Though every civil rights advance of previous decades was not reversed, many were. National recognition of a revived states’ rights doctrine, manifest in “separate but equal,” would assure policies of white supremacy for generations. By giving legitimacy to segregation in education, employment, housing, and public accommodations, supremacist policies nearly erased the bravery, idealism, and accomplishments of the first civil rights movement that Kate Masur so insightfully chronicles. Segregation masquerading as “separate but equal” rights supplied legitimacy for race discrimination. After Plessy, though new generations of activists opposed segregation in the United States Post Office and the United States armed forces, no congress and no president would challenge segregation until confronted by comparison with the Nazi regime.
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Abstract Inspired by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone's “Land-Grab Universities” (High Country News, March 2020), this essay examines how a small Vermont secondary school, Thetford Academy, is deeply connected to colonialism and Indigenous land dispossession, inviting readers to examine how their own local schools and institutions are similarly implicated.
摘要受Robert Lee和Tristan Ahtone的《土地掠夺大学》（High Country News，2020年3月）的启发，本文探讨了佛蒙特州的一所小型中学Thetford Academy如何与殖民主义和土著土地掠夺有着深刻的联系，邀请读者审视他们自己的当地学校和机构是如何受到类似的牵连的。
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W assembling this issue of the Quarterly, I reflected on the irony of starting our new year in March. Beginning it on Lady Day, March 25th is, after all, more consistent with New England, England, and Scotland before the New Calendar Act of 1750 and reflects the more visceral feeling of the passage of winter to spring. Central heating, air conditioning, and cable news have, to some extent, smoothed out our sense of seasonal change and altered our indoor social encounters. Jordan E. Taylor in “Now in the Winter of our Dull Content: Seasonality and the Atlantic Communications Frontier in Eighteenth-Century New England” reminds us of that different time when seasons shaped communication and life in New England more explicitly. Taylor examines how winter affected the content of newspapers and provided New Englanders with different rhythms of sociability and connection. Ice-bound harbors and poor roads inhibited the flow of news to publishers of newspapers affecting production and distribution, limiting and altering content, and indicating a not entirely unwelcome milieu of isolation. Technological change, the development of icebreaker boats, the telegraph, and the transatlantic cable led to the greater social connectivity and integration that Americans saw as progress. Yet, as Taylor suggests, the defeat of winter by better technology and communication also had an adverse impact. As users of email and the internet recognize, constant communication (as electronic umbilical cords) can lead to an omnipresent connectivity and with it, lost opportunities for solitude, reflection, or alternative kinds of sociability. Taylor’s caution about the adverse consequences of better communication reminds us also of the complexities that
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Jonathan M Chu","doi":"10.1162/tneq_e_00927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_e_00927","url":null,"abstract":"W assembling this issue of the Quarterly, I reflected on the irony of starting our new year in March. Beginning it on Lady Day, March 25th is, after all, more consistent with New England, England, and Scotland before the New Calendar Act of 1750 and reflects the more visceral feeling of the passage of winter to spring. Central heating, air conditioning, and cable news have, to some extent, smoothed out our sense of seasonal change and altered our indoor social encounters. Jordan E. Taylor in “Now in the Winter of our Dull Content: Seasonality and the Atlantic Communications Frontier in Eighteenth-Century New England” reminds us of that different time when seasons shaped communication and life in New England more explicitly. Taylor examines how winter affected the content of newspapers and provided New Englanders with different rhythms of sociability and connection. Ice-bound harbors and poor roads inhibited the flow of news to publishers of newspapers affecting production and distribution, limiting and altering content, and indicating a not entirely unwelcome milieu of isolation. Technological change, the development of icebreaker boats, the telegraph, and the transatlantic cable led to the greater social connectivity and integration that Americans saw as progress. Yet, as Taylor suggests, the defeat of winter by better technology and communication also had an adverse impact. As users of email and the internet recognize, constant communication (as electronic umbilical cords) can lead to an omnipresent connectivity and with it, lost opportunities for solitude, reflection, or alternative kinds of sociability. Taylor’s caution about the adverse consequences of better communication reminds us also of the complexities 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":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47651069","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}
ON July 15, 1934, in a neat Dutch Colonial in Newton, Massachusetts, Charles Sargent Dixwell succumbed to throat cancer. He was sixty-six. He left a considerable estate of $78,000, much of it still held in a trust his father had established for him at his birth. He had used the money to live the life of a nomadic gentleman, first with a much older wife, then with a much younger mistress who bore him two children. He earned a degree at Vienna Medical College but never practiced. He spoke six languages, lived for fifteen years in Paris, collected jewels for Cartier, and spent “much time in the desert with Lawrence of Arabia.” Being a Dixwell should have made him a New England Yankee through and through. His father’s surname and a middle name from his mother should have opened doors all over the Boston world of banking, seafaring, and power-brokering. But the name he answered to in childhood was Teen Seng, and his mother’s name was Hu Ts’ai-shun. She did not live on Beacon Hill but in China, where Charles’s father, Boston-bred George Dixwell, had been the “opium specialist” for the Heard Company. George purchased opium in India to sell for silver in China, and like many American businessmen who pursued profit in the drug trade, he eventually took a Chinese wife to allay the loneliness of his posting. She bore him a son, but when George brought him back to Boston to teach him the ways of a Yankee gentleman, the boy did not carry the Dixwell surname, because George’s Boston brothers had insisted that he keep the marriage and offspring secret.
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for radical ends—no less than the destruction of slavery—they could not live so vividly in the abolitionist imagination if they were not also washed in the oblivious waters of colonial amnesia. These observations notwithstanding, scholars interested in the nineteenth-century construction of the colonial past will find in Gradert’s engaging book an important revelation about how saturated abolitionist discourse (and the print market) was with the figure of the revolutionary Puritan and how that figure, crafted in the abolitionist imagination, animated the zealous fight to end slavery.
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Abstract Around 1670 an enslaved plaintiff called James Indian sued for his freedom in Massachusetts Bay. As his case languished, he found colonists willing to help him. The result of their collaboration, “James Indians answers to his Mr Carrs reasons of appeale,” offered a powerful critique of New England slavery law.
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Renaissance of an Early American Poet (2000) is the only other recent full-length study of Morton. While there have been a smattering of journal articles and book chapters that focus on specific elements of Morton’s life, (notably Michael Zuckerman’s “Pilgrims in the Wilderness: Community, Modernity, and the Maypole at Merry Mount,” New England Quarterly (1977), 255–77), Mancall’s comprehensive book-length study is long overdue. Mancall’s publication is timely amid the ongoing 400th anniversaries, including that of Plymouth’s founding (2020), Morton’s first brief trip to New England (2022), and the settlement of Ma-re Mount (2024). As scholars continue to move away from the puritan New England narrative, Mancall’s message is clear: Morton’s vision for New England was one of several options on the table for building a “New” England in the seventeenth century.
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Abstract Winter was a challenging time for newspaper printers in early New England. When temperatures dropped, ships stopped arriving from abroad and foreign intelligence dried up. Examining this link between climate and print culture helps to reveal the material origins of early America's literary culture and its public sphere.
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The Trials of Thomas Morton examines the life of Thomas Morton, an Anglican lawyer and trader who established the Ma-re Mount settlement, near modern-day Quincy, Massachusetts, in the 1620s. After freeing the servants under his command, Morton and his company erected an eighty-foot maypole and embraced Old English traditions, which unsurprisingly vexed his pious neighbours. Morton was exiled from New England three times, and as the book’s title suggests, he faced legal trials in both England and New England. Morton’s drinking, dancing, and cohabiting with and selling guns to Indigenous people caused problems, but it was “his skills as a lawyer and writer” that posed the greatest threat to his “Puritan Foes” (208). Peter C. Mancall uses Morton as a lens to explore the multiple visions for a New England that vied for dominance in the early seventeenth century. Blending chronological and thematic narratives, the book’s six chapters weave together a picture of both Morton’s life and New England’s complex cultural, political, and religious landscape. Morton understood that New England “could have a different future once the Pilgrims and Puritans lost their authority” and when “the authority of the Massachusetts Bay Company disappeared, a replacement would need to be created” (131). The book’s central premise is exploring the replacement vision that Morton offered. Mancall convincingly argues that Morton’s seminal work, New English Canaan (1637), was “unflinching in its dissent against the dissenters” and vital to Morton’s legal argument that Massachusetts Bay authorities had “exceeded the authority of their original charter” (174, 208). From start to finish, The Trials of Thomas Morton offers fresh approaches to reframing the well-told tale of life in seventeenth-century New England. For example, in the prologue Morton’s story is told through the eyes of former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who exchanged a lengthy correspondence about Morton and
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J WINSLOW, James Lovell, and Vida Scudder; if not Lowells, Cabots, and Lodges, these persons are still redolent of “Old Boston” and are used to explore topics familiar to readers of the Quarterly. As prisms for seeing the evolution of Boston’s, New England’s, and, ultimately, America’s history, our essays use biography to present new perspectives on their respective historical times. While Luke’s parable (5:37–39 KJV) cautions us against putting new wine in old wineskins, Rabbi Yose ben Yehuda in the Pirkei Avot reiterates the axiomatic wisdom for the student of history: “he who learns from the old, . . . he can be compared to one who eats ripe grapes and drinks old wine” (4:20). Each of our authors in this issue provides us with ripe grapes and vintage wine for our reflections. Stuart M. McManus in “Late-Humanism and Revolutionary Eloquence” examines the intellectual and rhetorical traditions that inform James Lovell’s inaugural Boston Massacre Oration. McManus uses an examination of James Lovell’s Classical and Renaissance education in his Harvard classes to understand better the oration’s secular but ritualistic and ceremonial intent as well as the form and structure of revolutionary and patriotic speeches. In doing so, he presents us with a more nuanced understanding of the rhetorical devices in Lovell’s texts, new interpretations of its form and structure and of the sources that described presentation of the speech, and suggestions of how the future rituals of Fourth of July speeches came to be shaped. Robert J. Wilson III shares his discovery of two hitherto unknown letters by Joshua Winslow written to Jotham Gay in 1773 in “We Were Declared Enemies to the Country.” Demonstrating the now familiar transatlantic context in which
J温斯洛、詹姆斯·洛弗尔和维达·斯卡德尔；如果不是Lowells、Cabots和Lodges，这些人仍然有“老波士顿”的味道，并被用来探索《季刊》读者熟悉的话题。作为观察波士顿、新英格兰以及最终美国历史演变的棱镜，我们的文章使用传记来呈现他们各自历史时代的新视角。虽然卢克的寓言（5:37-39KJV）提醒我们不要把新葡萄酒放在旧葡萄酒皮里，但拉比Yose ben Yehuda在《Pirkei Avot》中重申了历史学生的公理智慧：“向旧人学习的人……可以比作吃熟葡萄喝老酒的人”（4:20）。本期的每一位作者都为我们提供了成熟的葡萄和年份葡萄酒，供我们思考。斯图尔特·麦克马纳斯（Stuart M.McManus）在《晚期人道主义与革命雄辩》（Late Humanism and Revolutionary Elquence）一书中探讨了詹姆斯·洛弗尔（James Lovell）首次发表的波士顿大屠杀演讲中的智识和修辞传统。麦克马纳斯在哈佛课堂上对詹姆斯·洛弗尔的古典和文艺复兴教育进行了研究，以更好地理解演讲的世俗但仪式性和仪式性意图，以及革命和爱国演讲的形式和结构。在这样做的过程中，他让我们对洛弗尔文本中的修辞手法有了更细致的理解，对其形式和结构以及描述演讲内容的来源有了新的解释，并对7月4日演讲的未来仪式如何形成提出了建议。罗伯特·J·威尔逊三世在《我们被宣布为国家的敌人》一书中分享了他发现的约书亚·温斯洛1773年写给乔瑟姆·盖伊的两封迄今不为人知的信
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