupils in his school, he inspired with a desire to serve their day and generation as he served his, in truth and righteousness. His heart was ever hot within him against all forms of injustice, oppression, and cruelty, so that he needs must throw himself, with voice and pen and decisive action, into the thick of the fight, reckless of the cost to himself, battling for Justice and Right. He firmly believed, with his whole soul, that "Right is Right, since God is God, And Right the day must win; To doubt would be dishonesty, To falter would be sin." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author: Mary Anne GreenePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018320502
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Journal of Education
Author: The Transcendentalists and Their World
Author: Robert A. GrossPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2021 One of Air Mail's 10 best books of 2021 Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize In the year of the nation’s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this highly anticipated work, Gross returns to Concord and explores the meaning of an equally crucial moment in the American story: the rise of Transcendentalism. The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his classic Walden. But Concord from the 1820s through the 1840s was no pastoral place fit for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived through a transformative epoch of American life. A place of two thousand–plus souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, whose small, ordered society founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen was dramatically unsettled through the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy and tightly integrated into the wider world. These changes challenged a world of inherited institutions and involuntary associations with a new premium on autonomy and choice. They exposed people to cosmopolitan currents of thought and endowed them with unparalleled opportunities. They fostered uncertainties, raised new hopes, stirred dreams of perfection, and created an audience for new ideas of individual freedom and democratic equality deeply resonant today. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a community and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the depths of the universe for spiritual truths and surveyed the rapidly changing contours of their own neighborhoods. It shows us familiar figures in American literature alongside their neighbors at every level of the social order, and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community of the nineteenth century has been recovered so richly and with so acute an awareness of its place in the larger American story.
Legendary Locals of Newton
Author: Gail SpectorPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146710146X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Newton has more than enough legendary locals to fill volumes of books. Endless are the stories about men, women, and young people who dedicated, or still dedicate, countless hours of their lives in order to make Newton and the world a better place. Newton has been a launching ground for award-winning authors, Nobel Prize winners, Olympic medalists, and Hollywood stars. Some of Boston's best athletes have chosen to make "the Garden City" their home. In the pages of this book, readers will learn about Newton's first mayor, James Hyde, who never lost an election in more than 50 times on the ballot; Rev. Edmond Kelley, the first pastor at Myrtle Baptist Church and a former slave; Leonard Zakim, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League who dedicated his life to fighting prejudice and civil rights violations; Louise Bruyn, who walked from Newton to Washington, DC, to protest the Vietnam War; Shirley Lewis, known as the "regal queen of the blues"; and Ted Williams, regarded as baseball's greatest hitter, who lived in Newton Upper Falls.
Angel on a Freight Train
Author: Peter C. BaldwinPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438479964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Angel on a Freight Train examines the experiences of Samuel Edward Warren (1831–1909), a teacher and college professor in Troy, New York, who struggled to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life. Unlike twenty-first-century evangelicals who try to "pray the gay away," Warren discerned no fundamental conflict between his faith and his attraction to younger males. Growing up in the antebellum Northeast, in a culture that permitted and even celebrated emotional bonds between men, he strove to build emotionally intense relationships in many overlapping forms—friendship, pedagogy, evangelism, and romance—which allowed him to enjoy intimacy with little effort at concealment. However, as he passed into mature manhood and built a prestigious career, Warren began to feel that he should have grown out of romantic friendships, which he now feared had become emotionally and physically excessive. Based on Warren's deeply introspective and previously unexplored diaries, Angel on a Freight Train traces his youthful freedom and sensuality, his attempt to join with younger men in a spirit of loving mentorship, and, finally, the tortured introspection of a man whose age seemed to shut him out from an idyllic lost world. In the end, Warren came to believe rather sorrowfully in a radical division between his angelic, ideal self and what he called "the freight train of animal life below."
Writings on American History
Author: A Handbook of American Private Schools
Author: Newton Free Library Bulletin
Author: Newton Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description