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Daniel Walker Howe is a fine
social historian
and historian of ideas. From the end of the War of 1812 through the first railroads and telegraphs, the Mexican-American War which shifted America's center of gravity to the slaveowning south. Meanwhile, evangelism, temperance (anti-alcohol) and anti-slavery movements stirred up the country. |
If you haven't read it yet, maybe now is a good time, and guess what, it's a best-seller which means Amazon is discounting it big. Accept no substitutes (esp. from anybody named Beck). |
Part of the Tales of the Early Republic Web Project
Edmund Ruffin's magazine devoted to agricultural reform. Published out of Petersburg, VA.
Whig paper est in 1833 by George T. Davis in Greenfield, Franklin County, MA.
The name to which The North Star was changed after 1851. Published, at least initially, in Rochester, NY.
New York based publication by Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen of socialistic and anti-religious tendencies.
New York based. Est. by John Russwurm, acc. to DAB on Russwurm. A Rev. Samuel E. Cornish, was coeditor and maybe full partner though this would seen to be contradicted by DAB. Bergman, Chronological.. confirmed my recollection about Cornish.
Peace-promoting publication edited, from 1819-28, by Noah Emerson Worcester, who also wrote A Solemn Review of the Custom of War (1814).
Copyright 1998 by Hal Morris, Secaucus, NJ