Author: Francis BassettPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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An Oration, Delivered on Monday, the Fifth of July, 1824
Author: Francis BassettPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
An Oration delivered on Monday, the fifth of July, 1834, in commemoration of American independence, etc
Author: Francis BASSETTAn Oration Delivered at Quincy, on the Fifth of July, 1824
Author: George Washington AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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An Oration, Delivered July 5, 1824. ...
Author: John EverettPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Index to the City Documents, 1834-1891
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Republic of Righteousness
Author: Jonathan D SassiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284676
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book examines the debate over the connection between religion and public life in society during the fifty years following the American Revolution. Sassi challenges the conventional wisdom, finding an essential continuity to the period's public Christianity, whereas most previous studies have seen this period as one in which the nation's cultural paradigm shifted from republicanism to liberal individualism. Focusing on the Congregational clergy of New England, he demonstrates that throughout this period there were Americans concerned with their corporate destiny, retaining a commitment to constructing a righteous community and assessing the cosmic meaning of the American experiment.
City Documents
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form
Author: Margaret K. ReidPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209475
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America examines the interplay between the familiar and the forgotten in tales of America's first century as a nation. By studying both the common concerns and the rising tensions between the known and the unknown, the told and the untold, this book offers readers new insight into the making of a nation through stories. Here, identity is built not so much through the winnowing competition of perspectives as through the cumulative layering of stories, derived from sources as diverse as rumors circulating in early patriot newspapers and the highest achievements of aesthetic culture. And yet this is not a source study: the interaction of texts is reciprocal, and the texts studied are not simply complementary but often jarring in their interrelations. The result is a new model of just how some of America's central episodes of self-definition -- the Puritan legacy, the Revolutionary War, and the Western frontier -- have achieved near mythic force in the national imagination. The most powerful myths of national identity, this author argues, are not those that erase historical facts but those able to transform such facts into their own deep resources. Book jacket.
Index to the City Documents, 1834 to 1909
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
From Revivals to Removal
Author: John A. Andrew, IIIPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033121X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Between the end of the Revolutionary War in 1781 and Andrew Jackson's retirement from the presidency in 1837, a generation of Americans acted out a great debate over the nature of the national character and the future political, economic, and religious course of the country. Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831) and many others saw the debate as a battle over the soul of America. Alarmed and disturbed by the brashness of Jacksonian democracy, they feared that the still-young ideal of a stable, cohesive, deeply principled republic was under attack by the forces of individualism, liberal capitalism, expansionism, and a zealous blend of virtue and religiosity. A missionary, reformer, and activist, Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831) was a central figure of neo-Calvinism in the early American republic. An intellectual and spiritual heir to the founding fathers and a forebear of American Victorianism, Evarts is best remembered today as the stalwart opponent of Andrew Jackson's Indian policies--specifically the removal of Cherokees from the Southeast. John A. Andrew's study of Evarts is the most comprehensive ever written. Based predominantly on readings of Evart's personal and family papers, religious periodicals, records of missionary and benevolent organizations, and government documents related to Indian affairs, it is also a portrait of the society that shaped-and was shaped by-Evart's beliefs and principles. Evarts failed to tame the powerful forces of change at work in the early republic, Evarts did manage to shape broad responses to many of them. Perhaps the truest measure of his influence is that his dream of a government based on Christian principles became a rallying cry for another generation and another cause: abolitionism.