06/14/2012
Woolman’s ideals were informed by a literal reading of the Bible and the experience of growing up on a farm in New Jersey. He associated well-ordered, peaceful, pastoral landscapes with Eden and the Peaceable Kingdom that Isaiah foresaw as part of humanity’s future. The tensions and violence of slavery had no place in the world that Woolman hoped to see established.
06/05/2012
Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania John Smolenski 416 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4239-3 | $45.00… READ MORE
08/03/2011
Today the Religion in American History blog posted an essay by Carol Faulkner, author of Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. In "Gender and the American… READ MORE
01/27/2010
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman Edited with a new preface by Elaine Forman Crane Abridged Edition 352 pages | 6 x 9 Paper… READ MORE
01/06/2010
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman Edited with a new preface by Elaine Forman Crane Abridged Edition 352 pages | 6 x 9 Paper… READ MORE
