Women in Long Island's Past

Women in Long Island's Past
Author: Natalie A. Naylor
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1614237352

Women have been part of Long Island's past for thousands of years but are nearly invisible in the records and history books. From pioneering doctors to dazzling aviatrixes, author Natalie A. Naylor brings these larger-than-life but little-known heroines out of the lost pages of island history. Anna Symmes Harrison, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Edith Kermit Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt all served as first lady of the United States, and all had Long Island roots. Beloved children's author Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden here, and hundreds of local suffragists fought for their right to vote in the early twentieth century. Discover these and other stories of the remarkable women of Long Island.

Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada

Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada
Author: American Association for State and Local History
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 1366
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780759100022

This multi-functional reference is a useful tool to find information about history-related organizations and programs and to contact those working in history across the country.

John Ogden, the Pilgrim (1609-1682)

John Ogden, the Pilgrim (1609-1682)
Author: Jack Harpster
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780838641040

John Ogden emigrated from England to the New World in 1641.

Early New England

Early New England
Author: David A. Weir
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802813527

The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.