The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era Through Reconstruction

by Calhoun, Charles W.; Salisbury, Neal; Westerkamp, Marilyn; Beiler, Rosalind J.; Allison, Robert J.; Hewitt, Gary L.; Shy, John; Nash, Gary B.; Miller, Marla R.; McCall, Laura; Akers, Donna L.; Price, George R.; Jabour, Anya; Deese, Helen; Mayfield, John;

• ISBN13: 9780842050319
• ISBN10: 0842050310
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction is a collection of the best biographical sketches from several volumes in SR Books' popular Human Tradition in America Series. Compiled by Series Editor Charles W. Calhoun, this book brings American history to life by illuminating the lives of ordinary Americans. This examination of common individuals helps personalize the nation's past in a way that examining only broad concepts and forces cannot. By including a wide range of people with respect to ethnicity, race, gender and geographic region, Prof. Calhoun has developed a text that highlights the diversity of the American experience.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Squanto: Last of the Patuxet	p. 1
Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the Power of the Spirit	p. 17
Caspar Wistar: German-American Entrepreneur and Cultural Broker	p. 39
Olaudah Equiano: An African in Slavery and Freedom	p. 59
Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Vegetables and Virtue	p. 73
Benjamin Gilbert and Jacob Nagle: Soldiers of the American Revolution	p. 95
Absalom Jones and the African Church of Philadelphia: "To Arise out of the Dust"	p. 117
Rebecca Dickinson: A Life Alone in the Early Republic	p. 143
Sacagawea: A Historical Enigma	p. 163
Peter P. Pitchlynn: Race and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America	p. 179
Hosea Easton: Forgotten Abolitionist "Giant"	p. 195
Laura Wirt Randall: A Woman's Life, 1803-1833	p. 211
Caroline Healey Dall: Transcendentalist Activist	p. 227
George Washington Harris: The Fool from the Hills	p. 241
Sgt. Peter Welsh: "Is That Not Worth Fiting For?"	p. 255
Winfield Scott Hancock: "The Knightly Corps Commander"	p. 269
LaSalle Corbell Pickett: "What Happened to Me"	p. 285
Willis Augustus Hodges: "We Are Now Coming to New Things"	p. 297
Index	p. 309
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