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Review Of Creating The American Mind: Intellect And Politics In The Colonial Colleges, David Robson Jul 2004

Review Of Creating The American Mind: Intellect And Politics In The Colonial Colleges, David Robson

David W. Robson

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Education Of James Madison, David Robson Apr 1998

Review Of The Education Of James Madison, David Robson

David W. Robson

No abstract provided.


Anticipating The Brethren: The Reverend Charles Nisbet Critiques The French Revolution, David Robson Sep 1997

Anticipating The Brethren: The Reverend Charles Nisbet Critiques The French Revolution, David Robson

David W. Robson

Charles Nisbet, a Presbyterian minister who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1785 from Scotland, spoke out against the French Revolution long before other American clergy. Nisbet believed the American Revolution had created democratic excesses that threatened the American religious, political, and social hierarchy, and feared the same would happen in France, and eventually the rest of Europe and Great Britain. Although he came to America impressed with the revolutionary spirit of the people and leaders, Nisbet quickly became disillusioned with religious and social attitudes influenced by uncontrolled democracy and the preference for autonomy over deference to leaders like himself. Although American …


Review Of The Crisis Years, David Robson Jan 1993

Review Of The Crisis Years, David Robson

David W. Robson

No abstract provided.


Princetonians 1784-1790: A Biographical Dictionary By Ruth L. Woodward; Wesley Frank Craven; Princetonians 1791-1794: A Biographical Dictionary By J. Jefferson Looney; Ruth L. Woodward, David Robson Jun 1992

Princetonians 1784-1790: A Biographical Dictionary By Ruth L. Woodward; Wesley Frank Craven; Princetonians 1791-1794: A Biographical Dictionary By J. Jefferson Looney; Ruth L. Woodward, David Robson

David W. Robson

No abstract provided.


Review Of Princeton And The Republic, 1768-1822: The Search For A Christian Enlightenment In The Era Of Samuel Stanhope Smith, David Robson Jun 1990

Review Of Princeton And The Republic, 1768-1822: The Search For A Christian Enlightenment In The Era Of Samuel Stanhope Smith, David Robson

David W. Robson

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Best School In The World: West Point - The Pre-Civil War Years, 1833-1866, David Robson Apr 1987

Review Of The Best School In The World: West Point - The Pre-Civil War Years, 1833-1866, David Robson

David W. Robson

No abstract provided.


Educating Republicans: The College In The Era Of The American Revolution, 1750-1800, David Robson Dec 1984

Educating Republicans: The College In The Era Of The American Revolution, 1750-1800, David Robson

David W. Robson

No abstract provided.


Review Of Citizens In Arms: The Army And The Militia In American Society To The War Of 1812., David Robson Jan 1983

Review Of Citizens In Arms: The Army And The Militia In American Society To The War Of 1812., David Robson

David W. Robson

No abstract provided.


Pennsylvania's "Lost" National University: Johann Forster's Plan, David Robson Jun 1978

Pennsylvania's "Lost" National University: Johann Forster's Plan, David Robson

David W. Robson

No abstract provided.