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Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813–1884) was a prominent African American
businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime
housekeeper, life companion, and collaborator of the state’s
abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens. In his biography of this
remarkable woman, Mark Kelley reveals how Smith served the cause of
abolition, managed Stevens’s household, acquired property, and
crossed racialized social boundaries. Born a free woman near
Gettysburg, Smith began working for Stevens in 1844. Her
relationship with Stevens fascinated and infuriated many, and it
made Smith a highly recognizable figure both locally and
nationally. The two walked side by side in Lancaster and in
Washington, DC, as they worked to secure the rights of African
Americans, sheltered people on the Underground Railroad, managed
two households, raised her sons and his nephews, and built a
real-estate business. In the last years of Stevens’s life, as his
declining health threatened to short-circuit his work, Smith risked
her own well-being to keep him alive while he led the drive to end
slavery, impeach Andrew Johnson, and push for the ratification of
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. An Uncommon
Woman is a vital history that accords Lydia Hamilton Smith the
recognition that she deserves. Every American should know Smith’s
inspiring story.
The nuclear novel corporate publishers would not touch. Rain of
Ruin tells the story of a young woman killed by the American atomic
bomb. Based on a real-life experience, Rain of Ruin is as true as
Girls of Atomic City but far more tragic. from the back cover:
Military leaders and historians have told the story of the atomic
bomb. But the official accounts never focus on the thousands of
ordinary Americans who helped make it happen. Rain of Ruin tells
the story from their point of view for the first time. It follows
Agnes Jenkins Flaherty, an eighteen-year-old country girl, as she
takes her devout religious faith and towering sense of
responsibility to wartime Washington, D.C. to work with the
Manhattan Project. She quickly finds love in the city, but her
budding romance is overshadowed by a growing sense of terror when
she learns, from the Top Secret documents crossing her desk, that
project scientists think setting off the bomb might destroy the
earth. Agnes escapes that prospect, but not the heartbreaking
disappointment and tragedy that follow.
Milton criticism, and especially that of Samson Agonistes, is
commonly founded upon two certainties: the certainty of Samson's
regeneration, and the certainty of Milton's idealizing
Christianity. These platitudes have led too many critics to
accommodate Samson (and by implication Milton) into a
neo-conservative, predictable, brutally formalistic mold that,
instead of challenging, enshrines inherited systems of belief.
Euripides, Milton's favorite tragedian, wrote tragedy through his
experience of the Peloponnesian War and the resultant fall of the
Periclean democratic experiment, a disaster Milton recognized in
his own experience of the English civil war. Through war and
tragedy Euripides searched the individual and historical boundaries
between normality and pathology, locating the source of tragedy in
the tense interdependence of opposites: the forces of creation and
destruction in ourselves, our societies, our world. This study
examines Milton's intellectual and imaginative development in light
of Euripidean tragedy, a development that would culminate, achieve
its fullest expression, in Milton's last poem Samson Agonistes.
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