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The Quakers
The Quakers occupy a special place in Pennsylvania history, not only as "the founding fathers" but also as a unique religious movement which has given the Commonwealth a distinctive quality that persists to the present day. Originally written in 1948 by William Wistar Comfort and revised by Frederick B. Tolles in 1955, it has now been revised and edited by Edwin B. Bronner.
James Logan and the Culture of Provincial America
"'The first Americans were Europeans. Once they survived the struggle to maintain themselves in the wilderness they gave over their energies to preservation of their ties with the Old World,' writes Oscar Handlin in his editor's preface ... . 'Yet exposure to the conditions of the New World gradually, often imperceptibly, altered them and the society in which they lived. They became new men--Americans.' Nowhere was this process of development any better exemplified than in the events which marked the early history of Pennsylvania and its principal city of Philadelphia, the intellectual capital of America in colonial times. And no single man was more closely involved in the intellectual, poli...
Meeting House and Counting House
Treats everyday aspects of economic, social and intellectual life of the Quakers of Philadelphia.
On Emerson
“The fifteen essays on Emerson, reprinted here, were published inAmerican Literaturefrom 1937 to 1986 and reveal the continuity of that journal’s interest in studies of literary influence, textual scholarship, and intellectual history. As this volume reveals, its editorial standards for scholarship have contributed to the publication of essays that have endured the winds of fashion.”—Choice
