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This collection of primary sources examines the history of emotions in the United States, spanning the years 1800-1865. This fascinating collection of materials, alongside extensive editorial commentary, will be of great interest to students of American History and the History of Emotions.

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This collection of primary sources examines the history of emotions in the United States, spanning the years 1800-1865. This period was filled with dramatic political, social and economic changes, including the development of a new national identity, the spread of chattel slavery, the rise of capitalism, the surge of religious revivalism, military and settler expansion into Native American, Mexican, and British lands, and the Civil War. While these events have been well studied, this collection explores these upheavals using the lens of the history of emotions. The volumes bring together a rich group of primary sources demonstrating how Americans responded to these large public events. It also includes sources that trace the more private and subjective experiences of daily life during the 19th century, for the era was witness to significant transformations in ideals of family and romantic love, conceptions of honour and courage, anger and indignation, selfishness and greed. It also was a period when new emotions like homesickness and boredom appeared. This fascinating collection of materials, alongside extensive editorial commentary, will be of great interest to students of American History and the History of Emotions.

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Volume I 1800?1865

1 Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak Describes Daily Life and How It Changed

2 On Indian Removal

3 The Choctaw?s Farewell

4 Address on the Present Condition and Prospects of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of North America, with Particular Reference to the Seneca Nation, Delivered at Buffalo, New York

5 Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston

PART 2: Civic Emotions

6 Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic

7 Love of Country and The Soldier?s Adieu

8 The Cincinnati Election ? Disgraceful Riot

9 Fredrika Bremer Describes ?Indignation Meetings?

10 The Sumner Outrage; Indignation Meeting at the Tabernacle. Tremendous and Enthusiastic Gathering?

11 William Apess on Plymouth Rock and the 4th of July

12 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

13 Declaration of Sentiments

14 David Gouverneur Burnet, to Mattie

15 A Mother?s Charge

16 Advice to Young Ladies on Their Duties and Conduct in Life

17 With Sabre and Scalpel: The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon

18 The First Quarrel

19 The Fugitive Blacksmith; Or, Events in the History of James W.C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly A Slave in the State of Maryland, United States

20 My Bondage and My Freedom

21 The Slave?s New Year?s Day

22 What Became of the Slaves on A Georgia Plantation? Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d and 3d, 1859; A Sequel to Mrs. Kemble?s Journal

23 Cannibals All! Or, Slaves Without Masters

24 ?A Sorrowful Face?

25 My Bondage and My Freedom

26 Spiritual Welfare of Children

27 The Love Letters of Theodore Weld and Angelina Grimk?

28 Advice to Young Ladies on Their Duties and Conduct in Life

29 The Family Monitor, Or a Help to Domestic Happiness

30 Abream Scriven Writes to His Wife, Dinah Jones, Sept. 19, 1858

31 Jonathan Zimmerman?s Letters to Benjamin Kenaga

32 The Diary of Albert Dodd, 1837 (excerpts)

33 Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak Describes the Crane Dance and Courting among the Sac

PART 6: Grief

34 Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak Describes Mourning among the Sac

35 Comfort for the Widow

36 Mother, What Is Death?

37 Green-Wood Cemetery

38 Charles Ball?s Account of a Funeral of an Enslaved Child

39 ?Customs of the Slaves, When One of Their Number Dies?

PART 7: The Market Revolution

40 The Tablet

41 The Love of Money Sets the Whole Animal Machine in Motion

42 Hasting to be Rich. A Sermon, Occasioned by the Present Excitement Respecting The Gold of California, Preached in the Cities of New Haven and Bridgeport, Jan. and Feb. 1849

43 A Letter from Mary Lucinda Hovey to Elizabeth M. Stevens, August 8, 1847

44 The Spirit of Discontent

45 Thomas Butler Gunn on His Love of and Loathing for Money

46 The Ruling Passion of Men

47 Singular Attempt at Suicide

48 Best Temperament for a Business Man

49 Are We a Happy People?

PART 8: Emotion, Immigration, and Migration

50 Men, Manners and Things in Iowa

51 A True Picture of Emigration

52 A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush; The Letters of Franklin A. Buck

53 Mary Ballou?s Letters to Her Son

54 The Emotional Effects of Piano Music on Gold Miners

PART 9: Technology and Emotional Life

55 A Kind and Wise Hint

56 Quick Travel

57 The Atlantic Telegraph: A Discourse Preached in the South Congregational Church, Brooklyn

58 Delia Locke on the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph

59 Daguerreotypes

60 Delia Locke on Photography

61 Abigail Mansur Pleads for Daguerreotypes

62 Keep Up Good Courage, E. Hill to Bruce Elmore

63 Two Brothers Fallen

64 The Death of Lieutenant Henry Ropes

65 Just Before the Battle, Mother

66 Bruce Elmore Writes to His Wife, Libbie Elmore

67 Letter from Richmond

68 Letter from South Carolina

69 Mary Livermore Tries to Raise Soldiers? Morale

70 The Evils of Youthful Enlistments and Nostalgia

71 ?Lincoln?s Proclamation?

72 Retaliation in Camp