American Children Through Their Books

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-366
Author(s):  
ERNEST CAULFIELD
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Child Behavior ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Child Life ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Major Conclusion ◽  
Early National ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
American Children ◽  
The Devil

This is not only a book about children's books, but it is also a comprehensive survey of various aspects of child life in America during the colonial and early national periods. Miss Kiefer's major conclusion is that the American Revolution marked the beginning of the American child's emancipation, and that by 1835 one finds the child emerging as a distinct personality not only in respect to religion but also in education, manners, health and recreation. The chapter on "War with the Devil," in which is discussed the gruesome theology of early New England and its effect on all phases of child behavior, is skillfully handled with both respect and delicate irony.

scholarly journals The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-636
Author(s):  
Noam Maggor
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
British Empire ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Atlantic Trade ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
American Nation

Mark Peterson's The City-State of Boston is a formidable work of history—prodigiously researched, lucidly written, immense in scope, and yet scrupulously detailed. A meticulous history of New England over more than two centuries, the book argues that Boston and its hinterland emerged as a city-state, a “self-governing republic” that was committed first and foremost to its own regional autonomy (p. 6). Rather than as a British colonial outpost or the birthplace of the American Revolution—the site of a nationalist struggle for independence—the book recovers Boston's long-lost tradition as a “polity in its own right,” a fervently independent hub of Atlantic trade whose true identity placed it in tension with the overtures of both the British Empire and, later, the American nation-state (p. 631).

THOMAS COBBET'S DISCOURSE ON THE RAISING OF CHILDREN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-279
Author(s):  
Herbert C. Miller ◽  
Mary T. Miller
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Child Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Speaking Out ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time

THREE HUNDRED years ago there appeared in New England a book on how to raise children—almost certainly the first of its kind to appear in this country. The fact that it was the forerunner of what in recent years has amounted to a spate of books and articles on the same subject is noteworthy enough. More interesting is the fact that it was written at all. Books on any phase of child life were rarities in those days. Individually, children 300 years ago were undoubtedly as important to their parents as they are today, but children collectively and their special problems had not loomed large in the public conscience. Here, perhaps, for the first time, the American an conscience is speaking out on the subject of children—through a minister whose parishioners approved what they heard from the pulpit and urged that it be set down in print. Because Thomas Cobbet deemed them worthy subjects, we can now catch a glimpse of children of early New England and compare their behavior and what Puritan New England thought about it with children and parents of today. The comparisons are made doubly interesting since our present culture is still heavily indebted to Puritan thought. Not much is known of Thomas Cobbet, the author.1 He was born in 11 Newbury, England in 1608. He attended Oxford but left on account of the plague. He was a nonconformist and chose to emigrate to avoid persecution. Cobbet arrived in Massachusetts in 1637 with Davenport, and was a colleague to Mr. Whiting of Lynn until 1656 when be became the pastor of the first church in Ipswich, where he remained until his death in 1685.

The Witch’s Generic, Literary and Filmic Background

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-48
Author(s):  
Brandon Grafius ◽  
Brandon Grafius
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Daniel Webster ◽  
The Witch ◽  
The Devil

After a brief overview of theories of genre, the chapter argues that The Witch can best be understood as participating in the folk horror genre. While folk horror is most often associated with British films such as The Wicker Man (1973) and Witchfinder General (1968), the chapter argues for particular traditions of New England folk horror, as evident in films such as The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) and The Blair Witch Project (1999).

The devil in the details

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Wynn
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Shape Recognition ◽  
Homo Erectus ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Major Conclusion ◽  
Cognitive Archaeology ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
Target Article ◽  
The Devil

Despite challenges on minimum necessary competence, intentionality, reliability, and context, the example of cognitive archaeology presented in the target article holds up well. The commentaries also present perspectives on cognition and symmetry that suggest an alternative to the target article's characterization of the cognitive abilities of early Homo erectus. However, the major conclusion of the initial argument – that the human ability to coordinate shape recognition and spatial cognition evolved hundreds of thousands of year ago in conditions unlike those of the modern world – remains intact.

scholarly journals The New England Clergy and the American Revolution

1928 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
H. B. Parkes ◽  
Alice M. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
American Revolution
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