Robert H. Abzug

Henry Ward Beecher: Spokesman for a Middle-Class America

If there was a media preacher of the late nineteenth century in America, it was Henry Ward Beecher. Indeed, the Beechers seemed the Protestant family of the era. Clifford Clark of Carelton College believes that Beecher represents the ideas and values of the rising middle class of urban America. He served as the epitome of Victorian culture in America. From pulpit and lecture halls Beecher brought reassurance that social stability could be maintained.

New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp

Slavery in Virginia, 1619-1660 / Robert McColley -- Denmark Veseys peculiar reality / William W. Freehling -- The Republican Party and the slave power / William E. Gienapp -- Race and politics in the northern democracy, 1854-1860 / Stephen E. Maizlish -- The creation of Confederate loyalties / Reid Mitchell -- Blues falling down like hail / Leon F. Litwack -- Grant and the freedman / Arthur Zilversmit -- The present becomes the past / James Oakes -- Firm flexibility / John G. Sproat -- The soul is fled / Joel Williamson.

American reform and reformers : a biographical dictionary

American Reform and Reformers: An Introduction by Randall M. Miller Acknowledgments Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement by Louise W. Knight Jessie Daniel Ames and the White Womens Anti-Lynching Campaign by Robert F. Martin Roger Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union by Samuel Walker Catharine Beecher and Domestic Relations by Kathleen C. Berkeley Charles Loring Brace and Childrens Uplift by Eric C. Schneider Earl Browder and American Communism by James G. Ryan Cesar Chavez and Migrant Workers by Richard Griswold del Castillo Barry Commoner and Environmentalism by Douglas H. Strong Dorothy Day and the American Catholic Worker Movement by Anne Klejment Eugene Victor Debs and Radical Labor Reform by Scott Molloy John Dewey and Pragmatic Education by George Cotkin Dorothea Dix and Mental Health Reform by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn W.E.B. Du Bois, the NAACP, and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Cary D. Wintz Mary Baker Eddy and Theological Reform by Mary Farrell Bednarowski Charles G. Finney and the Evangelical Reform Impulse by Nancy A. Hardesty Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women by Barbara McGowan William Lloyd Garrison and Abolitionism by Merton L. Dillon Henry George and Utopia by Geoffrey Blodgett Washington Gladden and the Social Gospel by Jacob H. Dorn Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor by Brian Greenberg Sylvester Graham and Health Reform by Vincent J. Cirillo Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Modern Civil Rights Movement by Ralph E. Luker Rachel MacNair and Feminists for Life by Suzanne Schnittman Horace Mann and Common School Reform by William W. Cutler III Russell Means and Native-American Rights by Raymond Wilson Harvey Milk and Gay Rights by R. Lane Fenrich A. J. Muste and Pacifism by Charles E. Chatfield Ralph Nader and Consumer Politics by Martha May Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement by Ellen Chesler Carl Schurz and Radical Reconstruction by Brooks D. Simpson Joseph Smith, Mormonism, and Religious Communitarianism by Newell G. Bringhurst Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Womans Rights Movement by Ann D. Gordon Norman M. Thomas and American Socialism by James C. Duram Booker T. Washington and Black Self-Help by Loren Schweninger Tom Watson and Populism by Barton C. Shaw Ida Wells-Barnett and the African-American Anti-Lynching Campaign by Linda O. McMurry Harvey Washington Wiley and Pure Food Reform by James Harvey Young Frances Willard and Temperance by Ian R. Tyrrell Reform Chronology by Paul A. Cimbala Index

Enlightened Governance Tributes to California State Senator John B. Vasconcello May 1932-May 2014

Maureen O’Hara Where to start to pay tribute to a friend, colleague, and mentor for so many years? The last time I saw John was in the hospital 2 days before he died. My husband Bob and I had just returned from a 5 month stay in France, and I had noticed that the torrent of John’s ALL CAPS e-mails had stopped some weeks before. I hoped and assumed that meant he had decided truly to step back from his breakneck schedule and focus on building new leadership for the Politics of Trust. Seeing him in the hospital told a different story. He was obviously gravely ill. Body failing but spirit intact, he greeted our unannounced visit with a wry smile, a small wave, and an ironic “great timing.” We all knew the visit was the last we would have together. He told us about a new project at de Anza Community College and with neither sentiment nor self-pity acknowledged that he was “checking out.” We felt blessed to have one more chance to express our love, share sweet recollections, and together renew our commitment to the cause of human flourishing.

Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture.

As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, his writings were generally dismissed as remnants of a moribund Puritan tradition. Focusing on the publishing history and appropriation of Edwardss works by succeeding generations, Joseph Conforti explores the construction and manipulation of the Edwards legacy and demonstrates its central place in American cultural and religious history. Most of Edwardss writings were not regularly republished or widely read until the early nineteenth century, when he emerged as a prominent thinker both in academic circles and in the new popular religious culture of the Second Great Awakening. Even after the Civil War, Edwards remained a popular figure from the Puritan past for colonial revivalists. But by the early twentieth century, scholars had again reinvented Edwards, this time deemphasizing his influence. These contrasting constructions of the one man, Conforti says, reveal the dynamic process of cultural change.

Rollo May as Friend to Man

Rollo Mays life, so rich in its contribution to the field of psychological theory and practice, must be understood within the context of the cultural tradition of his boyhood and early manhood, that of the small town, Protestant Midwest. If Tillich, Adler, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and others shaped Mays mature intellectual life, it is also true that the basic precepts of his upbringing and his first career choice-that of the ministry with its ethic of helping and healing-determined the way May would apply his later understandings within the sphere of the world.