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Seeking a Forgotten History
HARVARD AND SLAVERY Seeking a Forgotten History by Sven Beckert, Katherine Stevens and the students of the Harvard and Slavery Research Seminar HARVARD AND SLAVERY Seeking a Forgotten History by Sven Beckert, Katherine Stevens and the students of the Harvard and Slavery Research Seminar About the Authors Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of history Katherine Stevens is a graduate student in at Harvard University and author of the forth- the History of American Civilization Program coming The Empire of Cotton: A Global History. at Harvard studying the history of the spread of slavery and changes to the environment in the antebellum U.S. South. © 2011 Sven Beckert and Katherine Stevens Cover Image: “Memorial Hall” PHOTOGRAPH BY KARTHIK DONDETI, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2 Harvard & Slavery introducTION n the fall of 2007, four Harvard undergradu- surprising: Harvard presidents who brought slaves ate students came together in a seminar room to live with them on campus, significant endow- Ito solve a local but nonetheless significant ments drawn from the exploitation of slave labor, historical mystery: to research the historical con- Harvard’s administration and most of its faculty nections between Harvard University and slavery. favoring the suppression of public debates on Inspired by Ruth Simmon’s path-breaking work slavery. A quest that began with fears of finding at Brown University, the seminar’s goal was nothing ended with a new question —how was it to gain a better understanding of the history of that the university had failed for so long to engage the institution in which we were learning and with this elephantine aspect of its history? teaching, and to bring closer to home one of the The following pages will summarize some of greatest issues of American history: slavery. -
Jvilliam Hubbard and the Providential Interpretation of History
JVilliam Hubbard and the Providential Interpretation of History BY KENNETH B. MURDOCK ILLIAM HUBBARD (c. 1621-1704), a member of W the first class to graduate from Harvard, has long been recognized for his work as a colonial historian.* His Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England, published in 1677, was probably the best history of King Philip's War to be written by a New Englander who lived through it, and, according to Moses Coit Tyler, this book, "for its almost universal diffusion among the people, deserves the name of an American classic."^ Larger in scope, but less praised, is his General History of New- England from the Discovery to MDCLXXX, finished by 1682 but not published (and then imperfectly) until 1815.^ In ' See the Dictionary of American Biography, and J. L. Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University (Cambridge, 1873-), vol. i, pp. 54-62. 'M. C. Tyler, A History of American Literature, 1607-1676 (New York, 1878), vol. 2, p. 135. Hubbard'8 Narrative was reprinted by Samuel G. Drake, as The History of the Indian Wars in New England (Roxbury, 1865). All my references are to this edition. 'The work was printed in 2 Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, vols. 5, 6, 1815, and separately Cambridge, 1815. My references, except as otherwise noted, are to the Cambridge edition. Another and better edition, with revisions and notes, was printed in Boston, 1848. This, like the earlier editions, followed the Massachusetts Historical Soci- ety's manuscript, which was incomplete. It lacked the preface, and some pages at the beginning and end of the text were so mutilated that only a fragmentary reading could be printed. -
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society, Volume 11, 1916
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society, Volume 11, 1916 Table of Contents OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES .......................................................................................5 PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH TO THIRTY-NINTH MEETINGS .............................................................................................7 PAPERS EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF THE REVEREND JOSEPH WILLARD, PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE, AND OF SOME OF HIS CHILDREN, 1794-1830 . ..........................................................11 By his Grand-daughter, SUSANNA WILLARD EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF TIMOTHY FULLER, JR., AN UNDERGRADUATE IN HARVARD COLLEGE, 1798- 1801 ..............................................................................................................33 By his Grand-daughter, EDITH DAVENPORT FULLER BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MRS. RICHARD HENRY DANA ....................................................................................................................53 By MRS. MARY ISABELLA GOZZALDI EARLY CAMBRIDGE DIARIES…....................................................................................57 By MRS. HARRIETTE M. FORBES ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TREASURER ........................................................................84 NECROLOGY ..............................................................................................................86 MEMBERSHIP .............................................................................................................89 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY -
Providence in the Life of John Hull: Puritanism and Commerce in Massachusetts Bay^ 16^0-1680
Providence in the Life of John Hull: Puritanism and Commerce in Massachusetts Bay^ 16^0-1680 MARK VALERI n March 1680 Boston merchant John Hull wrote a scathing letter to the Ipswich preacher William Hubbard. Hubbard I owed him £347, which was long overdue. Hull recounted how he had accepted a bill of exchange (a promissory note) ftom him as a matter of personal kindness. Sympathetic to his needs, Hull had offered to abate much of the interest due on the bill, yet Hubbard still had sent nothing. 'I have patiently and a long time waited,' Hull reminded him, 'in hopes that you would have sent me some part of the money which I, in such a ftiendly manner, parted with to supply your necessities.' Hull then turned to his accounts. He had lost some £100 in potential profits from the money that Hubbard owed. The debt rose with each passing week.' A prominent citizen, militia officer, deputy to the General Court, and affluent merchant, Hull often cajoled and lectured his debtors (who were many), moralized at and shamed them, but never had he done what he now threatened to do to Hubbard: take him to court. 'If you make no great matter of it,' he warned I. John Hull to William Hubbard, March 5, 1680, in 'The Diaries of John Hull,' with appendices and letters, annotated by Samuel Jennison, Transactions of the American Anti- quarian Society, II vols. (1857; repn. New York, 1971), 3: 137. MARK \i\LERi is E. T. Thompson Professor of Church History, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. -
Pdf (Acrobat, Print/Search, 1.8
1 COLLECTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 2 Electronic Version Prepared by Dr. Ted Hildebrandt 6/5/2002 Gordon College, 255 Grapevine Rd. Wenham, MA. 01984 Committee of Publication GEORGE E. ELLIS. WILLIAM H. WHITMORE. HENRY WARREN TORREY. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 3 COLLECTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOL. VII. FIFTH SERIES. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. M.DCCC.LXXXII. 4 UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE. SECOND EDITION. 5 PREFATORY NOTE This volume, the third of the series of the SEWALL PAPERS, completes the publication from the manuscript diary of Judge Sewall, in the Cabinet of the Society. The most important of his other papers in our possession is a very large volume, much of it closely written, contain- ing his correspondence, with miscellaneous matter. It is intended that the contents of this volume, also, shall be transcribed; but it has not as yet been decided whether the whole of its contents, which would fill at least two volumes of our series, shall be published, or only such a selection of its more important papers as might be gathered into one volume. 6 DIARY OF SAMUEL SEWALL. [Judge Sewall having gone from home to hold court, the following ex- tracts, enclosed between asterisks, are from entries in the small volume which he carried with him, labelled "Magunkaquog," See Vol. II., p. 425.] * May 10. 1714. To Sarah, the Wife of John Ballard, Ship Car- penter, in Boston, for crying Jacob Comfort last Satterday. To the said Ballard for keeping of him from Friday last, 3s Five in all. -
Ocm08458220-1834.Pdf (12.15Mb)
317.3M31 A 4^CHTVES ^K REGISTER, ^ AND 18S4. ALSO CITY OFFICEKS IN BOSTON, AND OTHKR USEFUL INFORMATION. BOSTON: JAMES LORING, 132 WASHINGTON STREET. — — ECLIPSES IN 1834. There will be five Eclipses this year, three of ike Svtf, and two of tht Moon, as follows, viz;— I. The first will be of the Sun, January, 9th day, 6h. 26m. eve. invisible. II. The second will likewise be of the Sun, June, 7th day, 5h. 12m. morning invisible. III. The third will be of the Moorr, June, 21st day, visible and total. Beginning Ih 52m. ^ Beginning of total darkness 2 55 / Middle 3 38 V, Appar. time End of total darkness (Moon sets). ..4 18 C morn. End of the Eclipse 5 21 j IV. The fourth will be a remarkable eclipse of the Sun, Sunday, the 30th day of November, visible, as follows, viz : Beginning Ih. 21m. J Greatest obscurity 2 40 fAppar. time End 3 51 ( even. Duration 2 30 * Digits eclipsed 10 deg. 21m. on the Sun's south limb. *** The Sun will be totally eclipsed in Mississippi, Alabama Georgia, South Carolina. At Charleston, the Sun will be totally eclipsed nearly a minute and a half. V. The fifth will be of the Moon, December 15th and I6th days, visible as follows viz : Beginning 15th d. lOli. Q2m. ) Appar. time Middle 16 5 > even. End 1 30 ) Appar. morn. Digits eclipsed 8 deg. 10m. (JU* The Compiler of the Register has endeavoured to be accurate in all the statements and names which it contains ; but when the difficulties in such a compilation are considered, and the constant changes which are occur- ring, by new elections, deaths, &c. -
Harvard & Slavery
HARVARD AND SLAVERY Seeking a Forgotten History by Sven Beckert, Katherine Stevens and the students of the Harvard and Slavery Research Seminar HARVARD AND SLAVERY Seeking a Forgotten History by Sven Beckert, Katherine Stevens and the students of the Harvard and Slavery Research Seminar introducTION About the Authors Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of history Katherine Stevens is a graduate student in n the fall of 2007, four Harvard undergradu- surprising: Harvard presidents who brought slaves at Harvard University and author of the forth- the History of American Civilization Program ate students came together in a seminar room to live with them on campus, significant endow- coming The Empire of Cotton: A Global History. at Harvard studying the history of the spread Ito solve a local but nonetheless significant ments drawn from the exploitation of slave labor, of slavery and changes to the environment in historical mystery: to research the historical con- Harvard’s administration and most of its faculty the antebellum the U.S. South. nections between Harvard University and slavery. favoring the suppression of public debates on Inspired by Ruth Simmon’s path-breaking work slavery. A quest that began with fears of finding at Brown University, the seminar’s goal was nothing ended with a new question —how was it to gain a better understanding of the history of that the university had failed for so long to engage the institution in which we were learning and with this elephantine aspect of its history? teaching, and to bring closer to home one of the The following pages will summarize some of greatest issues of American history: slavery. -
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society, Volume 6, 1910
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society, Volume 6, 1910 Twentieth Meeting ● The State Arsenal and the Identification of the Cannon ● on the Cambridge Common ● Address: Archibald Murray Howe ● The Aims of the Society for the Preservation of New ● England Antiquities ● Address: Charles Knowles Bolton ● A few Old Cambridge Houses ● Address: Mary Isabella Gozzaldi Twenty-First Meeting ● The Cambridge Humane Society ● Address: Edward Henry Hall ● Why I Started the Index to Paige's History of Cambridge ● Address: Charles John McIntire ● History and the Local Historical Society ● Address: Frederick Jackson Turner Twenty-Second Meeting. Seventh Annual Meeting ● Report of the Council ● Report of the Secretary ● Report of the Curator ● Report of the Treasurer ● Election of Officers ● Mary Huntington Cooke ● Address: George Hodges ● The History and Meaning of the Proposed New Charter ● for Cambridge ● Address: Lewis Jerome Johnson Gifts to the Society Necrology Officers Committees Members ● Regular ● Associate ● Honorary By-Laws PROCEEDINGS of THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE TWENTIETH MEETING THE Twentieth Meeting of the Cambridge Historical Society was held the twenty-fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and eleven, at a quarter before eight o'clock in the evening, in Emerson Hall, Room J, Harvard University. The President, Richard Henry Dana, presided. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. For the first topic of the meeting Archibald Murray Howe , Esq. read the following paper: 5 THE STATE ARSENAL AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE CANNON ON THE CAMBRIDGE COMMON At first I felt like apologizing for my effort to disturb a harmless tradition which for more than thirty years has given an impression to our citizens that in our midst were cannon dead enough as artillery, because spiked and filled with mortar, but giving life to the memory of the valiant Knox and his co-patriots. -
1916-1917 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University
N BULLETIN OF YALE UNIVERSITY OBITUARY RECORD OF YALE GRADUATES I916-I917 PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY NEW HAVEN Thirteenth Series No 10 July 1917 BULLETIN OF YALE UNIVERSITY Entered as second-class matter, August 30, 1906, at the-post-office at New Haven, Conn, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894 The Bulletin, which is issued monthly, includes 1. The University Catalogue 2 The Reports of the President and Treasurer 3 The Pamphlets of the Several Schools 4 The Directory of Living Graduates THE TLTTLE, MOREHOtSE & TAYLOR COMPANY, NEW HAVEN, CONN OBITUARY RECORD OF GRADUATES OF YA1E UNIVERSITY Deceased dating the yea* ending JULY 1, 1917 INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED PREVIOUSLY HITHERTO UNREPORTED [No 2 of the Seventh Printed Series, and No 76 of the whole Record The present Series consists of -frve numbers] OBITUARY RECORD OF GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY Deceased during the year ending JULY I, 1917, Including the Record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported [No 2 of the Seventh Printed Series, and No 76 of the whole Record The present Series consists of five numbers ] YALE COLLEGE (ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT) Robert Hall Smith, B.A. 1846 Born February 29, 1828, m Baltimore, Md Died September n, 1915, on Spesutia Island, Harford County, Md Robert Hall Smith was the son of Samuel W and Elinor (Donnell) Smith, and was born February 29, 1828, in Baltimore, Md. Through his father, whose parents were Robert and Margaret Smith, he traced his descent from Samuel Smith, who came to this country from Ballema- goragh, Ireland, in 1728, settling at Donegal, Lancaster County, Pa. -
Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History
Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Ulrich, Laurel, ed. 2004. Yards and gates: gender in Harvard and Radcliffe history. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4662764 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA Yards and Gates: Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History Edited by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich i Contents Preface………………………………………………………………………………........………ix List of Illustrations……………………………………………………………………………......xi Introduction: “Rewriting Harvard’s History” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich..…………………….…………………………………….................1 1. BEFORE RADCLIFFE, 1760-1860 Creating a Fellowship of Educated Men Forming Gentlemen at Pre-Revolutionary Harvard……………………………………17 Conrad Edick Wright Harvard Once Removed The “Favorable Situation” of Hannah Winthrop and Mercy Otis Warren…………………. 39 Frances Herman Lord The Poet and the Petitioner Two Black Women in Harvard’s Early History…………………………………………53 Margot Minardi Snapshots: From the Archives Anna Quincy Describes the “Cambridge Worthies” Beverly Wilson Palmer ………………………………....................................................69 “Feminine” Clothing at Harvard in the 1830s Robin McElheny…………………………………………………………………….…75 -
John Winthrop IV John Winthrop IV (1714-1779), Is Known Today Primarily As an Astronomer, Mainly for Discovering One of the Moons of Jupiter
John Winthrop IV John Winthrop IV (1714-1779), is known today primarily as an astronomer, mainly for discovering one of the moons of Jupiter. He was one of the few American scientists from the Colonial Era to make contributions to astronomy using precise spherical trigonometry. Winthrop was one of 16 children in a distinguished family that traced its roots a century earlier, when his great-great-grandfather of the same name was a founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A child prodigy who entered Harvard in 1728 at age 13 just when Greenwood began lecturing at the College, Winthrop received his A.B. four years later, finishing as class valedictorian. He returned to Cambridge in the fall to continue his studies, which culminated with a master’s degree in 1735 based on his disputation that it is not permissible for magistrates to impose hardships on anyone who maintained his own religious views. This was the first public sign of a protest against then prevailing Puritanical beliefs. Three years later, in 1738, Harvard sought a notable scientist to succeed Isaac Greenwood as “Hollisian Professor of the Mathematicks and of natural and Experimental Philosophy.” The Corporation rejected longtime Tutor Nathan Prince because his vices extended even beyond Greenwood’s faults. Instead, that August the Corporation elected the 23-year-old intellect John Winthrop, although he still had to pass muster by two committees. In October a committee was chosen to test him “as to his knowledge of Mathematicks.” Two weeks later this group reported that he showed “very great proficiency … [and was] wel qualified to Sustain the office.”1 Fortunately, given his nontraditional views, the Board rejected a motion for a second committee to examine his principles of religion and instead ratified his appointment in December 1738, one day before he turned 24. -
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society, Volume 13, 1918
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society, Volume 13, 1918 Volume Thirteen Table Of Contents OFFICERS.................................................................................................................. 4 PROCEEDINGS FORTY-THIRD MEETING..........................................................................................5 FORTY-FOURTH MEETING.......................................................................................6 FORTY-FIFTH MEETING...........................................................................................7 PAPERS NO-LICENCE IN CAMBRIDGE..................................................................................9 BY FRANK FOXCROFT BURGOYNE AND HIS OFFICERS IN CAMBRIDGE,1777-1778......................................17 BY SAMUEL FRANCIS BATCHELDER GERRY'S LANDING AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD........................................................81 BY MARY ISABELL GOZZALDI THE SCHOOLS OF CAMBRIDGE, 1800-1870............................................................89 BY GEORGE GRIER WRIGHT ANNUAL REPORTS SECRETARY AND COUNCIL..................................................................................113 CURATOR...........................................................................................................116 TREASURER.........................................................................................................119 NECROLOGY FLORA VIOLA ALLEN.............................................................................................122 FRANK