American Reformers, 1815-1860
Author: Ronald G. Walters
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0809025574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on pre-Civil War reform movements and notable reformers.
Author: Ronald G. Walters
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0809025574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on pre-Civil War reform movements and notable reformers.
Author: Paul M. Minus
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ronald G. Walters
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1997-01-31
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780809015887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For this new edition of American Reformers 1815-1860, Ronald G. Walters has amplified and updated his exploration of the fervent and diverse outburst of reform energy that shaped American history in the early years of the Republic. Capturing in style and substance the vigorous and often flamboyant men and women who crusaded for such causes as abolition, temperance, women's suffrage, and improved health care, Walters presents a brilliant analysis of how the reformers' radical belief that individuals could fix what ailed America both reflected major transformations in antebellum society and significantly affected American culture as a whole.
Author: Austen Ivereigh
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2014-11-25
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1627791582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the world's most formidable religions An expansive and deeply contextual work, at its heart The Great Reformer is about the intersection of faith and politics--the tension between the pope's innovative vision for the Church and the obstacles he faces in an institution still strongly defined by its conservative past. Based on extensive interviews in Argentina and years of study of the Catholic Church, Ivereigh tells the story not only of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the remarkable man whose background and total commitment to the discernment of God's will transformed him into Pope Francis--but the story of why the Catholic Church chose him as their leader. With the Francis Revolution just beginning, this biography will provide never-before-explained context on how one man's ambitious program began--and how it will likely end--through an investigation of Francis's youth growing up in Buenos Aires and the dramatic events during the Perón era that shaped his beliefs; his ongoing conflicts and disillusionment with the ensuing doctrines of an authoritarian and militaristic government in the 1970s; how his Jesuit training in Argentina and Chile gave him a unique understanding and advocacy for a "Church of the Poor"; and his rise from Cardinal to the papacy.
Author: Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780316944960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The life and accomplishments of Dorothea Dix as humanitarian, crusader, and woman are explored
Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patricia A. Schechter
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-01-14
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0807875465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles against injustice is not as well known. With this book, Patricia Schechter restores Wells-Barnett to her central, if embattled, place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad. Schechter's comprehensive treatment makes vivid the scope of Wells-Barnett's contributions and examines why the political philosophy and leadership of this extraordinary activist eventually became marginalized. Though forced into the shadow of black male leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington and misunderstood and then ignored by white women reformers such as Frances E. Willard and Jane Addams, Wells-Barnett nevertheless successfully enacted a religiously inspired, female-centered, and intensely political vision of social betterment and empowerment for African American communities throughout her adult years. By analyzing her ideas and activism in fresh sharpness and detail, Schechter exposes the promise and limits of social change by and for black women during an especially violent yet hopeful era in U.S. history.
Author: Adam Laats
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-02-09
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0674416716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The idea that American education has been steered by progressivism is accepted as fact by liberals and conservatives alike. Adam Laats shows that this belief is wrong. Calling to center stage conservatives who shaped America’s classrooms, he shows that in the long march of American public education, progressive reform has been a beleaguered dream.
Author: Carole Lynn Stewart
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0271083115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper, and Amanda Berry Smith. Their voluntary travels, a reversal of the involuntary movement of enslavement, form the basis for a critical mode of cosmopolitan freedom rooted in temperance. Both before and after the Civil War, white Americans often associated alcohol and drugs with blackness and enslavement. Carole Lynn Stewart traces how African American reformers mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom—a freedom that draws on themes of abolitionism and temperance not only as principles and practices for the inner life but simultaneously as the ordering structures for forms of culture and society. While investigating traditional meanings of temperance consistent with the ethos of the Protestant work ethic, Enlightenment rationality, or asceticism, Stewart shows how temperance informed the founding of diasporic communities and civil societies to heal those who had been affected by the pursuit of excess in the transatlantic slave trade and the individualist pursuit of happiness. By elucidating the concept of the “black Atlantic” through the lenses of literary reformers, Temperance and Cosmopolitanism challenges the narrative of Atlantic history, empire, and European elite cosmopolitanism. Its interdisciplinary approach will be of particular value to scholars of African American literature and history as well as scholars of nineteenth-century cultural, political, and religious studies.