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Rebecca Dickinson's powerful voice, captured through excerpts from
the pages of her journal, allows colonial and revolutionary-era New
England to come alive. Dickinson's life illustrates the dilemmas
faced by many Americans in the decades before, during, and after
the American Revolution, as well as the paradoxes presented by an
unmarried woman who earned her own living and made her own way in
the small town where she was born. "Rebecca Dickinson: Independence
for a New England Woman," uses Dickinson's world as a lens to
introduce readers to the everyday experience of living in the
colonial era and the social, cultural, and economic challenges
faced in the transformative decades surrounding the American
Revolution.
About the Lives of American Women series:
Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin,
these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate
courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach, each biography
focuses instead on a particular aspect of a women's life that is
emblematic of her time, or which made her a pivotal figure in the
era. The emphasis is on a "good read," featuring accessible writing
and compelling narratives, without sacrificing sound scholarship
and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each
biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study
questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader.
Rebecca Dickinson's powerful voice, captured through excerpts from
the pages of her journal, allows colonial and revolutionary-era New
England to come alive. Dickinson's life illustrates the dilemmas
faced by many Americans in the decades before, during, and after
the American Revolution, as well as the paradoxes presented by an
unmarried woman who earned her own living and made her own way in
the small town where she was born. Rebecca Dickinson: Independence
for a New England Woman, uses Dickinson's world as a lens to
introduce readers to the everyday experience of living in the
colonial era and the social, cultural, and economic challenges
faced in the transformative decades surrounding the American
Revolution.About the Lives of American Women series: selected and
edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin, these brief
biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather
than a comprehensive approach, each biography focuses instead on a
particular aspect of a women's life that is emblematic of her time,
or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a
'good read', featuring accessible writing and compelling
narratives, without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic
integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the
subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an
annotated bibliography support the student reader.
This study enhances our understanding of this place in the
political and cultural history of the mid nineteenth century. Put
simply, Van Buren played a critical role in the emergence of the
post 1840 anti-slavery controversy that culminated in the coming of
the Civil War. And Lindenwald also witnessed during these years the
emergence of changes in labor and gender relations affecting the
nation generally. As the authors of the report write, "new
scholarship on farming in the mid-Hudson Valley, on domestic
architecture and landscape, on labor and gender, reveal Lindenwald
to be a complex place that witnessed political and personal dramas
both large and small."
Beyond the legend of the creation of the American flag, we know
very little about the facts of Betsy Ross' life. Perhaps with one
snip of her scissors she convinced the nation's future first
president that five-pointed stars suited better than six. Perhaps
not. Miller recovers for the first time the full story of Betsy
Ross, sharing the woman as she truly was. Miller pieces together
the fascinating life of this little-known and much beloved figure,
showing that she is important to our history not just because she
made a flag, but because she embraced the resistance movement with
vigour, revelled in its triumphs, and suffered its consequences.
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.
The year 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National
Historic Preservation Act, the cornerstone of historic preservation
policy and practice in the United States. The act established the
National Register of Historic Places, a national system of state
preservation offices and local commissions, set up federal
partnerships between states and tribes, and led to the formation of
the standards for preservation and rehabilitation of historic
structures. This book marks its fiftieth anniversary by collecting
fifty new and provocative essays that chart the future of
preservation. The commentators include leading preservation
professionals, historians, writers, activists, journalists,
architects, and urbanists. The essays offer a distinct vision for
the future and address related questions, including, Who is a
preservationist? What should be preserved? Why? How? What stories
do we tell in preservation? How does preservation contribute to the
financial, environmental, social, and cultural well-being of
communities? And if the "arc of the moral universe . . . bends
towards justice," how can preservation be a tool for achieving a
more just society and world?
Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been
the colonial Goodwife, perpetually spinning, sewing, darning, and
quilting, answering all of her family's textile needs. But the
Goodwife of popular historical imagination obscures as much as she
reveals; the icon appears to explain early American women's labor
history, while at the same time allowing it to go unexplained.
Tensions of class and gender recede, and the largest artisanal
trade open to early American women is obscured in the guise of
domesticity. In this book, Marla R. Miller illuminates the
significance of women's work in the clothing trades of the early
Republic. Drawing on diaries, letters, reminiscences, ledgers, and
material culture, she explores the contours of working women's
lives in rural New England, offering a nuanced view of their varied
ranks and roles - skilled and unskilled, black and white, artisanal
and laboring - as producers and consumers, clients and
crafts-women, employers and employees. By plumbing hierarchies of
power and skill, Miller explains how needlework shaped and
reflected the circumstances of real women's lives, at once drawing
them together and setting them apart. The heart of the book brings
into focus the entwined experiences of six women who lived in and
around Hadley, Massachusetts, a thriving agricultural village
nestled in a bend in the Connecticut River about halfway between
the Connecticut and Vermont borders. Miller's examination of their
distinct yet overlapping worlds reveals the myriad ways that the
circumstances of everyday lives positioned women in relationship to
one another, enlarging and limiting opportunities and shaping the
trajectories of days, years, and lifetimes in ways both large and
small. ""The Needle's Eye"" reveals not only how these women
thought about their work, but how they thought about their world.
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