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Title: Directions with regard to the improvement of temporal blessings : a thanksgiving sermon, delivered to the First Society in New-London, December 2d, 1784.
Creator: Patten, William 1763-1839, Green, Timothy 1737-1796
Abstract/Description: By William Patten, A.M. [One line from The inspired preacher]. Half-title: Mr. Patten's thanksgiving discourse. Thanksgiving sermon, delivered to the First Society in New-London, December 2d, 1784. Advertised as "just published" in the Connecticut gazette and the universal intelligencer, New London, Jan. 28, 1785. Dated 1784 by Evans. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ (C4 blank). Engraved tail-piece. FAU Library's copy appears to have been trimmed to 21 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb7f14
Subject Headings: Bible -- Ecclesiastes, IX, 7 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Connecticut -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Gratitude -- Religious aspects -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, New London (Conn.) -- History -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800, Sermons, American -- 18th century, Thanksgiving Day addresses -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Thanksgiving sermons -- 1784 Dec. 2., United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Peace -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: The help of the Lord, in signal deliverances and special salvations, to be acknowledged and remembered. : A sermon, preached at Lexington, April 19, 1779; in commemoration of the great distress and wonderful deliverance of God's people on the nineteenth of April, 1775; where hostilities begun, and when the bloody war between Great-Britain and her colonies commenced.
Creator: Woodward, Samuel 1727-1782
Abstract/Description: By Samuel Woodward, A.M. Pastor of the church in Weston. ; [Two lines from Psalms].
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb6f13
Subject Headings: Bible -- Samuel, 1st, VII, 12 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775 -- Anniversaries, etc -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775 -- Anniversaries, etc -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Massachusetts -- Lexington, Sermons -- 1779
Format: E-book

Title: The violent destroyed and oppressed delivered. A sermon preached at Lexington, April 19, 1777. For a memorial of the bloody tragedy, barbarously acted, by a party of British troops, in that town and the adjacent, April 19, 1775.
Creator: Cooke, Samuel 1709-1783
Abstract/Description: By Samuel Cooke, A.M., pastor of the Second Church in Cambridge. [Five lines of Scripture texts] Title on half-title page: Mr. Cooke's sermon, delivered April Nineteenth, MDCCLXXXVII.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb5f17
Subject Headings: Anniversary sermons -- 18th century, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775 -- Anniversaries, etc -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Lexington, Battle of (Massachusetts : 1775), Bible -- Exodus, XVII, 14-16 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Bible -- Exodus, XVII, 14-16 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: Trust in God, the duty of a people in a day of trouble. : a sermon preached, May 30th. 1770.
Creator: Chauncy, Charles 1705-1787
Abstract/Description: At the request of a great number of gentlemen, friends to the liberties of North-America, who were desirous, notwithstanding the removal of the Massachusetts General-Court (unconstitutionally as they judged) to Cambridge, that God might be acknowledged in that house of worship at Boston, in which our tribes, from the days of our fathers, have annually sought to him for direction, previous to the choice of His Majesty's Council by Charles Chauncy, D.D. Pastor of the First Church in Boston....
Show moreAt the request of a great number of gentlemen, friends to the liberties of North-America, who were desirous, notwithstanding the removal of the Massachusetts General-Court (unconstitutionally as they judged) to Cambridge, that God might be acknowledged in that house of worship at Boston, in which our tribes, from the days of our fathers, have annually sought to him for direction, previous to the choice of His Majesty's Council by Charles Chauncy, D.D. Pastor of the First Church in Boston. Half-title: Dr. Chauncy's sermon, preach'd May 30th. 1770. A sermon preached in Boston as a substitute for an election sermon, since the General Court was sitting in Cambridge.Head-piece, initial frame.
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PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb2f4
Subject Headings: Bible -- Psalms, XXII, 4 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Congregational churches -- Clergy -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Massachusetts -- General Court -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Sermons, American -- 18th century, Trust in God -- Christianity -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Unitarian churches -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: A sermon preached before the honorable Council, and the honorable House of representatives, of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, at Boston, May 27, 1778. Being the anniversary for the election of the honorable Council.
Creator: Payson, Phillips 1736-1801
Abstract/Description: By Phillips Payson, A.M. pastor of a church in Chelsea.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb6f6
Subject Headings: Election sermons -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Early works to 1800, Liberty -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Religious aspects -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Bible -- Galatians, IV, 26, 31 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Sermons, American -- 18th century, Gill, John 1732-1785, Massachusetts General Court, Election sermons, Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: The duty of standing fast in our spiritual and temporal liberties, a sermon, preached in Christ-church, July 7th, 1775.
Creator: Duché, Jacob 1738-1798, Humphreys, James 1748-1810
Abstract/Description: Dedicated to George Washington. "Prayer before sermon."--Page [i]-iv. Signatures: pi⁴ A-C⁴ D1 (D1 verso blank). FAU Libraries' copy 1 edges trimmed to 20 cm. and copy 2 to 18 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb4f8
Subject Headings: American Revolution (1775-1783), Pennsylvania -- Militia -- Sermons, Episcopal Church -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Liberty -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Militia -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Sermons, American -- 18th century, Standing army -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Bible -- Galatians V, 1 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: The principles of the revolution vindicated : in a sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, on Wednesday, May 29, 1776.
Creator: Watson, Richard 1737-1816, Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy Duke of 1735-1811
Abstract/Description: Dedicated to Augustus Henry Duke of Grafton. FAU Libraries' copy appears to have been trimmed to 21 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb4f20
Subject Headings: Church of England -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Constitutional law -- Great Britain -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Rule of law -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Bible -- Romans XIII, 3-4 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Sermons, English -- Great Britain -- 18th century, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: Some strictures upon the sacred story recorded in the Book of Esther :: shewing the power and oppression of state ministers tending to the ruin and destruction of God's people, and the remarkable inte.
Creator: Noble, Oliver 1734-1792, E. Lunt and H.W. Tinges (Firm)
Abstract/Description: Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴. Errata on last unnumbered page. Includes bibliographical references. FAU Libraries' copy untrimmed; side stiched with brown cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb4f11
Subject Headings: Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Boston Massacre, 1770 -- Anniversaries, etc -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Boston Massacre, 1770 -- Early works to 1800, Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Bible -- Esther, VIII, 11 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Sermons, American -- 18th century, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Sources -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: A sermon, preached to the soldiers, who went from West-Hartford, in defence of their country. : Delivered the 2d of June, 1775. Being the day before they marched from that place.
Creator: Perkins, Nathan 1748-1838, Watson, Ebenezer 1744-1777
Abstract/Description: Signatures: [A]⁸ ([A]8 verso blank). Engraved head- and tail-pieces; initial. FAU Libraries' copy trimmed to 17 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb4f12
Subject Headings: American Revolution (1775-1783), Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Connecticut -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Bible -- Psalms CXL, 1-2 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Soldiers -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: Studied girlhoods: consciousness, context, and negotiation of identity in the memoirs of Dorothy Allison, Mary Karr, and Barbara Robinette Moss.
Creator: Dilgen, Regina., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: Dorothy Allison's Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Barbara Robinette Moss's Change Me into Zeus's Daughter are memoirs published in the 1990s of girlhoods in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This dissertation uses and expands upon the approaches of the multi-disciplinary Girls' Studies in analyzing how these memoirists theorize their own girlhoods. Each memoirist represents her experience in a culture that attempts to marginalize, silence, and define her....
Show moreDorothy Allison's Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, and Barbara Robinette Moss's Change Me into Zeus's Daughter are memoirs published in the 1990s of girlhoods in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This dissertation uses and expands upon the approaches of the multi-disciplinary Girls' Studies in analyzing how these memoirists theorize their own girlhoods. Each memoirist represents her experience in a culture that attempts to marginalize, silence, and define her. An application of the foundational work on girlhood in developmental psychology provides for an analysis of each memoirist's depiction of girlhood as a time of authentic insight and developing agency. Referencing feminist literary criticism allows for an interpretation of how the girls at the center of these works develop agency through growing awareness of the circumstances of their marginalization. And a semiotic literary interpretation adds to the analysis of these works as creative autobiogra phical writing in affording a close reading of how the memoirists portray younger selves learning to read the signs and texts of a culture and becoming aware of their status as girls in working-class families. Each memoirist uses a dual vocal presentation as both the adult memoirist and a younger self give shape to the narrative. Each memoirist represents a distinct southern space intersecting with specifics of the era to form a cultural moment. Social Construction Theory makes available a basis for considering how the memoirists narrate their increasing understanding of race and gender within these specific contexts as well as their resistive voicing of these insights., Through a Cultural Studies focus this dissertation examines how each memoirist represents a younger self's negotiations with cultural products of the era that work to construct girlhood. Adding to this unpacking of how the memoirists study their own girlhoods, the tools of Postco for an analysis of how the memoirists theorize their own girlhoods in ways that parallel these approaches. This dissertation adds to the evolving field of Girls' Studies in using contemporary theoretical frameworks to interpret how girlhood is constructed, represented, and negotiated with in these memoirs.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3332175
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Self in literature, Popular culture, Working class women
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: An oration, in honour to the memory of General George Washington : who died December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his age :.
Creator: Tufts, Cotton 1732-1815, Hall, Samuel 1740-1807
Abstract/Description: delivered before the inhabitants of the town of Weymouth, at the request of their selectmen, on the 22d day of February, 1800 by Cotton Tufts, M.D.M.M.S. & A.A.S. Half title: Doctor Tufts's oration. Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ C² (C2 verso blank). Title in decorative line border. Engraved tail-piece. FAU Libraries' copy inscribed on half title: "RT Paine", possibly referring to Robert Treat Paine (1773-1811). In original (?) blue wrappers, side stiched with brown cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb8f15
Subject Headings: Eulogies -- Massachusetts -- Weymouth -- Early works to 1800, Funeral addresses -- 1800, Funeral orations -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800, Nobility of character -- Early works to 1800, Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 18th century, Washington, George -- 1732-1799, Washington, George -- 1732-1799 -- Death and burial, Washington, George -- 1732-1799 -- Military leadership
Format: E-book

Title: The dominion of Providence over the passions of men. A sermon preached at Princeton, on the 17th of May, 1776. Being the general fast appointed by the Congress through the United Colonies. To which is added, an address to the natives of Scotland residing in America.
Creator: Witherspoon, John 1723-1794
Abstract/Description: By John Witherspoon, D.D. President of the College of New-Jersey. The dominion of providence over the passions of men. : a sermon, preached at Princeton, May 17, 1775, being the general fast appointed by the Congress through the United Colonies. Includes Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794. Address to the natives of Scotland residing in America. Publisher London ; Philadelphia printed; London reprinted : for Fielding and Walker, No. 20, Pater-Noster-Row Creation Date MDCCLXXVIII. 1778
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb6f4
Subject Headings: Allegiance -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Religious aspects -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Bible -- Psalms LXXVI, 10 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Fast day sermons -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- Early works to 1800, Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Presbyterian Church in America -- Early works to 1800, Sermons, American -- 18th century, Scots -- America -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: A sermon, containing Scriptural instructions to civil rulers, and all free-born subjects.
Creator: Sherwood, Samuel 1730-1783, Baldwin, Ebenezer 1745-1776
Abstract/Description: In which the principles of sound policy and good government are established and vindicated ; and some doctrines advanced and zealously propagated by New-England Tories, are considered and refuted. : Delivered on the public fast, August 31, 1774. : With an address to the freemen of the colony. by Samuel Sherwood, A.M. Pastor of a church of Christ in Fairfield. ; Also, an appendix, stating the heavy grievances the colonies labour under from several late acts of the British Parliament, and...
Show moreIn which the principles of sound policy and good government are established and vindicated ; and some doctrines advanced and zealously propagated by New-England Tories, are considered and refuted. : Delivered on the public fast, August 31, 1774. : With an address to the freemen of the colony. by Samuel Sherwood, A.M. Pastor of a church of Christ in Fairfield. ; Also, an appendix, stating the heavy grievances the colonies labour under from several late acts of the British Parliament, and shewing what we have just reason to expect the consequences of these measures will be. By the Rev. Ebenezer Baldwin, of Danbury. ; [Five lines of quotations].
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PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb2f20
Subject Headings: Bible -- Samuel, 2nd, XXIII, 3 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Fast day sermons -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- Early works to 1800, Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Kings and rulers -- Duties -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Sermons, American -- 18th century, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Sources -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: L'avocat pour et contre, ou, Resumé historique et philosophique de tout ce qu'on a écrit sur la liberté du commerce des munitions navales : suivi du jugement des plaideurs.
Creator: Cerisier, Antoine Marie 1749-1828
Abstract/Description: Alternate title: Resumé historique et philosophique de tout ce qu'on a écrit sur la liberté du commerce des munitions navales. "Fictitious debate between Joseph Yorke, Baron Dover (British ambassador to The Hague) and the duc de la Vauguyon (French ambassador to The Hague) on issues of Dutch neutrality, shipment of naval munitions by the Netherlands to France, and seizure of Dutch ships by the British. Vauguyon defends the U.S. cause and reviews events in the U.S."--Echeverria & Wilkie. ...
Show moreAlternate title: Resumé historique et philosophique de tout ce qu'on a écrit sur la liberté du commerce des munitions navales. "Fictitious debate between Joseph Yorke, Baron Dover (British ambassador to The Hague) and the duc de la Vauguyon (French ambassador to The Hague) on issues of Dutch neutrality, shipment of naval munitions by the Netherlands to France, and seizure of Dutch ships by the British. Vauguyon defends the U.S. cause and reviews events in the U.S."--Echeverria & Wilkie. "Sometimes ascribed to Antoine-Marie Cerisier."--Echeverria & Wilkie. Signatures: *² A-D⁸ E². Includes bibliographical references.
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PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb18f6
Subject Headings: Anglo French War, 1778-1783 -- Early works to 1800, France -- Foreign relations -- Netherlands -- History -- 18th century -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Netherlands -- History -- 18th century -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- Foreign relations -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, French -- Sources -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: Rabshakeh's proposals considered : in a sermon, delivered at Groton February 21, 1775, at the desire of the officers of the companies of minute men in that town.
Creator: Webster, Samuel 1743-1777, Edes and Gill
Abstract/Description: By Samuel Webster, A.M., pastor of the church at Temple in New-Hampshire. Half-title: Mr. Webster's Sermon to two companies of minute men. February 21st, 1775. Notes: Signatures:[A]⁴ B-D⁴. (D4 blank). FAU copy trimmed to 19 cm; side stiched with brown cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb3f16
Subject Headings: American Revolution (1775-1783), Bible -- Kings, 2nd, XVIII, 30-32 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Groton (N.H. : Town) -- History, Military -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Groton (N.H. : Town) -- Militia -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800, Massachusetts -- Groton, Minutemen (Militia) -- 18th century -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, New Hampshire -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, New Hampshire -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Sources -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: A Friendly Address.
Creator: Chandler, Thomas Bradbury 1726-1790, Cooper, Myles 1737-1785
Abstract/Description: A friendly address to all reasonable Americans, on the subject of our political confusions: in which the necessary consequences of violently opposing the king's troops, and of a general non-importation are fairly stated, Attributed to Thomas Bradbury Chandler and Myles Cooper -- Free thoughts, on the proceedings of the Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia Sept. 5, 1774: wherein their errors are exhibited, their reasonings confuted, and the fatal tendency of their non-importation, non...
Show moreA friendly address to all reasonable Americans, on the subject of our political confusions: in which the necessary consequences of violently opposing the king's troops, and of a general non-importation are fairly stated, Attributed to Thomas Bradbury Chandler and Myles Cooper -- Free thoughts, on the proceedings of the Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia Sept. 5, 1774: wherein their errors are exhibited, their reasonings confuted, and the fatal tendency of their non-importation, non-exportation, and non-consumption measures, are laid open to the plainest understandings; and the only means pointed out for preserving and securing our present happy constitution: in a letter to the farmers, and other inhabitants of North America in general, and to those of the province of New-York in particular / by a farmer. Attributed to Samuel Seabury, sometimes also attributed to Isaac Wilkins. Pages 52-56: Includes "Postscript" with extracts from the Capitulation of Canada and the Treaty of Paris. Anonymous. Attributed to Thomas Bradbury Chandler by NUC pre-1956 imprints and in Chandler’s "Loyalist claim." Also attributed to Myles Cooper. For evidence of authorship, cf. Vance, C.H. "Myles Cooper" (Columbia university quarterly, Sept. 1930, vol. XXII, no. 3, p. 275-276). FAU Libraries' copy inscribed at bottom of title-page: "Dr. Chandler of New Jersey." Appears to have been trimmed; rebound in contemporary patterned leather binding with gold tooling on spine and covers; all gilt edges. The endpapers are marbled. FAU Libraries has 3 different physical versions see Weiner Speeches Box 2 Folder 16 and Box 3 Folder 14
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PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb2f16
Subject Headings: Chandler, Thomas Bradbury 1726-1790 Friendly address to all reasonable Americans, on the subject of our political confusions, Cooper, Myles 1737-1785 Friendly address to all reasonable Americans, on the subject of our political confusions, Seabury, Samuel 1729-1796 Free thoughts, on the proceedings of the Continental Congress, Wilkins, Isaac 1742-1830 Free thoughts, on the proceedings of the Continental Congress, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, American Revolution (1775-1783)
Format: E-book

Title: Defensive war in a just cause sinless. : A sermon.
Creator: Jones, David 1736-1820, Miller, John Henry 1702-1782
Abstract/Description: Signatures: A-C⁴ D² (D2 verso blank). FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 18 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb4f16
Subject Headings: Fast day sermons -- 1775 July 20, Fast day sermons -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- Early works to 1800, Chester County (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Early works to 1800, American Revolution (1775-1783), Just war doctrine -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Sermons, American -- 18th century, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800, Bible -- Nehemiah IV, 14 -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: The age of William A. Dunning: the realm of myth meets the yellow brick road.
Creator: Barsalou, Kathleen P., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Stripped of the intent of its author, L. Frank Baum, the children's fairy tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was left to be understood only within a changing cultural construct. Historian Hayden White, arguing that the similarities between a novel and a work of history were more significant than their differences, insisted that history was preeminently a subsection of literature. According to White, historical narratives were manifestly verbal fictions, and the only acceptable grounds upon which...
Show moreStripped of the intent of its author, L. Frank Baum, the children's fairy tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was left to be understood only within a changing cultural construct. Historian Hayden White, arguing that the similarities between a novel and a work of history were more significant than their differences, insisted that history was preeminently a subsection of literature. According to White, historical narratives were manifestly verbal fictions, and the only acceptable grounds upon which the historian should choose his historical perspective were the moral and the aesthetic. White conflated historical consciousness with myth and blurred the boundary that had long divided history from fiction. Just as changing cultural concerns infused the Dorothy of Baum's children's literature with meaning so social, cultural, and moral imperatives came to dictate the content of historical stories particularly in the historiography of the Reconstruction era. The twenty first century conception of Reconstruction is different from the conception influential at the start of the twentieth. In assessing the scholarship of William A. Dunning, contemporary historians have adopted a new paradigm when describing the scholar's Reconstruction accounts. Modern commentators reject Dunning's authorial intention and the contextual framework needed to define it. Thus, Dunning has receded into the "realm of myth." Careful attendance to Dunning's historical context, contemporary audience, and his authorial intent, will reposition the perspective for analysis of Dunning's work. Removing Dunning from abstract analysis will allow historians to arrive at an understanding of his work, and view the importance of the real Dunning, rather than the fabricated image constructed from a partial and even fragmented reading of his work., Taking Dunning on his own terms restores a meaningful past and brings into bas-relief the tremendous advances the U. S. of twenty first century has made in reshaping social and political patterns.Taking theReconstruction era on its own terms impels historians to move beyond Dunning and return in their research to revisit primary records and documents as they work to clear the grisly ground of Reconstruction historiography for further fruitful examination.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/107801
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Political and social views, Criticism and interpretation, Wizard of Oz (Fictitious character), Oz (Imaginary place), Politics and literature, Criticism and interpretation
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Title: The prairie and the pampas: a comparison of settlement policy and environmental influences on epic literature in the United States and Argentina.
Creator: Budinger, David., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis will examine the governmental settlement policies in two similar topographical areas, the North American prairie and the South American pampas. Specifically, three novels by Willa Cather, will be included: My Antonia, O Pioneers!, and A Lost Lady. They will be discussed in relation to the development of Nebraska as afforded by the Homestead Act of 1862 and compared to the very different land settlement policies of Argentina as conveyed through the Argentinian national epic poem El...
Show moreThis thesis will examine the governmental settlement policies in two similar topographical areas, the North American prairie and the South American pampas. Specifically, three novels by Willa Cather, will be included: My Antonia, O Pioneers!, and A Lost Lady. They will be discussed in relation to the development of Nebraska as afforded by the Homestead Act of 1862 and compared to the very different land settlement policies of Argentina as conveyed through the Argentinian national epic poem El Gaucho Martin Fierro by Josâe Hernâandez. Particular attention will be made to the influence of the land and its creatures as a shaping influence on the characters created by the authors. There will be additional examination of the effect these works had on historical development within their respective countries, which will involve social and political analysis to place the literature within the historical perspectives of both countries.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3332177
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Epic poetry, Argentine literature, Criticism and interpretation, Environmentalism, Environmentalism
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