Domestic Broils: Shakers, Antebellum Marriage, And The Narratives Of Mary And Joseph Dyer

In 1813, Joseph Dyer, his wife Mary, and their five children joined the Shaker community in Enfield, New Hampshire. Joseph quickly adapted to the Shaker way of life, but Mary chafed under its strictures and eventually left the community two years later. When the local elders and her husband refused to release the couple\u27s children to Mary, she embarked on what would become a fifty-year campaign against the Shakers, beginning with the publication in 1818 of A Brief Statement of the Sufferings of Mary Dyer. The following year the Shakers countered by publishing Joseph\u27s A Compendious Narrative, a scathing attack on what the title page called the character, disposition and conduct of Mary Dyer. The Dyers\u27 dueling accounts of the breakup of their marriage form the core of Domestic Broils. In Mary\u27s telling, the deceptions of a cruel husband, backed by an unyielding Shaker hierarchy, destroyed what had once been a happy, productive family. Joseph\u27s narrative counters these claims by alleging that Mary abused her children, neglected her husband, and engaged in extramarital affairs. In her introduction to the volume, Elizabeth De Wolfe places the Dyers\u27 marital dispute in a broader historical context, drawing on their personal testimony to examine connected but conflicting views of marriage, family life, and Shakerism in the early republic. She also shows how the growing world of print facilitated the transformation of a private family quarrel into a public debate. Salacious, riveting, and immensely popular throughout New England, the Dyers\u27 narratives not only captured imaginations but also reflected public anxieties over rapid cultural change in antebellum America. The original version of this book is out of print, and copyright has reverted to its author.https://dune.une.edu/history_facbooks/1001/thumbnail.jp

Such News Of The Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers

This pathbreaking collection, which contains 19 essays from scholars in a variety of fields, illuminates the work of two centuries of American women nature writers. Some discuss traditional nature writers such as Susan Fenimore Cooper, Mary Austin, Gene Stratton Porter, and Annie Dillard. Others examine the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Anzaldua, and Leslie Marmon Silko, writers not often associated with this genre. Essays on germinal texts such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas\u27s The Everglades: River of Grass stand alongside examinations of market bulletins and women\u27s gardens, showing how the rich diversity of women\u27s nature writing has shaped and expanded the genre, and enlarged the audience for whom nature mattered. This second, digital edition contains an updated introduction and author biographies.https://dune.une.edu/history_facbooks/1000/thumbnail.jp

Book Reviews

1790 Census of Maine: Annotated Edition, Maine Genealogical Society; The Seeds and the Soil: The Planing of the Freewill Baptist Church in Hollis, Buxton and Gorham, Maine by Phyllis P. Medeiros; Women of the Dawn by Bunny McBrid

Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: The Same Great Struggle: The History of the Vickery Family of Unity, Maine, 1634-1997 by Andrea Constantine Hawkes; Canning Gold: Northern New England\u27s Sweet Corn Industry: A Historical Geography by Paul B. Frederic; Antiqueman\u27s Diary: The Memoir of Fred Bishop Tuck edited by Dean A. Fales, Jr

Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: The Massachusetts Historical Society: A Bicentennial History, 1791-1991 by Louis Leonard Tucker; Interpreting Early American History Essays by Jack P. Greene; Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris by Bunny McBride; The Artist\u27s Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast by John Wilmerding; Politics of Conscience: A Biography of Margaret Chase Smith by Patricia Ward Wallace; Maine, A Peopled Landscape: Salt Documentary Photography, 1978 to 1995 edited by Hugh French, with essays by C. Stewart Doty, James C. Curtis and R. Todd Hoffman; Always Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964 by Martha Free.man; Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her Work by Paula Blanchar

Applying and Interviewing at Four-Year Teaching-Intensive Institutions

Popular media frequently treats higher education as a monolith, taking elite or R1 (Research 1) institutions as the norm. Resulting generalizations about overpaid faculty, low teaching loads, or overuse of graduate teaching assistants can be wildly off-base. The United States contains over 4,300 2-year and 4-year undergraduate institutions, but fewer than 10 percent of them occupy R1 or R2 status, and only about 3 percent offer a Ph.D. in history or adjacent fields. About one-third of the nation’s undergraduates attend community colleges, which feature quite high teaching loads and no TAs at all.In these and other ways, faculty positions at teaching-intensive institutions differ significantly from those at research-intensive universities with relevant doctoral programs. Most academics recognize the large range of post-secondary institutions and the variable ways the profession is structured