Amy S Greenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1041241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy S Greenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy S |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenberg |
| SIGNATURE | GREENBERG A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Place for Saints
Five years ago, students in college history courses were more likely to read about the religious foment of the early American republic in Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz's The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in Nineteenth-Century America, or Johnson's 1979 masterpiece Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815–1837, than in a monograph about Mormonism.1 The problem was not that instructors judged…
Quartermasters of Conquest
Laura F. Edwards. Only the Clothes on Her Back
Journal Article Laura F. Edwards. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Get access Laura F. Edwards. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 433. Cloth $34.95. Amy S Greenberg Amy S Greenberg Penn State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for o…
Garibaldi in the Land of Cotton
It can be difficult to take Confederate nationhood seriously. Born out of fear of Northern interference with their peculiar institution, the Confederacy was riven by divisions, had a deliberately weak central government, lasted less than five years, and failed to gain diplomatic recognition from a single country. Most importantly, because the North prevailed, so too did Abraham Lincoln’s claim that the states in rebellion never actually left the …
A Different Manifest Destiny
Given its short length, A Different Manifest Destiny is a remarkably ambitious study. In just three chapters and a little over one hundred pages of text (not counting endnotes), Claire Wolnisty argues that connections between three diverse groups: filibusters, commercial expansionists, and post-bellum emigrants to South America, constituted a particularly southern, and southward-facing, ideal of Manifest Destiny. Her timeframe (1807–1877) is as n…
Joanne B. Freeman. The Field of Blood
Nobody analyzes the drama of congressional politics more pleasingly than Joanne B. Freeman. The seductive narrative style of her previous book Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (2001) nearly overshadowed the volume’s radical reinterpretation of the political culture of the new United States. The men who were elected to the first Congress, Freeman showed, were in no way the infallible Founding Fathers of historical imaginatio…
P aul D. N aish . Slavery and Silence
Were antebellum Americans silenced on the subject of slavery? Charles Sumner vociferously insisted that he was. In a speech to the Senate on August 26, 1852, the Massachusetts senator decried slave owners who attempted to muzzle northern critics: “According to them, sir, we may speak of everything except that alone, which is most present in all our minds.” This did not stop Sumner from loudly attacking slavery, just as the passage of the 1836 Gag…
Timothy J. Williams. Intellectual Manhood
The truism that developments in the “Old South” were marginal to the key economic, social, and cultural transformations of the early American republic has recently come under serious attack, most notably by historians of capitalism who have placed slavery at the vanguard of economic development. Timothy J. Williams offers a related reevaluation of higher education in the Old South in Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Ante…
Missionaries of Republicanism
Journal Article Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War Get access John C. Pinheiro. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii, 240 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Page 1266, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav058 Published: 01 March 2015
The Thrilling Adventures of America's Civil War Diplomats; Broken Promises
Journal Article The Thrilling Adventures of America's Civil War Diplomats Get access Hoffman Elizabeth Cobbs. In the Lion's Den: A Novel of the Civil War. New York: iUniverse, 2009. 323pp. $19.95 (paper).[Soon to be re-released as Hoffman Elizabeth Cobbs. Broken Promises: A Novel of the Civil War. New York: Random House, 2011 (to appear).]* Amy S. Greenberg Amy S. Greenberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War
Anyone lucky enough to track down an 1847 dime novel about the U.S.-Mexican War has probably wondered about its curious juxtaposition of melodrama and fact. Chivalrous U.S. soldiers and virtuous Mexican maidens (often in drag) cavort with Gen. Zachary Taylor in wholly fanciful haciendas on the outskirts of recently sanctified battle sites: Buena Vista, Monterrey, and Vera Cruz. Jaime Javier Rodríguez illuminates this curious mishmash in a concept…
Domesticating the Border
Land of Necessity
Pirates, Patriots, and Public Meetings
Public meetings have been an understudied aspect of mid-nineteenth-century urban political culture and public life, despite the fact that large public meetings attracted hundreds or thousands of people, monopolizing the largest urban public spaces on a not-infrequent basis. This article looks closely at some of the largest public meetings ever held in nineteenth-century America, political meetings in support of the mercenary Narciso López and his…
American Creed
Reforming Men and Women
A Gray-Eyed Man
W illiam Walker, or the gray-eyed man of destiny as he was commonly known, rose to fame in 1855 on the basis of a remarkable accomplishment. With a band of fifty-eight recruits from San Francisco, he was able to seize control of the government of Nicaragua, becoming commander in chief and later president of the country. Alone among filibusters in a decade that saw repeated attempts to capture new territory in the Western Hemisphere, Walker could …
Cause for Alarm
Rioting in America
Cause for Alarm
Journal Article Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City. By Amy S. Greenberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 233 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-01648-8.) Get access Richard Stott Richard Stott George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Page 771, https://doi.or…
Irish in the City
Parish boundaries: the Catholic encounter with race in the twentieth-century urban north . By John T. McGreevy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. vi+362. ISBN 0-226-55873-8. $27.50. What parish are you from? A Chicago Irish community and race relations . By Eileen M. McMahon. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. Pp. xii+226. ISBN 0-8131-1877-8. $32.95. The Boston Irish: a political history . By Thomas H. O'Connor. London: …
The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur
Probing beneath the surface of Benjamin Rathburn's career to reveal the unsettling social and economic forces that the American commercial revolution unleashed, this work examines the collapse of Rathburn's empire, in 1837, amidst accusations of fraud
Reforming Men and Women
American Creed
Irish in the City
Parish boundaries: the Catholic encounter with race in the twentieth-century urban north . By John T. McGreevy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. vi+362. ISBN 0-226-55873-8. $27.50. What parish are you from? A Chicago Irish community and race relations . By Eileen M. McMahon. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. Pp. xii+226. ISBN 0-8131-1877-8. $32.95. The Boston Irish: a political history . By Thomas H. O'Connor. London: …
The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur
Probing beneath the surface of Benjamin Rathburn's career to reveal the unsettling social and economic forces that the American commercial revolution unleashed, this work examines the collapse of Rathburn's empire, in 1837, amidst accusations of fraud
Rioting in America
Cause for Alarm
Journal Article Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City. By Amy S. Greenberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. x, 233 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-01648-8.) Get access Richard Stott Richard Stott George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Page 771, https://doi.or…
Irish in the City
Parish boundaries: the Catholic encounter with race in the twentieth-century urban north . By John T. McGreevy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. vi+362. ISBN 0-226-55873-8. $27.50. What parish are you from? A Chicago Irish community and race relations . By Eileen M. McMahon. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. Pp. xii+226. ISBN 0-8131-1877-8. $32.95. The Boston Irish: a political history . By Thomas H. O'Connor. London: …
A Gray-Eyed Man
W illiam Walker, or the gray-eyed man of destiny as he was commonly known, rose to fame in 1855 on the basis of a remarkable accomplishment. With a band of fifty-eight recruits from San Francisco, he was able to seize control of the government of Nicaragua, becoming commander in chief and later president of the country. Alone among filibusters in a decade that saw repeated attempts to capture new territory in the Western Hemisphere, Walker could …
Cause for Alarm
Reforming Men and Women
American Creed
Pirates, Patriots, and Public Meetings
Public meetings have been an understudied aspect of mid-nineteenth-century urban political culture and public life, despite the fact that large public meetings attracted hundreds or thousands of people, monopolizing the largest urban public spaces on a not-infrequent basis. This article looks closely at some of the largest public meetings ever held in nineteenth-century America, political meetings in support of the mercenary Narciso López and his…
Domesticating the Border
Land of Necessity
The Thrilling Adventures of America's Civil War Diplomats; Broken Promises
Journal Article The Thrilling Adventures of America's Civil War Diplomats Get access Hoffman Elizabeth Cobbs. In the Lion's Den: A Novel of the Civil War. New York: iUniverse, 2009. 323pp. $19.95 (paper).[Soon to be re-released as Hoffman Elizabeth Cobbs. Broken Promises: A Novel of the Civil War. New York: Random House, 2011 (to appear).]* Amy S. Greenberg Amy S. Greenberg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War
Anyone lucky enough to track down an 1847 dime novel about the U.S.-Mexican War has probably wondered about its curious juxtaposition of melodrama and fact. Chivalrous U.S. soldiers and virtuous Mexican maidens (often in drag) cavort with Gen. Zachary Taylor in wholly fanciful haciendas on the outskirts of recently sanctified battle sites: Buena Vista, Monterrey, and Vera Cruz. Jaime Javier Rodríguez illuminates this curious mishmash in a concept…
Missionaries of Republicanism
Journal Article Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War Get access John C. Pinheiro. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii, 240 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Page 1266, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav058 Published: 01 March 2015
Timothy J. Williams. Intellectual Manhood
The truism that developments in the “Old South” were marginal to the key economic, social, and cultural transformations of the early American republic has recently come under serious attack, most notably by historians of capitalism who have placed slavery at the vanguard of economic development. Timothy J. Williams offers a related reevaluation of higher education in the Old South in Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Ante…
P aul D. N aish . Slavery and Silence
Were antebellum Americans silenced on the subject of slavery? Charles Sumner vociferously insisted that he was. In a speech to the Senate on August 26, 1852, the Massachusetts senator decried slave owners who attempted to muzzle northern critics: “According to them, sir, we may speak of everything except that alone, which is most present in all our minds.” This did not stop Sumner from loudly attacking slavery, just as the passage of the 1836 Gag…
Joanne B. Freeman. The Field of Blood
Nobody analyzes the drama of congressional politics more pleasingly than Joanne B. Freeman. The seductive narrative style of her previous book Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (2001) nearly overshadowed the volume’s radical reinterpretation of the political culture of the new United States. The men who were elected to the first Congress, Freeman showed, were in no way the infallible Founding Fathers of historical imaginatio…
A Different Manifest Destiny
Given its short length, A Different Manifest Destiny is a remarkably ambitious study. In just three chapters and a little over one hundred pages of text (not counting endnotes), Claire Wolnisty argues that connections between three diverse groups: filibusters, commercial expansionists, and post-bellum emigrants to South America, constituted a particularly southern, and southward-facing, ideal of Manifest Destiny. Her timeframe (1807–1877) is as n…
Garibaldi in the Land of Cotton
It can be difficult to take Confederate nationhood seriously. Born out of fear of Northern interference with their peculiar institution, the Confederacy was riven by divisions, had a deliberately weak central government, lasted less than five years, and failed to gain diplomatic recognition from a single country. Most importantly, because the North prevailed, so too did Abraham Lincoln’s claim that the states in rebellion never actually left the …
Laura F. Edwards. Only the Clothes on Her Back
Journal Article Laura F. Edwards. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Get access Laura F. Edwards. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 433. Cloth $34.95. Amy S Greenberg Amy S Greenberg Penn State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for o…
No Place for Saints
Five years ago, students in college history courses were more likely to read about the religious foment of the early American republic in Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz's The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in Nineteenth-Century America, or Johnson's 1979 masterpiece Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815–1837, than in a monograph about Mormonism.1 The problem was not that instructors judged…
Quartermasters of Conquest
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