Heroic Reputations and Exemplary Lives
Heroic Reputations and Exemplary Lives

Author: Geoffrey Cubitt

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Covering periods ranging from the later Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century, these essays combine to offer a wide-ranging examination of the place of hero-worship and of exemplary biography in modern history and culture. The book seeks to contribute to a growing historical literature on the cults and reputations of heroes and other exemplary figures such as Plato, Isaac Newton, David Livingstone, Captain Scott, Florence Nightingale and Nelson Mandela. The essays explore and illustrate the diverse ways in which the lives and characters of specific individuals have been used as devices for talking about moral and cultural values and political and social identities.

Marking Stockbridge's Past
Marking Stockbridge's Past

Author: Maria L. Carr

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-04-14

Total Pages: 386

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Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a small town located in the southern portion of Berkshire County, has a varied and fascinating history. Some of which are found in the form of monuments, plaques, and markers that honor the events and people that helped shape the town into what it has become today. This book is a compilation of those monuments, plaques, and markers, and the history behind them.

The Gateway District
The Gateway District

Author: Shirley Pomeroy

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 1997-09-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738564258

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The Gateway District in Massachusetts is composed of seven towns served by the Gateway School System: Huntington, Russell, Montgomery, Worthington, Middlefield, Chester, and Blandford. Nestled comfortably together along the banks of the Westfield River and its tributaries, these seven small towns have worked together for over one hundred and fifty years to build a community. This photographic essay chronicles the development of these towns and villages from their earliest days. In the beginning, many were farming communities, sustaining themselves with the earth's bounty. With industrialization in the nineteenth century came numerous mills along the river, and the seven rural towns were forever changed. A look at the people, places, and events of this period will prove surprising for many, and will certainly preserve valuable information about the region's history for generations to come.