Peter Gregg Slater
Biographic Data
| ID | 681193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Gregg Slater |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Gregg |
| FAMILY NAME | Slater |
| SIGNATURE | SLATER P G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880
This engrossing book traces the social history of Protestant Sunday schools from their origins in the 1790s-when they taught literacy to poor working children-to their consolidation in the 1870s, when they had become the primary source of new church members for the major Protestant denominations. Anne M. Boylan describes not only the schools themselves but also their place within a national network of evangelical institutions, their complementary…
The Negative Secularism of The Modern Temper: Joseph Wood Krutch
THE MODERN TEMPER IS A SPECIAL KIND OF CLASSIC.1 FROM ITS publication in 1929 until it went out of print in 1944, the original cloth edition sold a relatively modest 8,399 copies. In contrast, from 1956 to 1979, the paperback edition, which is still in print, sold an impressive 77,346 copies, with college bookstores undoubtedly serving as the largest outlet.2 Like certain novels, The Modern Temper endures because it is assigned. It is a classic o…
Children in the New England Mind: In Death and in Life
Journal Article Children in the New England Mind: In Death and in Life. By Peter Gregg Slater. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1977. 248 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Maris A. Vinovskis Maris A. Vinovskis University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 1090–1091, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894576 Published: 01 March 1…
Children in the New England Mind: In Death and in Life
Children in the New England Mind in Death and in Life
Children in the New England Mind in Death and in Life
Ben Lindsey and the Denver Juvenile Court: A Progressive Looks at Human Nature
Children in the New England Mind: In Death and in Life
Journal Article Children in the New England Mind: In Death and in Life. By Peter Gregg Slater. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1977. 248 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Maris A. Vinovskis Maris A. Vinovskis University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 1090–1091, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894576 Published: 01 March 1…
The Negative Secularism of The Modern Temper: Joseph Wood Krutch
THE MODERN TEMPER IS A SPECIAL KIND OF CLASSIC.1 FROM ITS publication in 1929 until it went out of print in 1944, the original cloth edition sold a relatively modest 8,399 copies. In contrast, from 1956 to 1979, the paperback edition, which is still in print, sold an impressive 77,346 copies, with college bookstores undoubtedly serving as the largest outlet.2 Like certain novels, The Modern Temper endures because it is assigned. It is a classic o…
Ben Lindsey and the Denver Juvenile Court: A Progressive Looks at Human Nature
Ben Lindsey and the Denver Juvenile Court: A Progressive Looks at Human Nature
Children in the New England Mind in Death and in Life
Children in the New England Mind in Death and in Life
Children in the New England Mind: In Death and in Life
Journal Article Children in the New England Mind: In Death and in Life. By Peter Gregg Slater. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1977. 248 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Maris A. Vinovskis Maris A. Vinovskis University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 1090–1091, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894576 Published: 01 March 1…
Children in the New England Mind: In Death and in Life
The Negative Secularism of The Modern Temper: Joseph Wood Krutch
THE MODERN TEMPER IS A SPECIAL KIND OF CLASSIC.1 FROM ITS publication in 1929 until it went out of print in 1944, the original cloth edition sold a relatively modest 8,399 copies. In contrast, from 1956 to 1979, the paperback edition, which is still in print, sold an impressive 77,346 copies, with college bookstores undoubtedly serving as the largest outlet.2 Like certain novels, The Modern Temper endures because it is assigned. It is a classic o…
Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880
This engrossing book traces the social history of Protestant Sunday schools from their origins in the 1790s-when they taught literacy to poor working children-to their consolidation in the 1870s, when they had become the primary source of new church members for the major Protestant denominations. Anne M. Boylan describes not only the schools themselves but also their place within a national network of evangelical institutions, their complementary…
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