Ruth Wallis Herndon
Biographic Data
| ID | 617011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Wallis Herndon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth Wallis |
| FAMILY NAME | Herndon |
| SIGNATURE | HERNDON R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toledo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Standard of Living: Essays on Economics, History, and Religion in Honor of John E. Murray
Ungentle Goodnights: Life in a Home for Elderly and Disabled Naval Sailors and Marines and the Perilous Seafaring Careers That Brought Them There
Christopher McKee's deeply researched book invites readers into the first U.S. Naval Asylum, which opened in Philadelphia in 1838. Through detailed personal narratives and vivid descriptions, McKee brings to life the asylum and its inhabitants from its opening to 1866. His study rests on a phenomenal base of meticulous archival research, and the fascinating information he presents enriches our understanding of the lives of U.S. sailors and marine…
Mapping the Boston Poor: Inmates of the Boston Almshouse, 1795-1801
Documentary and geographical evidence about Boston from 1795 to 1801 reveals distinct patterns in poor people's use of the Boston Almshouse and in their areas of residence within the city. A much higher percentage of Almshouse inmates came from Boston's densely populated North End than from less urban areas with lower population densities. They clustered in distinctive ways-immigrants tending to come from districts close to commercial and shippin…
Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America
Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America is a very important book. Its publication is reason for celebration by all who have been awaiting a full monograph since E. Jennifer Monaghan's first essays appeared. Literacy specialists will especially be gratified, but all historians of early America will profit from this richly researched work by a scholar with an exceptionally deep grasp of both the primary sources and the secondary literature. …
Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England
Markets for Children in Early America: A Political Economy of Pauper Apprenticeship
After beginning as a kind of outdoor poor relief, long-term indenture of poor children evolved into a specialized form of craft apprenticeship. Analysis of indenture terms indicates that relationships between end payments (“freedom dues”) and education and training clauses varied by region. In Boston, education and training clauses were associated negatively with freedom-dues clauses, but in Rhode Island and Charleston the relationship was positi…
Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England
Analyzing the warning out system as it functioned in fourteen of Rhode Island'twenty-seven towns between 1751 and 1800, Ruth Wallis Herndon strives to “take us inside the lives of the eighteenth-century poor” so we can “put a human face on poverty” and “hear the voices of the poor.” During the period, the fourteen town councils issued 1,924 warning out orders and conducted 772 examinations of transients. Forty miniature biographies, culled from t…
Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 In eighteenth-century America, no centralized system of welfare existed to assist people who found themselves without food, medical care, or shelter. Any poor relief available was provided through local taxes, and these funds were quickly exhausted. By the end of the century, state and national taxes levied to help pay for the Revolutionary War further strained municipal budget…
The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island: A Study of Institutions in Change
The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890-1920
Journal Article The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890–1920. By David I. Macleod. (New York: Twayne, 1998. xiv, 219 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8057-4105-4.) Get access Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1804–1805, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567659 Published: 01 March 200…
From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775-1850
Journal Article From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775–1850. By Jacqueline S. Reinier. (New York: Twayne, 1996. xiv, 258 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-8057-4102-X.) Get access Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 633–634, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952599 Published: 01…
The Right to a Name: The Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era
Drawing on oral tribal history and written town records, we argue that an oppositional relationship existed between native people and Rhode Island town leaders in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Authorities viewed native people most often as the poor of the town, whose lives required official management. Further, these officials redesignated native people as Negro or black in the written record, preparing the way for tribal extinction.…
Research Note: Literacy among New England's Transient Poor, 1750-1800
Journal Article Research Note: Literacy among New England's Transient Poor, 1750–1800 Get access Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Suite 540, 3440 Market Street, Philadelphia PA 19104-3325 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 29, Issue 4, Summer 1996, Pages 963–965, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/29.4.963 Published: 01 July 199…
The Right to a Name: The Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era
Drawing on oral tribal history and written town records, we argue that an oppositional relationship existed between native people and Rhode Island town leaders in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Authorities viewed native people most often as the poor of the town, whose lives required official management. Further, these officials redesignated native people as Negro or black in the written record, preparing the way for tribal extinction.…
Markets for Children in Early America: A Political Economy of Pauper Apprenticeship
After beginning as a kind of outdoor poor relief, long-term indenture of poor children evolved into a specialized form of craft apprenticeship. Analysis of indenture terms indicates that relationships between end payments (“freedom dues”) and education and training clauses varied by region. In Boston, education and training clauses were associated negatively with freedom-dues clauses, but in Rhode Island and Charleston the relationship was positi…
The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890-1920
Journal Article The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890–1920. By David I. Macleod. (New York: Twayne, 1998. xiv, 219 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8057-4105-4.) Get access Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1804–1805, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567659 Published: 01 March 200…
Research Note: Literacy among New England's Transient Poor, 1750-1800
Journal Article Research Note: Literacy among New England's Transient Poor, 1750–1800 Get access Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Suite 540, 3440 Market Street, Philadelphia PA 19104-3325 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 29, Issue 4, Summer 1996, Pages 963–965, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/29.4.963 Published: 01 July 199…
Mapping the Boston Poor: Inmates of the Boston Almshouse, 1795-1801
Documentary and geographical evidence about Boston from 1795 to 1801 reveals distinct patterns in poor people's use of the Boston Almshouse and in their areas of residence within the city. A much higher percentage of Almshouse inmates came from Boston's densely populated North End than from less urban areas with lower population densities. They clustered in distinctive ways-immigrants tending to come from districts close to commercial and shippin…
From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775-1850
Journal Article From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775–1850. By Jacqueline S. Reinier. (New York: Twayne, 1996. xiv, 258 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-8057-4102-X.) Get access Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 633–634, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952599 Published: 01…
Research Note: Literacy among New England's Transient Poor, 1750-1800
Journal Article Research Note: Literacy among New England's Transient Poor, 1750–1800 Get access Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Suite 540, 3440 Market Street, Philadelphia PA 19104-3325 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 29, Issue 4, Summer 1996, Pages 963–965, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/29.4.963 Published: 01 July 199…
From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775-1850
Journal Article From Virtue to Character: American Childhood, 1775–1850. By Jacqueline S. Reinier. (New York: Twayne, 1996. xiv, 258 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-8057-4102-X.) Get access Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 633–634, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952599 Published: 01…
The Right to a Name: The Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era
Drawing on oral tribal history and written town records, we argue that an oppositional relationship existed between native people and Rhode Island town leaders in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Authorities viewed native people most often as the poor of the town, whose lives required official management. Further, these officials redesignated native people as Negro or black in the written record, preparing the way for tribal extinction.…
The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890-1920
Journal Article The Age of the Child: Children in America, 1890–1920. By David I. Macleod. (New York: Twayne, 1998. xiv, 219 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8057-4105-4.) Get access Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1804–1805, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567659 Published: 01 March 200…
The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island: A Study of Institutions in Change
Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England
Markets for Children in Early America: A Political Economy of Pauper Apprenticeship
After beginning as a kind of outdoor poor relief, long-term indenture of poor children evolved into a specialized form of craft apprenticeship. Analysis of indenture terms indicates that relationships between end payments (“freedom dues”) and education and training clauses varied by region. In Boston, education and training clauses were associated negatively with freedom-dues clauses, but in Rhode Island and Charleston the relationship was positi…
Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England
Analyzing the warning out system as it functioned in fourteen of Rhode Island'twenty-seven towns between 1751 and 1800, Ruth Wallis Herndon strives to “take us inside the lives of the eighteenth-century poor” so we can “put a human face on poverty” and “hear the voices of the poor.” During the period, the fourteen town councils issued 1,924 warning out orders and conducted 772 examinations of transients. Forty miniature biographies, culled from t…
Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 In eighteenth-century America, no centralized system of welfare existed to assist people who found themselves without food, medical care, or shelter. Any poor relief available was provided through local taxes, and these funds were quickly exhausted. By the end of the century, state and national taxes levied to help pay for the Revolutionary War further strained municipal budget…
Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America
Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America is a very important book. Its publication is reason for celebration by all who have been awaiting a full monograph since E. Jennifer Monaghan's first essays appeared. Literacy specialists will especially be gratified, but all historians of early America will profit from this richly researched work by a scholar with an exceptionally deep grasp of both the primary sources and the secondary literature. …
Mapping the Boston Poor: Inmates of the Boston Almshouse, 1795-1801
Documentary and geographical evidence about Boston from 1795 to 1801 reveals distinct patterns in poor people's use of the Boston Almshouse and in their areas of residence within the city. A much higher percentage of Almshouse inmates came from Boston's densely populated North End than from less urban areas with lower population densities. They clustered in distinctive ways-immigrants tending to come from districts close to commercial and shippin…
Ungentle Goodnights: Life in a Home for Elderly and Disabled Naval Sailors and Marines and the Perilous Seafaring Careers That Brought Them There
Christopher McKee's deeply researched book invites readers into the first U.S. Naval Asylum, which opened in Philadelphia in 1838. Through detailed personal narratives and vivid descriptions, McKee brings to life the asylum and its inhabitants from its opening to 1866. His study rests on a phenomenal base of meticulous archival research, and the fascinating information he presents enriches our understanding of the lives of U.S. sailors and marine…
Standard of Living: Essays on Economics, History, and Religion in Honor of John E. Murray
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