Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth RockLong celebrated as a symbol of the country's origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention. In fact, historians now generally agree that the Pilgrims' storied landing on the Rock never actually took place - the tradition having emerged |
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... England these days , anyway ? Well , frankly , that is just the point . I was inspired at the start to undertake this project by an essentially frivo- lous motive , the result of reading a popular account of Plymouth Rock that ...
... England these days , anyway ? Well , frankly , that is just the point . I was inspired at the start to undertake this project by an essentially frivo- lous motive , the result of reading a popular account of Plymouth Rock that ...
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... England , so goes the country . Of especial interest in this regard is the evolution of the Republican Party , from ... England or Old England but other places . By 1920 , they had once again become radically redefined , but a ...
... England , so goes the country . Of especial interest in this regard is the evolution of the Republican Party , from ... England or Old England but other places . By 1920 , they had once again become radically redefined , but a ...
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... England antecedents , for the story of Plymouth Rock as a symbol is the story of the struggle by that region to retain its hegemony . By means of the press , the pulpit , and the public school system , the native - born and scattered ...
... England antecedents , for the story of Plymouth Rock as a symbol is the story of the struggle by that region to retain its hegemony . By means of the press , the pulpit , and the public school system , the native - born and scattered ...
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... England had cherished its position as the stronghold of an embattled minority , and that paranoid mentality profited ... England's long tradition of self - justification , which intensified as region became section . The importance of ...
... England had cherished its position as the stronghold of an embattled minority , and that paranoid mentality profited ... England's long tradition of self - justification , which intensified as region became section . The importance of ...
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Contents
A Boat a Ship Some People | 6 |
The Liberty Boys Hoist One for the Forefathers | 23 |
The Federalists Take Their Stand on the Rock | 41 |
Webster and the Rock | 60 |
Wherein Tears Are Struck from the Rock | 86 |
Circumferential Matters Relating to the Rock | 101 |
The Great TrinitarianUnitarianCongregational Battle over the Ownership of the Pilgrims and Their Rock | 114 |
Concerning Certain Flaws in the Rock | 142 |
Feminizing the Rock | 361 |
Under the RockSomething for Bowdoin | 396 |
Cutting a Colossus from the Rock | 422 |
The Rocks Red Glare | 452 |
Brooklyn NightsSomething by Way of Lighter Fare | 486 |
The Stern and RockBound Lodge | 510 |
Wherein the Rock Gets Reconstructed | 534 |
The Pilgrim Fathers Where Are They? | 566 |
The Rock Rolled Back | 169 |
Tabling the Rock | 196 |
Written on the Rock | 226 |
Setting Free the Rock | 250 |
Rock Ballast for the Ship of State | 278 |
Wherein the Rock Becomes a Rolling Stone | 306 |
Carving a Face on the Rock | 330 |
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