John W Quist
Biographic Data
| ID | 5369653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Quist |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Quist |
| SIGNATURE | QUIST J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shippensburg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation
Many writers of antislavery and abolitionism have viewed their subjects through the lens of progress. Theodore Foster’s trajectory calls that schema into question. Active in abolitionism’s origins in Michigan, Foster served as a Liberty Party editor for the Ann Arbor Signal of Liberty during the 1840s. There, he created an extensive literary record that condemned slavery and championed African American rights. Almost sixteen years after leaving t…
The Election of 1860: "A Campaign Fraught with Consequences." by Michael F. Holt
Reviewed by: The Election of 1860: "A Campaign Fraught with Consequences." by Michael F. Holt John W. Quist (bio) The Election of 1860: "A Campaign Fraught with Consequences." By Michael F. Holt. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2017. Pp. 256. Cloth, $29.95.) Readers of Michael F. Holt's work will find familiar elements in this volume: illuminating details, an emphasis on historical contingency, a reconsideration of slavery's connections wi…
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860. Volumes I and II
Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America
Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America explores the evolution of postal innovations that sparked a communication revolution in nineteenth-century America. Wayne E. Fuller examines how evangelical Protestants, the nation's dominant religious group, struggled against those transformations in American society that they believed threatened to paganize the Christian nation they were determined to save. Drawing on House and Senate document…
Piety in Providence: Class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Antebellum Rhode Island
During the eighteenth century, Providence's Protestant churches assembled people from all walks of life. This world began to shift in the early nineteenth century when the concept of an organic community began to crumble in the face of rising individualism. Reflecting the changes in the larger society, religious congregations became segmented by class and produced religious cultures that Mark S. Schantz identifies as “bourgeois” and “plebeian.” “…
A Light and Uncertain Hold: A History of the Sixty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Children of Wrath: New School Calvinism and Antebellum Reform
Children of Wrath: New School Calvinism and Antebellum Reform. By Leo P. Hirrel. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press,1998. Pp. x, 248. Illustrations. $39.95.) Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. By John W. Quist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 562. Tables. $29.95.) We know more about the ideological extremes in antebellum America that threatened to pull the count…
Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan
Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. By John W. Quist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 562. $57.50, ISBN 0-8071-2133-9.) This comparative study of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, and Washtenaw County, Michigan, argues that antebellum reform, except where slavery was at issue, was the same regardless of section. Challenging the widespread assumption that abolition tainted a…
Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate
Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan
Journal Article Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. By John W. Quist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xiv, 562 pp. $57.50, ISBN 0-8071-2133-9.) Get access Mark S. Schantz Mark S. Schantz Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 217–218, https://do…
Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars
An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South: Ezekiel Birdseye on Slavery, Capitalism, and Separate Statehood in East Tennessee, 1841-1846
This volume, a collection of letters written by an abolitionist businessman who lived in East Tennessee prior to the Civil War, provides one of the clearest firsthand views yet published of a region whose political, social, and economic distinctions have intrigued historians for more than a century. Between 1841 and 1846, Birdseye expressed his views and observations in letters to Gerrit Smith, a prominent New York reformer who arranged to have m…
Slaveholding Operatives of the Benevolent Empire: Bible, Tract, and Sunday School Societies in Antebellum Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
John W. Quist, Slaveholding Operatives of the Benevolent Empire: Bible, Tract, and Sunday School Societies in Antebellum Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 62, No. 3 (Aug., 1996), pp. 481-526
The Great Majority of Our Subscribers Are Farmers: The Michigan Abolitionist Constituency of the 1840s
Slaveholding Operatives of the Benevolent Empire: Bible, Tract, and Sunday School Societies in Antebellum Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
John W. Quist, Slaveholding Operatives of the Benevolent Empire: Bible, Tract, and Sunday School Societies in Antebellum Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 62, No. 3 (Aug., 1996), pp. 481-526
The Great Majority of Our Subscribers Are Farmers: The Michigan Abolitionist Constituency of the 1840s
The Great Majority of Our Subscribers Are Farmers: The Michigan Abolitionist Constituency of the 1840s
Slaveholding Operatives of the Benevolent Empire: Bible, Tract, and Sunday School Societies in Antebellum Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
John W. Quist, Slaveholding Operatives of the Benevolent Empire: Bible, Tract, and Sunday School Societies in Antebellum Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 62, No. 3 (Aug., 1996), pp. 481-526
An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South: Ezekiel Birdseye on Slavery, Capitalism, and Separate Statehood in East Tennessee, 1841-1846
This volume, a collection of letters written by an abolitionist businessman who lived in East Tennessee prior to the Civil War, provides one of the clearest firsthand views yet published of a region whose political, social, and economic distinctions have intrigued historians for more than a century. Between 1841 and 1846, Birdseye expressed his views and observations in letters to Gerrit Smith, a prominent New York reformer who arranged to have m…
Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars
Children of Wrath: New School Calvinism and Antebellum Reform
Children of Wrath: New School Calvinism and Antebellum Reform. By Leo P. Hirrel. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press,1998. Pp. x, 248. Illustrations. $39.95.) Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. By John W. Quist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 562. Tables. $29.95.) We know more about the ideological extremes in antebellum America that threatened to pull the count…
Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan
Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. By John W. Quist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 562. $57.50, ISBN 0-8071-2133-9.) This comparative study of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, and Washtenaw County, Michigan, argues that antebellum reform, except where slavery was at issue, was the same regardless of section. Challenging the widespread assumption that abolition tainted a…
Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate
Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan
Journal Article Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. By John W. Quist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xiv, 562 pp. $57.50, ISBN 0-8071-2133-9.) Get access Mark S. Schantz Mark S. Schantz Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 217–218, https://do…
A Light and Uncertain Hold: A History of the Sixty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Piety in Providence: Class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Antebellum Rhode Island
During the eighteenth century, Providence's Protestant churches assembled people from all walks of life. This world began to shift in the early nineteenth century when the concept of an organic community began to crumble in the face of rising individualism. Reflecting the changes in the larger society, religious congregations became segmented by class and produced religious cultures that Mark S. Schantz identifies as “bourgeois” and “plebeian.” “…
Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America
Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America explores the evolution of postal innovations that sparked a communication revolution in nineteenth-century America. Wayne E. Fuller examines how evangelical Protestants, the nation's dominant religious group, struggled against those transformations in American society that they believed threatened to paganize the Christian nation they were determined to save. Drawing on House and Senate document…
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860. Volumes I and II
The Election of 1860: "A Campaign Fraught with Consequences." by Michael F. Holt
Reviewed by: The Election of 1860: "A Campaign Fraught with Consequences." by Michael F. Holt John W. Quist (bio) The Election of 1860: "A Campaign Fraught with Consequences." By Michael F. Holt. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2017. Pp. 256. Cloth, $29.95.) Readers of Michael F. Holt's work will find familiar elements in this volume: illuminating details, an emphasis on historical contingency, a reconsideration of slavery's connections wi…
Theodore Foster: A Liberty Party Abolitionist Confronts the Civil War and Emancipation
Many writers of antislavery and abolitionism have viewed their subjects through the lens of progress. Theodore Foster’s trajectory calls that schema into question. Active in abolitionism’s origins in Michigan, Foster served as a Liberty Party editor for the Ann Arbor Signal of Liberty during the 1840s. There, he created an extensive literary record that condemned slavery and championed African American rights. Almost sixteen years after leaving t…
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