Author: Charles W. PeckhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The Peckham Family
Author: Charles W. PeckhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316659
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Writings on American History
Author: Supplement to the Charles Peckham Genealogy with Five New Lines
Author: Ben M. PeckhamThe Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation
Author: Steven HahnPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469621460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history. The essays cover a broad range of topics: the character and consequences of manufacturing and consumerism in the antebellum countryside of the Northeast; the transition from slavery to freedom in Southern plantation and nonplantation regions; the dynamics of community-building and inheritance among Midwestern native and immigrant farmers; the panorama of rural labor systems in the Far West; and the experience of settled farming communities in periods of slowed economic growth. The central theme is the complex and often conflicting development of commercial and industrial capitalism in the American countryside. Together the essays place rural societies within the context of America's "Great Transformation."
John Clarke and His Legacies
Author: Sydney JamesPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271039221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
John Clarke and His Legacies is the first full-length biography of John Clarke (1609&–76), a principal founder of colonial Rhode Island. Although Roger Williams usually gets most of the attention, Sydney James shows that Clarke made a lasting contribution to the colony&—perhaps more so than Williams. Williams was the first Baptist minister in America, but he left his church after a very short time. And although Williams won the first charter for Rhode Island, the charter soon had to be replaced. Clarke, however, founded the first Baptist church in Newport, where he continued to contribute to the Baptist community. And in 1663 he procured the royal charter that would remain the foundation of government in Rhode Island until 1842. This inquiry into Clarke's life engages a variety of intriguing topics. It surveys a formative stage in American Baptist history, one that spurned dependency upon government more thoroughly than any part of the United States does today. Through the experience of Clark, we see pioneering American religious volunteerism, problems of church-state relations, and the peculiar nature of colonial relations with the parent country.
The Charles Peckham Branch
Author: Charles W. PeckhamAnnual Report
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A New Nation of Goods
Author: David JaffeePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812222008
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.
They “... Fought Bravely, but Were Unfortunate:”
Author: Daniel M. PopekPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496908988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Rhode Island’s “Black Regiment” of the American Revolutionary War is fairly well-known to students of American History. Most published histories of the small colored battalion from Rhode Island are clearly biased in favor of the “regiment” and tend to interpret it as an elite military unit. However, a detailed study and analysis of Rhode Island’s segregated Continental Line by the author reveals a “military experiment” that was beset with difficulties from its start and ultimately failed as a segregated unit in 1780. In this work, many of the popular stories of Rhode Island’s “Black Regiment” are proven to be myths. Follow the accurate historical stories of the colored and white soldiers of Rhode Island’s Continental Line whose courage and sacrifices helped create an independent nation.