scholarly journals Female Patriotism

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Shannon Gosse
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
American Government ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Female Experience

The American Revolution and the Founding of the American government often reflects the famous figures of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and many more male figures. This article focuses on the female experience, looking at two very different women who contributed significantly for the fight for freedom and liberty. Deborah Sampson and Esther Reed reflect two distinct activities of woman’s contributions for the American Revolution. Sampson was a fighter for American freedom by joining the battle, disguising herself as a male solider. Reed stayed within the domestic sphere but would break boundaries within her patriotic role by forming the Ladies Association of Philadelphia. These women and many others perform brave and patriotic actions during the American Revolution and should be recognized just as significant as their male counterparts. A focus on their roles and efforts during the war will reflect their significance.

American Honor

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Bruce Smith
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
George Washington ◽  
John Adams ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Free African Americans ◽  
Fundamental Shift ◽  
The Revolution

The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as “honor” and “virtue.” As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans’ ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society. Focusing his study primarily on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution—notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains. By also interweaving individuals and groups that have historically been excluded from the discussion of honor—such as female thinkers, women patriots, slaves, and free African Americans—Smith makes a broad and significant argument about how the Revolutionary era witnessed a fundamental shift in ethical ideas. This thoughtful work sheds new light on a forgotten cause of the Revolution and on the ideological foundation of the United States.

Mathematics and Our Founding Fathers

1976 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-307
Author(s):  
H. Howard Frisinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Early Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
George Washington ◽  
John Adams ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
Founding Fathers

On july 4, 1776, fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. This paper will discuss the contributions to mathematics or the interest in mathematics of four of these men. Two of these four, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, made significant contributions to the early development of mathematics in the United States. In addition to the mathematical contributions of Franklin and Jefferson, we shall briefly consider the mathematical interests of George Washington and John Adams.

3. Independence

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Allison
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
The Political ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
George Washington ◽  
John Adams ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
The People

By spring 1776 British authority had collapsed in the colonies. Congress appointed John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston to draft a declaration of independence. ‘Independence’ describes this declaration and reveals how complex declaring independence would be. Americans were redefining their relationship with the British Empire, but also the basis of government and the nature of their society. The declaration was adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776, but fighting continued. Richard Howe and Henry Clinton had been sent to achieve a political end—reconciliation—through military means, but George Washington was securing a military end—victory—through the political means of cultivating support from the people the army protected.

Politeness and Pietas as Annexed to the Virtue of Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
T. Brian Mooney ◽  
Damini Roy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Philosophical Investigation ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
George Washington ◽  
The West ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
Social Intercourse

“Politeness” appears to be connected to a quite disparate set of related concepts, including but not limited to, “manners,” “etiquette,” “agreeableness,” “respect” and even “piety.” While in the East politeness considered as an important social virtue is present (and even central) in the theoretical and practical expressions of the Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist traditions, (indeed politeness has been viewed in these traditions as central to proper education) it has not featured prominently in philosophical discussion in the West. American presidents Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington all devoted discussion to politeness within the broader ambit of manners and etiquette, as too did Erasmus, Edmund Burke and Ralph Waldo Emerson but on the whole sustained philosophical engagement with the topic has been lacking in the West. The richest source for philosophical investigation is perhaps afforded by the centrality of the concept of respect in Immanuel Kant.However in this paper we will instead draw on the writings of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to defend the centrality of “politeness” as an important and valuable moral virtue. Starting with an analysis of the broader Aristotelian arguments on the virtues associated with “agreeableness,” namely, friendliness, truthfulness and wit I will argue that “politeness” should be thought of as an important moral virtue attached to social intercourse (and by extension the vice of impoliteness). I then move to identify an even broader and more important account of politeness, drawing on the work of Aquinas, as intimately connected to the notion of pietas (piety) as a fundamental part of the virtue of justice.

4. Legacies

2015 ◽  
pp. 84-114
Author(s):  
R. B. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
The Other ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
James Madison ◽  
George Washington ◽  
John Adams ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Historical Cycles

“Legacies: What history has made of the founding fathers” shows that the founding fathers’ history has unfolded in two ways—one being their developing role in the American people’s historical memory, the other being their evolving place in history as interpreted by generations of historians. It also highlights how posterity has chosen individuals to revere or to chastise. The reputations of some founding fathers (George Washington and Benjamin Franklin) have remained consistently high; the reputations of others (Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton) have risen and fallen in historical cycles; others (John Adams, James Madison, and John Jay) have languished in neglect, only to be rediscovered and restored to the national pantheon.

scholarly journals Life and Work of Bishop Francis Asbury

1894 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 37-62
Author(s):  
Asbury Lowrey
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
George Washington ◽  
John Adams ◽  
George Whitefield ◽  
American Nation

Among the creators of the American nation is Bishop Francis Asbury. Not as a discoverer, a military chieftain, a philosopher, a legislator, or diplomatist, but as a purifier of the nation's morals in its germ. While a galaxy of great men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and Alex. Hamilton were fighting for liberty, laying the foundation of government and building up a peerless system of free institutions, Asbury was devoting himself assiduously to the culture of the nation's heart. Nor did he do this with towering intellect like that of Jonathan Edwards, or classic writing like that of Timothy Dwight, or flaming oratory like that of George Whitefield, but by simple unsophisticated preaching, prayer, and expostulation throughout the length and breadth of the colonies and infant States.

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