Author: J. David Hoeveler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742548398
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The nine colleges of colonial America confronted the major political currents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while serving as the primary intellectual institutions for Puritanism and the transition to Enlightenment thought. The colleges also confronted the most partisan and divisive cultural movement of the eighteenth century--the Great Awakening. Creating the American Mind is the first book to present a synthetic treatment of the colonial colleges, tracing their role in the intellectual development of early Americans through the Revolution. Distinguished historian J. David Hoeveler focuses on Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, the College of New Jersey (Princeton), King's College (Columbia), the College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania), Queen's College (Rutgers), the College of Rhode Island (Brown), and Dartmouth. Hoeveler pays special attention to the collegiate experience of prominent Americans, including Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison. Written in clear and engaging prose, Creating the American Mind will be of great value to historians and educators interested in rediscovering the institutions that first fostered American intellectual thought.
Creating the American Mind
Author: J. David Hoeveler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742548398
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The nine colleges of colonial America confronted the major political currents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while serving as the primary intellectual institutions for Puritanism and the transition to Enlightenment thought. The colleges also confronted the most partisan and divisive cultural movement of the eighteenth century--the Great Awakening. Creating the American Mind is the first book to present a synthetic treatment of the colonial colleges, tracing their role in the intellectual development of early Americans through the Revolution. Distinguished historian J. David Hoeveler focuses on Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, the College of New Jersey (Princeton), King's College (Columbia), the College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania), Queen's College (Rutgers), the College of Rhode Island (Brown), and Dartmouth. Hoeveler pays special attention to the collegiate experience of prominent Americans, including Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison. Written in clear and engaging prose, Creating the American Mind will be of great value to historians and educators interested in rediscovering the institutions that first fostered American intellectual thought.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742548398
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The nine colleges of colonial America confronted the major political currents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while serving as the primary intellectual institutions for Puritanism and the transition to Enlightenment thought. The colleges also confronted the most partisan and divisive cultural movement of the eighteenth century--the Great Awakening. Creating the American Mind is the first book to present a synthetic treatment of the colonial colleges, tracing their role in the intellectual development of early Americans through the Revolution. Distinguished historian J. David Hoeveler focuses on Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, the College of New Jersey (Princeton), King's College (Columbia), the College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania), Queen's College (Rutgers), the College of Rhode Island (Brown), and Dartmouth. Hoeveler pays special attention to the collegiate experience of prominent Americans, including Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison. Written in clear and engaging prose, Creating the American Mind will be of great value to historians and educators interested in rediscovering the institutions that first fostered American intellectual thought.
Records Relating to the Early History of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). Registry Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A Volume Relating to the Early History of Boston Containing the Aspinwall Notarial Records from 1644 to 1651
Author: Boston (Mass.). Registry Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts
Author: Clyde Augustus Duniway
Publisher: New York, Longmans
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Longmans
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Historical nuggets. Bibliotheca Americana or A descriptive account of my collection of rare books relating to America, H. Stevens (and H.N. Stevens).
Author: Henry Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana Or A Descriptive Account of My Collection of Rare Books Relating to America
Author: Henry Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amèrica
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amèrica
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The Fever of 1721
Author: Stephen Coss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147678311X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher, son of the president of Harvard College; Zabdiel Boylston, a doctor whose name is on one of Boston's grand avenues; James and his younger brother Benjamin Franklin; and Elisha Cooke and his protege; Samuel Adams. During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death--by making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox. "Inoculation" led to vaccination, one of the most profound medical discoveries in history. Public outrage forced Boylston into hiding, and Mather's house was firebombed. A political fever also raged. Elisha Cooke was challenging the Crown for control of the colony and finally forced Royal Governor Samuel Shute to flee Massachusetts. Samuel Adams and the Patriots would build on this to resist the British in the run-up to the American Revolution. And a bold young printer James Franklin (who was on the wrong side of the controversy on inoculation), launched America's first independent newspaper and landed in jail. His teenage brother and apprentice, Benjamin Franklin, however, learned his trade in James's shop and became a father of the Independence movement. One by one, the atmosphere in Boston in 1721 simmered and ultimately boiled over, leading to the full drama of the American Revolution". -4ème de couv.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147678311X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher, son of the president of Harvard College; Zabdiel Boylston, a doctor whose name is on one of Boston's grand avenues; James and his younger brother Benjamin Franklin; and Elisha Cooke and his protege; Samuel Adams. During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death--by making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox. "Inoculation" led to vaccination, one of the most profound medical discoveries in history. Public outrage forced Boylston into hiding, and Mather's house was firebombed. A political fever also raged. Elisha Cooke was challenging the Crown for control of the colony and finally forced Royal Governor Samuel Shute to flee Massachusetts. Samuel Adams and the Patriots would build on this to resist the British in the run-up to the American Revolution. And a bold young printer James Franklin (who was on the wrong side of the controversy on inoculation), launched America's first independent newspaper and landed in jail. His teenage brother and apprentice, Benjamin Franklin, however, learned his trade in James's shop and became a father of the Independence movement. One by one, the atmosphere in Boston in 1721 simmered and ultimately boiled over, leading to the full drama of the American Revolution". -4ème de couv.
Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society
Author: Rhode Island Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
From 1893-1900 the Publications of the Society include its Proceedings, 1892/93-1899/1900.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
From 1893-1900 the Publications of the Society include its Proceedings, 1892/93-1899/1900.
Annals of the American Episcopal Pulpit
Author: William Buell Sprague
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description