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Book Theodore Parker Anniversaries of Birth and Death

Download or read book Theodore Parker Anniversaries of Birth and Death written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theodore Parker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Steele Commager
  • Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 0933840152
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Theodore Parker written by Henry Steele Commager and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 1982 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Look at the Life of Theodore Parker

Download or read book A Look at the Life of Theodore Parker written by James Freeman Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emerson and Theodore Parker

Download or read book Emerson and Theodore Parker written by Edwin Doak Mead and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gettysburg Address

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  • Author : Sean Conant
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015-04-24
  • ISBN : 019022746X
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book The Gettysburg Address written by Sean Conant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the most famous speech Lincoln ever gave, and one of the most important orations in the history of the nation. Delivered on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead, the Gettysburg Address defined the central meaning of the Civil War and gave cause for the nation's incredible suffering. The poetic language and moral sentiment inspired listeners at the time, and have continued to resonate powerfully with groups and individuals up to the present day. What gives this speech its enduring significance? This collection of essays, from some of the best-known scholars in the field, answers that question. Placing the Address in complete historical and cultural context and approaching it from a number of fresh perspectives, the volume first identifies how Lincoln was influenced by great thinkers on his own path toward literary and oratory genius. Among others, Nicholas P. Cole draws parallels between the Address and classical texts of Antiquity, and Craig L. Symonds explores Daniel Webster's influence. The second half of the collection then examines the many ways in which the Gettysburg Address has been interpreted, perceived, and utilized in the past 150 years. Since 1863, African Americans, immigrants, women, gay rights activists, and international figures have invoked the speech's language and righteous sentiments on their respective paths toward freedom and equality. Essays include Louis P. Masur on the role the Address played in eventual emancipation; Jean H. Baker on the speech's importance to the women's rights movement; and Don H. Doyle on the Address's international legacy. Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg in a defining moment for America, but as the essays in this collection attest, his message is universal and timeless. This work brings together the foremost experts in the field to illuminate the many ways in which that message continues to endure.

Book American Heretic

Download or read book American Heretic written by Dean Grodzins and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as "government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people--words that inspired Abraham Lincoln. Parker had more influence than anyone except Ralph Waldo Emerson in shaping Transcendentalism in America. In American Heretic, Dean Grodzins offers a compelling account of the remarkable first phase of Parker's career, when this complex man--charismatic yet awkward, brave yet insecure--rose from poverty and obscurity to fame and notoriety as a Transcendentalist prophet. Grodzins reveals hitherto hidden facets of Parker's life, including his love for a woman who was not his wife, and presents fresh perspectives on Transcendentalism. Grodzins explores Transcendentalism's religious roots, shows the profound religious and political issues at stake in the "Transcendentalist controversy," and offers new insights into Parker's Transcendentalist colleagues, including Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott. He traces, too, the intellectual origins of Parker's epochal definition of democracy as government of, by, and for the people. The manuscript of this book was awarded the Allan Nevins Prize by the Society of American Historians.

Book Dictionary of Early American Philosophers

Download or read book Dictionary of Early American Philosophers written by John R. Shook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences. Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.

Book The Reform Advocate

Download or read book The Reform Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unity

Download or read book Unity written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christian Register and Boston Observer

Download or read book Christian Register and Boston Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great American Speech

Download or read book The Great American Speech written by Stephen Fender and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The land of the free and home of the brave, America is also the country in which this truth is supposedly self-evident: that we are all equal. It may not seem so at first, but there is a startling gap between these two visions of America, one more evident in today’s fiercely partisan politics that pit free enterprise against social justice. In this fascinating look at America’s most memorable speeches—which have become monuments in national memory—Stephen Fender explores the ways American speechcraft has kept alive a dream of equality and cooperation in the face of economic forces that have favored competition and the pursuit to get ahead. Beginning with the early American settlers and the two contrasting visions they set out—one competitive, the other cooperative—Fender traces the development of the latter through a series of dramatic addresses. He examines the inaugural speeches of early presidents such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, moving to Abraham Lincoln’s arguments—at once logical and passionate—for maintaining the Union, and then on to the twentieth century’s great orators, such as John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. He also looks at the notion of the “great American speech” in popular culture, exploring both the usual places—such as movie courtroom scenes—where it pops up, as well as its unexpected ubiquity in adventure films, thrillers, or any story where equality and justice come under threat. Through his exploration of great speeches, Fender paints the picture of two simultaneous and free-standing visions of American identity, offering a sophisticated look at American ideological history.

Book Proceedings at the     Annual Meeting

Download or read book Proceedings at the Annual Meeting written by Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christian Faith and Life

Download or read book Christian Faith and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Freedom and the Churches

Download or read book Freedom and the Churches written by Charles William Wendte and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings at the     Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association

Download or read book Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association written by Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: