Category: History - American
Two great forces have contributed to the making of the Anglo-American character. The types, broadly classed in England as Puritan and Cavalier, repeated themselves in the New World. On the bleak Massachusetts coast, the Puritan emigrants founded a race as rugged as their envir...
Two great forces have contributed to the making of the Anglo-American character. The types, broadly classed in England as Puritan and Cavalier, repeated themselves in the New Wo...
2. Part 2I am struck in all these old gastronomic records with the immense amount of meat, in proportion to the vegetables used. No wonder gout was a common disease, and the overheated b...
3. Part 3The Colonial maiden came into society and married, at an age which now seems surprisingly early. Chief-Justice Marshall met and fell in love with his wife when she was fourteen,...
4. Part 4It was permitted to none but Members of the Council and Heads of Hundreds in Virginia to wear the coveted gold on their clothes, or to wear any silk not made by themselves. This...
5. Part 5Many ships in those days were named, as we name chrysanthemums, in honor of some prominent man or fair dame. These good folk must have followed the coming and going of their nam...
6. Part 6The prospectus of the Maryland _Gazette_ for 1745 announces that its price will be twelve shillings a year, or fourteen shillings sealed and delivered. It promises the freshest...
7. Part 7If gambling was a favorite pastime and the lottery a popular excitement, the Cavalier was not a stranger to manlier sports. Of a brave and ardent temper, and a fine physique, he...
8. Part 8A New England farmhouse and a Southern plantation:--What a contrast the two presented in colonial days! In the homes of Massachusetts and Connecticut, the notable housewife was...
9. Part 9Many there were who had the courage as well as the impulse to protest. One of the firmest and the ablest of these was Jefferson. He had the insight to perceive not only the inju...
10. Part 10The eighteenth century was a period of decadence in the colonial ministry. Things had not always been so bad. When the first settlers came to America, the clergymen who accompan...
11. Part 11The whole Duty of Mann One old Bible and one old comon pray{r} book The Christian Sacrifice The great Duty of frequenting the Christian Sacrifice A Brief chronicle of the Civil...
12. Part 12The first settlers in Virginia lived in a political condition which may be described as a communism, subject to a despotism. Their goods were held in a common stock, and they dr...
13. Part 13Thus our study of the lawmaking and law-breaking records has brought us all the way from that House of Burgesses sitting at James Cittie in 1619--their hearts full of loyalty to...
14. Part 14Every wind that swept the sick-room in those colonial farm houses, brought balm from the pines, or vigor from the sea. Three thousand miles of uncontaminated air stretched behin...