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Archival Communities
The story behind the creation of the first archives in the new United States Archives, the foundational resource for historical research, do not emerge from a vacuum. The records, documents, and data that make up the historian’s quarry are never neutral but are themselves the product of historical forces and individual choices. What materials are included in the archive, and why? Whose voices are preserved for posterity, and whose are silenced? In recent years, scholars have increasingly made archives themselves the subject of investigation. With Archival Communities, Derek Kane O’Leary takes up this crucial task for the era of the early United States, arguing that key components of Amer...
City on a Hill
A fresh, original history of America's national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram C. Van Engen shows how the phrase "city on a hill," from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop's speech, its changing status through time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and other often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon and its eventual transformation into an American tale. This sermon's rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how they continue to influence competing visions of the country--the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.
A Passionate Usefulness
In a literary environment dominated by men, the first American to earn a living as a writer and to establish a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic was, miraculously, a woman. Hannah Adams dared to enter--and in some ways was forced to enter--a sphere of literature that had, in eighteenth-century America, been solely a male province. Driven by poverty and necessity, and aided by an extraordinarily adept mind and keen sense of business, Adams authored works on New England history, sectarian history, and Jewish history, using and citing the most recent scholarly works being published in Great Britain and America. As a female writer, she would always remain something of an outsider, but her...
James Savage Journal
Journal kept by James Savage from 2 November 1805 - 3 June 1806 on a voyage to the West Indies with his cousin William Tudor, Jr. The two were travelling on behalf of Tudor's brother Frederic to attempt to procure exclusive grants for importing ice into the islands. The entries describe the ocean voyage aboard the schooner HUNTRESS; encounters with privateers in the area as a result of the Napoleonic Wars; stays at Martinique, Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) where he contracted yellow fever; St. Thomas, and Jamaica; and the return voyage to Boston. The journal was probably written at one time at the end of the voyage.
Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, July 1687 to June 1694
This volume (no. 31 of the Publications of the Harleian Society) and the previous volume (no. 30 of the Publications of the Harleian Society) contain marriage licences issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury between 1679 and 1694. Vol. 23 of the Publications of the Harleian Society includes a selection of marriage licences issued by the Vicar-General between 1660 and 1679. The editor of v. 23 omitted "persons evidently of the very humblest rank". Volumes 33 and 34 contain the marriage licences from 1660 to 1679 which were omitted.
History of New London, Connecticut
History of New London, Connecticut: From the First Survey of the Coast in 1612 To 1860 by Cecelia Griswold Frances Manwaring Caulkins, first published in 1895, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
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