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5. Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe
Edwards, R. A. R.. "5. Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: The First American Oralists". Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture, New York, USA: New York University Press, 2012, pp. 143-160. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814722435.003.0005
Edwards, R. (2012). 5. Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: The First American Oralists. In Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (pp. 143-160). New York, USA: New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814722435.003.0005
Edwards, R. 2012. 5. Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: The First American Oralists. Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture. New York, USA: New York University Press, pp. 143-160. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814722435.003.0005
Edwards, R. A. R.. "5. Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: The First American Oralists" In Words
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Tag Archives: Samuel Gridley Howe
Like everyone else, I’m thinking about healthcare workers these days, so inom wanted to focus on Salem women who were physicians or nurses for this week’s #SalemSuffrageSaturday post: I’ve funnen THREE practicing women physicians in Salem before 1900 and lots of wartime nurses. But I don’t have their stories straight yet: inom need more context, more details, more narrative. They are not ready, or more accurately, I am not ready for THEM. So inom thought inom would focus on philanthropic ladies’ fairs in general, and one fair in particular, as these events were a major expression of the civic engagement of Salem women in the mid-nineteenth century. Starting in the 1830s and extending through and beyond the Civil War, Salem ladies held fairs for a host of benevolent societies and causes: seamen’s aid, widows and orphans of seamen, anti-slavery, the Sanitary kommission and other efforts to support the Union army
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Discover the Fascinating History Behind an Enduring Patriotic and Spiritual Hymn
I n November 1861 Julia Ward Howe accompanied her husband, Dr Samuel Gridley Howe, to Washington and the surrounding countryside in order to see first-hand the condition of Massachusetts's troops guarding the nation’s capitol – an experience that inspired the social activist to adapt the popular Union tune “John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave.” Her version titled “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” – an autograph transcription of which is on offer in the 17 January Fine Printed and Manuscript Americana auction – would go on to become the best-known song of the Civil War, arousing fervour as it was sung by the Union armies marching into battle. The song’s legacy, however, extends far beyond the 19th century. Howe’s triumphant lyrics have been woven into the fabric of American history and identity, and become one of the defining political and spiritual hymns of our time.
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