From the time of its first appearance, the story of Pocahontas has provided the terms of a flexible discourse that has been put to multiple, and at times contradictory, uses. Centering around her legendary rescue of John Smith from the brink of execution and her subsequent marriage to a white Jamestown colonist, the Pocahontas convention became a source of national debate over such broad issues as miscegenation, racial conflict, and colonial expansion. At the same time, Pocahontas became the most frequently and variously portrayed female figure in antebellum literature. Robert S. Tilton draws...
From the time of its first appearance, the story of Pocahontas has provided the terms of a flexible discourse that has been put to multiple, and at ti...
TWO HUNDRED YEARS after Henry -Lighthorse Harry- Lee's funeral oration for George Washington, the eloquence of his words -first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen- has caused most Americans to forget the clause that followed in which Lee located Washington's character firmly in his private life. George Washington: The Man behind the Myths redresses this historical imbalance in our image of Washington by examining our conceptions and misconceptions about him through a fascinating collection of documents and images.
Washington's own accounts, observations...
TWO HUNDRED YEARS after Henry -Lighthorse Harry- Lee's funeral oration for George Washington, the eloquence of his words -first in war, first in pe...
