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My Millard Fillmore Problem.
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Raritan. Fall2018, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p107-120. 14p.
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LOUGHERY, JOHN
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Raritan. Fall2018, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p107-120. 14p.
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Kirkus Reviews. 3/15/2011, Vol. 79 Issue 6, p464-465. 2p.
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The article reviews the book "Millard Fillmore," by Paul Finkelman.
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Kirkus Reviews. 3/15/2011, Vol. 79 Issue 6, p464-465. 2p.
The article reviews the book "Millard Fillmore ," by Paul Finkelman.
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The Seward-Fillmore feud and the U.S. patent office.
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Historian. Winter92, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p255. 14p.
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FORNESS, NORMAN O.
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Historian. Winter92, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p255. 14p.
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CHAPTER III: FROM JACKSON TO FILLMORE --1832-1851.
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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White -- Volume 1. 1/1/1905, p42-51. 10p.
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White, Andrew Dickson
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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White -- Volume 1. 1/1/1905, p42-51. 10p.
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Chapter III of the book "Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White," Volume I, is presente...
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CHAPTER III: FROM JACKSON TO FILLMORE --1832-1851.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White -- Volume 1. 1/1/1905, p42-51. 10p.
Chapter III of the book "Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White," Volume I, is presented. It highlights the author's awareness of political life wherein he was born in a politically divided family. It explores his recollections of the American politics including the campaigns in year 1840, 1844, and 1848, the efforts of the democrats, and the elections of General Harrison and General Taylor. It also features Millard Fillmore and his adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law.
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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White (Book) - White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918 - United States politics & government - Political campaigns - United States elections - Democrats (United States) - Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 - United StatesContent provider:
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Kauffman, Bill
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The American Enterprise. April-May, 2004, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p48, 1 p.
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Harriet Tubman : A Life in American History
Kerry Walters;Kerry Walters
Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History is an indispensable resource for high schoo...
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Harriet Tubman : A Life in American History
2020
Harriet Tubman: A Life in American History is an indispensable resource for high school and college students about the life and times of anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman, who exemplifies how slaves took the initiative to free themselves and others.Harriet Tubman served a pivotal role in leading slaves to freedom in the decade before the Civil War. This biography offers a demythologized chronicle of her life and work with information about her life as a slave, role as conductor on the Underground Railroad, work as a military scout during the Civil War, and postwar activism for blacks and women.The book provides valuable context that situates Harriet Tubman against the backdrop of the slavery debate in antebellum America, and the hardships endured by ex-slaves in postbellum America. As such, the timeframe covers nearly a full century, from the first quarter of the 19th to the first quarter of the 20th. In addition to ten biographical chapters and a short timeline, Harriet Tubman includes an interpretive essay reflecting on her importance in American history. The volume also includes an appendix of primary documents about Tubman's life and work, a bibliography, and a number of sidebars and short commentaries embedded in the text, inviting readers to explore connections between Tubman's life and political, intellectual, and social culture.
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Underground Railroad - Antislavery movements--United States - Enslaved persons--United States--Biography - African American women abolitionists--Biography - Fugitive slaves--United States - Abolitionists--BiographyContent provider:
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Sanctuary City: Abolitionist Brooklyn was a town ahead of its time
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American History. October 2020, Vol. 55 Issue 4, p38, 10 p.
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Goldstein, Norm
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American History. October 2020, Vol. 55 Issue 4, p38, 10 p.
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Why the Abolitionists oppose Millard Fillmore .
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Rural American; 04/19/1856, Vol. 1 Issue 16, p127-127, 1/9p
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Rural American; 04/19/1856, Vol. 1 Issue 16, p127-127, 1/9p
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Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition
Martin A. Klein;Martin A. Klein
For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable pop...
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Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition
2014
For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable populations for cheap or free labor. These slaves, serfs, helots, tenants, peons, bonded or forced laborers, etc., built pyramids and temples, dug canals and mined the earth for precious metals and gemstones. They built the palaces and mansions in which the powerful lived, grown the food they ate, spun the cloth that clothed them. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition relates the long and brutal history of slavery and the struggle for abolition using several key features: Chronology Introductory essayAppendixesExtensive bibliographyOver 500 cross-referenced entries on forms of slavery, famous slaves and abolitionists , sources of slaves, and current conditions of modern slavery around the worldThis book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about slavery and abolition.
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Abolitionists--History--Dictionaries - Antislavery movements--History--Dictionaries - Slavery--History--DictionariesContent provider:
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The Invisible Man.
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America's Civil War. Mar2010, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p42-42. 1p.
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Holzer, Harold
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America's Civil War. Mar2010, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p42-42. 1p.
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The Invisible Man.
America's Civil War. Mar2010, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p42-42. 1p.
The article focuses on the effort of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to write a brief campaign biography. He encouraged his New York friends to pressure former President Millard Fillmore to back his campaign. It notes that Lincoln labored to prevent an embarrassing blowup over an unpaid 1859 bill for a Cincinnati hotel. He thanked abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner for addressing anti-slavery issues in the county.
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POLITICAL science - PRESIDENTS of the United States - POLITICAL campaigns - ANTISLAVERY movements - LINCOLN, Abraham, 1809-1865 - FILLMORE, Millard, 1800-1874 - SUMNER, Charles, 1811-1874 - UNITED StatesContent provider:
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DIRGE FOR THE LAST WHIG PRESIDENT.
SADLER, LYNN VEACH;SADLER, LYNN VEACH
Visualizing Freedom: The Family Photograph Album of the Formerly Enslaved Ellen Craft.
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American Art. 2023, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p58-81. 24p.
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Trent, Mary Shelley
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American Art. 2023, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p58-81. 24p.
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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta : A Call for Reclamation
Ned Randolph;Ned Randolph
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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta : A Call for Reclamation
2024
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation's most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels? Organized around New Orleans and South Louisiana as a case study, this book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region. It proposes a framework of'muddy thinking'to gum the wheels of extractive capitalism and pollution that have brought us to the precipice of planetary collapse. Muddy Thinking calls upon our dirty, shared histories to address urgent questions of mutual survival and care in a rapidly changing world.
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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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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
Miro Roman;Alice _ch3n81;Ludger Hovestadt;Vera Bühlmann;Miro Roman;Alice _c...
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschun...
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
2022; Vol. 00017
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschung eine wichtige Perspektive eröffnet. Miro Roman und seine KI Alice_ch3n81 entfalten in diesem Buch ein wahrhaft spielerisches Szenario, in dem sie Codierung als neue Alphabetisierung für Informationen vorschlagen. Erkenntnis vermittelt es in Form eines Projektmodells, das die Bereiche Architektur und Information durch zwei verflochtene Erzählstränge in einem „unendlichen Fluss'realer Bücher miteinander verknüpft. Mit dem Fokus auf der Schnittmenge von Informationstechnologie und architektonischer Formulierung entsteht so eine immer weiterführende intellektuelle Reflexion zu digitaler Architektur und Computerwissenschaft.
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Stamped From the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi;Ibram X. Kendi
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and ...
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Stamped From the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
2016
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
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Race discrimination--Economic aspects--United States - Race discrimination--Political aspects--United States - Racism--United States--History - African Americans--Social conditions--History - African Americans--Social conditionsContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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The People’s Constitution : 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
John F. Kowal;Wilfred U. Codrington III;John F. Kowal;Wilfred U. Codrington...
The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the...
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The People’s Constitution : 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
2021
The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That's obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It's a story of how We the People have improved our government's structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change. The People's Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy. From the addition of the Bill of Rights, a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the post–Civil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People's Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America's national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers'promise of a more perfect union.
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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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Reckoning with History : Unfinished Stories of American Freedom
Jim Downs;Erica Armstrong Dunbar;T. K. Hunter;Timothy Patrick McCarthy;Jim ...
Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of histori...
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Reckoning with History : Unfinished Stories of American Freedom
2021
Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors—all former students of the distinguished Columbia University historian Eric Foner—explore the uses and politics of history through key episodes across a wide range of struggles for freedom. They shed new light on how different groups have defined and fought for freedom throughout American history, as well as the ways in which the ideal of freedom remains unrealized today. Covering a broad range of topics, these essays offer insight into how historians practice their craft in different ways and illuminate what it means to be a socially and politically engaged historian.
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Mr. Emerson's Revolution
Jean McClure Mudge;Jean McClure Mudge
This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of Ameri...
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Mr. Emerson's Revolution
2015
This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history, whose transforming ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform issues of his day: abolition and women's rights. A broad and deep, yet cautious revolutionary, he spoke about a spectrum of inner and outer realities—personal, philosophical, theological and cultural—all of which gave his mid-career turn to political and social issues their immediate and lasting power. This multi-authored study frankly explores Emerson's private prejudices against blacks and women while he also publicly championed their causes. Such a juxtaposition freshly charts the evolution of Emerson's slow but steady application of his early neo-idealism to emancipating blacks and freeing women from social bondage. His shift from philosopher to active reformer had lasting effects not only in America but also abroad. In the U.S. Emerson influenced such diverse figures as Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson and William James and in Europe Mickiewicz, Wilde, Kipling, Nietzsche, and Camus in Europe as well as many leading followers in India and Japan. The book includes over 170 illustrations, among them eight custom-made maps of Emerson's haunts and wide-ranging lecture itineraries as well as a new four-part chronology of his life placed alongside both national and international events as well as major inventions. Mr. Emerson's Revolution provides essential reading for students and teachers of American intellectual history, the abolitionist and women's rights movement―and for anyone interested in the nineteenth-century roots of these seismic social changes.
