The Human Tradition in Antebellum America,9780842028349

The Human Tradition in Antebellum America

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ISBN13: 9780842028349
ISBN10: 084202834X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-08-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This new book consists of mini-biographies of 15 Americans who lived during the Antebel-lum period in American history. Part of The Human Tradition in America series, the anthology paints vivid portraits of the lives of lesser-known Americans. Raisi

Table of Contents

Introduction---Shuttles of a New Nation: The Private Lives and Public Actions of Ordinary Americans xiii
Michael A. Morrison
Abraham Bishop: Teacher, Lawyer, Orator, and Politician
1(18)
Stephen R. Grossbart
John Wesley Young: Identity and Community among ``the People Called Methodis,''
19(16)
Ruth Alden Doan
Trotter & Sons: Merchants and the Early West
35(18)
Craig Thompson Friend
Hiram Hill: House Carpenter, Lumber Dealer, Self-Made Man
53(14)
Gary J. Kornblith
Senator John Smith: The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur
67(16)
Andrew R. L. Cayton
Arsene Lacarriere Latour: Immigrant, Patriot-Historian, and Foreign Agent
83(16)
Gene A. Smith
Thomas Sidney Jesup: Soldier, Bureaucrat, Gentleman Democrat
99(16)
Samuel J. Watson
John Ross: Cherokee Chief and Defender of the Nation
115(16)
Mary Young
Peter P. Pitchlynn: Race and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
131(16)
Donna L. Akers
Hosea Easton: Forgotten Abolitionist ``Giant,''
147(18)
George R. Price
Laura Wirt Randall: A Woman's Life, 1803-1833
165(16)
Anya Jabour
Rebecca Reed: Anti-Catholic Agitator
181(18)
Daniel A. Cohen
Margaret Eaton: The Politics of Gender in Jacksonian America
199(14)
John F. Marszalek
Benjamin Tappan: Democrat, Scientist, Iconoclast
213(16)
Daniel Feller
George Washington Harris: The Fool from the Hills
229(16)
John Mayfield
Index 245

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