Author: Richard RabinowitzPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555530228
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Spiritual Self in Everyday Life
Author: Richard RabinowitzPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555530228
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Old Sturbridge Village Booklet Series
Author: A Primer of New England Crewel Embroidery
Author: Catherine A. HedlundPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crewelwork
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Hartford's Ann Plato and the Native Borders of Identity
Author: Ron WelburnPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143845578X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Who was Ann Plato? Apart from circumstantial evidence, there's little information about the author of Essays; Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry, published in 1841. Plato lived in a milieu of colored Hartford, Connecticut, in the early nineteenth century. Although long believed to have been African American herself, she may also, Ron Welburn argues, have been American Indian, like the father in her poem "The Natives of America." Combining literary criticism, ethnohistory, and social history, Welburn uses Plato as an example of how Indians in the Long Island Sound region adapted and prevailed despite the contemporary rhetoric of Indian disappearance. This study seeks to raise Plato's profile as an author as well as to highlight the dynamics of Indian resistance and isolation that have contributed to her enigmatic status as a literary figure.
The Battle over America's Origin Story
Author: Brian RegalPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030995380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book examines the legends of who ‘really’ discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses on the actions of a collection of quirky, obsessed amateur investigators who spent their lives trying to prove their various theories by promoting Welsh princes, Vikings, Chinese admirals, Neo-lithic Europeans, African explorers, and others who they say arrived centuries before Columbus. These myths acted as mitigating agencies for those who embraced them. Along with recent scholarship, this book makes extensive use of archival materials—some of which have never been employed before. It covers the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It brings together separate historiographic ideas to create a unified history rather than focusing on one particular legend as most books on the subject do. It shows how questions of who discovered America helped create the field of historical scholarship in this country. This book does not attempt to prove who discovered America, rather it tells the story of those who think they did.
The Village and the Nation
Author: Keith E. MelderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emblems, National
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
East by Sea and West by Rail
Author: Cynthia Neal RantoulPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462037909
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Sailing off to the War of 1812, in a large ship wihis Salem buddies, Neal was destined for a life of adventure and intrigue. Captured a and put in Dartmoor Prison th many of for a year, he sacrificed some fingers when he failed to escape once and he paid the price! After he set out on numerous trips around the world in pursuit of riches in the Spice Trade and eventually became the Captain of his own ship. Later when he felt his ship was no longer profitable on the advice of his friend Senator Abraham Lincoln of Illinois he traveled west and visited short mining train routes before he sunk a small fortune in property down the future path of the Illinois Central Railroad that made him successful well before his time.
Defining Noah Webster
Author: K. Alan SnyderPublisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1591600553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of New England
Author: Peter C. HolloranPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538102196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
New England, the most clearly defined region in the United States, includes the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. First colonized by the French in 1604 and the British in 1607, the New England colonies were the first to secede from the British Empire and were among the first states admitted to the union. No region has claimed more presidents as native sons (seven) or produced more men and women of exceptional accomplishment and fame. Many Americans see New England as a touchstone for the founding ideas of the nation, and the region served as a source of inspiration for many artists and writers. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of New England contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, institutions, and events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about New England.
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