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Democracy at the Ballpark: Sport, Spectatorship, and Politics
Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.
Touching Home
Baseball’s relationship to American ideals has long been an object of study across disciplines. In Touching Home, Mary Craig contributes to this ongoing study by relating issues of class, race, and gender to America’s theoretical tradition of liberalism and republicanism established during the nation’s founding era. Specifically, Touching Home traces theories of individualism and civic virtue from the founding era through baseball’s place in American society at the end of the twentieth century. The work also examines the mythologizing of baseball’s pastoralism, racial equality, and inculcation of manliness as a civic virtue. These myths became ingrained in baseball in significant w...
Ancestors & Descendants of Nicholas Edee Joslin, Gratiot County, Michigan
Family history of the ancestors and descendants of Nicholas Edee Joslin, born in Mendon, Monroe, New York on 3 June 1816. Nicholas married three times: 1. Serepta Wetmore on 1 December 1839; 2. Nancy Ann Freeman on 1 October 1841; 3. Minerva Cordelia Freeman on 3 June 1854. He died on 25 August 1888 in Seville Township, Gratiot, Michigan. This volume traces his ancestors back to the royalty of Europe.
