Author: John Hanson Thomas
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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An Oration, Delivered in the Presbyterian Meeting House, on Saturday the Fourth of July, 1807
Author: John Hanson Thomas
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Pages : 28
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An Oration Delivered in the Presbyterian Meeting-house, in the City of Albany, on the Anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1807, at the Request of the Albany Military Association
Author: Elijah Thomas
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Category : Fourth of July
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Fourth of July
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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An Oration Delivered in the Presbytarian Meeting House, on Saturday the Fourth of July, 1807
Author: John Hanson Thomas
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Category : Patriotism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Patriotism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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An Oration, Delivered in the Presbyterian Meeting House in Cincinnati, on the Fourth of July, 1811, Before an Audience of about 1000 Ladies & Gentlemen
Author: John Munroe
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Longing for Connection
Author: Andrew Burstein
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421448319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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Untangling the private feelings, ambitions, and fears of early Americans through their personal writings from the Revolution to the Civil War. Modern readers of history and biography unite around a seemingly straightforward question: What did it feel like to live in the past? In Longing for Connection, historian Andrew Burstein attempts to answer this question with a vigorous, nuanced emotional history of the United States from its founding to the Civil War. Through an examination of the letters, diaries, and other personal texts of the time, along with popular poetry and novels, Burstein shows us how early Americans expressed deep emotions through shared metaphors and borrowed verse in their longing for meaning and connection. He reveals how literate, educated Americans—both well-known and more obscure—expressed their feelings to each other and made attempts at humor, navigating an anxious world in which connection across spaces was difficult to capture. In studying the power of poetry and literature as expressions of inner life, Burstein conveys the tastes of early Americans and illustrates how emotions worked to fashion myths of epic heroes, such as the martyr Nathan Hale, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln. He also studies the public's fears of ocean travel, their racial blind spots, and their remarkable facility for political satire. Burstein questions why we seek a connection to the past and its emotions in the first place. America, he argues, is shaped by a persistent belief that the past is reachable and that its lessons remain intact, which represents a major obstacle in any effort to understand our national history. Burstein shows, finally, that modern readers exhibit a similar capacity for rationalization and that dire longing for connection across time and space as the people he studies.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421448319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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Untangling the private feelings, ambitions, and fears of early Americans through their personal writings from the Revolution to the Civil War. Modern readers of history and biography unite around a seemingly straightforward question: What did it feel like to live in the past? In Longing for Connection, historian Andrew Burstein attempts to answer this question with a vigorous, nuanced emotional history of the United States from its founding to the Civil War. Through an examination of the letters, diaries, and other personal texts of the time, along with popular poetry and novels, Burstein shows us how early Americans expressed deep emotions through shared metaphors and borrowed verse in their longing for meaning and connection. He reveals how literate, educated Americans—both well-known and more obscure—expressed their feelings to each other and made attempts at humor, navigating an anxious world in which connection across spaces was difficult to capture. In studying the power of poetry and literature as expressions of inner life, Burstein conveys the tastes of early Americans and illustrates how emotions worked to fashion myths of epic heroes, such as the martyr Nathan Hale, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln. He also studies the public's fears of ocean travel, their racial blind spots, and their remarkable facility for political satire. Burstein questions why we seek a connection to the past and its emotions in the first place. America, he argues, is shaped by a persistent belief that the past is reachable and that its lessons remain intact, which represents a major obstacle in any effort to understand our national history. Burstein shows, finally, that modern readers exhibit a similar capacity for rationalization and that dire longing for connection across time and space as the people he studies.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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An Oration, Pronounced at the Meeting-house in Bennington, on the Fourth of July, 1807
Author: Israel Putnam Richardson
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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An Oration, Delivered in Roxbury, N.J. on the Fourth of July, 1807
Author: John David Gardiner
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Languages : en
Pages : 29
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Pages : 29
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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An Oration
Author: James Trecothick Austin
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Fourth of July celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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