The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820

by Wood, Gordon S.

• ISBN13: 9781555530907
• ISBN10: 1555530907
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-12-06
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(26)
I. THE PROMISE OF AMERICA
New World Enlightenment	27	(15)
On the Feudal and the Canon Law	27	(15)
John Adams
The Kingdom of God in America	42	(15)
A Treatise on the Millennium	43	(14)
Samuel Hopkins
II. THE MORAL REPUBLIC
The Need for Virtue	57	(15)
An Oration, Delivered July 4th, 1783	57	(15)
John Warren
Church and State	72	(8)
A Door Opened for Equal Christian Liberty	73	(7)
Isaac Backus
Republican Religion	80	(10)
The Kentucky Revival	81	(9)
Richard McNemar
Organizing for Morality	90	(12)
A Masonic Eulogy	91	(4)
Thaddeus Mason Harris
The Columbia Moral Society	95	(7)
Messages of Morality	102	(19)
Life and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, 1768	103	(6)
The Closet Companion, 1798	109	(7)
Presidential Proclamation, March 6, 1799	116	(5)
John Adams
III. RUDENESS AND REFINEMENT
Republican Barbarism	121	(16)
Stranger in America	121	(16)
Charles William Janson
The Problem of Luxury	137	(17)
The Sans Souci Club	137	(17)
Education	154	(21)
On the Education of Youth in America	155	(15)
Noah Webster
A Gentleman's Library	170	(5)
Thomas Jefferson
Republican Women	175	(28)
On the Equality of the Sexes	176	(6)
Judith Sargent Murray
Letters of Eliza Southgate to Her Cousin Moses Porter	182	(12)
Female Influence---Oration at the Commencement of Columbia College, 1795	194	(9)
The Federalist Augustan Age	203	(14)
Sun-Beams May Be Extracted from Cucumbers, But the Process is Tedious	204	(13)
David Daggett
IV. THE USEFUL ARTS
Rational Amusement	217	(17)
The Science of Nature	218	(16)
Charles Willson Peale
The American Medical Revolution	234	(19)
The Comparative State of Medicine in the Revolutionary Era	235	(18)
Benjamin Rush
Republican Technology	253	(16)
Torpedo War and Submarine Explosions	254	(9)
Robert Fulton
A Nation of Inventors	263	(6)
Jacob Bigelow
Newspapers	269	(10)
Printing in America	270	(9)
Isaiah Thomas
V. THE FINE ARTS
Painting and Engraving	279	(13)
The Life of Benjamin West	280	(4)
John Galt
Commemorating the Revolution	284	(4)
John Trumbull
Illustrations	288	(4)
Theater	292	(11)
Othello, American Style---Playbill	293	(2)
The Morality of the Stage	295	(8)
Architecture	303	(18)
The Capitol of Virginia	304	(12)
Thomas Jefferson
Travellers' Comments---Duke de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt; Isaac Weld	316	(2)
Illustrations	318	(3)
Republican Art	321	(20)
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	322	(19)
Joseph Hopkinson
VI. ORDER AND DISORDER
Social Mobility	341	(9)
Modern Chivalry	342	(8)
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
The Unsettling of the South	350	(20)
Gabriel's Insurrection	351	(19)
The Assault on Aristocracy	370	(12)
The Key of Libberty	371	(11)
William Manning
A National Character	382	(19)
Inchiquin's Letters	383	(18)
Charles Jared Ingersoll
Selected Bibliography	401	(4)
Index	405