|
A forgotten founding Founding Father; MU history professor makes case for John Winthrop in new biography
|
Come Friday, Americans will celebrate the origins of their
country, remembering Founding Fathers such as George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
Millersville University history professor Francis J. Bremer would
like to see another name added to that list: John Winthrop (1588-
1649), first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Winthrop's efforts to recreate a "godly kingdom" in New England _
"a city upon a hill' _ and to protect it from English interference
surely qualify him. The MU history department chairman makes the case
in a 478-page biography, "John Winthrop: ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)
|
John Winthrop Lived Up to His Ideals (Cont'd.)
; As a lineal descendant of both John Winthrop and Roger Williams, I must take...and David Williams {Jan. 30}. 1. John Winthrop did not banish Roger Williams...rescinded. Roger Williams and John Winthrop were close friends and remained...
|
|
YOUNG PEOPLE GROW UP, STAY IN NEIGHBORLY WINTHROP
; ...part of Boston in 1630. Governor John Winthrop, the first head of the Commonwealth...formerly used as their summer house. "John Winthrop's summer home is long gone, but...Captain William Pierce, one of John Winthrop's sea captains, Parsons said...
|
|
|
JOHN WINTHROP'S EXAMPLE
; ...governor of Massachusetts. John Winthrop was born 400 years ago...one another's burdens," Winthrop wrote, because "we have...interference from London. Winthrop's notion of society...the executive. Although Winthrop was elected to 12 one-year...while he grew disaffected, Winthrop ...
|
|
Remembering John Winthrop--Hawthorne's suggestion.(first governor of Massachusetts; Nathaniel Hawthorne)
; ...make him an icon of party ideals, John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts...dispute Cotton Mather's claim that John Winthrop was the Father of New England...Despite all of this, the name John Winthrop simply does not register with...
|
|
|
John Winthrop Was Not a Dictator (Cont'd.)
; ...debate over the assessment of John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts...21}, is important because Winthrop, as the original Founding...letter deserve correction. If Winthrop was intolerant by today's...edge of a hostile wilderness. Winthrop was no dictator acting alone...
|
|
John Winthrop; How the Puritan settlement's first governor helped define a nation.(BOOKS)
; ...J. Bremer's biography, John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father, is apt. Winthrop's name today is familiar...Bremer, editor of the Winthrop Papers for the Massachusetts...striving toward what he [Winthrop] saw as a radically better...are to try to understand Winthrop, who ...
|
|
Founding fathers?(John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father)(William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation And The Printed Word)(Book Review)
; JOHN WINTHROP: AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN FOUNDING FATHER...Hopkins University Press. 280pp. $45. JOHN WINTHROP was forty-two years old when in 1630...Winthrop and Bradford--Francis J. Bremer's John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father...
|
|
|
REVIVING MR. WINTHROP
; ...purposely forgotten Puritan leader John Winthrop--and that his statue was dislocated...author of a recent biography of Winthrop, the first governor of the...found it politic to forget John Winthrop." And the statue? After spending...ty's last remaining admirer of Winthrop," as Bremer ...
|
|
"Christian Charitie" as colonial discourse: rereading Winthrop's sermon in its English context. (John Winthrop)
; Realization that John Winthrop wrote his Christian Charitie...Bay Colony. But when Winthrop's speech is read as one...inspire those leaving, Winthrop insisted that all those...this article rereads Winthrop's sermon in its departure...
|
|
The Journal of John Winthrop 1630-1649
; The Journal of John Winthrop 1630-1649, edited by Richard...issues and discussions of Winthrop's day. The journal provides...America provided grist for Winthrop's historical mill. He...neighbors. This edition of Winthrop's journal provides an...
|
For more facts and information,
see all results
