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The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating the lives of ordinary Americans. This examination of common individuals helps personalize the nation's past in a way that examining only broad concepts and forces cannot. By including a wide range of people with respect to ethnicity, race, gender and geographic region, Prof. Calhoun has developed a text that highlights the diversity of the American experience.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Squanto: Last of the Patuxet
Chapter 3 Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the Power of the Spirit
Chapter 4 Caspar Wistar: German-American Entrepreneur and Cultural Broker
Chapter 5 Olaudah Equiano: An African in Slavery and Freedom
Chapter 6 Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Vegetables and Virtue
Chapter 7 Benjamin Gilbert and Jacob Nagle: Soldiers of the American Revolution
Chapter 8 Absalom Jones and the African Church of Philadelphia: "To Arise out of the Dust"
Chapter 9 Rebecca Dickinson: A Life Alone in the Early Republic
Chapter 10 Sacagawea: A Historical Enigma
Chapter 11 Peter P. Pitchlynn: Race and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Chapter 12 Hosea Easton: Forgotten Abolitionist "Giant"
Chapter 13 Laura Wirt Randall: A Woman's Life, 1803-1833
Chapter 14 Caroline Healey Dall: Transcendentalist Activist
Chapter 15 George Washington Harris: The Fool from the Hills
Chapter 16 Sgt. Peter Welsh: "Is That Not Worth Fighting For?"
Chapter 17 Winfield Scott Hancock: "The Knightly Corps Commander"
Chapter 18 LaSalle Corbell Pickett: "What Happened to Me"
Chapter 19 Willis Augustus Hodges: "We Are Now Coming to New Things"

Product details

Published 01 Jan 2002
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 239
ISBN 9781461644309
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Series The Human Tradition in America
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Charles W. Calhoun

Contributor

Neal Salisbury

Contributor

Gary L. Hewitt

Contributor

John Shy

Contributor

Gary B. Nash

Contributor

Marla R. Miller

Contributor

Laura McCall

Contributor

Donna L. Akers

Contributor

George R. Price

Contributor

Anya Jabour

Contributor

Helen Deese

Contributor

John Mayfield

Contributor

Ethan S. Rafuse

Contributor

Richard Lowe

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