At the start of the nineteenth century, churches in Providence sought to bring together rich and poor "as Members of One great Family". Within a few decades, however, congregations had split along class lines, with plebeian men and women choosing to worship at their own meetinghouses. In this innovative and compelling history, Mark S. Schantz explores the relationship between religious culture and class formation in a New England ...

This book chronicles the political and intellectual development of the two major antebellum peace movements. The American Peace Society, a moderate peace group, aimed to work through the institutions of church and state to achieve peace. The New England Nonresistant Society constituted a radical group which advocated the individual's complete separation from all institutions and strict adherence to the example of Christ's life and teachings. ...

Volume 17 of 50. The Chronicles of America Series is dedicated to presenting the main facts surrounding American history and the interesting historical stories behind civilization in America. In the present work, the reader will find a chronicle of the War of 1812 in the Fight for a Free Sea. ...

This sixth volume of The Papers of Andrew Jackson documents the election of Andrew Jackson, the first westerner and the last veteran of the American Revolution, to the presidency.<P>The four years of this volume chronicle the presidential campaign of 1828. Jackson, winner of the popular vote in 1824 but loser of the election, was once again the reluctant candidate, called into service by the voice of the voters. The campaign, one of the ...

Wise (1806-1876) was extremely active on the Virginia and national political scene from the early 1830s to the mid-1860s, drawing popular support because of his projection of hopefulness and energy. Regarded as eccentric, Wise is given, in this study, an interpretation that finds consistency in his life-long controversial and impulsive behavior. Simpson stresses Wise's ambivalent attitude toward slaves and slave-holding, authority and authority ...

"Durwood Dunn's incisive portrait of Ezekiel Birdseye not only enlightens in rich and startling ways our understanding of race relations, politics, and economic development for a substantial portion of the mountain South, it is equally as significant a contribution to the growing scholarship on American abolitionism. One finishes this book baffled by the fact that so vital a voice in the antislavery movement has been overlooked by so many for so ...

First published in 1973, this book remains the authoritative work on the various radical movements that grew out of antislavery ideas in the 1840s and 1850s. Lewis Perry argues that the idea of the government of God was central to the abolitionists' conviction that slavery was a sin: no person could claim to be master over another without violating divine sovereignty. Potentially anarchistic, this view posed challenges to other forms of ...

This volume is a collection of essays originally presented at the Louisiana Purchase Conference, which marked the purchase's bicentinnial. The authors, experts in their fields, offer a revisionist take on many historically underrepresented aspects of the purchase. ...

Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field of gender studies, incorporating an analysis of masculinity into the history of early American religion and reform. His is a holistic account that reveals the contested meanings of manhood and womanhood among antebellum Americans, both black and white, middle class and working ...

Appalachia's transformation from farms to coalfields has been previously analyzed from divergent viewpoints. Robert Weise now offers a new understanding of preindustrial Appalachia and its transition to industrial capitalism, reconstructing the social and economic behavior of local residents to show how the circumstances that defined the region's household economy also predisposed it to exploitation.<P>Examining economic marginalization, ...