References and Resources

The Nature of Historical or National Myths

Baddini, Julian, “Why Do We Have Creation Myths,” The Guardian, March 27, 2006,   https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2006/mar/28/features11.g21.

Barrick, Mac E., “The Log House as Cultural Symbol,” Material Culture 18, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 1-19. 

Becker, Tobias, “Homesick For Yesterday: a History of the Nostalgia Wave,”  June 1, 2020, https://nostalgia.hypotheses.org/project-description.

Brewster, Paul G., “The Romance of Quilt Names,” Hoosier Folklore 9, no. 2 (April–June, 1950): 59-62. 

Bryant, Marie Claire, “Underground Railroad Quilt Codes: What We Know, What We Believe, and What Inspires Us,” Folklife Magazine, May 3, 2019, accessed June 20, 2020, https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/underground-railroad-quilt-codes.

Bush, Sargent, Jr., “America's Origin Myth: Remembering Plymouth Rock,” American Literary History 12, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 745-756,   https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/490199.pdf?casa_token=DFkyZ2vB8DQAAAAA….

Carroll, Abigail, “Of Kettles and Cranes: Colonial Revival Kitchens and the Performance of Identity,” Wintherthur Portfolio 43, no. 4 (Winter 2009): 335-364. 

Earle, A. Home Life in Colonial Days. New York: Macmillan & Co., 2007. 

Goodnough, Abby, “If Not First in Time, First in the Country’s Heart,” The New York Times, November 22, 2007,  https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/us/22plymouth.html.

Hampten, Karen, “African American Women: Plantation Textile Production From 1750 to 1830,” Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings, 2000,   https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1769&context…. 

Heike, Paul. The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies, , (Bielefeld, Germany, transcript Verlag Publishing, 2014 ), 137-196  https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1wxsdq?refreqid=excelsior%3A183a2277a…. 

Horowitz, Juliana Menasce, Igielnik, Ruth, and Kochhar, Rakesh, “What Americans See as Contributors to Economic Inequality,” Pew Research Center, January 9, 2020, https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/01/09/what-americans-see-as-contri…. 

Lewandowsky, Stephan, Ecker, Ullrich K. H., and Seifert, Colleen, “Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing,” Psychological Science in the Public Interest 13, no. 3 (September 17, 2012): 106-113,   https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100612451018. 

Log Cabin Republicans, http://www.logcabin.org/about-us/ accessed 07/20/20, http://www.logcabin.org/about-us/our-history/ accessed 07/20/20.

McKenzie, Robert Tracy, “Five Myths About the Pilgrims,” The Washington Post, November 22, 2013,  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-pilgrims/2….

Shaw, Robert. American Quilts, The Democratic Art (New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 2014), 163. 

Streitfeld, David, “Razing the Log Cabin Myth,” The Washington Post, November 6, 1984, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/11/06/razing-the-…. 

Thatcher, Laurel. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth.  New York: Vintage Books, 2002.  

Tierney, John, “What is Nostalgia Good For?” New York Times, July 8, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/science/what-is-nostalgia-good-for-q…  

Group Membership: Pros and Cons

Beals, Carleton. Brass-Knuckle Crusade. The Great Know-Nothing Conspiracy: 1820-1860. New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1960.

Levine, Bruce, “Conservatism, Nativism, and Slavery: Thomas R. Whitney and the Origins of the Know-Nothing Party,” The Journal of American History 88, no. 2, 2001, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675102.

National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and Deborah Chotner, eds. American Naive Paintings, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art : Systematic Catalogue (Washington [Cambridge, England]: National Gallery of Art; Cambridge University Press, 1992), 198-200. 

Reed, Parker McCobb. History of Bath and Environs, Sagadahoc County, Maine: 1607-1894 (Portland, ME: Lakeside Press Printers, 1894), 255. 

Whitbourne, Susan Krauss, “In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the Psychology of Crowds,” Psychology Today, December 10, 2010, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201012/in-g….

Whitmore, Alan, “‘A Guard of Faithful Sentinels’: The Know-Nothing Appeal in Maine, 1854-1855,” Maine Historical Quarterly 20, no. 3, Winter, 1981.

The Common Good

Kaufman, R., “James D. Julia, Inc. Sells a Remarkable Set of 19th Century Fire Buckets Literally Rescued From a Dumpster,” The Patch: Woburn, MA, March 15, 2013, https://patch.com/massachusetts/woburn/an--james-d-julia-inc-sells-a-re….

Kraus, Michael, “Common Good,” LearningtoGive.org accessed 1 August 2020, (https://www.learningtogive.org/resources/common-good).

Landers, Jackson, “In the Early 19th Century, Firefighters Fought Fires … and Each Other,” SmithsonianMag.com, September 27, 2016, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/early-19-century…

Velasquez, Manuel and Andre, Claire, “The Common Good,” Ethics Home Page, Santa Clara University, accessed 1 August 2020, https://www.scu.edu/mcae/publications/iie/v5n1/common.html.

Volk, Joyce Geary, “Going to Blazes,” lecture given at Portsmouth Anthaneum, August 17, 2002. Piscataqua Decorative Arts Society, Volume I, 2002-2003 Lecture Series, 2004

Identity on Display

“About the Shakers,” Hands to Work, Hearts to God, (pbs.org/kenburns/the-shakers/about-the-shakers).

Corby, R.J., “A Tale of Three Families: How the Homestead Changed through the Years,” The Mercury, August 4, 2003, https://www.pottsmerc.com/news/a-tale-of-three-families--how-the-homest… .

DeTurk, Eugene, History and Genealogy of the DeTurk DeTurck Family, DeTurk Family Association, 1934, https://archive.org/details/historygenealogy00detu/page/198/mode/2up/se….

Devlin, Ron, “A Colonial-Era Farm and Berks’ Largest Tree Are Among the Hidden Treasures on Oley Valley Tour,” Reading Eagle, Oct 24, 2019, https://www.readingeagle.com/living/weekend/a-colonial-era-farm-and-ber….

Dubin, Lois Sherr. Floral Journey: Native North American Beadwork. Autry National Center of the American West, 2014.

“German Settlement in Pennsylvania: An Overview,” The Historical Society of Pennsylvania with the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, accessed 1 August 2020, https://hsp.org/sites/default/files/legacy_files/migrated/germanstudent… .

Grabb, Edward, Baer, Douglas, and Curtis, James, “The Origins of American Individualism: Reconsidering the Historical Evidence,” The Canadian Journal of Sociology 24, no. 4, (Autumn 1999): 511-533.

Grant, Jerry V. “Woodenwares: Oval Box Making at Mount Lebanon, New York”  in Inspired Innovations: A Celebration of Shaker Ingenuity, ed. Stephen Miller (New Britain, CT: University of New England Press, 2010): 77-92.

Hamilton, J. Taylor, “The Moravian Work at Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania,” Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society 13, no. ½ (1942): 8-18.

Hill, Richard W., Sr., “Patterns of Expression: Beadwork in the Life of the Iroquois,” in All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture by National Museum of the American Indian (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994).

Jones, Andrea and Curator Dennis Carr, email correspondence, April 21, 2020.

Jones, Andrea and Shelle DeTurk, email correspondence, April 22, 2020.

Luria, Jo and Steven Fenton. Craft in America (New York: Clarkson Potter, 2007), 33. 

Miller, M. Stephen. Inspired Innovations (New Britain, CT: University of New England Press, 2010), 77–79.

Montgomery, Morton L. Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Embracing a Concise History of the County and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families. Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1909, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t4zg7744p&view=1….

National Museum of the American Indian, “Haudenosaunee Guide for Educators,” 2009, https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/education/Haudenosaunee….

Offenbach, Jacques. American and the Americans (London: William Reeves, 1877), 74,

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdclccn.02003826/?sp=40&r=-0.107,-0.083,1….

Ouellette, Jennifer, “Personal Identity Is (Mostly) Performance,” The Atlantic Magazine, January 31, 2014, https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/personal-identity-is….

Phillips, Ruth. Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.

Southern Lakes Chapter 730, “Parents Without Partners,”Chatterbox, 1871, 138.

Sprigg, June and Larkin, David. Shaker Life, Work, and Art. New York: Smithmark, 2000.