The Philadelawareans, and Other Essays Relating to DelawareUniversity of Delaware Press, 2004 - 305 páginas This volume presents a varied sampling of the author's writings from the past sixty years, along with some previously unpublished materials. It begins with a long prologue that the author calls a literary autobiography, and this story is continued and amplified in introductory notes that accompany each of the following items. the relationship between Delaware and the city of Philadelphia. This theme reappears in many guises in the background of other items as, for example, in a summary of New Castle's history, in an investigation of an experiment in nonresident representation in Congress, and in explanation of the unique importance of an early Wilmington collector of customs. In the last essay, previously unpublished, the relationship is personalized in a reminiscence contributing to the autobiographical theme with which the book began. at the University of Delaware. |
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The Philadelawareans A Study in the Relations between Philadelphia and Delaware in the Late Eighteenth Century | 29 |
The Eve of the Revolution | 52 |
The New Castle Tercentenary | 70 |
Nonresident Representation in the Continental Congress The Delaware Delegation of 1782 | 87 |
The Ins and Outs of Politics Early NineteenthCentury Delaware | 113 |
Separation Day | 177 |
The Old Collector Allen McLane | 181 |
Reflections on Delaware and the American Revolution | 219 |
Church versus State The Early Struggle for Control of Delaware College | 233 |
The First Map of Delaware after Statehood | 245 |
Delaware and the Constitution An Overview of Events Leading to Ratification | 250 |
A Parson in Politics The Expulsion of John C Brush from the Delaware General Assembly in 1801 | 268 |
Three NineteenthCentury Immigrants | 283 |
The Delaware Physician of 1800 | 123 |
The Negro in Delaware | 135 |
Eight Newspaper Columns | 152 |
Delaware as an Antique | 173 |
The Trip to Philadelphia | 294 |
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