"One nineteenth-century woman's journey in a changing Boston: As a poet, author, and keen observer of life in 1870s Boston, Harriet Robinson played an essential--if occasionally underappreciated--role
A shrewd observer of 19th-century America, Harriet Hanson Robinson's participation in important events and her salty comments, preserved and recorded in the poetry and books she wrote during her lifet
A Mormon herself, Bushman (American studies, Columbia U.) describes contemporary practices in the religion through her own experiences, the experiences of others, and church documents. She explains th
Mormonism is one of the world's fastest growing religions, doubling its membership every 15 years. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the formal denomination of the Mormon church) is now
The Mormon church - formally, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - is one of the world's fastest-growing religions, doubling its membership every fifteen years. Building the Kingdom trace
In 1824, John Walker purchased a 500-acre farm in King and Queen County, Virginia, and began working it with a dozen slaves. The son of a local politician and planter who grew tobacco, Walker lost sta
