Perspectives on Early America
Conscience as a Historical Force: The Liberation Theology of Herman Husband
1st Edition
By Douglas Harvey
December 25, 2025
Conscience as a Historical Force is the first true analysis of the life and thought of the radically democratic eighteenth-century backcountry figure of Herman Husband (1724–1795) and his heavily metaphorical political and religious writings during the “Age of Revolution.” This book addresses the ...
The Roots of American Politics: From Antiquity to the Early Republic
1st Edition
By John Frederick Martin
March 31, 2025
This book examines the ways in which American habits and politics replaced the traditional European republican canon. Before the modern era, European republics relied on procedural complexity in office-filling to arrive at neutral government. They did so with such technical consistency over a long ...
The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784-1815: Letters from a Wayward Son
1st Edition
By Rebecca M. Dresser
September 07, 2022
Placed within a comprehensive contextual historical narrative, The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784–1815 offers a compelling portrait of one brilliant but compromised man’s perspective of his changing times. Daniel Waldo Lincoln, the second son of Levi Lincoln, a prominent Massachusetts ...
Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754-1808
1st Edition
Edited
By Maurice Jackson, Susan Kozel
May 24, 2017
This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area, a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition ...