The American Historical Review
The American Historical Review

Author: John Franklin Jameson

Publisher:

Published: 1898

Total Pages: 822

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.

They “... Fought Bravely, but Were Unfortunate:”
They “... Fought Bravely, but Were Unfortunate:”

Author: Daniel M. Popek

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-11-05

Total Pages: 1062

ISBN-13: 1496908988

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Rhode Island’s “Black Regiment” of the American Revolutionary War is fairly well-known to students of American History. Most published histories of the small colored battalion from Rhode Island are clearly biased in favor of the “regiment” and tend to interpret it as an elite military unit. However, a detailed study and analysis of Rhode Island’s segregated Continental Line by the author reveals a “military experiment” that was beset with difficulties from its start and ultimately failed as a segregated unit in 1780. In this work, many of the popular stories of Rhode Island’s “Black Regiment” are proven to be myths. Follow the accurate historical stories of the colored and white soldiers of Rhode Island’s Continental Line whose courage and sacrifices helped create an independent nation.

Past Imperfect
Past Imperfect

Author: Lawrence W. Towner

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1993-06-15

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780226810423

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The essays and talks gathered in Past Imperfect cover a broad range of topics of continuing relevance to the humanities and to scholarship in general. Part I collects Towner's historical essays on the indentured servants, apprentices, and slaves of colonial New England that are standards of the "new social history." The pieces in Part II express his vision of the library as an institution for research and education; here he discusses the rationale for the creation of research centers, the Newberry's pioneering policies for conservation and preservation, and the ways in which collections were built. In Part III Towner writes revealingly of his co-workers and mentors. Part IV assembles his statements as "spokesman for the humanities," addressing questions of national priorities in funding, and of so-called elitist scholarship versus public programs.