New Serial Titles
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Total Pages | : 2316 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Periodicals |
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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
The Anti-Masonic Party in the United States
Author | : William Preston Vaughn |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2014-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081315040X |
Here, for the first time in more than eighty years, is a detailed study of political Antimasonry on the national, state, and local levels, based on a survey of existing sources. The Antimasonic party, whose avowed goal was the destruction of the Masonic Lodge and other secret societies, was the first influential third party in the United States and introduced the device of the national presidential nominating convention in 1831. Vaughn focuses on the celebrated "Morgan Affair" of 1826, the alleged murder of a former Mason who exposed the fraternity's secrets. Thurlow Weed quickly transformed the crusading spirit aroused by this incident into an anti-Jackson party in New York. From New York, the party soon spread through the Northeast. To achieve success, the Antimasons in most states had to form alliances with the major parties, thus becoming the "flexible minority." After William Wirt's defeat by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1832, the party waned. Where it had been strong, Antimasonry became a reform-minded, anti-Clay faction of the new Whig party and helped to secure the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison in 1836 and 1840. Vaughn concludes that although in many ways the Antimasonic Crusade was finally beneficial to the Masons, it was not until the 1850s that the fraternity regained its strength and influence.
Families of Dickerman Ancestry
Author | : George Sherwood Dickerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1897 |
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Thomas Dickerman and his wife, Ellen, came to Dorchester Massachusetts ca. 1636. He died there in 1657. Early descendants lived in Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut and then spread throughout the U.S.
History of Cass County, Indiana
Author | : Thomas B. Helm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Cass County (Ind.) |
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Cultivating Music in America
Author | : Ralph P. Locke |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520083950 |
"The Victorian cup on my shelf--a present from my mother--reads 'Love the Giver.' Is it because the very word patronage implies the authority of the father that we have treated American women patrons and activists so unlovingly in the writing of our own history? This pioneering collection of superb scholarship redresses that imbalance. At the same time it brilliantly documents the interrelationship between various aspects of gender and the creation of our own culture."--Judith Tick, author of Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music "Together with the fine-grained and energetic research, I like the spirit of this book, which is ambitious, bold, and generous minded. Cultivating Music in America corrects long-standing prejudices, omissions, and misunderstandings about the role of women in setting up the structures of America's musical life, and, even more far-reaching, it sheds light on the character of American musical life itself. To read this book is to be brought to a fresh understanding of what is at stake when we discuss notions such as 'elitism, ' 'democratic taste, ' and the political and economic implications of art."--Richard Crawford, author of The American Musical Landscape "We all know we are indebted to royal patronage for the music of Mozart. But who launched American talent? The answer is women, this book teaches us. Music lovers will be grateful for these ten essays, sound in scholarship, that make a strong case for the women philanthropists who ought to join Carnegie and Rockefeller as household words as sponsors of music."--Karen J. Blair, author of The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America
History of Delaware County, Indiana
Author | : Frank D. Haimbaugh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Delaware County (Ind.) |
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