Download or read book John Gorham Palfrey and the New England Conscience With Portraits written by Frank Otto Gatell and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Gorham Palfrey 1796 1881 written by Paul Alton Marshall Gross and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Gorham Palfrey and the New England Conscience written by Frank Otto Gatell and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New England of his day regarded John Gorham Palfrey's life as blameless and exemplary, a nineteenth-century "monument to the Puritan ideal of rectitude." Yet he himself once called it "his personal tragicomedy." At least, it was diverse, for Palfrey had been historian, Harvard educator, Unitarian minister, Massachusetts politician, editor of the North American Review, and crusader against slavery, and himself an emancipator. During his lifetime, from 1796 to 1881, Palfrey participated, sometimes reluctantly, in revolutionary changes in the political, economic, and intellectual climate of New England. In his stormy political career, Palfrey not only was Massachusetts Secretary of State, member of Congress, and Postmaster of Boston, but also played a key role in the formation of the Free Soil Party. When the Whigs, in the name of national unity and compromise, seemed to ignore the moral necessities of the slavery question, he joined with such men as Charles Francis Adams, Charles Sumner and Richard Henry Dana, Jr., to reaffirm traditional moral values. From this struggle, Palfrey emerged a political loser. Hampered by inflexibility, he laterretreated to his study to write his massive history of New England, nursing his disappointment and cherishing his sense of rectitude. We are left with the image of a man whose achievements were substantial, perhaps because he insisted upon making his life a Bay State morality play. For this biography of Palfrey, Gatell has used papers of Palfrey's contemporaries and of the Palfrey family manuscripts, among them an unpublished autobiography, itself a search for meaning in a long and perplexing life.
Download or read book A History of New England written by John Gorham Palfrey and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Compendious History of New England from the Discovery by Europeans to the First General Congress of the Anglo American Colonies written by John Gorham Palfrey and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of New England written by John Gorham Palfrey and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of New England written by John Gorham Palfrey and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1876-01-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Washington s Crossing written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined. Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning.
Download or read book A Legacy of New England written by Hannah Palfrey Ayer and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palfrey family history and the Palfrey family letters, particularly those to and from John Gorham Palfrey (1796-1881) and his wife, Mary Ann (Hammond) Palfrey (1800-1898) of Boston, Massachusetts. He as a minister of church in Boston, and then taught at Harvard University. Still later he served in the state and then national legislature, before becoming a lecturer and then a historian of New New England, which included spending much research in England and Scotland (from whence came his letters to the family). Through the influence of friends in Washington, he served as the postmaster of Boston, while doing much of the writing of this history.
Download or read book John Gorham Palfrey Letters written by John Gorham Palfrey and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four autograph letters and notes from John Gorham Palfrey, signed, ranging in date from 1842 to 1857. (One note is undated.) Correspondence is addresses to "Mr. Taylor," "Mr Brooks," and Bluie, Rives & Co.
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Download or read book Courage and Conscience written by Donald M. Jacobs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by first-rate scholars, these 10 essays give focus to the antislavery movement in Boston, particularly to the significance of African American abolitionists." --Choice "... handsome, lavishly illustrated, and informative... " --The New England Quarterly "... this work is a thoughtful, long overdue discourse on individual and group accomplishments. It is replete with absorbing illustrations, which when accompanied by insightful essays, depict the courage of those who labored for equality in antebellum Boston." --Journal of the Early Republic Until recently little was known of the contributions of African Americans in the antebellum abolition movement. Massachusetts, having granted voting rights early on to black males, was a center of antislavery agitation. Courage and Conscience documents the black activism in 19th-century Boston that was critical to the success of the abolitionist cause.
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Download or read book John Gorham Palfrey His Early Life and Political Career 1796 1853 written by Frank Otto Gatell and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
