{"title":"Attack by a Turkey: Learning to Write History from Bernard Bailyn","authors":"R. Allison","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41868798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Is it possible that Bernard Bailyn, whose scholarly work continued virtually to the end of his very long life two years ago, still has important things to say to us about history? It’s not only possible; it’s actual, it’s happened. Bailyn’s final book, Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades, published last summer, is a great historian’s last will and testament, a gift of extraordinary generosity to all those who have admired, and benefited from, his uniquely influential oeuvre. It certainly is “retrospective;” most of its several parts look backward to one after another of his major projects. But, at the same time, it has a strongly forward feel—building anew on past insights, opening fresh questions, pointing toward horizons as yet unexplored. And, far more than anything else Bailyn wrote, it’s personal. Much is in the subjective voice, and feels alternately ruminative and conversational. The ruminations are candid and freeranging. The conversation is rich and many-sided—sometimes with other scholars, sometimes with the reader, often with the historian himself. What’s perhaps most remarkable is the copious description of process: the searching out of problems, the step-by-step development of interpretation and argument. Goals are set, possibilities measured, strategies weighed—leading at length to arresting, often “surprising,” conclusions. A sense of motion is ever-present: “I learned about. . .” “I came upon. . .” “It led me eventually to. . .” “As I went deeper into. . .” “And that
{"title":"Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades","authors":"J. Demos","doi":"10.1162/tneq_r_00955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00955","url":null,"abstract":"Is it possible that Bernard Bailyn, whose scholarly work continued virtually to the end of his very long life two years ago, still has important things to say to us about history? It’s not only possible; it’s actual, it’s happened. Bailyn’s final book, Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades, published last summer, is a great historian’s last will and testament, a gift of extraordinary generosity to all those who have admired, and benefited from, his uniquely influential oeuvre. It certainly is “retrospective;” most of its several parts look backward to one after another of his major projects. But, at the same time, it has a strongly forward feel—building anew on past insights, opening fresh questions, pointing toward horizons as yet unexplored. And, far more than anything else Bailyn wrote, it’s personal. Much is in the subjective voice, and feels alternately ruminative and conversational. The ruminations are candid and freeranging. The conversation is rich and many-sided—sometimes with other scholars, sometimes with the reader, often with the historian himself. What’s perhaps most remarkable is the copious description of process: the searching out of problems, the step-by-step development of interpretation and argument. Goals are set, possibilities measured, strategies weighed—leading at length to arresting, often “surprising,” conclusions. A sense of motion is ever-present: “I learned about. . .” “I came upon. . .” “It led me eventually to. . .” “As I went deeper into. . .” “And that","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48148786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memoriam Richard Slator Dunn (1928–2022)","authors":"Jonathan M Chu","doi":"10.1162/tneq_e_00937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_e_00937","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45136174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This essay discusses Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood in the context of Hopkins's education at Boston's Girls' High, William James's new psychology, and radical Black Boston, including W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. Hopkins's novel intervenes in debates over scientific disciplinization and Black education.
{"title":"Girls’ High School and the “Wild Facts” of Race in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood","authors":"M. Chapnick","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00941","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay discusses Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood in the context of Hopkins's education at Boston's Girls' High, William James's new psychology, and radical Black Boston, including W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. Hopkins's novel intervenes in debates over scientific disciplinization and Black education.","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41483513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract In early nineteenth-century Boston, African American children and youth faced severe educational inequalities and inequities in the city's racially segregated public school system. In response, Robert Morris and other African American youth organized for change. This article traces their organizing efforts, from establishing a literary society to petitioning the Massachusetts state legislature. Their collective work resulted in the overthrow of racially segregated public schools in Boston in 1855.
{"title":"“Full and Impartial Justice”: Robert Morris and the Equal School Rights Movement in Massachusetts","authors":"Kabria Baumgartner","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00940","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In early nineteenth-century Boston, African American children and youth faced severe educational inequalities and inequities in the city's racially segregated public school system. In response, Robert Morris and other African American youth organized for change. This article traces their organizing efforts, from establishing a literary society to petitioning the Massachusetts state legislature. Their collective work resulted in the overthrow of racially segregated public schools in Boston in 1855.","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47666463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Revolutions","authors":"Eliga H. Gould","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44730396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O March 5, 1858, William C. Nell led a protest in Boston in the form of a massive history lesson. Though the city had discontinued annual public commemorations of the Boston Massacre in 1783, declaring that all the events of the Revolutionary period would henceforth be celebrated on July 4th, Nell resurrected the earlier date, insisting that a revised observance of local history was a fitting rebuttal to the United States Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision on its first anniversary. In response to the government’s denial of Black citizenship, Nell organized a festival in honor of Crispus Attucks, a Bostonian of African and Wampanoag descent, the first American life sacrificed for the nation’s independence. Nell marshaled a crowd at Faneuil Hall, near the site that the ship Desire docked in 1638 when it brought the first enslaved Africans to New England and, in our own time, a popular tourist attraction embroiled in controversy because it carries the name of the slave trader who funded its construction. It was precisely this kind of historical strata, layering the history of Black Boston across centuries and interwoven with the stories the nation tells about itself, that Nell meant to invoke. Displaying a collection of primary documents in front of the platform, Nell narrated the story of Attucks’s heroic death, how the shops in Boston closed and bells tolled through the city on the day he was buried. But far from stroking the city’s liberationist self-image, Nell and the other
{"title":"Introduction On the Histories and Futures of Black New England Studies","authors":"Kerri K. Greenidge, H. Jackson","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00938","url":null,"abstract":"O March 5, 1858, William C. Nell led a protest in Boston in the form of a massive history lesson. Though the city had discontinued annual public commemorations of the Boston Massacre in 1783, declaring that all the events of the Revolutionary period would henceforth be celebrated on July 4th, Nell resurrected the earlier date, insisting that a revised observance of local history was a fitting rebuttal to the United States Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision on its first anniversary. In response to the government’s denial of Black citizenship, Nell organized a festival in honor of Crispus Attucks, a Bostonian of African and Wampanoag descent, the first American life sacrificed for the nation’s independence. Nell marshaled a crowd at Faneuil Hall, near the site that the ship Desire docked in 1638 when it brought the first enslaved Africans to New England and, in our own time, a popular tourist attraction embroiled in controversy because it carries the name of the slave trader who funded its construction. It was precisely this kind of historical strata, layering the history of Black Boston across centuries and interwoven with the stories the nation tells about itself, that Nell meant to invoke. Displaying a collection of primary documents in front of the platform, Nell narrated the story of Attucks’s heroic death, how the shops in Boston closed and bells tolled through the city on the day he was buried. But far from stroking the city’s liberationist self-image, Nell and the other","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49376447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Gravestones for early eighteenth-century enslaved Cambridge women, Cicely and Jane, have sat for centuries largely unexplored by scholars despite the markers' close proximity to Harvard University. This essay re-centers the lives and stories of such women, using their gravestones as a fulcrum to explore gender, race, memory, and the construction of early New England history.
{"title":"“Here Lyes the Body of Cicely Negro”: Enslaved Women in Colonial Cambridge and the Making of New England History","authors":"N. Maskiell","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00939","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Gravestones for early eighteenth-century enslaved Cambridge women, Cicely and Jane, have sat for centuries largely unexplored by scholars despite the markers' close proximity to Harvard University. This essay re-centers the lives and stories of such women, using their gravestones as a fulcrum to explore gender, race, memory, and the construction of early New England history.","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43433529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Colacurcio made his considerable reputation in 1984 with The Province of Piety, his rich source study of Hawthorne’s short stories. This big, bustling book introduced something unusual in academic literary studies: a relentlessly scholarly writer who nevertheless allowed his personality to come forth as an intellectual style. Famous still for its ferreting-out of Hawthorne’s historical allusions, the book seemed imitable only in method; its voice was unique, so much so that graduate students like me who read it could be excused for wondering how he got away with it: I mean the brio, the bristling energy, the extravagance of 600 plus pages devoted to “old” historicist pursuits. And the clarity. At the peak of Theory’s dizzying dominance, Colacurcio wrote without a hint of Continental accent. The book gave a generation of historically-minded critics their marching orders and continues to set the fundamental terms for reading Hawthorne’s short fiction. Two more big books and many articles since, Colacurcio’s voice is much the same, freer, if anything, at this point in his career, to hold forth on whatever swims into view. Emerson is his subject this time, specifically the question of “other minds” in a writer best known for celebrating the imperial aloofness of the self. The method is less thematic, however, than totalizing: to “read in fiercely close detail” (1:ix) almost all of Emerson’s public writings from the early sermons through The
{"title":"Emerson and Other Minds: Idealism and the Moral Self, Volume One; Emerson and Other Minds: Idealism and the Lonely Subject, Volume Two","authors":"C. Davis","doi":"10.1162/tneq_r_00944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00944","url":null,"abstract":"Michael Colacurcio made his considerable reputation in 1984 with The Province of Piety, his rich source study of Hawthorne’s short stories. This big, bustling book introduced something unusual in academic literary studies: a relentlessly scholarly writer who nevertheless allowed his personality to come forth as an intellectual style. Famous still for its ferreting-out of Hawthorne’s historical allusions, the book seemed imitable only in method; its voice was unique, so much so that graduate students like me who read it could be excused for wondering how he got away with it: I mean the brio, the bristling energy, the extravagance of 600 plus pages devoted to “old” historicist pursuits. And the clarity. At the peak of Theory’s dizzying dominance, Colacurcio wrote without a hint of Continental accent. The book gave a generation of historically-minded critics their marching orders and continues to set the fundamental terms for reading Hawthorne’s short fiction. Two more big books and many articles since, Colacurcio’s voice is much the same, freer, if anything, at this point in his career, to hold forth on whatever swims into view. Emerson is his subject this time, specifically the question of “other minds” in a writer best known for celebrating the imperial aloofness of the self. The method is less thematic, however, than totalizing: to “read in fiercely close detail” (1:ix) almost all of Emerson’s public writings from the early sermons through The","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47264550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract In 1900, Black Bostonians purchased the Roxbury home of William Lloyd Garrison with the intent to preserve it as an antislavery memorial. As the St. Monica's Home for Colored Women and Children, the house immediately became a site of contestation between the followers of William Monroe Trotter and Booker T. Washington.
{"title":"Race, Reuse, and Reform: Preserving the Garrison House, Contesting Garrisonianism in Turn-of-the-Century Boston","authors":"Madeline Webster","doi":"10.1162/tneq_a_00942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00942","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1900, Black Bostonians purchased the Roxbury home of William Lloyd Garrison with the intent to preserve it as an antislavery memorial. As the St. Monica's Home for Colored Women and Children, the house immediately became a site of contestation between the followers of William Monroe Trotter and Booker T. Washington.","PeriodicalId":44619,"journal":{"name":"NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47327874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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