Thomas K. Beecher - Minister to a Changing America, 1824-1900

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements and a Note on the Text
Growing Up a Beecher
The Struggle for Independence: The Philadelphia Years
Teaching and Courting in Hartford, Connecticut
Coping with Failure: The Williamsburgh Ministry
Starting Over: The Early Years of Beecher's Elmira Ministry
Taking Risks: Marriage, Friendship, and Political Activism
The War Years: Political Intrigue and Family Conflict
Tackling the Elmira Establishment: Beecher and the Politics of Conflict
Park Church: An Experiment in Christian Socialism
Coping with Social Turmoil, Family Tragedy, and Old Age
Epilogue
Select Bibliography

About the author

MYRA C. GLENN is Associate Professor of American History at Elmira College in New York. She is the author of Campaigns Against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, Women and Children in Antebellum America (1984).

Product details

• Authors: Carl Buzawa, Myra C. Glenn, Glenn Myra C.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.1996
• EAN: 9780313298622
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29862-2
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Religion, USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Biography: historical, political and military, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches