Becoming America: Thinking through Identity, Culture, and Traditions in Early America

The Price of Progress

References and Resources

Quilting: A Living Tradition

Fee, Elizabeth, “The AIDS Memorial Quilt,” American Journal of Public Health 96, no. 6 (June 2006): 979, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470617/.

Hawley, Jana M., “The Commercialization of Old Order Amish Quilts: Enduring and Changing Cultural Meanings,” Clothing & Textiles Research Journal 23, no. 2, 2005, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0887302X0502300204?casa_to…;.

Knauer, Thomas. Why We Quilt: How Quilting Connects Us, Reminds Us of Our Roots, and Fosters Activism (North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, Oct 15, 2019), 5-7, 108-110.

Kraybill, Donald and Olshan, Marc Alan. The Amish Struggle with Modernity (University Press of New England, 1994), 1-6, https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Amish_Struggle_with_Modernity….

McMahon, Joan D., “Quilting and the Human Spirit,” The Baltimore Sun, December 22, 1992, https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-12-22-1992357024-story.ht….

“Quilting in America 2017,” survey, ORC International and Advantage Research, https://fabshopnet.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/qia_summary.pdf.

Time Is Money

“How Clocks Changed Humanity Forever, Making Us Masters and Slaves of Time,” Open Culture, February 19, 2015, http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/how-clocks-forever-changed-humanity-….

“Tall Case Clock,” National Museum of American History, accessed June 11, 2020, https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1204841.

Andrewes, William J. H., “A Chronicle of Timekeeping,” Scientific American 287, no. 3, Special Issue: A Matter of Time, (September 2002): 76-85, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26059969?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents.

Bruegel, Martin, “Time That Can Be Relied Upon: The Evolution of Time Consciousness in the Mid-Hudson Valley, 1790-1860,” Journal of Social History 28, no. 3, (1995): 547–564, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3788464. Accessed 27 May 2020.

Franklin, Benjamin, “Advice to a Young Tradesman,” in The American Instructor, July 21, 1748, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0130.

Samovar, Larry A., Porter, Richard, and McDaniel Edwin R. Communication Between Cultures (Boston: Cengage Learning, 2010), 197.

Thompson, Derek, “A Brief Economic History of Time,” The Atlantic, December 21, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/a-brief-economic-h….

The Industrial Revolution

Akcigit, Ufauk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nichols, “When America Was Most Innovative, and Why,” Harvard Business Review, March 6, 2017, https://hbr.org/2017/03/when-america-was-most-innovative-and-why.

Gleisner, Jean and Auwaerter, John, “Cultural Landscape Report of the Battery Weed Headland,” (Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, 2008), 43, https://books.google.com/books?id=KOyzwdxfnlsC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=%22n…

Headrick, Daniel R. Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present. Princeton University Press, 2010.

Ketner, Joseph. The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872 (Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1993), 33, http://archive.org/details/emergenceofafric00ketn_0.

Lipman, Jean, “James and John Bard: Ship Painters of the Hudson River,” The Clarion, Summer 1977.

Miller, Angela, Margaretta M. Lovell, and David M. Lubin. American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2008), 254.

Patton, Sharon. African-American Art (Oxford History of Art. (Oxford University Press, 1998), 79.

Innovation and the Environment

“Yankee Whaling,” New Bedford Whaling Museum, August 3, 2016, https://www.whalingmuseum.org/learn/research-topics/overview-of-north-a….

Brox, Jane. Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 43-47.

Bryce, Emma, “Why Was Whaling so Big in the 19th Century,” Live Science, February 22 2020, https://www.livescience.com/why-whaling-nineteeth-century.html.

Comstock, Helen. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques, 2 vols. (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1958), 361.

Gordon, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2016), 116, https://tinyurl.com/y7aryrj5.

Hayward, Arthur. Colonial and Early American Lighting (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1962), 37, https://tinyurl.com/ycbx5f9c.

Kolbert, Elizabeth, “Age of Man: Enter the Anthropocene,” National Geographic, July 5, 2019, https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/age-man-enter-anthropocene/?…

Samovar, Larry, Richard E. Porter, Edwin McDaniel, and Carolyn Roy. Communication Between Cultures (Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2017), 207,

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Scott, Heidi, “Whale Oil, Consumerism, and Modern Conservation,” in Oil Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2012, https://tinyurl.com/yc5apwxc.