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The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Includes a selection of Higginson's wartime letters, this volume offers a picture of the radical interracial solidarity brought about by the transformative experience of the army camp and of American Civil War life.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226333302

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9780226333304

Army Life in a Black Regiment

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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Army Life in a Black Regiment

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

DIVUnion officer's lively, detailed wartime diary captures the raw humor that develops among the men in combat and paints unforgettable pictures of soldiers, routines of camp life, and southern landscapes. /div

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0486146537

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Black Rebellion

Five Slave Revolts

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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Black Rebellion

Five Slave Revolts

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Three times, at intervals of thirty years, did a wave of unutterable terror sweep across the Old Dominion, bringing thoughts of agony to every Virginian master, and of vague hope to every Virginian slave. Each time did one man's name become a spell of dismay and a symbol of deliverance. Each time did that name eclipse its predecessor, while recalling it for a moment to fresher memory: John Brown revived the story of Nat Turner, as in his day Nat Turned recalled the vaster schemes of Gabriel.-from "Gabriel's Defeat"Fired with an abolitionist's passion, these five true accounts of slave uprisings in Latin America and the United States are among the best writings we have of the struggle to end slavery in the Western hemisphere. Written by a dedicated antislavery crusader and first published in the Atlantic Monthly in the 1850s and 1860s, these highly readable essays combine in-depth research with assured, absorbing prose to tell fascinating and important stories: of black warrior societies of the "Maroons," descendents of escaped slaves who lived in the jungles of the West Indies and South America; of Gabriel, whose dedication to throwing off the shackles of oppression turned him into a figure with an almost mystical aura; and Nat Turner's furious insurrection; and more.American author and civil-rights activist THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON (1823 -1911) also wrote Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870) and Common Sense About Women (1881).

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1596057459

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9781596057456

What about Darwin?

All Species of Opinion from Scientists, Sages, Friends, and Enemies Who Met, Read, and Discussed the Naturalist Who Changed the World

By: Thomas F. Glick

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What about Darwin?

All Species of Opinion from Scientists, Sages, Friends, and Enemies Who Met, Read, and Discussed the Naturalist Who Changed the World

By: Thomas F. Glick

2010 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents fascinating observations about Darwin and his ideas from such notable figures as P. T. Barnum, Anton Chekhov, Mahatma Gandhi, Carl Jung, Martin Luther King, Mao Tse-tung, Pius IX, Jules Verne, and Virginia Woolf. What was it about Darwin that generated such widespread interest? His Origin of Species changed the world. Naturalists, clerics, politicians, novelists, poets, musicians, economists, and philosophers alike could not help but engage his theory of evolution. Whatever their view of his theory, however, those who met Darwin were unfailingly charmed by his modesty, kindness, honesty, and seriousness of purpose. This diverse collection drawn from essays, letters, novels, short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, and parodies demonstrates how Darwin’s ideas permeated all areas of thought. The quotations trace a broad conversation about Darwin across great distances of time and space, revealing his profound influence on the great thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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JHU Press

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0801897521

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9780801897528

The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

By: Thomas Hardy

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The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

By: Thomas Hardy

One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy, published over the name of Florence Emily Hardy, has frequently been referred to as Hardy's autobiography. But this is not the whole truth: Florence altered much of what Hardy meant to appear in his 'biography'. Through careful examination of pre- publication texts, Michael Millgate has retrieved the text as it stood at the time of Hardy's final revision. For the first time The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy can be read as a true work of autobiography - an addition to the Hardy canon.

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642

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Springer

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1349101176

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9781349101177

The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912

Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent

By: Thomas A. Tweed

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The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912

Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent

By: Thomas A. Tweed

In this landmark work, Thomas Tweed examines nineteenth-century America's encounter with one of the world's major religions. Exploring the debates about Buddhism that followed upon its introduction in this country, Tweed shows what happened when the transplanted religious movement came into contact with America's established culture and fundamentally different Protestant tradition. The book, first published in 1992, traces the efforts of various American interpreters to make sense of Buddhism in Western terms. Tweed demonstrates that while many of those interested in Buddhism considered themselves dissenters from American culture, they did not abandon some of the basic values they shared with their fellow Victorians. In the end, the Victorian understanding of Buddhism, even for its most enthusiastic proponents, was significantly shaped by the prevailing culture. Although Buddhism attracted much attention, it ultimately failed to build enduring institutions or gain significant numbers of adherents in the nineteenth century. Not until the following century did a cultural environment more conducive to Buddhism's taking root in America develop. In a new preface, Tweed addresses Buddhism's growing influence in contemporary American culture.

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UNC Press Books

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0807876151

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Mr. Poe and Dr. Moran

A Medical Biography of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Dwight Thomas

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Mr. Poe and Dr. Moran

A Medical Biography of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Dwight Thomas

A compact biography of Edgar Allan Poe and his close associates, Mr. Poe and Dr. Moran, will prove useful and entertaining to a wide range of readers. It is based exclusively on authentic historical documents and incorporates passages from many sources which became accessible only after the year 2000, following the introduction of searchable Internet databases. True-to-life portraiture of the “historical Poe” has always been problematic. Within a day or two after his death in October 1849, Poe's biography began to be distorted by fabrications and apocrypha. Oddly enough, the foremost fabricator was also our most intimate and outspoken eyewitness. The Baltimore physician Dr. John J. Moran, M.D., tried to comfort Poe on his deathbed and then wrote a tactlessly explicit letter of condolence to his anguished next of kin. Twenty-five years later that same Dr. Moran embarked on a protracted campaign to circulate a thoroughly fabulous account of his patient’s diagnosis and the circumstances surrounding his final hours. Traces of these notorious fibbings continue to pop up without warning in slipshod popular biographies as well as in medical journals. About the Author Dwight Thomas is descended from the Welsh mariner John Thomas, the captain of the vessel which brought the first English settlers to the colony of Georgia in 1733. He grew up in Savannah and attended Emory University in Atlanta. During the Vietnam War he served in the United States Army. Subsequently he received a doctoral fellowship in the English Department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He went on to collaborate with the veteran Poe scholar David K. Jackson in preparing The Poe Log (1987), a thousand-page encyclopedic reconstruction of the poet’s career. Dr. Thomas is a lifetime member of the Modern Language Association. In 2009 he served as keynote speaker at the bicentennial convention of the Poe Studies Association.

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Dorrance Publishing

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9798891271777

American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry James

By: Herbert Cahoon,Thomas V. Lange,Charles Ryskamp

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American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry James

By: Herbert Cahoon,Thomas V. Lange,Charles Ryskamp

Hawthorne, Thoreau, Twain, Whitman, 68 other authors. Also full transcript of each, commentary; Morgan Library checklist. 136 illus.

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Courier Corporation

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0486235483

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9780486235486

WRITINGS OF THOMAS WENTWORTH H

By: Thomas Wentworth 1823-1911 Higginson

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By: Thomas Wentworth 1823-1911 Higginson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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1371210462

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9781371210465

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

By: Thomas J. Schoenberg

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

By: Thomas J. Schoenberg

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.

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Gale Cengage

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0787669792

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9780787669799

Travellers and Outlaws

Episodes in American History

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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Travellers and Outlaws

Episodes in American History

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) was an American minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He graduated from Harvard in 1841, and was a schoolmaster for two years. He then studied theology at the Harvard Divinity School. Higginson was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, He served as colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized African-American regiment, from 1862 to 1864. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed slaves, women and other disenfranchised peoples. He described his Civil War experiences in Army Life in a Black Regiment (1869). He also contributed to the preservation of Negro Spirituals by copying dialect verses and music he heard sung around the regiment's campfires. Amongst his other works are Malbone: An Oldport Romance (1869), Oldport Days (1888), Old Cambridge (1899) and Travellers and Outlaws: Episodes in American History.

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Dodo Press

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1406598828

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9781406598827

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Hawthorne in his "Wonder Book" has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep. Although they are a part of the mythical period of American history, these hazy legends were altogether disdained by the earlier historians; indeed, George Bancroft made it a matter of actual pride that the beginning of the American annals was bare and literal. But in truth no national history has been less prosaic as to its earlier traditions, because every visitor had to cross the sea to reach it, and the sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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Aegypan

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1598184563

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9781598184563

Questions on Higginson's Young Folks' History of the United States. For the use of Teachers

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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Questions on Higginson's Young Folks' History of the United States. For the use of Teachers

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385369126

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9783385369122

Black Rebellion

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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Black Rebellion

By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Three times, at intervals of thirty years, did a wave of unutterable terror sweep across the Old Dominion, bringing thoughts of agony to every Virginian master, and of vague hope to every Virginian slave. Each time did one man's name become a spell of dismay and a symbol of deliverance. Each time did that name eclipse its predecessor, while recalling it for a moment to fresher memory: John Brown revived the story of Nat Turner, as in his day Nat Turned recalled the vaster schemes of Gabriel. -from "Gabriel's Defeat" Fired with an abolitionist's passion, these five true accounts of slave uprisings in Latin America and the United States are among the best writings we have of the struggle to end slavery in the Western hemisphere. Written by a dedicated antislavery crusader and first published in the Atlantic Monthly in the 1850s and 1860s, these highly readable essays combine in-depth research with assured, absorbing prose to tell fascinating and important stories: of black warrior societies of the "Maroons," descendents of escaped slaves who lived in the jungles of the West Indies and South America; of Gabriel, whose dedication to throwing off the shackles of oppression turned him into a figure with an almost mystical aura; and Nat Turner's furious insurrection; and more. American author and civil-rights activist THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON (1823, -1911) also wrote Army Life in a Black Regiment (1870) and Common Sense About Women (1881).

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8132007301

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The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy

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The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912

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Mr. Poe and Dr. Moran

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American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry James

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WRITINGS OF THOMAS WENTWORTH H

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

Travellers and Outlaws

Travellers and Outlaws

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

Questions on Higginson's Young Folks' History of the United States. For the use of Teachers

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Black Rebellion

Black Rebellion

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