A History of the American People
partly secularized in 1779, when the professorships of Hebrew and Divinity were turned over to law and modern languages. The Pre ...
it. The moral point, so important to De Tocqueville, entirely escaped her. What she noted was the manners. She thought it outrag ...
horrific. But when what was eventually to become California, which had always been slave-free, was acquired in 1848, and some of ...
men (and women) in Massachusetts and South Carolina, determined to end slavery, or to maintain it, at literally any cost. Disgus ...
can consult the record of the debates and decide for themselves who won. 14' The Senate was crowded and enthralled throughout an ...
and amended entirely in standard English, if anything with a slight touch of archaism, though spelling was already diverging. In ...
time to time, it has become second only to the Oxford English Dictionary as the prime authority on English words. In the hierati ...
country and wrote a Guide to the Wilderness. But this was published posthumously in 1810 because when young Cooper was twenty hi ...
vague, and cloudy. It appealed to some fellow intellectuals but to very few ordinary people-even the educated found it hard to g ...
Emerson was the perfect star-attraction for this system. He was antielitist. He thought American culture must be egalitarian and ...
and acquired cultural polish. So he learned French and German and Italian and in time became the most learned (so far) of Americ ...
under a rich foster-father who starved him of money; rebelled and ran away; got into West Point and was discharged for gross neg ...
unconscious and to penetrate human psychology in its hidden recesses. He had a spell with fellow-oddities and writers amid the u ...
As late as 1897, a court in Illinois described sodomy as a crime not fit to be named among Christians.' Fear of the law was one ...
All the same, Whitman demonstrated (as Papa' Hemingway was to do in the 20th century) that literary salesmanship and self-promot ...
American pleiade, Whitman's Leaves of Grass made its first appearance in 1855, as did Longfellow's Hiawatha. Among these remarka ...
tearjerker of the 19th century, beating even the death of Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) and Black Beauty (1877). ...
PART FOUR ‘The Almost Chosen People’ Civil War America, 1850 -1870 ...
The Civil War, in which are included the causes and consequences, constitutes the central event in American history. It is also ...
For the election of 1852 the Democrats were able to unite round a campaign platform which promised to abide by and adhere to a f ...
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