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The American soul : rediscovering the wisdom of the founders

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20447
Author
Needleman, Jacob.
Date of Publication
©2002.
Call Number
973.21 N374
  2 websites  
Responsibility
Jacob Needleman.
ISBN
1585421383
9781585421381
Author
Needleman, Jacob.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
J.P. Tarcher/Putnam,
Date of Publication
©2002.
Physical Description
xxii, 371 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-361).
Summary
Examines how the spiritual beliefs and vision of America's founders shaped the country's history and culture and assesses the influence of the spiritual traditions of African slaves, Native Americans, and early mystical communities on colonial America.
"An eclectic mixture of autobiography, U.S. intellectual history, philosophical inquiry, and spiritual wonderment, this extended meditative essay examines "America as an Idea" by uncovering the latent wisdom of many of its shining lights: Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman. Needleman, a philosophy professor and author of Money and the Meaning of Life, reinterprets the lives of each of these leaders in the context of their strong spiritual beliefs and their contributions to unifying a deeply divided body politic. The author liberally quotes classical philosophers, historians, biographers, and the subjects themselves, and he often interjects his own life experiences and spiritual beliefs into his loosely structured narrative. Needleman also tackles what he considers to be America's two most grievous historical blemishes: the murder of Native American culture and slavery and suggests how America should confront these wrongs." [from the "Library Journal"]
Subjects
Beissel, Conrad - 1690-1768.
Miller, Peter - 1709-1796.
Widman, Michael.
Ephrata Cloister (Pa.).
National characteristics, American.
Social values - United States.
Spirituality - United States.
Moral conditions.
Social values.
Spirituality.
United States - History.
United States - Moral conditions.
United States.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.21 N374
Websites
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Author
Kraybill, Donald B.
Date of Publication
©2013.
Call Number
289.71 K91a
Responsibility
Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt.
ISBN
9781421409146 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1421409143 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781421409153 (electronic)
1421409151 (electronic)
Author
Kraybill, Donald B.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Date of Publication
©2013.
Physical Description
xvi, 500 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Notes
"The companion to American Experience PBS"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-485) and index.
Contents
Roots. Who are the Amish? -- European origins -- The story in America -- Cultural context. Religious roots -- Sacred rituals -- The Amish way -- Symbols and identity -- Social organization. Diverse affiliations -- Population patterns -- Community organization -- Gender and family -- From Rumspringa to marriage -- Social ties and community rhythms -- Education -- External ties. Agriculture -- Business -- Technology -- Health and healing -- Government and civic relations -- The Amish in print -- Tourism and media -- The future. Pursuits of happiness -- Appendix A. Related groups: Mennonites, Brethren, Hutterites -- Appendix B. Key events in Amish history.
Summary
The Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy mode of transportation, Amish communities continually face outside pressures to modify their cultural patterns, social organization, and religious world view. An intimate portrait of Amish life, The Amish explores not only the emerging diversity and evolving identities within this distinctive American ethnic community, but also its transformation and geographic expansion.
Subjects
Amish
Amish.
History.
Additional Author
Johnson-Weiner, Karen.
Nolt, Steven M.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
289.71 K91a
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An enquiry into the foundation and history of the law of nations in Europe : from the time of the Greeks and Romans, to the age of Grotius

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21866
Author
Ward, Robert Plumer,
Date of Publication
1795.
Call Number
Book 812 1795
Book 813 1795
Responsibility
by Robert Ward of the Inner Temple, Esq. barrister at law. In two volumes.
Author
Ward, Robert Plumer,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, law printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for J. Butterworth, Fleet-Street,
Date of Publication
1795.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Vol. 1: cviii, 395, [1] p.; v. 2: [4], 628 p.
Signatures: v. 1: a-f⁸ g⁶ B-BB⁸ CC⁴ DD²; v. 2: [A]² B-RR⁸ SS².
Errata: v. 1, p. [396]; v. 2, pi2a.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 812 and 813 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ESTC
Subjects
International law
International law.
Politics and government.
Europe - Politics and government.
Europe.
History.
Full calf (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Strahan, Andrew,
Woodfall, William,
Butterworth, Joseph,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 812 1795
Book 813 1795
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An enquiry into the foundation and history of the law of nations in Europe : from the time of the Greeks and Romans, to the age of Grotius

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21867
Author
Ward, Robert Plumer,
Date of Publication
1795.
Call Number
Book 813 1795
Responsibility
by Robert Ward of the Inner Temple, Esq. barrister at law. In two volumes.
Author
Ward, Robert Plumer,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, law printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for J. Butterworth, Fleet-Street,
Date of Publication
1795.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Vol. 1: cviii, 395, [1] p.; v. 2: [4], 628 p.
Signatures: v. 1: a-f⁸ g⁶ B-BB⁸ CC⁴ DD²; v. 2: [A]² B-RR⁸ SS².
Errata: v. 1, p. [396]; v. 2, pi2a.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 814 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ESTC
Subjects
International law
International law.
Politics and government.
Europe - Politics and government.
Europe.
History.
Full gold-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Burnside, Thomas,
Strahan, Andrew,
Woodfall, William,
Butterworth, Joseph,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 813 1795
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An historical account of the original and nature, as well as the law of devises and revocations

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Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Date of Publication
1739.
Call Number
Book 214 1739
Responsibility
by a ... Learned judge.
Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Place of Publication
[London]
Publisher
Walthoe,
Date of Publication
1739.
Physical Description
xii, 174 pages [28] 19 cm
Notes
Later editions issued under title: The law of devices, revocations and last wills.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 214 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Inheritance and succession - England
Inheritance and succession.
England.
History.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 214 1739
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An introduction to the making of Latin : comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax : with proper English examples, most of them translations from the classic authors, in one column, and the Latin words in antoher : to which is subjoin'd, in the same method, a succinct account of the affairs of ancient Greece and Rome, intended at once to bring boys acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Latin tongue with rules for the gender of nouns

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22165
Author
Clarke, John,
Edition
The sixteenth edition, revised and carefully corrected.
Date of Publication
MDCCLII [1752]
Call Number
Book 1038 1752
Responsibility
by John Clarke ...
Author
Clarke, John,
Edition
The sixteenth edition, revised and carefully corrected.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Hodges on London-Bridge,
Date of Publication
MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description
xii, 297, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
"A dissertation upon the usefulness of translations of classic authors, both literal and free, for the easy and expeditious attainment of the Latin tongue" (p. [277]-297) has special title page.
Signatures: A-N¹².
Bookseller's advertisement on last three pages.
Apparently from Jasper Yeates's personal libarary.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of John Yeates.
Book nunber 1038 not assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Latin language - Early works to 1800.
Latin language - Readers
Latin language.
Latin language
Rome - History.
Greece - History - To 146 B.C.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
Early works.
History.
Readers.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
No spine title.
Additional Author
Clarke, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Yeates, John,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1038 1752
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Anno regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, decimo tertio. : At a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1772 ... And from thence continued by adjournments to the twenty-sixth day of February, 1773

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21545
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
Call Number
Book 583 1773
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1773 Feb.)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, at the new printing-office, near the market.,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
Physical Description
pages [2], 293-355, [1] ; 34 cm
Notes
Pagination continues session laws published from Feb. 1770 (Evans 11800).
Pennsylvania arms on title page.
Eighteen pages of hand-written notes at end of volume.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 583 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Contents
Bound with Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjournments to the Twentieth Day of February 1768, Philadelphia, D. Hall and W. Sellers,1768; - Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjourments to the highteenth# Day of February 1769, Philadelphia: D. Hall, and W. Sellers, 1769 - Anno Regni Georgii II Regis...And from thence continued by Adjournments to the Twenty-fourthDay of February, 1770, Philadelphhia, D. Hall and W Sellers, 1770 - Anno Regni Gerogii III Regis...And from thence continured by Adjournments to the Twenty-first Day of March 1772, Philadelphia, Hall and Sellers, 1772.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Three-quarters leather on printed boards(Binding)
Title stamped on spine (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 583 1773
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Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, primo. : At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the ninth day of October, Anno Dom. 1722 ... And from thence continued by several prorogations to the twenty seventh day of June, 1727. Being the sixth session of this present Parliament

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21347
Corporate Author
Great Britain.
Date of Publication
1727-1728.
Call Number
Book 462 1627-1728
Corporate Author
Great Britain.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by John Baskett ... and Tho. Norris, assignee to George Hills.,
Date of Publication
1727-1728.
Physical Description
42, 666, [2] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Each act constitutes a chapter; each chapter has a caption title, and most have a general t.p.
LHS copy imperfect: all chapters except 5 (second occurrence), 9, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21 wanting. Transcription of title from general t.p. prefixed to chapter 1.
The general t.p. for the second group of paging has the phrase: At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty third day of January, Anno Dom. 1727 ... being the first session of this present Parliament.
Final leaf blank.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 262 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
England and Wales. - Parliament - History - Early works to 1800.
England and Wales. - Parliament.
Politics and government
Great Britain - History - Charles II, 1660-1685 - Sources.
Great Britain - Politics and government - 1660-1688 - Early works to 1800.
Great Britain.
Early works.
History.
Sources.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 462 1627-1728
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Annual report of the Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania ... for the year 1866

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19162
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Adjutant-General's Office.
Date of Publication
1867.
Call Number
355.37 H313 1866
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Adjutant-General's Office.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, PA
Publisher
Singerly & Myers,
Date of Publication
1867.
Physical Description
1221 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Includes index.
Subjects
Pennsylvania. - Militia.
Regimental histories.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
355.37 H313 1866
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At the instance of Benjamin Franklin : a brief history of the Library Company of Philadelphia

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Edition
Revised and enlarged edition.
Date of Publication
1995.
1995
Call Number
027.2 F853
ISBN
0914076906
9780914076902
Edition
Revised and enlarged edition.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, PA
Publisher
Library Company of Philadelphia,
Date of Publication
1995.
1995
Physical Description
111 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
"This work is a revised and much expanded version of At the instance of Benjamin Franklin, by Edwin Wolf 2nd published ... in 1976 ... the new edition also contains passages from The Wolf years ... by Marie E. Korey published in 1984. The sections on the more recent history ... were written by John C. Van Horne and James Green ..."--Page [112].
Subjects
Library Company of Philadelphia - History.
Library Company of Philadelphia.
Verzamelingen.
Geschichte
History.
Additional Author
Wolf, Edwin,
Van Horne, John C.,
Green, James N.,
Korey, Marie Elena,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
027.2 F853
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