Lawrence W Towner

Biographic Data

ID1068307
NAMELawrence W Towner
GIVEN NAMESLawrence W
FAMILY NAMETowner
SIGNATURETOWNER L W
AFFILIATIONSNewberry Library
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS25
TOTAL CITATIONS35
WORKS AS AUTHOR25
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1953
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
H-INDEX3

  • Past Perfect

    Thad W Tate, Lawrence W Towner et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1994

  • Past Imperfect

    William H Bond, Lawrence W Towner et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1993

    Lawrence W. Towner was head of one of the country's largest independent research libraries. He was also an eloquent spokesman for the needs of scholars and institutions in the humanities. While at the Newberry Library, he built and focused its prestigious collections, pioneered in the preservation of books, and created major research centers. His efforts established the library as a community of scholars while encouraging its use by students and …

  • Mapping the American Revolutionary War

    James Marshall-Cornwall, J B Harley et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1979Cited by: 4

  • Mapping the American Revolutionary War

    Open AccessDavid Hornbeck, J B Harley et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1979

  • As God Gold was with the Spaniards

    Lawrence W Towner, Gary B NashARTICLEReviews in American History1975

  • Open Shelves and Open Minds

    Lawrence W Towner, C H CramerARTICLEJournal of American History1972

    Journal Article Open Shelves and Open Minds: A History of the Cleveland Public Library. By C. H. Cramer. (Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1972. x + 279 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $9.95.) Get access Lawrence W. Towner Lawrence W. Towner Newberry Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 3, December 1972, Pages 727–728, https://doi.org/1…

  • The Poetry of Edwin Muir

    Lawrence W TownerARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1972

    Book Review| April 01 1972 The Poetry of Edwin Muir: The Field of Good and Ill by Elizabeth Huberman The Poetry of Edwin Muir: The Field of Good and Ill. By Huberman, Elizabeth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. x, 251. $7.95. Lawrence W. Towner Lawrence W. Towner The Newberry Library Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1972) 71 (2): 271–273. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-71-2-271 Cit…

  • The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

    Lawrence W Towner, John E PomfretARTICLEJournal of American History1970

    Journal Article The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery: From Its Beginnings To 1969. By John E. Pomfret. (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1969. x + 241 pp. Map, illustrations, bibliographical note, and index. $8.50.) Get access Lawrence W. Towner Lawrence W. Towner Newberry Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 2, September 1970, Pages 486–487, https…

  • With Hammer in Hand

    Lawrence W Towner, Charles F HummelARTICLEJournal of American History1970

    Journal Article With Hammer in Hand: The Dominy Craftsmen of East Hampton, New York. By Charles F. Hummel. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1968. xiv + 424 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Lawrence W. Towner Lawrence W. Towner Newberry Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 4, March 1970,…

  • Congregational Commonwealth

    Lawrence W Towner, Mary Jeanne Anderson JonesARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1969

  • Agents and Merchants

    Lawrence W TownerARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1968

  • The First Emancipation

    Lawrence W Towner, Arthur ZilversmitARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1968Cited by: 25

    This “first emancipation” set slavery on a course towards extinction in the northern United States. As the first large-scale freeing of slaves in human history, it helped launch a movement that would in less than a century transform slavery from an accepted component of almost every human society since ancient times to something morally suspect, a “peculiar” institution. It marked a turning-point in the black experience in America

  • The Sewall-Saffin Dialogue on Slavery

    Lawrence W TownerARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1964Cited by: 4

    B ) Y I700, the year Samuel Sewall published his now famous attack on slavery, Selling of Josepih, Negroes had been coming to Massachusetts New Englanders had been engaged in the slave trade for sixty or seventy years. Although the questions of when Negroes were enslaved in New England why they were made slaves instead of being treated as indentured servants are still troubling historians, there can be no question that by the end of the century N…

  • Puritans and Yankees

    Lawrence W Towner, Richard S DunnARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1963

    Journal Article Puritans and Yankees: The Winthrop Dynasty of New England, 1630–1717. By Richard S. Dunn. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962. xii + 379 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $7.50.) Get access Lawrence W. Towner Lawrence W. Towner The Newberry Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 49, Issue 4, March 1963, Pages 688–689, ht…

  • Independent Historical Societies

    Lawrence W Towner, Walter Muir WhitehillARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1963

  • Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts (1639-1702)

    Lawrence W Towner, Joseph H SmithARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1963

  • Ars Poetica et Sculptura

    Lawrence W TownerARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1962

  • A Fondness for Freedom

    Lawrence W TownerARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1962Cited by: 2

    OA N May 25, 1721, the prison on Boston's Queen Street lost a star boarder to the gallows: Joseph Hanno, emancipated Negro slave, was hanged for doing his wife in a very barbarous manner. Hanno had received a religious education, he had been baptized, and he had become a candidate for communion. Not unnaturally, the act of bashing his wife's head spoiled his chances of joining the elect this world, but almost to the last and fatal moment hope was…

  • A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States

    Lawrence W Towner, Philip M Hamer et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1962

  • Mr. Blackamore's Expeditio Ultramontana Rendered into English Verse by the Reverend Mr. George Seagood

    Lawrence W Towner, George SeagoodARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1961

  • Dedication

    Lawrence W TownerARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1959

  • Index to the Writings on American History 1902-1940

    Lawrence W Towner, David Maydole MattesonARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1958

  • The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century

    Lawrence W Towner, Bernard BailynARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1956

  • Gorges of Plymouth Fort

    Lawrence W Towner, Richard A PrestonARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1954

  • The Public Records of the State of Connecticut, IX, from May 1797 through October 1799

    Lawrence W Towner, Albert E Van DusenARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1953