Lives and Times Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877

by Browne, Blaine T.; Cottrell, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780742561922
• ISBN10: 0742561925
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Lives And Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose activities and ideas were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, the book consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiledincluding Mary Dyer and Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson and Tecumseh, and John Brown and Abraham Lincolnbut also themes spanning political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual, and military history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Blaine T. Browne is professor of history at Broward College. Robert C. Cottrell is professor of history at California State University. Together, they have coauthored Uncertain Order: The World in the Twentieth Century, Lives and Legacies: Biographies in Western Civilization, and Modern American Lives: Biographies in American History since 1945.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Orthodoxy and Dissent in Puritan New England	p. 1
Mary Dyer	p. 3
Cotton Mather	p. 12
Awakening and Enlightenment	p. 25
Jonathan Edwards	p. 27
Benjamin Franklin	p. 34
Revolutionaries	p. 49
Thomas Paine	p. 50
Mercy Otis Warren	p. 60
Republicans, Federalists, Virginians	p. 71
Thomas Jefferson	p. 73
John Marshall	p. 84
Popular Culture in the Antebellum Age	p. 97
David Crockett	p. 99
Stephen Foster	p. 108
Clash of Civilizations: Native Americans and the New Republic	p. 121
Tecumseh	p. 122
Andrew Jackson	p. 132
Slavery in Theory and Practice	p. 145
George Fitzhugh	p. 147
Harriet Tubman	p. 155
Reforming Self and Society	p. 167
Henry David Thoreau	p. 169
Margaret Fuller	p. 181
Defining Women's Roles	p. 193
Catharine Esther Beecher	p. 196
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	p. 205
Manifest Destinies	p. 219
William Walker	p. 222
Brigham Young	p. 232
Abolitionists	p. 245
John Brown	p. 248
Abraham Lincoln	p. 257
Uncivil War	p. 271
William Tecumseh Sherman	p. 274
Nathan Bedford Forrest	p. 282
A New Birth of Freedom Deferred	p. 293
Benjamin R. Tillman	p. 295
Ida B. Wells	p. 303
Index	p. 315
About the Authors	p. 331
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