An Oration, Delivered at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the Fourth July, 1804
Author : John Wentworth
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 1804
Category : Fourth of July orations
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Author : John Wentworth
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 1804
Category : Fourth of July orations
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Author : William Claggett
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 1842
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Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807838551
In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local politics to national identity. Waldstreicher reveals how Americans worked out their political differences in creating a festive calendar. Using the Fourth of July as a model, members of different political parties and social movements invented new holidays celebrating such events as the ratification of the Constitution, Washington's birthday, Jefferson's inauguration, and the end of the slave trade. They used these politicized rituals, he argues, to build constituencies and to make political arguments on a national scale. While these celebrations enabled nonvoters to participate intimately in the political process and helped dissenters forge effective means of protest, they had their limits as vehicles of democratization or modes of citizenship, Waldstreicher says. Exploring the interplay of region, race, class, and gender in the development of a national identity, he demonstrates that an acknowledgment of the diversity and conflict inherent in the process is crucial to any understanding of American politics and culture.
Author : Nicholas Guyatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521867887
Nicholas Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American history: how did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations? Tracing the story of American providentialism, this book uncovers the British roots of American religious nationalism before the American Revolution and the extraordinary struggles of white Americans to reconcile their ideas of national mission with the racial diversity of the early republic. Making sense of previously diffuse debates on manifest destiny, millenarianism, and American mission, Providence and the Invention of the United States explains the origins and development of the idea that God has a special plan for America. This conviction supplied the United States with a powerful sense of national purpose, but it also prevented Americans from clearly understanding events and people that could not easily be fitted into the providential scheme.
Author : New Hampshire State Library
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1904
Category : American literature
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Author : George Washington Prescott
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1808*
Category : Fourth of July orations
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Author : W.J. Rorabaugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 1988-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0195363981
The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution. Benjamin Franklin got his start in life as an apprentice, as did Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, William Dean Howells, William Lloyd Garrison, and many other famous Americans. But the Industrial Revolution brought with it radical changes in the lives of craft apprentices. In this book, W. J. Rorabaugh has woven an intriguing collection of case histories, gleaned from numerous letters, diaries, and memoirs, into a narrative that examines the varied experiences of individual apprentices and documents the massive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution.
Author : Josiah Goddard
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 1804
Category : Fourth of July orations
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Author : Harvard University. Library
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Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 1967
Category : United States
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Author : Joseph Clark
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 1794
Category : Fourth of July orations
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