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Black Walden

Author : Elise Lemire
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204468
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Black Walden written by Elise Lemire and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores of Walden Pond. Between the Revolution and the settlement of the little cabin with the bean rows, however, Walden Woods was home to several generations of freed slaves and their children. Living on the fringes of society, they attempted to pursue lives of freedom, promised by the rhetoric of the Revolution, and yet withheld by the practice of racism. Thoreau was all but alone in his attempt "to conjure up the former occupants of these woods." Other than the chapter he devoted to them in Walden, the history of slavery in Concord has been all but forgotten. In Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, Elise Lemire brings to life the former slaves of Walden Woods and the men and women who held them in bondage during the eighteenth century. After charting the rise of Concord slaveholder John Cuming, Black Walden follows the struggles of Cuming's slave, Brister, as he attempts to build a life for himself after thirty-five years of enslavement. Brister Freeman, as he came to call himself, and other of the town's slaves were able to leverage the political tensions that fueled the American Revolution and force their owners into relinquishing them. Once emancipated, however, the former slaves were permitted to squat on only the most remote and infertile places. Walden Woods was one of them. Here, Freeman and his neighbors farmed, spun linen, made baskets, told fortunes, and otherwise tried to survive in spite of poverty and harassment. With a new preface that reflects on community developments since the hardcover's publication, Black Walden reminds us that this was a black space before it was an internationally known green space and preserves the legacy of the people who strove against all odds to overcome slavery and segregation.

Concord Massachusetts

Author : Sarah Chapin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738587400
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Concord Massachusetts written by Sarah Chapin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful new photographic history, Concord, Massachusetts, is brought to life through extraordinary images and lively text. Readers are led through an exploration of the town's history, beginning in 1850, when the community's business and political life was concentrated along the Milldam from Monument Square to the Old Burying Ground. The Concord Free Public Library's special collections department made its repository of glass-plate images and photographs available for this historical view of Concord. Portraits of famous legislators and authors--such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson--vistas from rivers and hills, and a rare stereoscopic print of the 1875 centennial celebration are all included in these wonderful pages.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Author : Helen Simonson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140880932X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Major Pettigrew's Last Stand written by Helen Simonson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Ernest Pettigrew is perfectly content to lead a quiet life in the sleepy village of Edgecombe St Mary, away from the meddling of the locals and his overbearing son. But when his brother dies, the Major finds himself seeking companionship with the village shopkeeper, Mrs Ali. Drawn together by a love of books and the loss of their partners, they are soon forced to contend with irate relatives and gossiping villagers. The perfect gentleman, but the most unlikely hero, the Major must ask himself what matters most: family obligation, tradition or love? Funny, comforting and heart-warming, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand proves that sometimes, against all odds, life does give you a second chance.

Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, And Deaths, 1635-1850

Author : Concord (Mass )
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016059831
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, And Deaths, 1635-1850 written by Concord (Mass ) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. 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.

The History of Concord, Massachusetts

Author : Alfred Sereno Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Concord, Massachusetts written by Alfred Sereno Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the Town of Concord Massachusetts for the Year Ending in ...

Author : Concord (Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Town of Concord Massachusetts for the Year Ending in ... written by Concord (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Minutemen and Their World

Author : Robert A. Gross
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374706395
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Minutemen and Their World written by Robert A. Gross and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bancroft Prize–winning classic of American history now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author. On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The “shot heard round the world” catapulted this sleepy New England town into the height of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town—future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne—soon came to symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn integrity of rural life. In The Minutemen and Their World, Robert A. Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement.

Concord, Massachusetts

Author : Sarah Chapin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780752408477
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Concord, Massachusetts written by Sarah Chapin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concord's photographic history begins in the last third of the eighteenth century and, in this new collection of "then and now" photographs, there is an abundance of the earliest images that capture the old town and its townspeople. Modern images chosen for their resemblances or comparisons illustrate the originally rural community's transformation into a modern suburb and evoke thoughts of history's ever-turning progression. Many of the older images in Then & Now: Concord have been given to the authors especially for this publication. Many are part of the Concord Free Public Library's Special Collection. Most of the modern photographs have been made by photographers Claiborne Dawes and Alice Moulton. Their images show such compelling comparisons as fathers and sons, old houses renovated or replaced with other structures, and the famous old authors with recent famous new ones. Then & Now: Concord will bring murmurs of reminiscence to residents and expressions of interest and curiosity to visitors seeking depth to their understanding of this important New England town.

The History of Concord, Massachusetts

Author : Alfred Sereno Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The History of Concord, Massachusetts written by Alfred Sereno Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Concord in the Colonial Period

Author : Charles Hosmer Walcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concord in the Colonial Period written by Charles Hosmer Walcott and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Journey Through Literary America

Author : Thomas R. Hummel
Publisher : Val de Grace
ISBN 13 : 9780981742519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book A Journey Through Literary America written by Thomas R. Hummel and published by Val de Grace. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 304 page coffee table book takes a look at 26 of America s great authors and the places that inspired them. Unique to this book of literary biography is the element of the photograph. With over 140 photographs throughout, the images add mood and dimension to the writing and they are often shockingly close to what the featured authors described in their own words. Lushly illustrated, and beautifully designed, the book is as much of a pleasure to look at as it is to read. Rags to riches. Forbidden loves. Supernatural experiences. Narrow escapes. Some of the greatest stories of American literature are the stories of the scribes themselves and of the places that sparked their imaginations. In 2007, writer Thomas Hummel and photographer Tamra Dempsey set out in search of the sources of inspiration for 26 of this country's greatest authors. Two years and twenty thousand miles later, the result is A Journey Through Literary America -- a literary pilgrimage in photography and prose. In the words of one reviewer, "this is a beautiful and necessary book."

Hawthorne in Concord

Author : Philip McFarland
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555846882
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Hawthorne in Concord written by Philip McFarland and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly textured account of the writer’s three sojourns in New England “illuminates Hawthorne’s art and the intellectual ferment originating in that small, bucolic town” (Publishers Weekly). On his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home, the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. There, enriched by friendships with Thoreau and Emerson, he enjoyed an idyllic time. But three years later, unable to make enough money from his writing, he returned ingloriously, with his wife and infant daughter, to live in his mother’s home in Salem. In 1853, Hawthorne moved back to Concord, now the renowned author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. Eager to resume writing fiction at the scene of his earlier happiness, he assembled a biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce, who was running for president. When Pierce won the election, Hawthorne was appointed the lucrative post of consul in Liverpool. Coming home from Europe in 1860, Hawthorne settled down in Concord once more. He tried to take up writing one last time, but deteriorating health found him withdrawing into private life. In Hawthorne in Concord, acclaimed historian Philip McFarland paints a revealing portrait of this well-loved American author during three distinct periods of his life, spent in the bucolic village of Concord, Massachusetts. “I don’t know when I have read a book as satisfying as Hawthorne in Concord.” —David Herbert Donald

Concord, Massachusetts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)

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The History of Concord, Massachusetts

Author : Alfred Sereno Hudson
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849653285
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The History of Concord, Massachusetts written by Alfred Sereno Hudson and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1904 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is closely confined to the colonial period; but the mode of presentation is extraordinary indeed to those accustomed to the prosaic methods of town and village historians. Mr. Hudson has tried to transport his readers and himself back two hundred years or more, as in a vision. In imagination we sit before the humble ﬁresides of the ﬁrst settlers; hear and join in their gossip, superstitions, and communings, social and religious; inspect their farm lands and homestends, and mark well and remember their boundaries and their family histories. At the same moment we are supposed to be living in the present, and viewing these days through the customary haze of retrospect. It is asking a good deal of any one to fancy himself in two centuries at the same time, but Mr. Hudson's humor is insistent on this point, and he keeps up the illusion, which is, unfortunately. no illusion whatever, and then ﬁnds himself on the safe road of steady and progressive narrative.

The Transcendentalists and Their World

Author : Robert A. Gross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374711887
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Transcendentalists and Their World written by Robert A. Gross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2021 One of Air Mail's 10 best books of 2021 Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize In the year of the nation’s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this highly anticipated work, Gross returns to Concord and explores the meaning of an equally crucial moment in the American story: the rise of Transcendentalism. The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his classic Walden. But Concord from the 1820s through the 1840s was no pastoral place fit for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived through a transformative epoch of American life. A place of two thousand–plus souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, whose small, ordered society founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen was dramatically unsettled through the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy and tightly integrated into the wider world. These changes challenged a world of inherited institutions and involuntary associations with a new premium on autonomy and choice. They exposed people to cosmopolitan currents of thought and endowed them with unparalleled opportunities. They fostered uncertainties, raised new hopes, stirred dreams of perfection, and created an audience for new ideas of individual freedom and democratic equality deeply resonant today. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a community and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the depths of the universe for spiritual truths and surveyed the rapidly changing contours of their own neighborhoods. It shows us familiar figures in American literature alongside their neighbors at every level of the social order, and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community of the nineteenth century has been recovered so richly and with so acute an awareness of its place in the larger American story.

A History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Author : Lemuel Shattuck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts written by Lemuel Shattuck and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Road to Concord

Author : John Leonard Bell
Publisher : Journal of the American Revolu
ISBN 13 : 9781594162497
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Concord written by John Leonard Bell and published by Journal of the American Revolu. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early spring of 1775, on a farm in Concord, Massachusetts, British army spies located four brass cannon belonging to Boston's colonial militia that had gone missing months before. British general Thomas Gage had been searching for them, both to stymie New England's growing rebellion and to erase the embarrassment of having let cannon disappear from armories under redcoat guard. Anxious to regain those weapons, he drew up plans for his troops to march nineteen miles into unfriendly territory. The Massachusetts Patriots, meanwhile, prepared to thwart the general's mission. There was one goal Gage and his enemies shared: for different reasons, they all wanted to keep the stolen cannon as secret as possible. Both sides succeeded well enough that the full story has never appeared until now. The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War by historian J. L. Bell reveals a new dimension to the start of America's War for Independence by tracing the spark of its first battle back to little-known events beginning in September 1774. Drawing on archives in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, the book creates a lively, original, and deeply documented picture of a society perched on the brink of war.