Author: John Duncan HaskellPublisher: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Massachusetts, a Bibliography of Its History
Author: John Duncan HaskellPublisher: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Primitive Organization of the Congregational Church and Society
Author: Congregational Church (Franklin, Conn.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
An Account of the Observance of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Organization of the Congregational Church, Wilton, Conn., June 22, 1876, Including a Historical Address
Author: Samuel G. WillardPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385486726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Firsting and Lasting
Author: Jean M. ObrienPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452915253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in mournful tones, that New England’s original inhabitants, the Indians, had become extinct, even though many Indians still lived in the very towns being chronicled. InFirsting and Lasting, Jean M. O’Brien argues that local histories became a primary means by which European Americans asserted their own modernity while denying it to Indian peoples. Erasing and then memorializing Indian peoples also served a more pragmatic colonial goal: refuting Indian claims to land and rights. Drawing on more than six hundred local histories from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island written between 1820 and 1880, as well as censuses, monuments, and accounts of historical pageants and commemorations, O’Brien explores how these narratives inculcated the myth of Indian extinction, a myth that has stubbornly remained in the American consciousness. In order to convince themselves that the Indians had vanished despite their continued presence, O’Brien finds that local historians and their readers embraced notions of racial purity rooted in the century’s scientific racism and saw living Indians as “mixed” and therefore no longer truly Indian. Adaptation to modern life on the part of Indian peoples was used as further evidence of their demise. Indians did not—and have not—accepted this effacement, and O’Brien details how Indians have resisted their erasure through narratives of their own. These debates and the rich and surprising history uncovered in O’Brien’s work continue to have a profound influence on discourses about race and indigenous rights.
The New England Bibliopolist, Or Notices of Books on American History, Biography, Genealogy, Etc
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Historical Sketch of the First Congregational Church of Brookfield, Connecticut and the Town of Brookfield
Author: Emily Carrie HawleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brookfield (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Christian Union
Author: Historical and Archaeological Tracts
Author: Western Reserve Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description