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Book Hail Columbia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Lohman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0190930616
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Hail Columbia written by Laura Lohman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hail Columbia! is the compelling story of patriotic songs-such as "Yankee Doodle" and "The Star-Spangled Banner"-used as fiery political propaganda between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars in America.

Book Harnessing Harmony

Download or read book Harnessing Harmony written by Billy Coleman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse population. In this pathbreaking account, Billy Coleman uses the history of American music to illuminate the relationship between elite power and the people from the early national period to the Civil War. Based on deep archival research in sources such as music periodicals, songbooks, and manuals for musical instruction, Coleman argues that a particular ideal of musical power provided conservative elites with an attractive road map for producing the harmonious union they desired. He reassesses the logic behind the decision to compose popular patriotic anthems like "The Star-Spangled Banner," reconsiders the purpose of early American campaign songs, and brings to life a host of often forgotten but fascinating musical organizations and individuals. The result is not only a striking interpretation of music in American political life but also a fresh understanding of conflicts that continue to animate American democracy.

Book American Sanctuary

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. Roger Ekirch
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2018-11-20
  • ISBN : 0525563636
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book American Sanctuary written by A. Roger Ekirch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico. Jonathan Robbins, a reputed American sailor who had been impressed into service, made his way to American shores. President John Adams bowed to Britain’s request for his extradition. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was hanged. Adams’s catastrophic miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by Robbins’s failure to receive his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury by an American court. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in riveting detail the story of how the Robbins affair, amid the turbulent presidential campaign of 1800, inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams’s defeat and Thomas Jefferson’s election as the third president of the United States. Robbins’s martyrdom led directly to the country’s historic decision to grant political asylum to foreign refugees—a major achievement in fulfilling the promise of American independence.

Book Beyond the Founders

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  • Author : Jeffrey L. Pasley
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009-11-04
  • ISBN : 080789883X
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Founders written by Jeffrey L. Pasley and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans, as well as the Adamses, Jeffersons, and Jacksons, all struggling in their own ways to shape the new nation and express their ideas of American democracy. Taking inspiration from the new cultural and social histories, these political historians show that the early history of the United States was not just the product of a few "founding fathers," but was also marked by widespread and passionate popular involvement; print media more politically potent than that of later eras; and political conflicts and influences that crossed lines of race, gender, and class. Contributors: John L. Brooke, The Ohio State University Andrew R. L. Cayton, Miami University (Ohio) Saul Cornell, The Ohio State University Seth Cotlar, Willamette University Reeve Huston, Duke University Nancy Isenberg, University of Tulsa Richard R. John, University of Illinois at Chicago Albrecht Koschnik, Florida State University Rich Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology Jeffrey L. Pasley, University of Missouri, Columbia Andrew W. Robertson, City University of New York William G. Shade, Lehigh University David Waldstreicher, Temple University Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University

Book The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

Download or read book The Shoemaker and the Tea Party written by Alfred F. Young and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-01-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was 'discovered' and celebrated in Boston as a national hero. Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights about the role that individual and collective memory play in shaping our understanding of history.

Book In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes

Download or read book In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes written by David Waldstreicher and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local politics to national identity. Waldstreicher reveals how Americans worked out their political differences in creating a festive calendar. Using the Fourth of July as a model, members of different political parties and social movements invented new holidays celebrating such events as the ratification of the Constitution, Washington's birthday, Jefferson's inauguration, and the end of the slave trade. They used these politicized rituals, he argues, to build constituencies and to make political arguments on a national scale. While these celebrations enabled nonvoters to participate intimately in the political process and helped dissenters forge effective means of protest, they had their limits as vehicles of democratization or modes of citizenship, Waldstreicher says. Exploring the interplay of region, race, class, and gender in the development of a national identity, he demonstrates that an acknowledgment of the diversity and conflict inherent in the process is crucial to any understanding of American politics and culture.

Book Magazine of Wit and American Harmonist

Download or read book Magazine of Wit and American Harmonist written by and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music in New Jersey  1655 1860

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles H. Kaufman
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN : 9780838622704
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Music in New Jersey 1655 1860 written by Charles H. Kaufman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employs nearly 4,000 names of music teachers, performers, instrument, makers, and tradesmen who contributed to the musical upbringing of one of our nation's earliest-settled regions. Also includes a study of sacred and secular music, concert life, music education, publications, and the music trades in New Jersey in this period.

Book Collected Works

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  • Author : Stephen Jenks
  • Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 0895793164
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Collected Works written by Stephen Jenks and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ulster Harmonist  Consisting of Constitutional Songs  Original and Selected  with Historical and Biographical Notes

Download or read book The Ulster Harmonist Consisting of Constitutional Songs Original and Selected with Historical and Biographical Notes written by Robert YOUNG (the “Fermanagh True Blue.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Historical Magazine

Download or read book The Historical Magazine written by John Ward Dean and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Swear like a Sailor

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  • Author : Paul A. Gilje
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2016-02-15
  • ISBN : 131648310X
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book To Swear like a Sailor written by Paul A. Gilje and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.

Book Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Yvonne Fuentes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection of essays focuses on the topic of protest during the Enlightenment of the long eighteenth century (roughly 1670-1833). Resistance in the eighteenth century was extensive, and the act of protest to foment meaningful societal change took on many forms from the circulation of ballads, swearing of oaths, to riots and work stoppages, or the composition of essays, novels, posters, caricatures, political cartoons, as well as theater and opera. The contributors to this volume examine the causes of protest as well as the broad ways in which common artifacts such as poles, trees, drums, conchs, and songs acted as flashpoints for conflict and vehicles of protest. Rather than approaching the topic with strict geographical, temporal, and structural limitations, this book focuses on the time period from an international perspective and an interdisciplinary scope. Because of its wide scope, this book is an important contribution to the subject that will be of interest to both faculty and students of the history of protest, resistance and the changes that these forces bring as it also reminds us that the protests of today are rooted in historical resistances of the past.

Book  The Star Spangled Banner

Download or read book The Star Spangled Banner written by Oscar George Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Star Spangled Banner

Download or read book The Star Spangled Banner written by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: