... In author , was born at Waterbury , Connecticut , in 1732 , he was elected a representative to the general 1750 ... Ezra Stiles Ely , entitled a Contrast between Calvinism and Hop- kinsianism , and the third volume of the General ...

This was, says Bennett, “Mormonism in the raw on the way to what it would be later.” Now available in paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the author, Mormons at the Missouri received the Francis M. and Emily Chipman ...

James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who established its principles, offering a fresh look at how ideas about representative government, suffrage, and the principles of self-rule and ideals ...

The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author.

This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the ...

This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s.