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Anne Hutchinson’s Red Regiment and the Cultural Historians, part one
The Uppity Woman in Context This is the first part of a multi-part blog series about irrationalist renditions of the Reformation. Readers of prior blogs will recognize my opponent: the “moderate...
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Anne Hutchinson’s Red Regiment and the Cultural Historians, part two
What follows is a review of the historical and popular literature on Anne Hutchinson in the twentieth century. First, I present the salient facts and judgments in Winnifred King Rugg’s 1930...
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Anne Hutchinson’s Red Regiment and the Cultural Historians, part three
III. Postwar readings. Bernard Bailyn’s 1955 Ideologiekritik study of seventeenth-century New England merchants partly advanced preceding scholarship that had stressed only political rivalries;...
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Anne Hutchinson’s Red Regiment and the Cultural Historians, part four
Historian Robert Brenner has argued that Calvinism was transformed into revolutionary Puritanism through the social practice of English Levellers during the Civil War period. His materialist account...
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Blog Index to Anne Hutchinson series
From the feedback I got on this series, there is nothing even slightly resembling it in print. Gary Nash gave me an A+ for the paper. It is, however, a project to read it all. The second section takes...
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Collectivism in the history establishment
Gordon S. Wood, prize-winning historian I have spent the last week trying to read Gordon S. Wood’s first book, The Creation of the American Republic (U. North Carolina Press, 1969), perhaps an expanded...
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Evil (crypto-Jewish) Puritans
Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons once described American analogs to evil Nazis: they were the “romantic Puritans” of New England. In the Wall Street Journal of August 5, Kirk Davis Swineheart...
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