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Joseph A Conforti
Samuel Hopkins was the closest friend and disciple of the man generally considered to be the greatest religious thinker America has produced–Jonathan Edwards. Hopkins was also a founder and leading…
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Joseph A. Conforti
A history of colonial New England, this work synthesizes the scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and strangers to Puritanism participated in the making of colonial New England. Aimed at…
A searching portrait of a city battered by the collapse of the textile industry woven into a spirited coming of age story
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This study of the writings of Jonathan Edwards focuses on the publishing history and appropriation of his works by succeeding generations. The author explores the construction and manipulation of Edwards’…
An investigation of New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region’s changing identity across more than three centuries. It incorporates insights from history, literature, art, culture and geography to…
Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks , but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted…
Joseph Conforti
Across decades, Maine has produced nationally-recognized novelists who wrote place-based fiction. From the late nineteenth century to the present, or from Sarah Orne Jewett to Monica Wood, writers have emerged…
An examination of New England’s diverse landscapes, and our varying perceptions of them, across two centuries of settlement, work, and recreation.
