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Jane E. Calvert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Myth-Making and Myth-Breaking in the Historiography on John Dickinson
Journal of the Early Republic, 2014Co-Authors: Jane E. CalvertAbstract:John Dickinson cannot be understood by focusing narrowly on his actions at the time of independence. Neither can his thought be deduced from the few of his writings that have been reprinted in modern editions. But this fascinating, complex, and unique figure left an extensive written record
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Letter to Farmers in Pennsylvania: John Dickinson Writes to the Paxton Boys
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 2012Co-Authors: Jane E. CalvertAbstract:One of “Pennsylvania Farmer” John Dickinson’s earliest public documents, recently processed by the John Dickinson Writings Project, is titled “Letter to the Inhabitants of the Frontiers on their intended Expedition ag[ains]t the Indians under the Protection of the Gov[ernmen]t.” Dickinson wrote this seventeen-page draft to convince the Paxton Boys, who had recently slaughtered a group of peaceful Conestoga Indians, not to do the same to the Moravian Indians in protective custody in Philadelphia. Although “hidden” in plain view in the Delaware Public Archives, this document has not surfaced in past attempts to publish Dickinson’s writings, nor is it included in John R. Dunbar’s The Paxton Papers (1957). Though undated, the content of the missive indicates that it was written no earlier than January 6, 1764, and that it may have been a response to the Paxtonians’ Declaration and Remonstrance, read in assembly on February 17. The letter does not appear to have been published.
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Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson
2009Co-Authors: Jane E. CalvertAbstract:Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Quaker Constitutionalism in Theory and Practice, c.1652-1763: 1. Bureaucratic libertines: the origins of Quaker constitutionalism and civil dissent 2. A sacred institution: the Quaker theory of a civil constitution 3. 'Dissenters in our own country': constituting a Quaker government in Pennsylvania 4. Civil unity and 'seeds of dissention' in the golden age of Quaker theocracy 5. The fruits of Quaker dissent: political schism and the rise of John Dickinson Part II. The Political Quakerism of John Dickinson, 1763-89: 6. Turbulent but pacific: 'Dickinsonian politics' in the American revolution 7. 'The worthy against the licentious': the critical period in Pennsylvania 8. 'The political rock of our salvation': The US Constitution according to John Dickinson Epilogue: the persistence of Quaker constitutionalism, 1789-1963 Bibliography Index.
Matt Getty - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Touring Mount Vernon
2016Co-Authors: Matt GettyAbstract:John Dickinson Society members and guests enjoyed a reception, discussion and private tour at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
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JDS Reception at Mount Vernon
2016Co-Authors: Matt GettyAbstract:Members of the John Dickinson Society gathered for an exclusive reception, discussion, and private tour at At George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
Maryalice Bitts Jackson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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John Dickinson Society Members Gather in NYC
2018Co-Authors: Maryalice Bitts JacksonAbstract:Adventurous NYC-area Dickinsonians explored little-known tunnels deep underneath Manhattan, searching for the treasures that awaited.
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Listening With Intention
2015Co-Authors: Maryalice Bitts JacksonAbstract:John Dickinson Scholar and psychology major Jessie Jansen ’18 talks about the power of listening well, her research on smoking psychology and the students and professors who “blow [her] mind."
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A Love for Learning
2015Co-Authors: Maryalice Bitts JacksonAbstract:Whether she’s investigating Richard III, pondering the cosmos or untangling intricate international affairs, John Dickinson Scholar Anh Nguyen ’18 loves to learn.Here's what an international-studies major had to say about a physics class at Dickinson. FB: "It is humbling but enlightening to realize how little we know about our universe and that the beauty of the universe is not limited to what is immediately visible to our naked eyes. Just a look at the pictures of deep-space objects, such as the Crab and Eagle Nebulas, leaves me in awe." @Dickinson College Department of Physics & Astronomy. FB: "Shakespeare has painted him as a “hunchbacked toad” and vilified him as a ruthless, power-hungry monarch who killed the “princes in the tower.” However, Shakespeare was writing for a Tudor audience, and there is still no concrete evidence indicating that Richard III murdered his own nephews." @RICHARD III SOCIETY Twitter: From Richard III to world relations to the Crab Nebulus, Anh Nguyen '19 loves to learn.
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A Peace Offering
2015Co-Authors: Maryalice Bitts JacksonAbstract:John Dickinson Scholar Austen Dowell ’17 discusses authenticity and courage in international relationship-building and in everyday life.
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A Running Start
2015Co-Authors: Maryalice Bitts JacksonAbstract:From her first semester on campus, John Dickinson scholar Madeleine Gardner ’18 has distinguished herself academically and as an active volunteer.
Andrew M. Schocket - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War ed. by Michael A. McDonnell etc. (review)
Journal of the Early Republic, 2014Co-Authors: Andrew M. SchocketAbstract:Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War. Edited by Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. Pp. 327. Cloth, $80; paper, $27.95.)Perhaps, nearly two decades since its onset, we might think that "founders chic" is running its course. But the perceptive essays in this fine volume implicitly argue otherwise: In fact, as this volume persuasively demonstrates, portrayals of the American Revolution have fascinated the nation since John Hancock quilled his John Hancock on the nation's self-proclaimed birth certificate. This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of how Americans in the early republic molded the memory of the nation's founding event. Edited by an international team of scholars with a combined expertise in the Revolution and in memory studies, the contributors apply an impressive array of approaches to early republic cultural productions.The book is apportioned into three roughly chronological sections. "The Revolutionary Generation Remembers" considers how those who lived through the Revolution first negotiated what would be recalled and, in some cases, what would not be. In what serves to reinforce the premise of the introduction's assertion that constructing memories was a necessary condition for nation-building, Michael McDonnell's piece surveys the disorder of the War of Independence. He offers a sweeping view of the chaos, with significant populations of loyalists and disaffected, and people who switched sides like weathervanes in the variable winds of war. Two essays in this section elucidate the process of forming strains of nationalistic memory: Daniel Mandell's on African American petitions in New England, and Evart Jan van Leeuwen's on gothic-inflected graveyard poetry. Conversely, two others focus on how personal memories could be at odds with such celebration: Carolyn Cox shows how the details of veterans' pension narratives diverged from celebratory July 4 speeches, and William Huntting Howell suggests that Joseph Plumb Martin's memoir represents an "antinarrative" in which soldiers' real memories of war were less of battles and glory than of pervasive physical privation occasionally sprinkled with hijinks. As for who's forgotten, there is the case of John Dickinson. Peter Bastian argues that this colonial colossus of the 1760s did not tend to his memory like others of his cohort, thereby dooming himself to memorial twilight rather than spotlight.The second section, "Transmitting Memories," chronicles how two subsequent generations grappled with the shining Revolutionary legacy that they cherished, and yet could not live up to. These Americans constructed a national pantheon. Seth Bruggemen illuminates how George Washington Parke Custis made a career out of aggrandizing himself by further apotheosizing his step-grandfather. Molly Pitcher, as Emily Lewis Butterfield discovers, did not emerge as a composite figure with that name until the 1830s. With personal memories fading or dying off, written memories gained increasing weight. Eileen Ka-May Cheng details the subtle efforts of early republic historians to creatively repackage the scholarship of loyalist George Chalmers.With personal memories of the Revolution fading, knowing how to retain Revolutionary memories was an important civic skill; Keith Beutler finds that pioneering 1820s and 1830s textbook author Emma Willard not only imparted knowledge of the Revolution but also employed the theory of "mnemonics" to teach students how to associate memories with objects in a room to help their recall (readers of Sherlock Holmes will recognize this method). Of course, there can also be a purpose to forgetting, as James Paxton reminds us in his reading of early republic histories of the Mohawk Valley, which painted Indians and loyalists as savages, so as to erase the intimacy of the community before the Revolution as well as to justify Whigs' vicious reprisals. …
W. Fitzhugh Brundage - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation-Making from Independence to the Civil War
2013Co-Authors: Michael A. Mcdonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clarke, W. Fitzhugh BrundageAbstract:In today's United States, the legacy of the American Revolution looms large. From presidential speeches to bestselling biographies, from conservative politics to school pageants, everybody knows something about the Revolution. Yet what was a messy, protracted, divisive, and destructive war has calcified into a glorified founding moment of the American nation. Disparate events with equally diverse participants have been reduced to a few key scenes and characters, presided over by well-meaning and wise old men. Recollections of the Revolution did not always take today's form. In this lively collection of essays, historians and literary scholars consider how the first three generations of American citizens interpreted their nation's origins. The volume introduces readers to a host of individuals and groups both well known and obscure, from Molly Pitcher and "forgotten father" John Dickinson to African American Baptists in Georgia and antebellum pacifists. They show how the memory of the Revolution became politicised early in the nation's history, as different interests sought to harness its meaning for their own ends. No single faction succeeded, and at the outbreak of the Civil War the American people remained divided over how to remember the Revolution.
