Irish Presbyterians And The Shaping Of Western Pennsylvania 1770 1830

Author : Peter E. Gilmore
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986249

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Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 by Peter E. Gilmore Pdf

Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770–1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in the early years of America. Despite fractious relations among competing sects, many immigrants shared a vision of a renewed Ireland in which their versions of Presbyterianism could flourish free from the domination of landlords and established church. In the process, they created the institutional foundations for western Pennsylvanian Presbyterian churches. Rural Presbyterian Irish church elders emphasized community and ethnoreligious group solidarity in supervising congregants’ morality. Improved transportation and the greater reach of the market eliminated near-subsistence local economies and hastened the demise of religious traditions brought from Ireland. Gilmore contends that ritual and daily religious practice, as understood and carried out by migrant generations, were abandoned or altered by American-born generations in the context of major economic change.

Author : Judith Ridner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1932304304

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A Varied People by Judith Ridner Pdf

Author : James G. Leyburn
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807888919

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The Scotch-Irish by James G. Leyburn Pdf

Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they settled especially in the back-country of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.

Author : James Geddes Craighead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044029886173

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The Craighead Family by James Geddes Craighead Pdf

Robert Craighead was born in Scotland and later moved to Ireland where he eventually died in Londonderry in 1711. His son, Thomas, immigrated to New England in 1715 and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1733. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Delaware, Tennessee, Ohio, New York, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Texas, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and elsewhere.

Author : Patrick Spero
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393634716

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Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 by Patrick Spero Pdf

The untold story of the “Black Boys,” a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. In 1763, the Seven Years’ War ended in a spectacular victory for the British. The French army agreed to leave North America, but many Native Americans, fearing that the British Empire would expand onto their lands and conquer them, refused to lay down their weapons. Under the leadership of a shrewd Ottawa warrior named Pontiac, they kept fighting for their freedom, capturing several British forts and devastating many of the westernmost colonial settlements. The British, battered from the costly war, needed to stop the violent attacks on their borderlands. Peace with Pontiac was their only option—if they could convince him to negotiate. Enter George Croghan, a wily trader-turned-diplomat with close ties to Native Americans. Under the wary eye of the British commander-in-chief, Croghan organized one of the largest peace offerings ever assembled and began a daring voyage into the interior of North America in search of Pontiac. Meanwhile, a ragtag group of frontiersmen set about stopping this peace deal in its tracks. Furious at the Empire for capitulating to Native groups, whom they considered their sworn enemies, and suspicious of Croghan’s intentions, these colonists turned Native American tactics of warfare on the British Empire. Dressing as Native Americans and smearing their faces in charcoal, these frontiersmen, known as the Black Boys, launched targeted assaults to destroy Croghan’s peace offering before it could be delivered. The outcome of these interwoven struggles would determine whose independence would prevail on the American frontier—whether freedom would be defined by the British, Native Americans, or colonial settlers. Drawing on largely forgotten manuscript sources from archives across North America, Patrick Spero recasts the familiar narrative of the American Revolution, moving the action from the Eastern Seaboard to the treacherous western frontier. In spellbinding detail, Frontier Rebels reveals an often-overlooked truth: the West played a crucial role in igniting the flame of American independence.

Author : Bryan Fanning
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253059307

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Migration and the Making of Ireland by Bryan Fanning Pdf

Ireland has been shaped by centuries of emigration as millions escaped poverty, famine, religious persecution, and war. But what happens when we reconsider this well-worn history by exploring the ways Ireland has also been shaped by immigration? From slave markets in Viking Dublin to social media use by modern asylum seekers, Migration and the Making of Ireland identifies the political, religious, and cultural factors that have influenced immigration to Ireland over the span of four centuries. A senior scholar of migration and social policy, Bryan Fanning offers a rich understanding of the lived experiences of immigrants. Using firsthand accounts of those who navigate citizenship entitlements, gender rights, and religious and cultural differences in Ireland, Fanning reveals a key yet understudied aspect of Irish history. Engaging and eloquent, Migration and the Making of Ireland provides long overdue consideration to those who made new lives in Ireland even as they made Ireland new.

Author : William Harrison Taylor
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817319458

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Unity in Christ and Country by William Harrison Taylor Pdf

Examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801 In Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801, William Harrison Taylor investigates the American Presbyterian Church’s pursuit of Christian unity and demonstrates how, through this effort, the church helped to shape the issues that gripped the American imagination, including evangelism, the conflict with Great Britain, slavery, nationalism, and sectionalism. When the colonial Presbyterian Church reunited in 1758, a nearly twenty-year schism was brought to an end. To aid in reconciling the factions, church leaders called for Presbyterians to work more closely with other Christian denominations. Their ultimate goal was to heal divisions, not just within their own faith but also within colonial North America as a whole. Taylor contends that a self-imposed interdenominational transformation began in the American Presbyterian Church upon its reunion in 1758. However, this process was altered by the church’s experience during the American Revolution, which resulted in goals of Christian unity that had both spiritual and national objectives. Nonetheless, by the end of the century, even as the leaders in the Presbyterian Church strove for unity in Christ and country, fissures began to develop in the church that would one day divide it and further the sectional rift that would lead to the Civil War. Taylor engages a variety of sources, including the published and unpublished works of both the Synods of New York and Philadelphia and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, as well as numerous published and unpublished Presbyterian sermons, lectures, hymnals, poetry, and letters. Scholars of religious history, particularly those interested in the Reformed tradition, and specifically Presbyterianism, should find Unity in Christ and Country useful as a way to consider the importance of the theology’s intellectual and pragmatic implications for members of the faith.

Author : Cian T. McMahon,Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040047163

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The Routledge History of Irish America by Cian T. McMahon,Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan Pdf

This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the early 1600s to the present, over 10 million Irish people emigrated to various points around the globe. Of them, more than six million settled in what we now call the United States of America. Some were emigrants, some were exiles, and some were refugees—but they all brought with them habits, ideas, and beliefs from Ireland, which played a role in shaping their new home. Organized chronologically, the chapters in this volume offer a cogent blend of historical perspectives from the pens of some of the world’s leading scholars. Each section explores multiple themes including gender, race, identity, class, work, religion, and politics. This book also offers essays that examine the literary and/or artistic production of each era. These studies investigate not only how Irish America saw itself or, in turn, was seen, but also how the historical moment influenced cultural representation. It demonstrates the ways in which Irish Americans have connected with other groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, and sets “Irish America” in the context of the global Irish diaspora. This book will be of value to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as instructors and scholars interested in American History, Immigration History, Irish Studies, and Ethnic Studies more broadly.

Author : Albert Cook Myers
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1902-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 : with their early history in Ireland by Albert Cook Myers Pdf

Author : Nicholas Flood Davin
Publisher : London : S. Low, Marston ; Toronto : Maclear
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Art, Canadian
ISBN : OXFORD:N10571118

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The Irishman in Canada by Nicholas Flood Davin Pdf

Author : Robert H. Churchill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489126

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The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America by Robert H. Churchill Pdf

A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.

Author : Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538130049

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Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches by Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim Pdf

As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about reformed churches.

Author : William Prescott White,William H. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN : COLUMBIA:AR53666771

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The Presbyterian Church N Philadelphia by William Prescott White,William H. Scott Pdf

Author : R C Reed
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1017934908

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History of the Presbyterian Churches of the World by R C Reed Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Larry Schweikart,Michael Patrick Allen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101217788

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A Patriot's History of the United States by Larry Schweikart,Michael Patrick Allen Pdf

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.