The Loyalist Conscience

The Loyalist Conscience

Author: Chaim M. Rosenberg

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-09-05

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1476672458

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Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from all walks of life were branded as traitors and enemies of the people. By the end of the war, 80,000 had fled their homeland to face a dismal exile from which few would return, outcasts of a new republic based on democratic values of liberty, equality and justice.


The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England

The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England

Author: Thomas N. Ingersoll

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-24

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1316841871

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The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England begins with a snapshot of the region on the eve of the Boston Tea Party. The colonists' Republican tradition helped them spark the Revolution, but their special history also threatened the unity of the United States throughout the Revolutionary War, for Loyalists tried to discredit New Englanders as a naturally rebellious people. Yet Ingersoll shows that the rebels never sought to drive the dissenters out of the new nation, and accorded them a remarkable degree of liberal toleration, with the great majority of Loyalists ultimately becoming citizens of the new states.


From Empire to Humanity

From Empire to Humanity

Author: Amanda B. Moniz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0190240369

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In the decades before the Revolution, Americans and Britons shared an imperial approach to helping those in need during times of disaster and hardship. They worked together on charitable ventures designed to strengthen the British empire, and ordinary men and women made donations for faraway members of the British community. Growing up in this world of connections, future activists from the British Isles, North America, and the West Indies developed expansive outlooks and transatlantic ties. The schism created by the Revolution fractured the community that nurtured this generation of philanthropists. In From Empire to Humanity, Amanda Moniz tells the story of a generation of American and British activists who transformed humanitarianism as they adjusted to being foreigners. American independence put an end to their common imperial humanitarianism, but not their friendships, their far-reaching visions, or their belief that philanthropy was a tool of statecraft. In the postwar years, these philanthropists, led by doctor-activists, collaborated on the anti-drowning cause, spread new medical charities, combatted the slave trade, reformed penal practices, and experimented with relieving needy strangers. The nature of their cooperation, however, had changed. No longer members of the same polity, they adopted a universal approach to their benevolence, working together for the good of humanity, rather than empire. Making the care of suffering strangers routine, these British and American activists laid the groundwork for later generations' global undertakings. From Empire to Humanity offers new perspectives on the history of philanthropy, as well as the Atlantic world and colonial and postcolonial history.


The American Historical Review

The American Historical Review

Author: John Franklin Jameson

Publisher:

Published: 1902

Total Pages: 898

ISBN-13:

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American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.


Henry McCulloh and Son Henry Eustace McCulloh

Henry McCulloh and Son Henry Eustace McCulloh

Author: Stewart Dunaway

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-11-02

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 1458378519

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This is an exhaustive reference book on Henry McCulloh and his son Henry Eustace McCulloh. Henry McCulloh received a grant for 1.2 million acres of land from King George II. Read about the details of this grant, the issues they face. Included is the family history (genealogy), records from their church in England, and every account about their land being confiscated. No other book has been dedicated to this subject, with this amount of detail.


Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 3

Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 3

Author: Rachel Cope

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1000561127

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This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change. Volume 3: Managing Families, I The sources included here document the economics of running a household, the experience of being a sibling and information on family inheritance and genealogy. Specifics on home economics include information on food and cooking, washing laundry, insurance inventories and plantation accounts.


Women's Letters

Women's Letters

Author: Lisa Grunwald

Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Published: 2009-01-21

Total Pages: 833

ISBN-13: 0307493334

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Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.