Institutional Life
Institutional Life

Author: Neil L. Shumsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-23

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1135604738

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First Published in 1996. Volume 8 in the 8-volume series titled American Cities: A Collection of Essays. This series brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. Volume 8 discusses several institutions that are uniquely urban: voluntary associations, vigilance committees, and organized police forces. These articles attempt to consider race and ethnicity class, gender, and the various experiences of different groups of Americans.

The Catholic Philanthropic Tradition in America
The Catholic Philanthropic Tradition in America

Author: Mary J. Oates

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1995-05-22

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780253113597

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From their earliest days in America, Catholics organized to initiate and support charitable activities. A rapidly growing church community, although marked by widening church and ethnic differences, developed the extensive network of orphanages, hospitals, schools, and social agencies that came to represent the Catholic way of giving. But changing economic, political, and social conditions have often provoked sharp debate within the church about the obligation to give, priorities in giving, appropriate organization of religious charity, and the locus of authority over philanthropic resources. This first history of Catholic philanthropy in the United States chronicles the rich tradition of the church's charitable activities and the increasing tension between centralized control of giving and democratic participation.

The Frederick Douglass Papers
The Frederick Douglass Papers

Author: Frederick Douglass

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2009-12-08

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 0300135602

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This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass’s correspondence was richly varied, from relatively obscure slaveholders and fugitive slaves to poets and politicians, including Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, Susan B. Anthony, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The letters acquaint us with Douglass’s many roles—politician, abolitionist, diplomat, runaway slave, women’s rights advocate, and family man—and include many previously unpublished letters between Douglass and members of his family. Douglass stood at the epicenter of the political, social, intellectual, and cultural issues of antebellum America. This collection of Douglass’s early correspondence illuminates not only his growth as an activist and writer, but the larger world of the times and the abolition movement as well.

A Fluid Frontier
A Fluid Frontier

Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2016-02-15

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0814339603

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Scholars of the Underground Railroad as well as those in borderland studies will appreciate the interdisciplinary mix and unique contributions of this volume.