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Winthrop's Journal: "History of New England", 1630-1649 Volume; Volume 2
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The Life of Thomas Hutchinson: Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (Classic Reprint)
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Lessing once projected a series of papers to which he purposed to give the name Retlungen (rescues), his design being to vindicate from obloquy great men of the past to whom harsh measure had been dealt out. It was a generous thought of a most just and coura geons mind, and. Deserves imitation in every age. The history of America, like that of every land, has its bétes noires, characters remembered, for the most part, only to be execrated, some of whom certainly do not deserve their bad fame and of these there is no more pathetic example than Thomas Hutchinson, the last royal Governor of Massachusetts Bay before the futile effort of England to divide with the sword the perplex ities of the ou-coming Revolution.
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Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649, Volume 1
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A little more than a year ago, the writer published some portions of a diary of' military life, under the title of The color-guard, - a little book which met With unexpected favor. There remained in his hands many pages of his journal, which, according to good author ity, were, in interest, not much behind the parts given to the public.
The writer had at hand, moreover, certain records of observations made in South Carolina and Georgia, at an important time, and under unusual advantages and, in addition to this, he retained a recollection of personal experience at localities in the West, close upon the front, and of' some note in the war.
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James Kendall Hosmer was an American author and librarian.
Background
Hosmer was born in Northfield, Massachussets, on January 29, 1834. He was the son of George Washington and Hanna Poor (Kendall) Hosmer. He was descended from James Hosmer, a native of Hawkhurst, Kent, England, who emigrated to America in 1635 and settled at Concord, Massachussets.
Education
At seventeen Hosmer entered Harvard, and for four years after his graduation in 1855 he remained in Cambridge as a theological student.
Career
In 1860 he was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church at Deerfield, Massachussets Two years later he enlisted as a private in the 52nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. After his regiment was mustered out, in 1863, he prepared for publication his war-time journal under the title The Color-Guard (1864). It elicited warm praise from eminent critics of the time, was read widely in both England and America, and opened the way to contacts with persons of distinction, which Hosmer kept up during most of his life.
Hosmer returned to his parish in Deerfield, but he had long felt that, because of his somewhat unorthodox ideas, he was unsuited for the ministry. It was therefore without hesitation that in 1866 he accepted a position as professor of rhetoric and English literature in Antioch College, Ohio, which he retained until 1872. The next twenty years he spent in Missouri, as professor of history at the state university at Columbia from 1872 to 1874 and as professor of English and German literature at Washington University at St. Louis from 1874 to 1892. From 1892 to 1904 he was librarian of the Minneapolis Public Library and for the rest of his life he remained in Minneapolis, except for brief periods of residence in Boston and in Washington, D. C.
In spite of his arduous duties as college professor and librarian, Hosmer still found time for considerable literary activity. Many of his stories and articles appeared in magazines and newspapers. His third book, A Short History of German Literature, published in 1878, did much toward establishing his reputation as a scholar and has been widely used by students of German. The favorable reception of this work led to an invitation to contribute to the Story of the Nations series a volume on The Story of the Jews (1885), a vivid and sympathetic account of the history of that people. Three biographies by Hosmer, Samuel Adams (1885, American Statesmen series), The Life of Young Sir Henry Vane (1888), and The Life of Thomas Hutchinson (1896), written at a time when impartiality and restraint were not the fashion among biographers, are noteworthy for those qualities. Among Hosmer's other historical publications are: A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom (1890); A Short History of the Mississippi Valley (1901); The History of the Louisiana Purchase (1902); and two volumes, The Appeal to Arms, 1861-63 (1907) and Outcome of the Civil War, 1863-65 (1907), in the American Nation series. Though they make little contribution to historical knowledge, they are well written and some of them have been widely read. Hosmer also wrote two novels, The Thinking Bayonet (1865) and How Thankful Was Bewitched (1894), and a book of reminiscences, The Last Leaf (1912). He edited a reprint of the 1814 edition of the History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark (1902), a reprint of the 1811 edition of Gass's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1904), and Winthrop's Journal (1908).
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Membership
He was a member of several historical societies, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and, in 1902, president of the American Library Association.
Connections
He was twice married; on October15, 1863, to Eliza A. Cutler, who died in 1877, and on November 27, 1878, to Jenny P. Garland.