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Myra C. Glenn
In this first comprehensive, full-length biography of Harriot Kezia Hunt, Myra C. Glenn shows how this single woman from a working-class Boston home became a successful physician and noted reformer…
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Campaigns against Corporal Punishment explores the theory and practice of punishment in Antebellum America from a broad, comparative perspective. It probes the concerns underlying the naval, prison, domestic, and educational…
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Unlike his famous siblings, Thomas Beecher defended slavery on the eve of the Civil War and condemned the abolitionist, temperance, and women’s rights movements. Glenn emphasizes how Thomas Beecher’s life…
Examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic. It focuses on how mariners remembered/interpreted events including the War…
