The Athens of America: Boston, 1825-1845

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [First [189], Lines: ——— 2.52798p ——— Normal PgEnds: [189], Sources chapter 1 Thomas H. O’Connor and Alan Rogers, in This Momentous Affair: Massachusetts and the Ratification of the Constitution of the United States (Boston, 1987), provide a summary of the arguments for and against ratification. Also see James Truslow Adams, New England in the Republic, 1776–1850 (Boston, 1926); Joyce Appleby, Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s (New York, 1984). Gavin Weightman’s The Frozen-Water Trade (New York, 2003) is a dramatic example of Yankee entrepreneurship in the early Republic. Walter Muir Whitehill, in Boston: A Topographical History (Cambridge, 1959), offers a fascinating overview of topographical and architectural changes in Boston; Harold Kirker’s, Bulfinch’s Boston, 1787–1817 (New York, 1964) is a standard history of Bulfinch’s influence on the city; his later book, The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch (Cambridge, 1998) concentrates on his technical work and supplies a copy of his architectural library. Douglass Shand-Tucci, Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800–1950 (Amherst, Mass.: 1988; rev. rpt., 2001); George M. Cushing Jr., Great Buildings of Boston (New York, 1982); and Jane Holtz Kay, Lost Boston (Boston, 1980). For works that cover major religious trends in the early colonial period, see Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (New York, 1939); Herbert W. Schneider, The Puritan Mind (New York, 1939); and Kenneth Murdock, Increase Mather: The Foremost American (Cambridge, 1925). Alan Heimert, Religion and the American Mind from the Great Awakening to the Revolution (Cambridge, 1966), and William W. Sweet, Religion in Colonial America (New York, 1942), bring the story up to the Revolutionary period. Henry F. May, in The Enlightenment in America (New York, 1976), provides a stimulating assessment of the influence of the New Science in colonial America. Also see Gerald R. Cragg, From Puritanism to the Age of Reason (Cambridge, rpt., 1966); Albert Post, Popular Freethought in America (New York, 1943); and Herbert M. Morais, Deism in 18th Century America (New York, 1934), for explanations of the influences of the new science on traditional American thought. On Unitarianism in America, Conrad Wright’s The Beginnings of Unitarianism in America (Boston, 1955) offers a useful historical background for the new religious 190 } Sources 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [190], Lines: —— -0.187 ——— Short PgEnds: [190], movement. More recent studies are Conrad Wright, ed., A Stream of Light: A Sesquicentennial History of American Unitarianism (Boston, 1975); David Robinson, The Unitarians and the Universalists (Westport, Conn., 1985); and Daniel Walker Howe, The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805–1861 (Cambridge, 1970). Also see Conrad Edick Wright, ed., American Unitarianism: 1805–1865 (Boston, 1989), for a series of scholarly essays on the role of the Unitarian Church in antebellum America. See also David P. Edgel, William Ellery Channing: An Intellectual Portrait (Boston, 1955). Sydney E. Ahlstrom’s A Religious History of the American People (New York, 1972) is helpful on antebellum religious movements. Also see William W. Sweet, Religion in the Development of American Culture, 1765–1840 (Cambridge, 1953), and William McLoughlin, New England Dissent, 1630–1833: The Baptists and the Separation of Church and State (Cambridge, 1971). Barbara M. Cross, ed., The Autobiography of Lyman Beecher (Cambridge, 1961), and H. Shelton Smith’s Changing Conceptions of Original Sin (New York: 1955) are works that examine changes in religious orthodoxy. Interpretations of the political changes from Federalism to Jeffersonian Republicanism may be found in Stephen G. Kurtz, The Presidency of John Adams: The Collapse of Federalism, 1795–1800 (Philadelphia, 1957); David Hackett Fischer, The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Age of Jeffersonian Democracy (New York, 1965); Paul Goodman, The Democratic-Republicans of Massachusetts (Cambridge, 1964); Ronald Formisano, The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s–1840s (New York, 1983); and Linda Kerber, Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America (Ithaca, N.Y., 1970). Jacqueline Barbara Carr, After the Siege: A Social History of Boston, 1775–1800 (Boston, 2005), is a cultural study of the transformation of Boston from...