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Nathaniel Hawthorne: American Storyteller, 2nd Ed.. 2003 Second Edition, p8-30. 30p. 4 Black and White Photographs.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: American Storyteller, 2nd Ed.. 2003 Second Edition, p8-30. 30p. 4 Black and White Photographs.
This chapter describes the childhood of author Nathaniel Hawthorne . He was born on July 4, 1804 and lost his father when he was four years old. He went to a school in Salem, Massachusetts and also had a private tutor. As a child he reads anything he could get his hands on as long as it told a story.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 - Authors - Twice-Told Tales (Book) - Fairy tales - Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871 - Families - Mosses From an Old Manse (Book) - Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869 - Scarlet Letter, The (Book : Hawthorne) - House of the Seven Gables, The (Book : Hawthorne) - Bibliography - Websites - Computer network resources - Massachusetts - United States - MaineContent provider:
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The American Notebooks.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The American Notebooks...
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The American Notebooks.
Masterplots, Fourth Edition. Nov2010, p1-3. 3p.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne ’s The American Notebooks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Ștefanovici, Smaranda
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Acta Marisiensis: Philologia; Sep2023, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p1-21, 21p
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864), an American novelist and short story writer, 19th ce...
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Acta Marisiensis: Philologia; Sep2023, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p1-21, 21p
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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 - AMBIVALENCE - PSYCHOLOGICAL fiction - LITERARY form - AMERICAN short stories - REPUTATION - AMERICAN authors - INTROSPECTIONContent provider:
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Southern History in Periodicals, 2023: A Selected Bibliography.
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Journal of Southern History. May2024, Vol. 90 Issue 2, p325-390. 66p.
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Journal of Southern History. May2024, Vol. 90 Issue 2, p325-390. 66p.
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Scarlet Letter.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Presents the complete text of "Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
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Scarlet Letter.
Scarlet Letter. 3/1/2006, p1. 142p.
Presents the complete text of "Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorne , Nathaniel , 1804 -1864 .
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The Marble Faun.
Grant, William E.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun. [ABST...
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The Marble Faun.
Masterplots, Fourth Edition. Nov2010, p1-3. 3p.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne ’s The Marble Faun. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Ellison's racial variations on American themes.
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African American Review; Fall96, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p421, 20p
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Lee, Kun Jong;Lee, Kun Jong
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African American Review; Fall96, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p421, 20p
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CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel;Jacobson, Karin;Cliffs Notes, Inc;Hawthorne, Nathaniel...
In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-...
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CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter
2001
In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter is a novel of betrayal and trials. Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery and must wear a scarlet'A'wherever she goes. Her story is filled with the slow process of redemption and eventual love.Discover what happens to Hester — and save valuable studying time — all at once. Enhance your reading of The Scarlet Letter with these additional features:A summary and insightful commentary for each chapterBibliography and historical background on the author, Nathaniel HawthorneA look at the historical context and structure of the novelDiscussions on the novel's symbols and themesA character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the charactersReview questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideasA Resource Center full of books , articles, films, and Internet sitesStreamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!
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Scientific Americans : Invention, Technology, and National Identity
Susan Branson;Susan Branson
In Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in...
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Scientific Americans : Invention, Technology, and National Identity
2021
In Scientific Americans , Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American efforts to achieve cultural independence from Europe and America's nation building in the early republic and antebellum eras. This engaging tour of scientific education and practices among ordinary citizens charts the development of nationalism and national identity alongside roads, rails, and machines.Scientific Americans shows how informal scientific education provided by almanacs, public lectures, and demonstrations, along with the financial encouragement of early scientific societies, generated an enthusiasm for the application of science and technology to civic, commercial, and domestic improvements. Not only that: Americans were excited, awed, and intrigued with the practicality of inventions. Bringing together scientific research and popular wonder, Branson charts how everything from mechanical clocks to steam engines informed the creation and expansion of the American nation. From the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations to the fate of the Amistad captives, Scientific Americans shows how the promotion and celebration of discoveries, inventions, and technologies articulated Americans 'earliest ambitions, as well as prejudices, throughout the first American century.
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Science--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century - Technology--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century - Technology--Social aspects--United States--History--18th century - Science--Social aspects--United States--History--18th centuryContent provider:
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A Day in the Life of an American Worker : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott;Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important rol...
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A Day in the Life of an American Worker : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
2020
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important roles that men and women of all backgrounds have played in the formation of the United States.A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades and Professions through History allows readers to imagine the daily lives of ordinary workers, from the beginnings of colonial America to the present. It presents the stories of millions of Americans —from the enslaved field hands in antebellum America to the astronauts of the modern'space age'—as they contributed to the formation of the modern and culturally diverse United States.Readers will learn about individual occupations and discover the untold histories of those women and men who too often have remained anonymous to historians but whose stories are just as important as those of leaders whose lives we study in our classrooms. This book provides specific details to enable comprehensive understanding of the benefits and downsides of each trade and profession discussed. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering vivid testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.
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Employees--United States--History - Labor--United States--History - Occupations--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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William Rimmer : Champion of Imagination in American Art
Dorinda Evans;Dorinda Evans
William Rimmer (1816–1879) is arguably the first modernist American sculptor, although...
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William Rimmer : Champion of Imagination in American Art
2022
William Rimmer (1816–1879) is arguably the first modernist American sculptor, although his inventive originality has not been fully acknowledged. Rimmer cultivated an art of ideas and personal expression whilst supporting himself as a physician and, later, as a teacher of art anatomy at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women in New York. Unlike his contemporaries, he advocated the creation of sculpture drawn entirely from the artist's imagination, as opposed to antique archetypes or live models. In this way, he sought to reframe excellence in American art as something that must be found within, rather than derived from Europe. In this new monograph, the meaning of Rimmer's works is for the first time considered from a combination of perspectives, such as close visual analysis (including X-ray and infrared), historical documentation, and social context. These are enriched with discussion of the artist's own bipolar disorder, deeply-held spiritualism, and views on gender equality—considering women just as talented as men, he used naked male models in all-female classes long before his contemporaries, and produced an allegorical sculpture of fighting lions that criticized the tyranny of men over women. This book will be of great interest to academics, students, art museums, collectors, dealers, art historians, and members of the public with an affinity for Rimmer's work. It will also appeal to those with a broader interest in American culture.
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Cherokee Women in Charge : Female Power and Leadership in American Indian Nations of Eastern North America
Karen Coody Cooper;Karen Coody Cooper
Cherokee women wielded significant power, and history demonstrates that in what is now...
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Cherokee Women in Charge : Female Power and Leadership in American Indian Nations of Eastern North America
2022
Cherokee women wielded significant power, and history demonstrates that in what is now America, indigenous women often bore the greater workload, both inside and outside the home. During the French and Indian War, Cherokee women resisted a chief's authority, owned family households, were skilled artisans, produced plentiful crops, mastered trade negotiations, and prepared chiefs'feasts. Cherokee culture was lost when the Cherokee Nation began imitating the American form of governance to gain political favor, and white colonists reduced indigenous women's power. This book recounts long-standing Cherokee traditions and their rich histories. It demonstrates Cherokee and indigenous women as independent and strong individuals through feminist and historical perspectives. Readers will find that these women were far ahead of their time and held their own in many remarkable ways.
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Jim Bridger : Trailblazer of the American West
Jerry Enzler;Jerry Enzler
Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, J...
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Jim Bridger : Trailblazer of the American West
2021
Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he “discovered” the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was the first to paddle the Bighorn River's Bad Pass. At twenty-two he explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger's path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler's book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the “King of the Mountain Men.” This is the definitive story of an extraordinary life.
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Scouts (Reconnaissance)--West (U.S.)--Biography - Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) - Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography - Trappers--West (U.S.)--BiographyContent provider:
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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest : Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Susan Sleeper-Smith;Susan Sleeper-Smith
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian...
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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest : Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
2018
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth century, to absorb French traders and Indigenous refugees, to export peltry, and to harvest riparian, wetland, and terrestrial resources of every description and breathtaking richness. These prosperous Native communities frustrated French and British imperial designs, controlled the Ohio Valley, and confederated when faced with the challenge of American invasion.By the late eighteenth century, Montreal silversmiths were sending their best work to Wabash Indian villages, Ohio Indian women were setting the fashions for Indigenous clothing, and European visitors were marveling at the sturdy homes and generous hospitality of trading entrepots such as Miamitown. Confederacy, agrarian abundance, and nascent urbanity were, however, both too much and not enough. Kentucky settlers and American leaders—like George Washington and Henry Knox—coveted Indian lands and targeted the Indian women who worked them. Americans took women and children hostage to coerce male warriors to come to the treaty table to cede their homelands. Appalachian squatters, aspiring land barons, and ambitious generals invaded this settled agrarian world, burned crops, looted towns, and erased evidence of Ohio Indian achievement. This book restores the Ohio River valley as Native space.
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Indian women--Ohio River Valley--History--17th century - Indian women--Ohio River Valley--History--18th century - Kidnapping--Ohio River Valley--History - Indians, Treatment of--Ohio River Valley--History - Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley--Government relationsContent provider:
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Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman;Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Commentators frequently call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire...
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2013
Commentators frequently call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, and often a destructive empire. Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that, because of its unusual federal structure, America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned collective approval.This provocative reinterpretation traces America's role in the world from the days of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt to the present. Cobbs Hoffman argues that the United States has been the pivot of a transformation that began outside its borders and before its founding, in which nation-states replaced the empires that had dominated history. The “Western” values that America is often accused of imposing were, in fact, the result of this global shift. American Umpire explores the rise of three values—access to opportunity, arbitration of disputes, and transparency in government and business—and finds that the United States is distinctive not in its embrace of these practices but in its willingness to persuade and even coerce others to comply. But America's leadership is problematic as well as potent. The nation has both upheld and violated the rules. Taking sides in explosive disputes imposes significant financial and psychic costs. By definition, umpires cannot win.American Umpire offers a powerful new framework for reassessing the country's role over the past 250 years. Amid urgent questions about future choices, this book asks who, if not the United States, might enforce these new rules of world order?
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World politics - International organization - International relationsContent provider:
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Endless Holocausts : Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
David Michael Smith;David Michael Smith
An argument against the myth of'American exceptionalism'Endless Holocausts: Mass Death...
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Endless Holocausts : Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
2023
An argument against the myth of'American exceptionalism'Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism has plagued the globe for over a century. However much the ruling class insists on U.S. superiority, we find ourselves in the midst of a sea change. Perpetual wars, deteriorating economic conditions, the resurgence of white supremacy, and the rise of the Far Right have led millions of people to abandon their illusions about this country. Never before have so many people rejected or questioned traditional platitudes about the United States.In Endless Holocausts author David Michael Smith demolishes the myth of exceptionalism by demonstrating that manifold forms of mass death, far from being unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benign historical record, have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world. At the same time, Smith points to an extraordinary history of resistance by Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, people in other nations brutalized by U.S. imperialism, workers, and democratic-minded people around the world determined to fight for common dignity and the sake of the greater good.
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National characteristics, American - World politics - Crimes against humanity--History - Political violence--United States--History - Genocide--History - Imperialism--Social aspects--United StatesContent provider:
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Jacob Rama Berman;Jacob Rama Berman
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines represe...
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2012
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand themtoday.Moving from the period of America's engagement in theBarbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instabilityof the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives,imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.
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Islam in literature - Arabs--Race identity - National characteristics, American, in literature - American literature--19th century--History and criticism - Arabs in literature - National characteristics, American--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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North American Cornucopia : Top 100 Indigenous Food Plants
Ernest Small;Ernest Small
Many North American plants have characteristics that are especially promising as candi...
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North American Cornucopia : Top 100 Indigenous Food Plants
2013
Many North American plants have characteristics that are especially promising as candidates for expanding our food supply and generating new economically competitive crops. This book is an informative analysis of the top 100 indigenous food plants of North America, focusing on those species that have achieved commercial success or have substantial market potential. The book's user-friendly format provides concise information on each plant. It examines the geography and ecology, history, economic and social importance, food and industrial uses, and the economic future of each crop.
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Endemic plants--North America - Plants, Edible--North AmericaContent provider:
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi;Ibram X. Kendi
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped ...
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How to Be an Antiracist
2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface.“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus ReviewsAntiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
