Author: Daniel Webster
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
This collection addresses such topics as Webster's dispute with Andrew Jackson over the removal of government deposits from the Bank of the United States, the Panic of 1837, The Mexican War, the exclusion of slavery from the territories, and the great compromise measures of 1852.
The Papers of Daniel Webster
Author: Daniel Webster
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
This collection addresses such topics as Webster's dispute with Andrew Jackson over the removal of government deposits from the Bank of the United States, the Panic of 1837, The Mexican War, the exclusion of slavery from the territories, and the great compromise measures of 1852.
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
This collection addresses such topics as Webster's dispute with Andrew Jackson over the removal of government deposits from the Bank of the United States, the Panic of 1837, The Mexican War, the exclusion of slavery from the territories, and the great compromise measures of 1852.
The Papers of Daniel Webster: Speeches and formal writings: v. 1. 1800-1833. v. 2. 1834-1852
Author: Daniel Webster
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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Microfilm Edition of the Papers of Daniel Webster
Author: Daniel Webster
Publisher:
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Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reel 1. Alphabetical card catalog entries.--reel 2-28. Correspondence.--reel 29. Business papers.--reel 30-37. Congressional documents.--reel 38-41. State Dept. records.
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Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Reel 1. Alphabetical card catalog entries.--reel 2-28. Correspondence.--reel 29. Business papers.--reel 30-37. Congressional documents.--reel 38-41. State Dept. records.
The Papers of Daniel Webster: 1798-1824. v. 2. 1825-1829. v. 3. 1830-1834. v. 4. 1835-1839. v. 5. 1840-1843. v. 6. 1844-1849. v. 7. 1850-1852
Author: Daniel Webster
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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To Set this World Right
Author: Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801441578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the first book to recover and examine the voices, events, and influence of the antebellum antislavery movement in Concord. In addressing fundamental questions about the origin and nature of radical abolitionism in this most American of towns, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis frames the antislavery ideology of Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson--two of Concord's most famous residents--as a product of family and community activism and presents the civic context in which their outspoken abolitionism evolved. In this historic locale, radical abolitionism crossed racial, class, and gender lines as a confederation of neighbors fomented a radical consciousness, and Petrulionis documents how the Thoreaus, Emersons, and Alcotts worked in tandem with others in their community, including a slaveowner's daughter and a former slave. Additionally, she examines the basis on which Henry Thoreau--who cherished nothing more than solitary tramps through his beloved woods and bogs--has achieved lasting fame as a militant abolitionist. This book marshals rich archival evidence of the diverse tactics exploited by a small coterie of committed activists, largely women, who provoked their famous neighbors to action. In Concord, the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins was clothed and fed as he made his way to freedom. In Concord, the adolescent daughters of John Brown attended school and recovered from their emotional distress after their father's notorious public hanging. Although most residents of the town maintained a practiced detachment from the plight of the enslaved, women and men whose sole objective was the moral urgency of abolishing slavery at last prevailed on the philosophers of self-culture to accept the responsibility of their reputations.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801441578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the first book to recover and examine the voices, events, and influence of the antebellum antislavery movement in Concord. In addressing fundamental questions about the origin and nature of radical abolitionism in this most American of towns, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis frames the antislavery ideology of Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson--two of Concord's most famous residents--as a product of family and community activism and presents the civic context in which their outspoken abolitionism evolved. In this historic locale, radical abolitionism crossed racial, class, and gender lines as a confederation of neighbors fomented a radical consciousness, and Petrulionis documents how the Thoreaus, Emersons, and Alcotts worked in tandem with others in their community, including a slaveowner's daughter and a former slave. Additionally, she examines the basis on which Henry Thoreau--who cherished nothing more than solitary tramps through his beloved woods and bogs--has achieved lasting fame as a militant abolitionist. This book marshals rich archival evidence of the diverse tactics exploited by a small coterie of committed activists, largely women, who provoked their famous neighbors to action. In Concord, the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins was clothed and fed as he made his way to freedom. In Concord, the adolescent daughters of John Brown attended school and recovered from their emotional distress after their father's notorious public hanging. Although most residents of the town maintained a practiced detachment from the plight of the enslaved, women and men whose sole objective was the moral urgency of abolishing slavery at last prevailed on the philosophers of self-culture to accept the responsibility of their reputations.
Historical Documentary Editions
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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Writings and speeches hitherto uncollected, v. 2. Speeches in Congress and diplomatic papers
Author: Daniel Webster
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Daniel Webster, "the Completest Man"
Author: Daniel Webster
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Emerson Effect
Author: Christopher Newfield
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226576985
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
What is the political sensibility of America's middle class? Where did it come from? What kind of life does it hope for? Newfield finds a major source in the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and offers a radically revisionist account of his powerful influence on individualism and democracy in the United States. Emerson's thought encompassed the most important cultural and social changes of his time - a new urban street culture, early versions of the business corporation, experimental communes, the rise of women authors, new forms of labor, a less father-centered family, frontier wars with American Indians, Mexicans, and others, and the controversy over slavery. Locating him at the center not only of philosophical but of national developments, Newfield shows how Emerson taught the middle class to respond to these changes through a form of personal identity best termed "submissive individualism". Newfield identifies a previously unacknowledged connection between liberal and authoritarian impulses in Emerson's work and explores its significance in various domains: domestic life, the changing New England economy, theories of poetic language, homoerotic friendship, and racial hierarchy. This provocative reassessment of Emerson's writing suggests that American middle class culture encourages deference rather than independence. But it also suggests that a better understanding of Emerson will help us develop the stronger, alternative forms of personhood he often desired himself. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the development and the current limits of liberalism in America.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226576985
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
What is the political sensibility of America's middle class? Where did it come from? What kind of life does it hope for? Newfield finds a major source in the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and offers a radically revisionist account of his powerful influence on individualism and democracy in the United States. Emerson's thought encompassed the most important cultural and social changes of his time - a new urban street culture, early versions of the business corporation, experimental communes, the rise of women authors, new forms of labor, a less father-centered family, frontier wars with American Indians, Mexicans, and others, and the controversy over slavery. Locating him at the center not only of philosophical but of national developments, Newfield shows how Emerson taught the middle class to respond to these changes through a form of personal identity best termed "submissive individualism". Newfield identifies a previously unacknowledged connection between liberal and authoritarian impulses in Emerson's work and explores its significance in various domains: domestic life, the changing New England economy, theories of poetic language, homoerotic friendship, and racial hierarchy. This provocative reassessment of Emerson's writing suggests that American middle class culture encourages deference rather than independence. But it also suggests that a better understanding of Emerson will help us develop the stronger, alternative forms of personhood he often desired himself. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the development and the current limits of liberalism in America.
The Senate, 1789-1989
Author: Robert C. Byrd
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 826
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