Familiar Letters of Ann Willson
Author | : Ann Willson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : American letters |
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Author | : Ann Willson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : American letters |
ISBN | : |
Author | : C. Dallett Hemphill |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0190215895 |
Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of sibling relations in America. Illuminating the evolution of the modern family system, Siblings shows how brothers and sisters have helped each other in the face of the dramatic political, economic, and cultural changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As Hemphill demonstrates, siblings function across all races as humanity's shock-absorbers as well as valued kin and keepers of memory.
Author | : Rachel E. Walker |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2022-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226822567 |
Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.
Author | : John Corrigan |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2015-05-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 022623763X |
For many Christians in America, becoming filled with Christ first requires being empty of themselves—a quality often overlooked in religious histories. In Emptiness, John Corrigan highlights for the first time the various ways that American Christianity has systematically promoted the cultivation of this feeling. Corrigan examines different kinds of emptiness essential to American Christianity, such as the emptiness of deep longing, the emptying of the body through fasting or weeping, the emptiness of the wilderness, and the emptiness of historical time itself. He argues, furthermore, that emptiness is closely connected to the ways Christian groups differentiate themselves: many groups foster a sense of belonging not through affirmation, but rather avowal of what they and their doctrines are not. Through emptiness, American Christians are able to assert their identities as members of a religious community. Drawing much-needed attention to a crucial aspect of American Christianity, Emptiness expands our understanding of historical and contemporary Christian practices.
Author | : Warner Mifflin |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2021-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1644531860 |
In The Writings of Warner Mifflin: Forgotten Quaker Abolitionist of the Revolutionary Era Gary B. Nash and Michael R. McDowell present the correspondence, petitions and memorials to state and federal legislative bodies, semi-autobiographical essays, and other materials of the key figure in the U.S. abolitionist movement between the end of the American Revolution and the Jefferson presidency. Virtually unknown to Americans—schoolbooks ignore him, academic historians barely nod at him; the public knows him not at all--Mifflin has been brought to life in Gary B. Nash’s recent biography, Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (2017). This volume provides an array of insights into the mind of a conscience-bound pacifist Quaker who became instrumental in making Kent County, Delaware a bastion of free blacks liberated from slavery and a seedbed of a reparationist doctrine that insisted that enslavers owed “restitution” to manumitted Africans and their descendants. Mifflin's writings also show how he became the most skilled lobbyist of the antislavery campaigners who haunted the legislative chambers of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania as well as the halls of the Continental Congress and the First and Second Federal Congresses. An opening introduction and introductions to each of the five chronologically arranged parts of the book provide context for the documents and a narrative of the life of this remarkable American.
Author | : Joyce D. Goodfriend |
Publisher | : Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Gwenn Davis |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pennsylvania State Library and Museum (Harrisburg) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1895 |
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