Sarah J Purcell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1119239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah J Purcell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah J |
| FAMILY NAME | Purcell |
| SIGNATURE | PURCELL S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities. These funerals featured lengthy processions that sometimes crossed multiple state lines, burial ceremonies open to the public, and other cultural productions of commemoration such as oration and song. As Sarah J. Purcell reveals…
George Washington's Hair: How Early Americans Remembered Their Founders by Keith Beutler
Beutler’s Washington’s Hair opens with a provocative question: “Did early Americans have beliefs about the nature of memory itself that, by giving shape to their efforts to remember their nation’s birth, affected foundational patriotic American memory and identity? (ix).” Beutler answers a resounding “yes” in five brisk chapters that chart how ideas about memory—especially a turn toward materialist and physical forms of memory—shaped Americans’ n…
Pennsylvania Civil War Deserters Database
The Pennsylvania Civil War Deserters Database (Pcwdd) is an open-access resource provided by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University and hosted in partnership with the Penn State Libraries. The Pcwdd is an interactive Web site that forms part of a larger online project of the Richards Center, The People's Contest: A Civil War Era Digital Archiving Project (https://peoplescontest.psu.edu/), which seeks “to advance…
Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance
Introduction Prologue Chapter 1: War Chapter 2: Meaning of the Civil War in Reconstruction Chapter 3: Generals' War Chapter 4: Boys from Iowa Chapter 5: Great Reunion Chapter 6: A Farewell to Arms Chapter 7: A New Deal Epilogue Appendix 1: Herman Lieb's Report on Milliken's Bend Appendix 2: The Battle of Milliken's Bend, by David Cornwell Appendix 3: Reported Lynchings in Warren County, Mississippi Appendix 4: State Monuments on the Vicksburg Bat…
Commemoration, Public Art, and the Changing Meaning of the Bunker Hill Monument
The controversy over a 1998 public art project by Krzysztof Wodiczko at the Bunker Hill Monument dramatizes how the meanings of monuments are subject to constant renegotiation. Reaction to Wodiczko's art, which used the monument to comment on crime in Charlestown, Massachusetts, demonstrated both changes and continuities in the understandings of monuments since the Bunker Hill Monument was first designed in the 1820s. Both Wodiczko and the monume…
Commemoration, Public Art, and the Changing Meaning of the Bunker Hill Monument
The controversy over a 1998 public art project by Krzysztof Wodiczko at the Bunker Hill Monument dramatizes how the meanings of monuments are subject to constant renegotiation. Reaction to Wodiczko's art, which used the monument to comment on crime in Charlestown, Massachusetts, demonstrated both changes and continuities in the understandings of monuments since the Bunker Hill Monument was first designed in the 1820s. Both Wodiczko and the monume…
Ready, Aim, Commemorate
Encyclopedia of Battles in North America, 1517-1916
Maps supplement descriptive narratives of more than 350 battles, from battles over Spanish conquest in 1517 to Mexican border raids in 1916, providing information on each battle's context, important leaders, and outcome
Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America
Paul Revere: Artisan and Patriot
The American Plutarch: Jeremy Belknap and the Historian's Dialogue with the Past
Introduction The Life of a Cabbage Fellow Travelers into the Past A Religious Dialogue with the Past The View from Agamenticus Essays on Man Journey into the Wilderness Elder Scripture A Conservative View of History The American Plutarch Admonition from the Past Epilogue Appendix Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Who Was Who in the American Revolution
Journal Article Who Was Who in the American Revolution. By L. Edward Purcell and Sarah J. Purcell. (New York: Facts On File, 1993. xii, 548 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8160-2107-4.) Get access William Bailer William Bailer Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1674–1675, https://doi.org/10.2307/294…
Commemoration, Public Art, and the Changing Meaning of the Bunker Hill Monument
The controversy over a 1998 public art project by Krzysztof Wodiczko at the Bunker Hill Monument dramatizes how the meanings of monuments are subject to constant renegotiation. Reaction to Wodiczko's art, which used the monument to comment on crime in Charlestown, Massachusetts, demonstrated both changes and continuities in the understandings of monuments since the Bunker Hill Monument was first designed in the 1820s. Both Wodiczko and the monume…
Commemoration, Public Art, and the Changing Meaning of the Bunker Hill Monument
The controversy over a 1998 public art project by Krzysztof Wodiczko at the Bunker Hill Monument dramatizes how the meanings of monuments are subject to constant renegotiation. Reaction to Wodiczko's art, which used the monument to comment on crime in Charlestown, Massachusetts, demonstrated both changes and continuities in the understandings of monuments since the Bunker Hill Monument was first designed in the 1820s. Both Wodiczko and the monume…
Who Was Who in the American Revolution
Journal Article Who Was Who in the American Revolution. By L. Edward Purcell and Sarah J. Purcell. (New York: Facts On File, 1993. xii, 548 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8160-2107-4.) Get access William Bailer William Bailer Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1674–1675, https://doi.org/10.2307/294…
The American Plutarch: Jeremy Belknap and the Historian's Dialogue with the Past
Introduction The Life of a Cabbage Fellow Travelers into the Past A Religious Dialogue with the Past The View from Agamenticus Essays on Man Journey into the Wilderness Elder Scripture A Conservative View of History The American Plutarch Admonition from the Past Epilogue Appendix Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Paul Revere: Artisan and Patriot
Encyclopedia of Battles in North America, 1517-1916
Maps supplement descriptive narratives of more than 350 battles, from battles over Spanish conquest in 1517 to Mexican border raids in 1916, providing information on each battle's context, important leaders, and outcome
Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America
Commemoration, Public Art, and the Changing Meaning of the Bunker Hill Monument
The controversy over a 1998 public art project by Krzysztof Wodiczko at the Bunker Hill Monument dramatizes how the meanings of monuments are subject to constant renegotiation. Reaction to Wodiczko's art, which used the monument to comment on crime in Charlestown, Massachusetts, demonstrated both changes and continuities in the understandings of monuments since the Bunker Hill Monument was first designed in the 1820s. Both Wodiczko and the monume…
Commemoration, Public Art, and the Changing Meaning of the Bunker Hill Monument
The controversy over a 1998 public art project by Krzysztof Wodiczko at the Bunker Hill Monument dramatizes how the meanings of monuments are subject to constant renegotiation. Reaction to Wodiczko's art, which used the monument to comment on crime in Charlestown, Massachusetts, demonstrated both changes and continuities in the understandings of monuments since the Bunker Hill Monument was first designed in the 1820s. Both Wodiczko and the monume…
Ready, Aim, Commemorate
Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance
Introduction Prologue Chapter 1: War Chapter 2: Meaning of the Civil War in Reconstruction Chapter 3: Generals' War Chapter 4: Boys from Iowa Chapter 5: Great Reunion Chapter 6: A Farewell to Arms Chapter 7: A New Deal Epilogue Appendix 1: Herman Lieb's Report on Milliken's Bend Appendix 2: The Battle of Milliken's Bend, by David Cornwell Appendix 3: Reported Lynchings in Warren County, Mississippi Appendix 4: State Monuments on the Vicksburg Bat…
Pennsylvania Civil War Deserters Database
The Pennsylvania Civil War Deserters Database (Pcwdd) is an open-access resource provided by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University and hosted in partnership with the Penn State Libraries. The Pcwdd is an interactive Web site that forms part of a larger online project of the Richards Center, The People's Contest: A Civil War Era Digital Archiving Project (https://peoplescontest.psu.edu/), which seeks “to advance…
Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities. These funerals featured lengthy processions that sometimes crossed multiple state lines, burial ceremonies open to the public, and other cultural productions of commemoration such as oration and song. As Sarah J. Purcell reveals…
George Washington's Hair: How Early Americans Remembered Their Founders by Keith Beutler
Beutler’s Washington’s Hair opens with a provocative question: “Did early Americans have beliefs about the nature of memory itself that, by giving shape to their efforts to remember their nation’s birth, affected foundational patriotic American memory and identity? (ix).” Beutler answers a resounding “yes” in five brisk chapters that chart how ideas about memory—especially a turn toward materialist and physical forms of memory—shaped Americans’ n…
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