The American Counter Revolution
The American Counterrevolution traces a retreat from the ideals of liberty to a new gospel of order by examining an entire world in dramatic flux. Populated with figures who challenged kings and inscribed the ideas of our political heritage - Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Priestley, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, Chateaubriand, and the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint - this study proposes a new framework for understanding the formation of the American republic by delving into the ideological tensions between aspirations for liberty and the necessity of order.
The American Revolution is placed in the context of world revolution - from bloody convulsions in France to hateful clashes in Britain; from backwoods conclaves of Whiskey Rebels to the fever-plagued streets of Philadelphia; and from racial eruptions in St-Domingue (Haiti) to the capture and enslavement of free blacks all over America.
A new conception and configuration of virtually the entire historiography surrounding the impact and results of the American Revolution, this epic narrative redefines our understanding of the birth of the American nation.
ISBN: 0-8117-0100-X
Benjamin Franklin and Women
Benjamin Franklin was undoubtedly one of the most important arbiters of American culture and society at the time of the Revolution, when the young nation was establishing its constitutions, laws, and civil institutions. Franklin also played a major role in defining a new and important role for women in this society. This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars who are either authorities on Franklin or on the role of women in the eighteenth century to adjudge the record and intentions of Franklin in this most vulnerable facet of his character, life, and place in history.
The essays in this volume grew out of a symposium organized by Tise at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. They fall into two groups, those that examine Benjamin Franklin’s relationship with women (sisters, relatives, love interests, and friends) and those that explore more generally the role of women in Franklin’s era. Topics addressed include Franklin’s theories on relations between men and women, the nature of marriage, the dangers as well as the delights of sex, and the importance of education for men and women.
ISBN: 978-0-271-02034-1
Circa 1903:
North Carolina’s Outer Banks at the Dawn of Flight
Circa 1903 is a richly illustrated depiction of the Carolina coast encountered by Wilbur and Orville Wright brothers when they went to Kitty Hawk in 1903. They discovered a well-oiled environment rich in commerce, culture, and a clockwork infrastructure that facilitated their invention of flight. Despite their Midwest origins they seemed oblivious to the simultaneous white supremacist revolution that was pervading the region and the post-Civil War nation.
ISBN: 978-1-4696-5114-9
Conquering the Sky: The Secret Flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
During seven crucial days in the spring of 1908, the Wright brothers prepared for what they thought would be a season of secret flights at Kitty Hawk, culminating five years of perfecting their flying machine. But they were soon discovered by a host of fast-paced reporters and photographers, forcing the brothers to try their hands at outsmarting the world press and thus avoid-close scrutiny of their first reliable flying machine. Within a few days, the sharp journalists catapulted the brothers into unwanted world fame as the international press making use of the telegraph and photography began covering their every move and utterance. The comedy-of-errors pursuit by the reporters and elusive diversions by the Wrights led to a series of bizarre and far-fetched news reports splashed across the front pages of newspapers around the world. Despite the cat-and-mouse chase, the journalists knew they had just witnessed a milestone in history and competed with each other to be first to broadcast the story.
In Conquering the Sky, historian Tise tells the fascinating, untold story of how the brothers introduced the power of flight to the world, taught a legion of gaping aeronauts how to put a plane in the air and keep it there, and astonished thousands of eyewitnesses in both Europe and America. From Kitty Hawk Wilbur proceeded to LeMans, France, and Orville soon thereafter to Washington, D.C., where the brothers simultaneously dazzled the world in the fall of 1908 with their remarkable invention.
ISBN: 978-0-230-61490-1
Hidden Images of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
Hidden Images is a redesigned and expanded edition of the 2005 classic work in which Wright brothers’ historian Larry Tise first revealed scores of “hidden” details in Wilbur & Orville Wright’s original glass plate negative photographs at Kitty Hawk. This expanded book contains unpublished images of newly discovered artifacts fabricated by the Wrights while they invented flight on the Carolina coast, including Tise’s evaluation and confirmation of their authenticity.
ISBN: 978-1-4671-4243-4
Theodore de Bry — America: The Complete Plates from 1590-1602
Theodore de Bry—America culminates ten years of global research by Larry E. Tise into all known and accessible hand-colored versions of Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia (1590) and the first of nine volumes in Theodore de Bry’s lavishly illustrated and revolutionary Grand Voyages to the Americas. In this first ever reprinting of the nearly 300 intricate copper plate engravings from these volumes in their original hand-coloring, Tise explains the power of color in elaborating these classic exploration narratives. He and his co-author Michiel van Groesen also reveal how these images became the pervasive and perennial depictions of how we have envisioned American Indians from the 16th century to the present. This elegant volume bearing the fine touch of Taschen, the world’s leading publisher of fine art catalogues, contains scores of maps and panoramas of historic scenes from Virginia, Florida, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, Central America, and the Caribbean Islands. Published simultaneously in English, French, and German, the book also contains the first English language translations of the original captions for all engravings contained in the nine original volumes.
ISBN: 978-3-8365-5209-3
New Voyages to Carolina: Reinterpreting North Carolina History
2017 North Caroliniana Society Book Award
New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina’s history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state’s evolution over more than four centuries. The volume provides new lenses and provocative possibilities for reimagining the state’s past. Transcending traditional markers of wars and elections, the contributors map out a new chronology encompassing geological realities; the unappreciated presence of Indians, blacks, and women; religious and cultural influences; and abiding preferences for industrial development within the limits of "progressive" politics. While challenging traditional story lines, the authors frame a candid tale of the state's development.
ISBN: 978-1-4696-3458-6
Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701–1840
Winner: Herbert Feis Award, American Historical Association
Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by Larry E. Tise suggests that American proslavery thought, far from being an invention of the slave-holding South, had its origins in the crucible of conservative New England.
Proslavery rhetoric, Tise shows, came late to the South, where the heritage of Jefferson's ideals was strongest and where, as late as the 1830s, most slaveowners would have agreed that slavery was an evil to be removed as soon as possible. When the rhetoric did come, it was often in the portmanteau of ministers who moved south from New England, and it arrived as part of a full-blown ideology. When the South finally did embrace proslavery, the region was placed not at the periphery of American thought but in its mainstream.
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5583-2