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American Quarterly. 8 (4). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 368– 384. doi:10.2307/2710447. JSTOR 2710447. H. Harlan, Robert D. (1974). "David Hall and the Townshend Acts". The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 68 (1). The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Bibliographical Society of America: 19– 38.
The first book on record printed on an American printing-press needing the services of a bookbinder was The Whole Book of Psalms, published at Cambridge in 1640. [239] John Ratcliff of the seventeenth century is the first identifiable bookbinder in colonial America, credited for binding Eliot's Indian Bible in 1663. [240]
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, American publisher (died 1933) [27] Alice Moore McComas, American author, editor, lecturer and reformer (died 1919) [28] June 27 – Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo), Greek-born Irish American scholar and writer on Japan (died 1904) July 2 – Dumitru C. Moruzi, Russian-born Romanian political figure and social novelist (died ...
Family farms were a dominant feature of rural life for much of American history. Down to the early 20th century, farmers had a priority of establishing their children in farming. After 1920 new technology caused revolution, as horses and mules and hired hands were replaced by powerful machines.
The 1850s (pronounced "eighteen-fifties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1850, and ended on December 31, 1859.. It was a very turbulent decade, as wars such as the Crimean War, shifted and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of colonization towards the Far East, which also sparked conflicts like the Second Opium War.
March 7 – United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech, in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850, in order to prevent a possible civil war. March 16 – Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel The Scarlet Letter is published in Boston, Massachusetts. March 19 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and ...
Sweet Songs for Gentle Americans: The Parlor Song in America, 1790–1860. Popular Press. ISBN 0-87972-130-8. Ukpokodu, Peter (May 2000). "African American Males in Dance, Music, Theater, and Film". Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 569 (The African American Male in American Life and Thought): 71– 85.
Issues of slavery in the new territories acquired in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) were temporarily resolved by the Compromise of 1850. One provision, the Fugitive Slave Law , sparked intense controversy, as revealed in the enormous interest in the plight of the escaped slave in Uncle Tom's Cabin , an 1852 anti-slavery novel and play.