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Philip F. Gura
The Martin is considered the finest acoustic guitar in the world. This title chronicles the career of Christian Frederick Martin from his humble start as an importer and repairman of…
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A collection of essays on the intersections of American history and literature. Beginning with an overview of studies of colonial literature, the book goes on to discuss a variety of…
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A comprehensive study of the early American novel since Richard Chase’s 1957 classic, The American Novel and Its Tradition. It opens with the first truly homegrown genre of fiction: religious…
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The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798-1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle…
A riveting story of faith, politics, and ideas, this volume brings to life four of America’s greatest thinkers, whose dialogue across the ages has never been more relevant. The book…
Banks failed, inequality grew, people were out of work, and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. The Panic of 1837 drew forth reformers who, animated by self-reliance, became…
Philip F Gura (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
American Transcendentalism is a sweeping narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades…
A new biography of the great American evangelical preacher and writer dissects his enduring legacy and discusses the reasons why his theology of conversion remains vibrant even in the twenty-first…
Jared Curtis
Between 1829 and 1831, newly appointed prison chaplain Jared Curtis interviewed all 300-plus inmates of the Massachusetts State Prison and recorded their biographies. His notebooks form the basis of this…
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan EdwardsFor five months during the winter and spring of 1734-35 the frontier town of Northampton, Massachusetts, experienced a surge in religious conversions, something that had occurred several times…
Presents papers from the conference marking the Edwards tercentenary, which took place in October 2003 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The papers represent work being done on…
