Word: jacksonians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Time was when a change in political administrations meant bad news for the status quo, as new people and new policies descended on the seats of government. But in these calm days of courtesy and bi-partisanship, the old Jacksonian gusto seems to have been eclipsed by the politics of gentility. Nevertheless, the show must go on, if only to amuse the faithful. And this showmanship has been no-where more apparent recently than on Beacon Hill during the last two months, as the young Democratic Hercules, Foster Furcolo, waves his imaginary broom through the marble corridors of Boston...
Professor Perry Miller, who delights in refuting this myth, remembers when Schlesinger was "a shy little sophomore drama critic taking orders from seniors on the Advocate." Miller tutored Schlesinger when he wrote his summa thesis on the radical Jacksonian reformer Orestes Brownson, but "I was really only a nominal tutor," Miller says, "since Arthur's first drafts seldom needed any revision." The thesis was published as a book shortly after his graduation. "If you plan to write a book, college is the best time," according to Schlesinger. "You'll never again have so much free time or be so innocent...
...Harvard invited him as an associate professor, he probably hesitated to risk his personal identity by continuing his family's tradition of Scholarship. Walter Bradford Cannon, his wife's father, was a noted medical researcher and professor of Physiology at Harvard. His mother is related to George Bancroft, a Jacksonian politician and outstanding historian of his day. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. Francis Lee Higginson Professor, emeritus, is considered America's first great social historian. Before his son returned to Harvard, the elder Schlesinger lectured on "The Social and Intellectual History of the United States," but after his son joined...
...first in a series of radio programs written by Perry G.E. Miller, Professor of American Literature, on the Jacksonian period of American history will be broadcast on radio station WGBH-FM at 9:30 p.m. tomorrow. Entitled "They Bent Our Ear," the programs tell of the reactions of various European visitors to the United States...
Raise the Umbrella. Around 1830, the rise of Jacksonian democracy created a new pride in the rural American scene, and artists began flocking outdoors to record it. A group of writers backed up and inspired the painters' nature worship: James Fenimore Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier and William Cullen Bryant ("Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings"). Painter Thomas Cole listened closely to the exhortations of his friend Bryant, trudged up the Hudson River with easel and umbrella to paint the wild Catskills, and founded the so-called Hudson River school...