Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and community Transcendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement. Its first generation of thinkers-including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret ......
Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and community Transcendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement. Its first generation of thinkers-including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret ......
The first full-length biography of a consequential figure in twentieth-century American politics In 1962, Edward W. Brooke (1919-2015) upended political convention by becoming the first popularly elected African American attorney general of Massachusetts. His victory was striking not only because Massachusetts was an overwhelmingly white state ......
The first full-length biography of a consequential figure in twentieth-century American politics In 1962, Edward W. Brooke (1919-2015) upended political convention by becoming the first popularly elected African American attorney general of Massachusetts. His victory was striking not only because Massachusetts was an overwhelmingly white state ......
American Indians, Religion, and Shifting Landscapes of Memory
Tracing how shuttered mission schools became contested commemorative landscapes During the Early Republic and Jacksonian eras, Euro-American colonists and Native nations in the South and Old Northwest established mission schools intended to Christianize Indigenous peoples. In Lost Missions, Sean T. Jacobson recovers the histories and afterlives ......
American Indians, Religion, and Shifting Landscapes of Memory
Tracing how shuttered mission schools became contested commemorative landscapes During the Early Republic and Jacksonian eras, Euro-American colonists and Native nations in the South and Old Northwest established mission schools intended to Christianize Indigenous peoples. In Lost Missions, Sean T. Jacobson recovers the histories and afterlives ......
A history of courage and collective action inside the most powerful newsrooms in America In 1971, Susan Smith, a young researcher at Reader's Digest, dared to imagine herself as an editor. Her ambition was swiftly dismissed by a hiring manager who told her, "Single girls just don't do well in this job." Crushed-and then furious-Smith sought out ......
A history of courage and collective action inside the most powerful newsrooms in America In 1971, Susan Smith, a young researcher at Reader's Digest, dared to imagine herself as an editor. Her ambition was swiftly dismissed by a hiring manager who told her, "Single girls just don't do well in this job." Crushed-and then furious-Smith sought out ......
Piracy, Sympathy, and Ocean Politics in Antebellum American Legal Culture
Demonstrating how emotion became central to the legal and literary meanings of piracy in nineteenth-century America Pirates have long occupied a central yet unstable place in American law and national identity. In the decades leading up to and including the U.S. Civil War, the charge of piracy was leveled against an unusually wide range of ......
