The Beechers Richmond Lattimore Complementing recent attempts to historicize

Complementing recent attempts to historicize literary modernism by providing more thorough analyses of its material production

Dennison reveals how one man helped to shape the scholarly study of nature and its institutionalization in the West at the turn of the century

and civic future for educating all Americans

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The Beechers Richmond Lattimore Complementing recent attempts to historicizeThe Reverend Lyman Beecher was once called ""the father of more brains than any other man in America."" Among his eleven living children were a celebrity novelist, a college president, the most well known preacher in America, a suffragist, a radical abolitionist, a pioneer in women's education, and the founder of home economics. Rejecting many of their father's Puritan beliefs, the deeply religious Beechers nevertheless embraced his quest to exert