Background
Breen, Timothy Hall was born on September 5, 1942 in Cincinnati. Son of George E. and Mary Breen.
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Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America by T. H. Breen (1982-09-16)
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The Character of the Good Ruler: A Study of Puritan Political Ideas in New England, 1630-1730
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The Character of the Good Ruler: Puritan Political Ideas in New England, 1630-1730.
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BY Breen, T H ( Author ) { Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories By Breen, T H ( Author ) Feb - 01- 1996 ( Paperback ) }
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Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America
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This collection of essays is concerned with two main issues: first, the way in which the local origins of English colonists influenced their attitudes and adaptation to North America; and second, the contrast between the settlements of Massachusetts and Virginia.
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Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories
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How we make history―and what we then make of it―is engagingly dramatized in T. H. Breen's portrait of a 350-year-old American community faced with the costs of its “progress.” In the particulars of one town's struggle to check development and save its natural environment, Breen shows how our sense of history reflects our ever-changing self-perceptions and hopes for the future. Breen first went to East Hampton, the celebrated Long Island resort town, to write about the Mulford Farmstead, a picturesque saltbox dating from the 1680s. Through his research, he came across a fascinating cast of local characters, past and present, who contributed to, invented, and reinvented the town's history. Breen's work also drew him into contemporary local affairs: factionalism among residents, zoning disputes, and debates over resource management. Driving these heated issues, Breen found, were some dearly held notions about a harmonious, agrarian past that conflicted with what he had come to know about the divisiveness and opportunism of East Hampton's early days. Imagining the Past is about the interplay between some of the East Hampton histories Breen encountered: the “official” histories of many generations, the myths and oral traditions, and the curious stories that Breen, as an outsider, discerned in the town's rich holdings of artifacts and documents. With a warm yet wry regard for human nature, Breen obliges us to confront our pasts in all the
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Character of the Good Ruler: A Study of Puritan Political Ideas in New England (Historical Publications)
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Timothy Hall Breen
Edit ProfileHistory and American culture educator
Timothy Hall Breen, History and American culture educator. Awardee Guggenheim Foundation, 1975, Institute Advanced Study, 1980, National Humanities Center, 1983; American Council Learned Socs. fellow, 1971; Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1986-1987. Fellow Society American Historians; member Association Newberry Library, Institute EarlyAm. History, College Society Massachusetts.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1964; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1968.
Career
Assistant professor of history and American culture, Yale University, 1968-1970;
associate professor, Northwestern University, 1970-1975;
professor of history and American culture, Northwestern University, 1975-1985;
William Smith Mason professor American history, Northwestern University, since 1985;
director Northwestern Humanities Center, Northwestern University, since 1992. Visiting professor University of Chicago, 1985-1986. Fowler Hamilton fellow Christ Church, University of Oxford, 1987-1988.
Pitt professor, Cambridge U., 1990-1991.
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Works
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Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America
(This collection of essays is concerned with two main issu...)
- BY Breen, T H ( Author ) { Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories By Breen, T H ( Author ) Feb - 01- 1996 ( Paperback ) }
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Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories
( How we make history―and what we then make of it―is enga...)
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- Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America by T. H. Breen (1982-09-16)
- The Character of the Good Ruler: A Study of Puritan Political Ideas in New England, 1630-1730
- The Character of the Good Ruler: Puritan Political Ideas in New England, 1630-1730.
- Character of the Good Ruler: A Study of Puritan Political Ideas in New England (Historical Publications)
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Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America
Membership
Fellow Society American Historians. Member Association Newberry Library, Institute EarlyAm. History, College Society Massachusetts.
Connections
Married Susan C., April 5, 1963. Children: Sarah, Bant.
