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Keeping the Watch
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Vital Records, Fort McKinley, Great Diamond Island, Maine, September 30, 1903-April 30, 1911 from Record of Medical History of Post (privately Owned, 1992)
Transcribed and indexed by Glenn B. Skillin.
Beyond the Farm
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries who espoused self-sacrifice. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of the federal republic in 1789, however, a new ethos of nation-making took hold in which ambition, properly cultivated, could rescue talent and virtue from the parochial needs of the family farm. Rather than an apology for an emerging market culture of material desire and commercial dealing, ambition b...
Old Kittery
Kittery is the cradle of American shipbuilding and its destiny has always been with the sea. Since time immemorial, Native Americans and European settlers have fished the Kittery waters. From the earliest colonial times, shipbuilding has been the dominant industry in Kittery -- its Naval Shipyard is the oldest and probably the best-known in the United States.
Gleanings in Europe
A contemporaneous reviewer called James Fenimore Cooper's England "unquestionably the most searching and thoughtful, not TO say philosophical of any" of the books "published by an American on England." Another cited with approval the "potent causticity" with which a fellow reviewer "develope[d] the gangrene of the author's mind in its most foul and diseased state." Such were the extremes of response elicited by publication in 1837 of the fourth and most controversial book in Cooper's travel series, Gleanings in Europe. Partly because of his ambivalence for most things British, England is perhaps the most fascinating of the travel volumes to the modern reader. Probably no American of his time was received more hospitably by the British upper classes, nor did any reciprocate with shrewder or more scalding criticism. Cooper himself thought well of his book, taking some delight in the stir it made in London and expecting it to do much good at home. The modern reader will be delighted by his novelist's eye for the revealing scene or detail and by the multidimensional perspective he provides on British-American cultural conflicts of the 1820s and 1830s.
Coan Supplement to Coan Genealogy, 1697-1982
Additional genealogy on the descendants of Peter Coan (1697-1779) who came to Scarsdale, New York in 1710 from Germany. He married Hannah Davis in 1726. Descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, and elsewhere.
The Letters of Margaret Fuller
This single-volume selection of the letters of Margaret Fuller invites acquaintance with a great American thinker of the Transcendentalist circle.
Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 - 1820
"This previously unpublished primary source allows modern readers to reimagine medicine as practiced two hundred years ago by a rural physician in New England through his case histories, correspondence, biographical sketches, and personal commentary. Throughout his fifty-year practice, beginning with a preceptorship in Hingham, Massachusetts, Jeremiah Barker documented his constant efforts to keep up with and contribute to the medical literature in a changing medical landscape, as practice and authority shifted from historical to scientific methods. He performed experiments and autopsies, became interested in the new chemistry of Lavoisier, risked scorn in his use of alkaline remedies, studied epidemic fever and approaches to bloodletting, and struggled to understand epidemic fever, childbed fever, cancer, public health, consumption, mental illness, and the "dangers of spirituous liquors.""--
