Author: James Lot RidgeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Oration Delivered in Faneuil Hall, Before the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Their Celebration in Boston ... the 19th of June, 1845
Author: James Lot RidgelyOration Delivered in Faneuil Hall Before the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Their Celebration in Boston, on the 19th of June, 1845
Author: James Lot RidgeleyOration Delivered in Faneuil Hall, Before the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
Author: James Lot RidgelyAn Oration, Delivered at the Public Anniversary Celebration of the Independent Order of 'Odd Fellows, '
Author: J. D. YatesOration Delivered in Faneuil Hall, April 14, 1874, Under the Auspices of the Colored Citizens of Boston
Author: Robert Brown ElliotORATION, THE AMERICAN MIND
Author: CHARLES W. LYONSPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033555156
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a City on a Hill
Author: Daniel T. RodgersPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop's long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea. In doing so, he brings to life the ideas Winthrop's text carried in its own time and the sharply different yearnings that have been attributed to it since. As a City on a Hill shows how much more malleable, more saturated with vulnerability, and less distinctly American Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was than the document that twentieth-century Americans invented. Across almost four centuries, Rodgers traces striking shifts in the meaning of Winthrop's words--from Winthrop's own anxious reckoning with the scrutiny of the world, through Abraham Lincoln's haunting reference to this "almost chosen people," to the "city on a hill" that African Americans hoped to construct in Liberia, to the era of Donald Trump. As a City on a Hill reveals the circuitous, unexpected ways Winthrop's words came to lodge in American consciousness. At the same time, the book offers a probing reflection on how nationalism encourages the invention of "timeless" texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description