Books about Early American history
editThe Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (1953)
editby Helen and Edmund Morgan
The Boston Massacre (1970)
editby Hiller Zobel
Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America
edit- Syrett, Nicholas L. Journal of the Early Republic 35, no. 2 (2015): 324–27. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24486743.
- Conroy-Krutz, Emily. Journal of the History of Sexuality 24, no. 3 (2015): 523–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24616526.
- History and Theory 54, no. 2 (2015): 307–307. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24543108.
- COLLINS, MICHAEL. Journal of American Studies 49, no. 4 (2015): 921–22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44162730.
- Holder, Ann S. The Journal of American History 102, no. 2 (2015): 557–58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44286880.
- Volk, Kyle G. Review of APPLY LIBERALISM LIBERALLY: INCEST AND THE TROUBLED AMERICAN STATE, by Brian Connolly and Gary Gerstle. Reviews in American History 45, no. 1 (2017): 50–56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26364089.
- Barnett, Louise, and Brian Connolly. The American Historical Review 120, no. 3 (2015): 1021–22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26577331.
- Burnham, Michelle. Early American Literature 42, no. 1 (2007): 197–201. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25057488
- FRANKLIN, WAYNE. Eighteenth-Century Studies 43, no. 1 (2009): 147–49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25642171
- Jaede, Mark. Journal of the Early Republic 27, no. 3 (2007): 524–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30043523
- Bosse, David, Ronald E. Grim, and Sarah Bendall. Imago Mundi 59, no. 1 (2007): 119–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40234077
- Nobles, Gregory. The Journal of American History 94, no. 1 (2007): 254–55. https://doi.org/10.2307/25094820
- Padrón, Ricardo. The American Historical Review 112, no. 5 (2007): 1529–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40007146
- BLACK, JEREMY. Eighteenth-Century Studies 43, no. 1 (2009): 149–50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25642172
- Hallock, Thomas. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 15, no. 1 (2008): 264–65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44086691
- Kolb, Charles C. Material Culture 40, no. 2 (2008): 110–12. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29764481
- Cormack, Lesley. Isis 98, no. 1 (2007): 180–81. https://doi.org/10.1086/519101
- Buisseret, David. The Journal of Southern History 73, no. 2 (2007): 439–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/27649415
- Gronim, Sara S. Imagined Nation. Reviews in American History 34, no. 4 (2006): 427–33. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30031503
- Egan, Jim. Geography Lessons. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 40, no. 1/2 (2006): 193–96. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40267695
Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale
editHistory of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent (George Bancroft)
editThe Minutemen and Their World
editIndependence Lost
editUnruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
editThe Bretheren (McConville book)
editThe American Revolution (Wood book)
editWomen of the Republic
editJohn Adams (book)
editThe Marketplace of Revolution
editThe King's Three Faces
editThe Royalist Revolution
editThe American Revolution in Indian Country
editWater from the Rock
editDeath or Liberty
editRevolutionary Backlash
editThis Violent Empire
editThe Common Cause (book)
editAmong the Powers of the Earth
editThe Radicalism of the American Revolution
editHistoriography of the American Revolution
editConcepts:
Period sources and books
editCharles Brockden Brown
editGeneral Sources:
editBooks
edit- The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown (2019)
- The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown: Radical History and the Early Republic (2010)
- The Romance of Real Life: Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture (2019)
- Tichi, Cecelia. “Charles Brockden Brown, Translator.” American Literature 44, no. 1 (1972): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.2307/2923869.
- Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. Charles Brockden Brown. 1st ed. University of Wales Press, 2011. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qhbvr.
- PATTERSON, MARK R. “Charles Brockden Brown, Authority, and Intentionality.” In Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865, 61–78. Princeton University Press, 1988. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zv1pd.8.
Articles
edit- Hewitt, Elizabeth. 2022. History and romance: Fictionality in Charles Brockden Brown. Early American Literature 57, (2): 537-542,659, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/history-romance-fictionality-charles-brockden/docview/2685103853/se-2 (accessed December 20, 2023).
- Witherington, Paul. “Charles Brockden Brown: A Bibliographical Essay.” Early American Literature 9, no. 2 (1974): 164–87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25070662.
Edgar Huntly
edit- Reed, Wayne M. 2022. Sleepwalking, class mobility, and the search for the social origins of populism in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly. Journal of American Studies 56, (4) (10): 635-660, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/sleepwalking-class-mobility-search-social-origins/docview/2709892282/se-2 (accessed December 20, 2023).
- Murison, Justine S. “The Tyranny of Sleep: Somnambulism, Moral Citizenship, and Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Edgar Huntly.’” Early American Literature 44, no. 2 (2009): 243–70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27750127.
- Hinds, Janie. “Deb’s Dogs: Animals, Indians, and Postcolonial Desire in Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Edgar Huntly.’” Early American Literature 39, no. 2 (2004): 323–54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25057353.
Wieland
edit- Bradshaw, Charles C. “The New England Illuminati: Conspiracy and Causality in Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Wieland.’” The New England Quarterly 76, no. 3 (2003): 356–77. https://doi.org/10.2307/1559807.
- Galluzzo, Anthony. “Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and the Aesthetics of Terror: Revolution, Reaction, and the Radical Enlightenment in Early American Letters.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, no. 2 (2009): 255–71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40264253.
- Hobson, Robert W. “Voices of Carwin and Other Mysteries in Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Wieland.’” Early American Literature 10, no. 3 (1975): 307–9. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25070740.
- christophersen, bill. “Picking up the Knife: A Psychohistorical Reading of Wieland.” American Studies 27, no. 1 (1986): 115–26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40642098.
Arthur Mervyn
edit- Roberts, Siân Silyn. “Gothic Enlightenment: Contagion and Community in Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Arthur Mervyn.’” Early American Literature 44, no. 2 (2009): 307–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27750129.
Background sources:
edit- Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America
- Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System
- Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790-1861
- The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel
Monuments, statues, etc.
editInteresting people
editVarious possible bio drafts
editJames David Knowles (July 1798 - May 9, 1838) was an American journalist, professor, and Baptist minister. At twenty, he was appointed as a print foreman and writer for the Rhode Island American. He became a member of the Baptist Church in 1820 and was licensed to preach later the same year. Attending Columbian College, he was appointed as a tutor immediately upon graduation in 1824, serving in this role until ordained as the pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Boston in December 1825.
Sources:
McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia
https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/K/knowles-james-davis.html
Democracy in decline : Rhode Island's constitutional development, 1776-1841
(Pp. 185-187) https://archive.org/details/democracyindecli0000conl
Obituary within The Political and Miscellaneous Writings of William G. Goddard, Vol I, (1870)
Pp. 303-15, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Political_and_Miscellaneous_Writings
William Giles Goddard (January 2, 1794 - February 16, 1846), was an American newspaper editor and professor of philosophy and belles-lettres. The son of publisher William Goddard,
Sources:
Encyclopedia Brunoniana, Martha Mitchell, 1993 https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=G0140
Oxford Dictionary of Early American Philosophers: GODDARD, William Giles
The Political and Miscellaneous Writings of William G. Goddard, Vol I, (1870)
Wayland, Francis. A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life and Services of William G. Goddard, LL.D. (Providence, R.I., 1846). https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Political_and_Miscellaneous_Writings
William Goddard House, 38 Brown Street, Providence, Providence County, RI https://www.loc.gov/item/ri0192/
Levi Frisbie (professor)
Levie Frisbie (September 15, 1783 - July 9, 1822) was an American theologian and profesor of philosophy at Harvard. The son of Rev. Levi Frisbie,
Oxford Dictionary of Early American Philosophers: FRISBIE, Levi
Ware, William. “Levi Frisbie,” in American Unitarian Biography, vol. 2 (Boston, 1851), 231–57.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636–1926 (Cambridge, Mass., 1964).
Quincy, Joseph. The History of Harvard University, vol. 2 (Boston, 1860).
https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/F/frisbie-levi.html
Rev. Levi Frisbie
Levi Frisbie (March 31, 1748 - February 25, 1806) was an American Congregationalist minister.
15 County Street, the Rev. Levi Frisbie House (1788) https://historicipswich.net/rev-eli-frisbie-house-15-county-st/
Frisbie, Levi, 1748-1806 https://archives-manuscripts.dartmouth.edu/agents/people/958
Rev. Frisbie's Wonderful Discovery, MAY 1978 https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1978/5/1/rev-frisbies-wonderful-discovery
“Of snatching captive souls from satan’s paws”: A Fundraising Poem for Wheelock’s Charity School https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/680810
A continuation of the narrative of the Indian charity-school, begun in Lebanon, in Connecticut; now incorporated with Dartmouth-college, in Hanover, in the province of New-Hampshire https://dp.la/item/8fe3ce3da322b8208a10212584214621
Walter Minto (mathematician)
Walter Minto (December 6, 1753 - October 21, 1796) was a Scottish-American mathematician and abolitionist.
https://slavery.princeton.edu/sources/walter-minto
Walter Minto and the Earl of Buchan https://www.jstor.org/stable/3143564
Walter Minto - A Princeton Companion https://www.princetonianamuseum.org/reference/4795d86b-3c94-475a-b71f-03850ef9c1f9
MINTO, Walter - Oxford Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, Oxford Reference
To George Washington from Walter Minto, 24 August 1787 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-05-02-0274
Joel Smith Bacon (September 3, 1802 - November 9, 1869) was an American academic, Baptist minister, and educational reformer who served as the third president of Columbian College, now George Washington University.
https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/B/bacon-joel-smith-dd.html
BACON, Joel Smith - Oxford Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, Oxford Reference
Historical Sketch of George Washington University, Washington, D. C., Formerly Known as Columbian University and Columbian College, Accompanied by a Sketch of the Lives of the President https://www.jstor.org/stable/40067059
Columbian Academy, 1821-1897: The Preparatory Department of Columbian College in the District of Columbia https://www.jstor.org/stable/40067773
Shubael Bell (1766 - 1819)
Shubael Bell (1766—1819): BOSTON CHURCHMAN AND PRISON REFORMER
Charles Knowles Bolton
Vol. 13, No. 4 (December 1944), pp. 315-319 (7 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42969599
(Not a RS but links RSes)
http://aminports3.blogspot.com/2009/01/unknown-portrait-of-john-shubael-bell.html