Oration, pronounced at Worcester, Mass., July 4, 1803
Author : John William CALDWELL
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 1803
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Author : John William CALDWELL
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 1803
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Author : Charles Lemuel Nichols
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Massachusetts
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Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,9 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.
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Books
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Author : Joseph Sabin
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Page : 600 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 1868
Category : America
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 706 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 1891
Category : English literature
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Author : Joseph Sabin
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 1868
Category : America
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Author : Harvard University. Library
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Page : 958 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Classified catalogs
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Author : Rebecca M. Dresser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1000644316
Placed within a comprehensive contextual historical narrative, The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784–1815 offers a compelling portrait of one brilliant but compromised man’s perspective of his changing times. Daniel Waldo Lincoln, the second son of Levi Lincoln, a prominent Massachusetts Democratic-Republican, was destined to become a man of influence. Born in 1784, equipped with wealth, prestige, a Harvard education, powerful friends, and a distinguished family name, Lincoln ranked high among the inheritors of the Revolution whose purpose was to protect the ideals of the nation’s founders. In over 250 private letters, essays, and poems beginning with his first day at Harvard in 1801 and ending just weeks before his death in 1815, Lincoln brings to readers a portrait of privilege as it careened into disappointment. A young man active in Republican circles, an orator and attorney in Worcester, Portland, Maine, and Boston, Lincoln comments on the politics, honor, religion, the War of 1812, and his struggles with romance and alcohol. Written for private eyes, his letters are an unusually candid eyewitness account of early-nineteenth-century Massachusetts interwoven with his personal agonies. This volume is of great use for students and scholars interested in life, society, and politics in nineteenth-century America.
Author : Nicholas Guyatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 22,22 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.