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The Search for Identity in Post-Colonial America, 1787-1828
Marquette University e-Publications@Marquette Dissertations (2009 -) Dissertations, Theses, and Professional Projects "Breaking Up, and Moving Westward": The eS arch for Identity in Post-Colonial America, 1787-1828 Bethany Harding Marquette University Recommended Citation Harding, Bethany, ""Breaking Up, and Moving Westward": The eS arch for Identity in Post-Colonial America, 1787-1828" (2015). Dissertations (2009 -). Paper 502. http://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/502 “BREAKING UP, AND MOVING WESTWARD”: THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN POST-COLONIAL AMERICA, 1787-1828 by Bethany Harding, B.A., M.A. A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Milwaukee, Wisconsin May 2015 ABSTRACT “BREAKING UP, AND MOVING WESTWARD”: THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN POST-COLONIAL AMERICA, 1787-1828 Bethany Harding, B.A., M.A. Marquette University, 2015 This dissertation approaches the early national United States as a post-colonial state, and draws new connections between the country’s westward development and Americans’ ability to detach from their colonial past. At the conclusion of the American Revolution in 1783, the new United States became the first nation built on the ruins of a British colonial foundation; its citizens faced the colossal task of forging an independent national consciousness without being able to draw clear racial or ethnic lines of distinction between themselves and the former mother country. White Americans of the founding generation occupied a unique and tenuous position: in a world of empires and colonies, they were “settler-subjects.” As settlers, they had acted as proud agents of the imperial flag, but they were concurrently second-class citizens living on the wild peripheries of England’s empire. -
Square Pegs; Some Ameriearivi Who Dared to Be Different« Knopf, 1 9 5 7
920 m 89s ' 5 7 -H 3W Wallace, Irving, 1916- $5.00 > The square pegs; some Ameriearivi who dared to be different« Knopf, 1 9 5 7 . 'mO I'Q,89b 5 7 - l l 5^fi]t Wallace, M n g, 1916^ $5,00 ■ x,ae square pegs; some Americana to be d i f t e e r t . J p f , H J p . flB kansas city ^ 9 public lilii'ary ■ SS9 kansas city, missouri Books will be issued only ^ on presentation of library card. Please report lost cards and change of residence promptly. Card holders are responsible for all books, records, films, pictures or other library materials checked out on their cards. BOOKS BY Irving Wallace THE SQUARE PEGS Some Americans Who Dared to Be Different Op Si) THE FABULOUS ORIGINALS Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Me?mrable Characters in Fiction 09S5) These are Borzoi Books published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf The Square Pegs THE SQUARE PEGS ^ome Americans Who Dared to Be Different by Irving Wallace N E W Y O R K Alfred-A-Knopf 1 9 5 7 “ They 'were learning to draw" the Dormouse went on, “and they drew all manner of things— everything that began with an M—” “ Why with an M?” said Alice. “ Why not?” said the March Hare. L ewis C arroll Contents r In Defense of the Square Peg . Wherein ive meet Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who believed the earth nxias flat, and wherein we leam the need for encour aging individualism and nonconformity. 3 II- The King OF Thirtst-Sixth Street . -
Portraits in the University of Pennsylvania Agnes Addison
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons History of the University of Pennsylvania Penn Press January 1940 Portraits in the University of Pennsylvania Agnes Addison Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.upenn.edu/penn_history Addison, Agnes, "Portraits in the University of Pennsylvania" (1940). History of the University of Pennsylvania. 1. http://repository.upenn.edu/penn_history/1 All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112. Reprinted from Portraits in the University of Pennsylvania, edited by Agnes Addison (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940). This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/penn_history/1 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Portraits in the University of Pennsylvania Abstract This volume includes descriptions of the two hundred and sixty-seven portraits in oil and pastel owned by the University of Pennsylvania, of which one hundred and two are here illustrated. Portrait statues, busts, and medallions, pen-and-ink, charcoal, and pencil drawings have been omitted. The ubjs ects are arranged chronologically by date of birth. At the end of the brief biographies, the measurements of the portraits are given in inches, height by width, together with the name of the artist where available, and the location of the portraits in the University buildings. Numerals provide cross references to the biographies and illustrations. Where there is more than one portrait of a subject an asterisk (*) in the descriptive details indicates which is illustrated. -
Following Two Professions 1816-1821 (LETIERS 34 to 80)
II Following Two Professions 1816-1821 (LETIERS 34 TO 80) HAVING BEEN ADMITIED TO THE BAR on August 15, 1815, Byrant-as he put it to a former fellow-student-"lounged away" three months at his home in Cum mington. His phrase was surely imprecise, for during this time he wrote the first draft of "Thanatopsis" and an incomplete version, or "Fragment," of the poem later entitled "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood." And he busily hunted a community in which to locate his legal practice. Bryant's problem was troublesome. To settle in a large town or a city, such as New Bedford or Boston, which he saw as the most attractive prospect, would require capital his father could not provide. William Baylies urged on him, as offering a young lawyer the best opportunities, certain rural towns such as Truro on Cape Cod, or Freetown, between Bridgewater and New Bedford, but to Cullen these seemed to promise only more of the isolation in which he had once been unhappy at Worthington. Northampton, where his father's friends Samuel Howe and Judge Joseph Lyman might have helped, was the Hampshire County seat and already well served by attorneys. Having explored possible openings in towns nearer home, such as Williamsburg and Ashfield, Bryant finally accepted, in December 1815, what seemed the least attractive choice, the little farming village of Plainfield just north of Cummington where he had prepared for college under Moses Hallock. Six unhappy months at Plainfield, which Bryant describes rather bitterly in the first letter written thereafter which is now recovered, ended with his re ceiving through Samuel Howe an invitation to enter into partnership with an established lawyer, George Ives, at Great Barrington in the Housatonic Valley, forty miles from Cummington.