George Hendrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 681554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Hendrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Hendrick |
| SIGNATURE | HENDRICK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why Not Every Man? African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream
The record of civil disobedience by African Americans, which George and Willene Hendrick recount in Why Not Every Man?, begins soon after slaves were brought legally to the American colonies: they began to run away. Through the years of the abolitionists, the struggle against the Fugitive Slave Act, opposition to Jim Crow laws, and the emergence of the civil rights movement, blacks continued the peaceful protest of their inequality and lack of fr…
The Creole Mutiny
On the night of November 7, 1841, the Creole, a brig transporting at least 135 slaves from Richmond, Virginia, to the auction block at New Orleans, was about 130 miles northeast of the Bahamas. In the darkness, a band of 19 slaves led by Madison Washington seized the crew and its captain. Over the next several days they forced the Creole to sail into Nassau harbor, where the British authorities offered freedom to the slaves on board, touching off…
Hooper, Johnson Jones. Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapossa Volunteers; Together with “Taking the Census” and Other Alabama Sketches
Hard Marching Every Day
Katherine Anne Porter
Porter was the both the first lady of American letters and a woman whose indomitable will forged a life that, as biographer Joan Givner makes clear, was not only remarkable but may have been her most creative fiction of all. Born Callie Porter in the log-cabin poverty of rural Texas, she invented her own history, changing her name and acquiring a lineage of statesmen to become an aristocratic daughter of the Old South. Porter lived a life of dram…
On the Illinois Frontier
Journal Article On the Illinois Frontier: Dr. Hiram Rutherford, 1840–1848 Get access On the Illinois Frontier: Dr. Hiram Rutherford, 1840–1848. Edited by Hendrick Willene Hendrick George. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. xxv + 155 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95.) James O. Breeden James O. Breeden Southern Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar West…
On the Illinois Frontier
Toward the Making of Thoreau's Modern Reputation
Remembrances of Concord and the Thoreaus
Henry S. Salt, the Late Victorian Socialists, and Thoreau
IT is now a commonplace that the late Victorian radicals and Socialists in England were much influenced by the writings of Henry Thoreau. few key statements to this effect have been quoted and requoted iind are now accepted without serious question. For example, Henry Canby, in his 1939 biography of Thoreau, wrote: It seems probable that the first recognition of his [Thoreau's] modest but certain place in world literature came from abroad, and in…
Thomas Wolfe and the Glass of Time
There Was This Snake, See
Defending the Mini
Thomas Wolfe's Albatross
Music in Willa Cather's Fiction
A professor of English at Fordham University, Richard Giannone is the author of Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist and other works. Philip Kennicott is a music critic for the Washington Post
Die Epik im Amerikanischen Roman
American Literature in Germany, 1861-1872
German Witch Mania
Ripe Watermelon Test
Rice at a Moscow Wedding
Human Sacrifice
Wart Cure
A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to America in Great Britain and Ireland
The Bad Man of the West
The Influence of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" on Gandhi's Satyagraha
The Creole Mutiny
On the night of November 7, 1841, the Creole, a brig transporting at least 135 slaves from Richmond, Virginia, to the auction block at New Orleans, was about 130 miles northeast of the Bahamas. In the darkness, a band of 19 slaves led by Madison Washington seized the crew and its captain. Over the next several days they forced the Creole to sail into Nassau harbor, where the British authorities offered freedom to the slaves on board, touching off…
Music in Willa Cather's Fiction
A professor of English at Fordham University, Richard Giannone is the author of Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist and other works. Philip Kennicott is a music critic for the Washington Post
The Influence of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" on Gandhi's Satyagraha
The Bad Man of the West
A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to America in Great Britain and Ireland
German Witch Mania
Ripe Watermelon Test
Rice at a Moscow Wedding
Human Sacrifice
Wart Cure
American Literature in Germany, 1861-1872
Die Epik im Amerikanischen Roman
Music in Willa Cather's Fiction
A professor of English at Fordham University, Richard Giannone is the author of Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist and other works. Philip Kennicott is a music critic for the Washington Post
Thomas Wolfe's Albatross
There Was This Snake, See
Defending the Mini
Thomas Wolfe and the Glass of Time
Henry S. Salt, the Late Victorian Socialists, and Thoreau
IT is now a commonplace that the late Victorian radicals and Socialists in England were much influenced by the writings of Henry Thoreau. few key statements to this effect have been quoted and requoted iind are now accepted without serious question. For example, Henry Canby, in his 1939 biography of Thoreau, wrote: It seems probable that the first recognition of his [Thoreau's] modest but certain place in world literature came from abroad, and in…
Remembrances of Concord and the Thoreaus
Toward the Making of Thoreau's Modern Reputation
On the Illinois Frontier
Katherine Anne Porter
Porter was the both the first lady of American letters and a woman whose indomitable will forged a life that, as biographer Joan Givner makes clear, was not only remarkable but may have been her most creative fiction of all. Born Callie Porter in the log-cabin poverty of rural Texas, she invented her own history, changing her name and acquiring a lineage of statesmen to become an aristocratic daughter of the Old South. Porter lived a life of dram…
On the Illinois Frontier
Journal Article On the Illinois Frontier: Dr. Hiram Rutherford, 1840–1848 Get access On the Illinois Frontier: Dr. Hiram Rutherford, 1840–1848. Edited by Hendrick Willene Hendrick George. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. xxv + 155 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95.) James O. Breeden James O. Breeden Southern Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar West…
Hard Marching Every Day
Hooper, Johnson Jones. Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapossa Volunteers; Together with “Taking the Census” and Other Alabama Sketches
The Creole Mutiny
On the night of November 7, 1841, the Creole, a brig transporting at least 135 slaves from Richmond, Virginia, to the auction block at New Orleans, was about 130 miles northeast of the Bahamas. In the darkness, a band of 19 slaves led by Madison Washington seized the crew and its captain. Over the next several days they forced the Creole to sail into Nassau harbor, where the British authorities offered freedom to the slaves on board, touching off…
Why Not Every Man? African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream
The record of civil disobedience by African Americans, which George and Willene Hendrick recount in Why Not Every Man?, begins soon after slaves were brought legally to the American colonies: they began to run away. Through the years of the abolitionists, the struggle against the Fugitive Slave Act, opposition to Jim Crow laws, and the emergence of the civil rights movement, blacks continued the peaceful protest of their inequality and lack of fr…
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