Who are the people called Hoosiers? What are their stories? Two centuries ago, on the Indiana frontier, they were settlers who created a way of life they passed to later generations. They came to value individual freedom and distrusted government, even as they demanded that government remove Indians, sell them land, and bring democracy. Down to the present, Hoosiers have remained wary of government power and have taken care to guard their tax dollars and their personal independence. Yet the people of Indiana have always accommodated change, exchanging log cabins and spinning wheels for railroads, cities, and factories in the 19th century, automobiles, suburbs, and foreign investment in the 20th. The present has brought new issues and challenges, as Indiana's citizens respond to a rapidly changing world. James H. Madison's sparkling new history tells the stories of these Hoosiers, offering an invigorating view of one of America's distinctive states and the long and fascinating journey of its people.

Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana

History

Hamm, Thomas D.

Madison, James H.

Hamilton, Lee H.

Passet, Joanne E.

Americas

Indiana University Press

"Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker history in recent years." ―Quaker History
"... will stand as one of the most important works in the field." ―American Historical Review

The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907 (Religion in North America)

Growing out of the most radical fringes of the abolitionist movement, the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform set out to inaugurate a new social order based on the principles of nonresistance. The Society founded eight utopian communities which, though short-lived, were the setting for the most radical questioning of antebellum American society. The members of the Society renounced all forms of coercive relationships. They attempted to live without government or private property and to model new visions of work, education, religion, economics, women's rights and roles, and community. This book tells the story of their impassioned attempt to transform the world and begin the "Government of God."

God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842–1846 (Religion in North America)

"For Earlham, Hamm has written one of the best single-volume college histories—extremely well researched, complexly interpreted, and fluidly written."Â —The Journal of American History"... highly readable and entertaining... " —Indiana Magazine of History"As well as being a history of Quaker education, it also has insights for the history of higher education itself. The book remains engaging throughout and readers will be challenged by the contemporary nature of many of the debates concerning religious and social issues that have caused dissension on the Earlham campus and within Quakerism both currently and in past years." —The Southern Friend"Earlhamites and other Quakers should read this book and ponder it!" —Quaker LifeIn celebration of Earlham’s sesquicentennial, here is the history of one of the few nationally ranked liberal arts colleges that still retains a strong religious identity. Earlham College was founded by Indiana Quakers in 1847 for the "guarded religious education of the children of Friends" and became the prestigious school of the twentieth century only after struggles which pitted traditionalists and moderates in a battle of revivalism and primitivism against change and reform.

Earlham College: A History, 1847–1997

World

From the rear cover of this 261 page book: "In 1800 American Quakers lived in a unique religious environment, characterized by quietism and 'the plain life'. By 1900 the religious sect had become virtually indistinguishable from the Protestant mainstream, absorbed by the same questions of modernism that troubled other denominations. Thomas Hamm's detailed historical study sheds new light on the transformation, filling a major gap in the literature of American Quakerism and American religion as a whole."

Religion & Spirituality

Indiana Univ. Pr

Earlham College (Campus History)

Earlham College, opened in 1847, is the second oldest Quaker college in the world. From a school intended for the "guarded religious education of the children of Friends," it has evolved to become an international institution of higher education, with faculty and students from around the world. From a campus where Old Earlham Hall housed everything--dormitories, classrooms, administrative offices, kitchen, library, and dining hall--Earlham now includes over 20 buildings dating back to 1861. Its alumni include a Nobel laureate--Wendell M. Stanley, class of 1926--and two Pulitzer Prize winners--Edwin Way Teale, class of 1922, and Manning Marable, class of 1971. Earlhamites have been politicians, authors, activists, and above all teachers and scientists. A wealth of archival photographs illustrate Earlham's evolution, highlighting leaders, faculty, student life, off-campus programs, athletics, alumni, and visitors to campus who have ranged from Martin Luther King Jr. to George Wallace.

Arts & Photography

Freed, Jenny C.

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Earlham College, opened in 1847, is the second oldest Quaker college in the world. From a school intended for the guarded religious education of the children of Friends, it has evolved to become an international institution of higher education, with faculty and students from around the world. From a campus where Old Earlham Hall housed everythin...

Arcadia Pub (Sc)

The south coast of Massachusetts, adjoining the Rhode Island border, was throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a safe haven for those seeking to avoid too close scrutiny by either provincial authorities or the Congregational establishment in Boston. Thus, this borderland provided a refuge for Native Americans, freed Blacks, and religious dissidents, especially Quakers who faced severe penalties in the Bay Colony. The Dartmouth Monthly Meeting was the first group of Friends to gather for organized worship in the region. Since their founding in 1699, they have collected and preserved their records well into the twentieth century. Recognizing that a continuous set of records over such a long span of time was indeed a remarkable survival, the Dartmouth Historical and Arts Society set about digitizing and transcribing these manuscripts, and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts has joined in the effort by publishing the eighteenth-century minutes of both the Men's and Women's Monthly Meetings. Thomas Hamm of Earlham College has provided a succinct and knowledgeable introduction that will make clear to non-Quaker readers some of the religious group's most distinctive practices. The minutes of the monthly meeting might best be described as business and disciplinary records, rather than a description of what transpired in the weekly "First Day" meetings for worship. Quakers believed that God inspired women as well as men, that women had just as much right to speak and preach and pray publicly as men. Quuakers were expected to marry other Quakers, and those who did not might be disowned. Cases of bastardy and fornication (generally understood as resulting in the birth of a child too soon after marriage) also came before the monthly meeting, as well as offenses against "plainness," sharp business practice, and the slander of fellow Friends. The refusal to take oaths and serve in the military brought Quakers into conflict with local authorities, and Friends were forbidden to profit from war-making in any way, either by repairing guns for soldiers, owning or serving aboard privateers, or even purchasing goods that had been seized from enemy ships. Thus, the Minutes of the Dartmouth Month Meeting constitute a rich hoard of information for social historians and genealogists alike. Distributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

The Minutes of the Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1699-1785: Men's Minutes, 1762-1785, Women's Minutes, 1699-1782 (Colonial Society of Massachusetts)

Colonial Society of Massachusetts

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Books by Hamm, Thomas D.

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Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana

The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907 (Religion in North America)

God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842–1846 (Religion in North America)

Earlham College: A History, 1847–1997

The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907 (Religion in North America)

Earlham College (Campus History)

Earlham College (Campus History)

The Minutes of the Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1699-1785: Men's Minutes, 1762-1785, Women's Minutes, 1699-1782 (Colonial Society of Massachusetts)