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1. The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) | |
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(2000-06)
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Editorial Review Book Description Thomas Wentworth Higginson is little known today, but during his own lifetime his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of the pivotal social movements reshaping America for the nineteenth century and beyond. Born in Cambridge, he was a fervent abolitionist, running guns to anti-slavery settlers and financing John Brown's raid. During the Civil War, he commanded the first black unit to fight for the Union, and their achievements (publicized in his classic Army Life in a Black Regiment) opened the way for further black enlistment. He also championed women's rights for sixty years, lecturing and agitating for suffrage. His lifelong correspondence with Emily Dickinson led to his editing her verse for publication, which some have called his greatest literary legacy. But in fact that legacy is here, in the essays he wrote about the many causes to which he dedicated his life. With this volume Meyer has guaranteed the rediscovery of a major American figure whose ideas made him a radical in his society but a visionary in ours. Customer Reviews (1)
While browsing at a brick & mortar bookstore yesterday evening I came across Mr. Meyer's new book and casually fanned through it. I was horrified to see that the only (I think) photograph published within the book is that of a young college-age Wentworth, with unattractively long hair, and the look of an idle popinjay: imagine, if you will, a combination of Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf (and actually more of the latter). Howard, what in God's name were you thinking of? To potential readers:purchase the book and learn about a man of high caliber who not only talked the talk but walked the walk.If you agree with me about the photograph, excise it and mail it back to the publisher.Mr. Meyer's editor may thereby profit from the experience. ... Read more |
2. Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Higginson | |
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(2004-10-01)
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3. Biography - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team | |
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(2003-01-01)
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4. Part of a manÂs life, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911) Higginson | |
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(1906)
Asin: B000REMUAM Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. Women and the AlphabetA Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Higginson | |
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(2004-09-15)
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6. Contemporaries by Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911) Higginson | |
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(1899)
Asin: B000OFHYBE Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
7. Black RebellionFive Slave Revolts by Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Higginson | |
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(2005-07-01)
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8. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Higginson | |
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(2004-12-01)
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9. The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) by Thomas Wentworth; Meyer, Howard N. Higginson | |
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(2000)
Asin: B000OSLL7Y Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
10. SUCH AS THEY ARE.Poems. by Thomas Wentworth [1823 - 1911].Higginson, Mary Thacher.Whitman, Sarah Wyman [1842 - 1904]. Higginson | |
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(1894)
Asin: B000SMZN8Y Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
11. The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Thomas Wentworth Higginson | |
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(1999-12-01)
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Editorial Review Book Description "I desire to record, as simply as I may, the beginnings of a momentous military experiment, whose ultimate results were the reorganization of the whole American army and the remoulding of the relations of two races on this continent. . . . I can only hope that the importance of the subject may save me from that egotism which makes great things seem little and little things seem less in the narrating." So wrote Thomas Wentworth Higginson about his role in one of the most compelling and fascinating episodes in the history of the United States. As the colonel of the first regiment of black men in the Union army during the Civil War, Higginson was an early, articulate, and powerful crusader for civil rights, and his journal and letters, collected for the first time in this volume, present some of the most extraordinary documents of the Civil War. Higginson was a politically engaged intellectual at the forefront of radical antislavery, labor, and feminist causes. Born in 1823 to a formerly wealthy but still prominent Brahmin family, he became one of America's leading social activists and a prominent writer, minister, and reformer. With the publication in 1869 of his classic Army Life in a Black Regiment, which drew on this journal, Higginson became one of the most important chroniclers of the Civil War. The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson is the first comprehensive edition of his journal. Sensitively and thoroughly annotated by Christopher Looby and supplemented by a large selection of Higginson's wartime letters, this volume offers the most vivid and intimate picture of the radical interracial solidarity brought about by the transformative experience of the army camp and of Civil War life. "The immediacy of Higginson's reflections, as well as their sharp insights, make this journal both distinctive and enduringly compelling . . . . Higginson's vivid texts can once again educate, gratify and delight readers."—Publishers Weekly "This volume will enrich our understanding of the transformations that emancipation and war wrought."—Library Journal Customer Reviews (1)
Looby's notes provide thoughtful comment. Stunning job. This is an excellent book. ... Read more |
12. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Kennikat Press Scholarly Reprints. Series on Literary America in the Nineteenth Century) by Mary Thacher Higginson | |
Hardcover: 435
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(1971-06)
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13. Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson | |
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(1997-10-01)
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14. Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906. | |
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(1970-04-06)
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