Helen Hunt Jackson

Jackson, Helen (Fiske) Hunt - 1830–85, American writer whose pseudonym was H. H., b. Amherst, Mass. She was a lifelong friend of Emily Dickinson. In 1863, encouraged by T. W. Higginson, Jackson began writing for periodicals. She is the author of poetry, novels, children's stories, and travel sketches. In 1881 she published A Century of Dishonor, an historical account of the government's Read More...

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Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.) (1939)
by Ruth Odell. 328 pgs.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

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I Helen Maria Fiske

Ii Helen M. F. Hunt

Iii "Marah" "H.H." "Rip Van Winkle"

Iv "Saxe Holm" "No Name" Novels

V Helen Jackson ["H.H."]

Vi Helen Hunt Jackson

Notes

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Documents of American Prejudice: An Anthology of Writings on Race from Thomas Jefferson to David Duke ("Century of Dishonor" by Helen Hunt Jackson begins on p. 256)
by S. T. Joshi. 600 pgs.

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Many Americans forget that, until recently, racially prejudiced thought and writing was an accepted part of public discourse, in many cases supported by specious but widely accepted scientific or philosophical theories, and practiced by some of the country's most influential and respected public figures. Documents of American Prejudice provides an anthology of writings on how racial prejudice ha evolved since early colonial times, and helps readers understand racism through the prism of American history.
Over 70 selections spanning more than 300 years of injustice encompass specific groups victimized by racial prejudice as well as different kinds of racial prejudice. Opinions of both reviled an well-loved figures are included in the writings of everyone from Thomas Jefferson to David Duke. Organization of material into thematic sections (such as Social Darwinism and eugenics, immigration, and other categories) and by groups who were the focus of racist attacks makes this volume especially user-friendly.

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Foreword: Healing Branches on a Tainted Tree

Introduction

A Note on This Edition

Part One: Some Overviews

1: Notes on the State of Virginia

2: Democracy in America

3: The Pilgrims of Plymouth

4: Race

5: Foundations of the Nineteenth Century

6: The Passing of the Great Race

7: The End of Racism

8: America at the Crossroads

Part Two: Science and Pseudo-Science

9: An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species

10: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

11: The Inequality of Human Races

12: The Descent of Man

13: Race Prejudice

14: The Effects of Race Intermingling

15: How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?

16: The Bell Curve

Part Three: Aryans, Anglo-Saxons, and Teutons

17: The Races of Men

18: The Place of the Northwest in General History

19: The Ideal of the American Commonwealth

20: Anglo-Saxon Supremacy

Part Four: Manifest Destiny and Imperialism

21: Annexation

22: The Winning of the West

23: The War as a Suggestion of Manifest Destiny

24: Our New Duties: Their Later Aspects

Part Five: Social Darwinism and Eugenics

25: Hereditary Genius

26: The Blood of the Nation

27: The Challenge of Facts

28: The New Decalogue of Science

29: The Biology of the Race Problem

30: Quality of U.S. Population Declining?

Part Siz: Prejudice and Religion

31: The Duty of Christian Freemen to Elect Christian Rulers

32: The Progress and Prospects of Christianity in the United States of America

33: Christian Nurture

34: Our Country

Part Seven: Native Americans

35: The History of King Philip's War

36: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

37: A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States, on Indian Affairs

38: First Annual Message

39: Crania Americana

40: League of the Iroquois

41: My Life on the Plains

42: Century of Dishonor

Part Eight: African Americans

43: Observations . . .

44: Letter to Henri GréGoire

45: Slavery in America

46: Sociology for the South

47: Fourth Lincoln- Douglas Debate

48: White Supremacy and Negro Subordination

49: The South and Her Problems

50: The Race Question in the United States

51: Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro

52: The Negro a Beast

53: The Negro: the Southerner's Problem

54: The Clansman

55: The Negro: a Menace to American Civilization

56: Letter to Sam H. Reading

57: Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization

58: The Invasion of Mississippi

59: Public Record of George C. Wallace

60: Presumed Guilty

61: Reasonable Doubts

Part Nine: Jews

62: A Testimony . . .

63: The History of the Jews

64: Letters from New York

65: The Original Mr. Jacobs

66: Concerning the Jews

67: The Leo Frank Case

68: Peace Object, Says Ford, in an Attempt to Lustily His Anti-Semitic Attitude

69: The Jews in America

70: How I Would Treat the Jews

71: Why Leave Our Own?

72: Adam and Cain

73: Jews in Government

74: The Holocaust Controversy: the Case for Open Debate

Part Ten: Asian Americans

75: The Chinese in California

76: Prattle

77: Meat Vs. Rice: American Manhood against Asiatic Coolieism

78: The Yellow Peril

79: Testimony of the Honorable Earl Warren

80: The Japanese in America

81: The Rise in Hate Crime

Part Eleven: Latinos

82: The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California

83: Editorials for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle

84: California Pastoral

85: Can Cubans Govern Cuba?

86: Restriction of Mexican Immigration

87: Alien Workers in America

88: New York: Confidential!

89: Roll Down Your Window

Part Twelve: The Debate over Immigration

90: Aristocratic Opinions of Democracy

91: Political Mission of the United States

92: Unguarded Gates

93: Restriction of Immigration

94: Letter to William Lloyd Garrison

95: Races and Immigrants in America

96: The American Scene

97: The Old World and the New

98: The Rising Tide of Color against White World-Supremacy

99: Whose Country Is This?

100: America's Race Heritage

101: America: a Family Matter

102: Shall We Maintain Washington's Ideal of Americanism?

103: The Melting-Pot Mistake

104: America, Nation or Confusion

105: America Must Return to Fundamentals

106: Keeping America American

107: America's Scapegoats

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index
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Racism in California: A Reader in the History of Oppression (Chap. 3 "The Report on the Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of California" by Helen Hunt Jackson)
by Roger Daniels, Spencer C. Olin Jr. 354 pgs.

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Part I: The First Victims. California's Indians

1: Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization

2: The Destruction of the California Indian

3: Report on the Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of California

4: Episodes in Extermination

5: K-344--Legal Redress?

6: The Language of Stereotype, Distortion, Inaccuracy

7: The Alcatraz Proclamation: To the Great White Father and All His People Indians of All Tribes

Part II: California's Special Race Problem: The Asians

8: Westerners from the East: Oriental Immigrants Reappraised

9: A Demographic and Socioeconomic Perspective California Fair Employment Practices Commission

10: The Bases of Anti-Chinese Sentiment

11: The Anti-Chinese Movement in Los Angeles

12: Anti-Japanese Agitation

13: The Progressives Draw the Color Line

14: The Postwar Campaign Against Japanese Americans

15: California's Discrimination Against Filipinos, 1927-1935

16: The Testimony of Attorney General Earl Warren

17: Why It Happened Here

Part III: Mexican Americans: From "Greasers" to Chicanos

18: "Greasers" in the Diggings

19: Huelga, 1928 Style

20: Zoot-Suiters and Mexicans

21: The Segregation of Mexican-American School Children in Southern California

22: Colonialism: The Case of The Mexican Americans

References

23: The Schizoid Heritage

24: Chicano Militancy in California: A Quest for Identity and Power

Part IV: The Black Experience in the Golden State

25: Negro Rights Activities in Gold Rush California

26: "Willie Stokes at the Golden Gate"

27: Watts: Before the Riot

28: The McCone Commission Report

29: The Watts "Manifesto" and the McCone Report

30: Segregation Blights Our Schools

31: Prejudice Toward Mexican and Negro Americans: A Comparison

Part V: The Future of California: Progress or Repression?

32: Conclusion: The Ethnic Crisis of Our Time

Suggestions for Further Reading
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Native American Identities: From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature (Chap. 4 "Portraits of Dishonor: The Legacy of Helen Hunt Jackson")
by Scott B. Vickers. 194 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

1: Introduction Stereotypes and Archetypes

Part I: The language of conquest

2: The Semiology and Psychology of Conquest

3: Wroughten Scoundrels

4: Portraits of Dishonor

5: A Recapitulaion of Indianness

6: The Enchantment of the Disenfranchised

7: Grounds for Mythification

Part II: From Stereotype to Archetype

8: From Western Art to Archetype

9: The Storytellers

10: Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

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Shapers of the Great Debate on Native Americans--Land, Spirit, and Power: A Biographical Dictionary (Chap. 7 "'Kill the Indian, Save the Man': Helen Hunt Jackson, L. Frank Baum, Richard Henry Pratt, and Other Participants in the Anglo-American Debate regarding Native Americans' Future")
by Bruce E. Johansen. 282 pgs.

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Contrasting the views of Native Americans and European Americans, this book provides a fresh look at the rhetoric behind the westward movement of the American frontier. From George Armstrong Custer and Andrew Jackson to Helen Hunt Jackson, the volume gives the views of well-known Anglo-Americans and contrasts them with views of such well-known Native Americans as Metacom, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, and Black Hawk. Organized around major subthemes regarding the land, who should own it, and what ownership means, the book traces the rhetoric of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, then covers current issues in the words of Oren Lyons, Vine Deloria Jr., and Senator Slade Gorton.

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SERIES FOREWORD

PREFACE

REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION

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1: WHO "OWNS" THE WILDERNESS? Roger Williams and Metacom (King Philip)

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2: BALANCE OF POWER AND THE BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES Hendrick, Canassatego, Benjamin Franklin, and Red Jacket

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3: ALLIANCES TO PRESERVE LAND BASE Little Turtle, Tecumseh, William Henry Harrison, and Black Hawk

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4: THE CHEROKEES, EXILES FROM THEIR OWN LAND Andrew Jackson, Sequoyah, John Ross, and John Marshall

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5: REFUGEES IN THEIR OWN LAND Chief Joseph, Oliver O. Howard, Sitting Bull, George Armstrong Custer, Red Cloud, and Standing Bear (Ponca)

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6: MOTHER EARTH OR MOTHER LODE? Chief Sea'thl, Black Elk, and Luther Standing Bear

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7: "KILL THE INDIAN, SAVE THE MAN" Helen Hunt Jackson, L. Frank Baum, Richard Henry Pratt, and Other Participants in the Anglo-American Debate Regarding Native Americans' Future

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8: LAND BASE AND THE RECLAMATION OF CULTURE, 1934-2000 Felix Cohen, Vine Deloria, Jr., Oren Lyons, and Slade Gorton

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APPENDIX: BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

About the Author
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Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century (Chap. 6 "'Very Serious Literary Labor': The Career of Helen Hunt Jackson")
by Susan Coultrap-McQuin. 253 pgs.

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Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century

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Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Why Try a Writing Career? the Ambiguous Cultural Context for Women Writers of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

2: Gentlemen and Ladies Ideals and Economics in the Literary Marketplace

3: The Place of Gender in Business the Career of E. D. E. N. Southworth

4: The Impact of Domestic Feminism Harriet Beecher Stowe's Mature Career

5: The Battle for a Fair Marketplace Mary Abigail Dodge Versus James T Fields

6: Very Serious Literary Labor the Career of Helen Hunt Jackson

7: The Demise of Feminine Strength the Career of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (ward)

8: A Final Word Literary Professionalism and Women

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The Nightingale's Burden: Women Poets and American Culture before 1900 (Chap. 4 "Tradition and the Individual Talent: Helen Hunt Jackson and Emily Dickinson")
by Cheryl Walker. 189 pgs.

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Methodology and Mystery 1: Anne Bradstreet

Founding the Tradition 2: The Poetess at Large

A Composite Biography: Early Nineteenth-Century Women Poets

Tradition and the Individual Talent 4: Helen Hunt Jackson and Emily Dickinson

One Brief, Transitory Hour 5: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Lizette Woodworth Reese, and Louise Imogen Guiney

Conclusion 6: The Mythical Nineteenth Century and Its Heritage

Notes

Selected Bibliography

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Travel Writing, Sentimental Romance, and Indian Rights Advocacy: The Politics of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, in Journal of the Southwest
by Martin Padget. 43 pgs.

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Sincerity, Secrecy, and Lies: Helen Hunt Jackson's No Name Novels, in Studies in American Fiction
by Carol E. Schmudde. 15 pgs.

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The Erotics of Racialization: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of California, in Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies
by Yolanda Venegas. 26 pgs.

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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)" begins on p. 253)
by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

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As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the critical studies examining the writer's works, and a bibliography of works for further consultation.

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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891)

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Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794-1845)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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Alice Cary (1820-1871)

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Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)

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Caroline Chesebro' (Caroline Chesebrough) (1825-1873)

Works Cited

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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

Works Cited

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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley) (1819-1906)

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Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

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Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841-1928)

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Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)

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Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866)

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Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

Works Cited

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Works Cited

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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar- Nelson (1875-1935)

Works Cited

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Emma Embury (1806-1863)

Works Cited

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Fanny Fern (sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811-1872)

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Kate Field (1838-1896)

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Martha Finley (Martha Farquharson) (1828-1909)

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

Works Cited

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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)

Works Cited

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Sarah Pratt Mclean Greene (1856-1935)

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Grace Greenwood (sara Jane Clarke Lippincott) (1823-1904)

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Angelina GrimkÉ: (1805-1879)

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Sarah GrimkÉ (1792-1873)

Works Cited

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Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)

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Gail Hamilton (Mary Abigail Dodge) (1833-1896)

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Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune) (1830-1922)

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Fances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)

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Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800-1856)

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Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926)

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Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825-1907)

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891)

Works Cited

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

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Works Cited

Harriet A. Jacobs (Linda Brent) (C. 1813-1897)

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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

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Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932)

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Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)

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Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)

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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa) (1851-1926)

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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

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Maria Jane Mcintosh (1803-1878)

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Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)

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Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt (Ritchie): (1819-1870)

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Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock): (1850-1922)

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith: (1806-1893)

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Frances Sargent Locke Osgood: (1811-1850)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)

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Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1849?-1916)

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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

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Atharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

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Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

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E. D. E. N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth) (1819-1899)

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Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

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Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1886)

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Maria Stewart (1803-1879)

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: (1823-1902)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Ruth Mcenery Stuart (1849-1917)

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Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850-1934)

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Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894)

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831-1885)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911)

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Susan Warner (1819-1885)

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Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (1814-1852)

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Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)

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A. D. T. Whitney (Adeline Dutton Train Whitney) (1824-1906)

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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909)

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Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)

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Sally S. Wood (1759-1855)

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

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The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Discussion of Helen Hunt Jackson bebins on p. 626)
by Francis Paul Prucha. 1310 pgs.

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'The author's detailed analysis of two centuries of federal policy makes The Great Father indispensable reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of American Indian policy.' - Journal of American History.

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Prologue: The Colonial Experience

Part One: Formative Years

Chapter 1: Peace after the Revolution

Chapter 2: War and Defense

Chapter 3: Trade and Intercourse Laws

Chapter 4: Government Trading Houses (Factories)

Chapter 5: Civilization and Education

Chapter 6: The Indian Department

Part Two: Indian Removal

Chapter 7: The Policy of Indian Removal

Chapter 8: The Emigration of the Southern Tribes

Chapter 9: Removal of the Northern Indians

Chapter 10: The Emigrant Indians in the West

Chapter 11: New Structures and Programs

Part Three: American Expansion and the Reservation System

Chapter 12: The Indian Office: Men and Policies

Chapter 13: A Pathway to the Pacific

Chapter 14: Texas, New Mexico, and Utah

Chapter 15: California, Oregon, and Washington

Part Four: The Civil War Years

Chapter 16: The Southern Indians and the Confederate States

Chapter 17: Indian Conflicts: A Series of Other Wars

Chapter 18: The Indian System and Its Critics

Part Five: The Peace Policy

Chapter 19: Stirrings of Reform Doolittle Committee. Indian Peace Commission. Civilization for the Indians. Reform Impulses.

Chapter 20: Structures of the Peace Policy

Chapter 21: Military Challenge

Chapter 22: Reservation Policy

Chapter 23: The Indian Service: Policies and Administration An Array of Commissioners. Fraud and the "Indian Rings." Inspectors and Special Agents. Policies and Programs. Law and Order.

Illustration and Map Credits Volume I

Part Six: Americanizing the American Indians

Chapter 24: The New Christian Reformers

Chapter 25: The Reservations and Reform Dismantling the Great Sioux Reserve. Mission Indians of California. Promotion of Civilization. Continuing Liquor Problems. Opposition to Reservations.

Chapter 26: Severalty, Law, and Citizenship

Chapter 27: Education for Patriotic Citizenship

Chapter 28: The Indian Service: Bureaucratization and Reform

Chapter 29: Liquidating the Indian Territory The Drive for Territorial Organization. Invasion of the Indian Territory. Defeat of the Five Civilized Tribes. Oklahoma Statehood.

Part Seven: The Nation's Wards

Chapter 30: The Indian Office: The Indians' Guardian

Chapter 31: The 1920s: The Guardian on Trial Continuity and Development. The Bureau under Siege. Investigations and Reports.

Chapter 32: Education for Self-Support

Chapter 33: Concern for Indian Health

Chapter 34: The Indians' Land

Chapter 35: Indians of Oklahoma and New York

Part Eight: The Indian New Deal

Chapter 36: Transition: The Hoover Years

Chapter 37: The New Reform John Collier, Commissioner. Conservation and Relief. New Deal Measures. John Collier's Reform Proposal. The Wheeler-Howard (Indian Reorganization) Act. Indian Organization.

Chapter 38: Rounding Out the New Deal

Chapter 39: The End of the Indian New Deal John Collier's Travail. Congressional Attacks. The Indians and World War II. The Legacy of the Indian New Deal.

Part Nine: Termination

Chapter 40: The Postwar Years

Chapter 41: Termination in Action

Chapter 42: Programs for Indians

Part Ten: Indian Self-Determination

Chapter 43: Turnabout in the 1960s

Chapter 44: Signs of the New Day

Chapter 45: Advances in Indian Rights and Responsibilities Indian Education. Indian Health. Indian Child Welfare Act. Indian Self-Determination Act. American Indian Policy Review Commission.

Chapter 46: Legal and Judicial Maneuvering Land Claims and Conflicts. Water Rights. Fishing and Hunting Rights. Inherent Sovereignty and Tribal Jurisdiction.

Chapter 47: The American Indians in 1980 Urban Indians and Nonrecognized Tribes. Federal Programs for Indians. Building an Economic Base. Trust Responsibility: The Great Father Redivivus. America's Unfinished Business

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Bibliographical Essay

Illustration and Map Credits Volume II

Index

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Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities ("Romona" begins on p. 90)
by Laura Browder. 312 pgs.

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In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative ###I Am a Woman -- and a Jew#; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, ###The Education of Little Tree#. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities.
Significantly, notes Browder, these ersatz autobiographies have tended to appear at flashpoints in American history: in the decades before the Civil War, when immigration laws and laws regarding Native Americans were changing in the 1920s, and during the civil rights era, for example. Examining the creation and reception of such works from the 1830s through the 1990s -- against a background ranging from the abolition movement and Wild West shows to more recent controversies surrounding blackface performance and jazz music -- Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.

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Slippery Characters

Introduction

Chapter One: Slave Narratives and the Problem of Authenticity

Chapter Two: Laying the Groundwork for Ethnic Impersonator Autobiographies

Chapter Three: California Novels of Brown People and White Nationhood

Chapter Four: How a Slave, a Janitor, and a Former Klansman Escaped Racial Categories by Becoming Indians

Chapter Five: The Immigrant's Answer to Horatio Alger

Chapter Six: Class Imposture in Depression America

Chapter Seven: How Middle-Class White Americans Became Authentic Through Blackness

Chapter Eight: Danny Santiago's Famous All Over Town

Conclusion: Rewriting the Ethnic Autobiography

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Whitman's & Dickinson's Contemporaries: An Anthology of Their Verse ("Helen Hunt Jackson 1830-1885" begins on p. 302)
by Robert Bain. 555 pgs.

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Preface Forgive, O Lord, My Little Jokes on Thee, and I'Ll Forgive Thy Great Big One on Me. --Robert Frost

Introduction

To a Waterfowl

The Prairies

Division of an Estate

George Moses Horton, Myself

From Sonnets to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Portrait

Science

Hamatreya

Ode Inscribed to W. H. Channing

Bacchus

Days

The Lost Pleiad

From Snow-Bound

Sonnet--To Science

To Helen

The City in the Sea

Dream-Land

The Chambered Nautilus

The Deacon's Masterpiece; Or, the Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay"

Terror

The Strangers

Freedom and Union

Rhyme of the Rail

Great God, I Ask Thee for No Meaner Pelf

A Poet's Hope

Walden Spring

Ball's Bluff a Reverie (october, 1861)

The Aeolian Harp at the Surf Inn

In a Garret

From the Fifth Sonnet Sequence

Jacob

Ode

To Walt Whitman, the Man Washington, May, Mdccclxiii

Fireflies

Kit Carson's Ride

Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle

The Sword of Robert Lee

Song of the Mystic

A Ballad of Trees and the Master

The Humming-Bird

Evolution

A Sunset

My Captive

Going Blind

Links

The Cranes of Ibycus

Our Hired Girl

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919

Suggestions for Further Reading

Art and Heart

Woman

What Love Is

Lincoln

From Verses to My Heart's Sister

Truth

A Passing Mood

Spring Ecstasy

Evolution

A Stein Song

Beauty and Art

From the Fire-Bringer

Contributors

Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems

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