| Description |
xxxiv, 427 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-419) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Our roots in the wisdom of nature and Christian charity : 1600-1700 -- Epigraph: The People's Stories / Belle Deacon -- Stories: -- Northwest Native American (1) -- After the Storm; A Miser Becomes generous -- Northwest Native American (2) Collapse of a Bridge -- Northwest Native American (3) -- Coyote Frees the Salmon from Klamath River -- Alaskan Man Save / Salmon Fin -- Hawaiian The Breadfruit Tree; The Breadfruit Offering -- Cherokee How Red Strawberries Brought Peace in the Woods -- Poem: New England's Crisis / Benjamin Tompson -- Colonial and Puritan Stories / Anthony Benezet -- Africans Captured in Slave Trade Described as Civil and Charitable -- A Drunken Ship with Gilded Dirt / Captain John Smith -- Good News from Virginia / ALexander Whitaker -- A Benevolent Plan for Orphan Apprentices / Leaders of Virginia -- A model of Christian Charity / John Winthrop -- On Roger Williams History of American Literature / Moses Coit Tyler -- Correspondence Regarding th First Jews in New Amsterdam, and Their Need to Provide for Themselves / Peter Stuyvesant (and Others ) -- The Charitable Samaritan / Ezechiel Carre -- Meditations Divine and Moral / Anne Bradstreet -- "Bloodless Martyrdom" For the Padre / Eusebio Francisco Kino -- ON Father Eusebio Kino and the Southwest United States -- The Great Southwest / Elna Bakker and Richard G. Lillary -- Anciment Writings that influenced the Colonnists -- Part II. Philanthropy and liberty in the Enlightenment era : 1700-1800 -- Epigraph: Anonymous Philanthropy -- Stories / Winnebago Tribe -- Appetite Incites Greed and Causes Him Grief / Wak'djunk'aga's -- Memory of the Sacrifice of Aliquipiso / Oneida Tribe -- American Story Revenge Sweentened / Generosity -- Anonymous Ingratitude and Avarice Punished -- Generosity Rewarded / Richard Johnson -- Anonymous Philanthropy -- A Dialogue between a Miser and Prodigal / Benjamin West -- Anonymous A Gift for Children: Story of the Young COttager; The Lamb -- Character of a Tribe of the Arabs / Claude Savary -- Generosoty and Hospitality of Lions / M. Chenier -- The Revolution of the Ladies of Edenton / North Carolina Story -- A Father's Instructions: Liberality; Honesty and Generosity / Thomas Percival -- Poems and Songs: -- Eighteenth-Century Verses and Sketches on Charity and Philanthropy -- On Charity; Elegy / Henry James Pye; An Ode / Mr. Rea; A Fragment (Vision of the Figure of Charity Embodies); Generosity -- Thoughts on the Works of Providence / Phillis Wheatley -- Liberty Tree / Thomas Paine -- Anonymous on the Prize of fifteen hundred dollars being drawn / the poor widows of Marblehead, written there -- Sermons and Philanthropic Writings: -- Bonifacius, an Essay upon the Good / Cotton Mather -- An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York / Jupiter Hammon -- Founding Vision for Georgia as a Humanitarian Refuge / James Oglethorpe -- Life "... for others": The Founding of Georgia / James Oglethorpe's -- Nature, Design, and General Rules of the United Societies / John Wesley -- Waters of Life; Much in Deeds of Charity / Jonathan Edwards -- Industry and Frugality Proposed as the Surest Means to Make a Rich and Flourishing People / Anonymous -- An Oration on Benevolence / Dewitt Clinton -- "Asterio" An Essay on Charity -- Essay on Philanthropy / Anonymous -- The Age of Reason / Thomas Paine -- A Plea for the Poor: On Unfairness and Injustices; on Universal Loves; The Golden Rule; Using Riches Wisely / John Woolman -- Hospitality among the Mohawks / Cadwallader Colden -- Southern Hospitality and Planters' Generosity / Willard thorp -- Deef of Gife / Robert Carter III -- Passages on Philanthropy; on War and Love; Washington's Last Will and Testament / George Washington -- Poor Richard's Almanac; Franklin's Autobiography / Benjamin Franklin -- Universal Attributes of Women / John Ledyard -- The Philanthropist; or, a Good Twelve Cents Worth of Political Love Powder / Mason Locke Weems -- Reflections on Harvest / Anonymous -- Epilogue: Story of the Gift of corn and Beans / Black Hawk -- Part III. Generous spirit and the development of social conscience : 1800-1900 -- Epigraph: True Beauty / McGuffey's Eclectic Second Reader -- Stories: -- Then Benevolent Jew; The Persian Fable of the Garden of Irim / Honestus -- Stranger's Gift / Southwest Folk Tale -- The Smart Indian [A New Mexican Trickster Tale] / Helen Zunser -- Not Ours to Give / Lewis F. Crawford -- Pleasing Incitements to Wisdom and Virtue: The Hungry Family; The Wickedness of Youth Punished in Age; The Compassionate Jew / Anonymous -- The Charitable Sectarians / Anonymous -- Rewards of a Poor Woman's Kindness / Father Mathew -- The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Poems and Songs: -- The Beggar [A Revolutinary War Veteran] / Anonymous -- A Hymn to Be Sung at st. George's Chapel 1804 / Anonymous (Writing for Episcopal Charity Children) -- Hymn to Be sung by the Scholars of the Medhodist Charity Shcool, New York City / Anonymous -- Over the Hill to the Poor-house / Will Carleton -- Helping Father / Anonymous -- Pity the Sorrowful / A.W.Harmon -- Something Left Undone / Henry Wadsworth -- Tecumseh's Death Song / Tecumseh -- Love and Give; To Rich Givers / Walt Whitman -- Somebody's Mother / Mabel Down (Northam) Brine -- The Vision of Sir Launfal / James Russell Lowell -- The Legatee / Ambrose Bierce -- Hospitality / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Words of Wisdom: American Proverbs -- Newspaper Briefs on Charity from the 1800s Charity; Moral Charity; Private Charity; Selected Verses; The Just; On Pauperism and Poor Houses; Turkish Charity; On Charity; A Religious Life; Charity the Best Fruit of Faith; The Compass; Charity; The Gospel an Impulsive and Universal Benevolence; Further Thoughts on Charity -- Accounts of AMerican Generosity and Cooperation -- How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-interest Rightly Understood/ Alexis de Tocqueville -- Records of the Female Mutual Relief Society -- The CHristening of a Bell / Lorin W. Brown -- Proud of America's Civil Society / Timothy Flint -- Extraordinary Munificence [About David Minge 1825] / Anonymous -- Rescue from Freezing: 1856 Mormon Handcart / On Mormons -- Company Disaster / Hoawrd A. Christy -- Giving, Philanthropy, and Service to others -- Passages on Philanthropy / Thomas Jefferson -- What Is a Minority? / John B. Gough -- Gifts / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Philanthropy / Henry David Thoreau -- Treaty Oration / Chief Seattle -- Charity Begins at Home / Nancy Hoard-Lincoln Salisbury (Mrs. Stephen Salisbury) |
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Historiacal Background for the Nineteenth Century -- The Quick-Grown, Fluid Community: The Booster Spirit / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Three Accounts from Darkness and Daylight: Visit to an Insane Asylum, All -Night Missionary Gibbud's Story; Volunteer Fireman / Helen Campell and Thomas W. Knox -- Nurses: Ann Preston; Louisa May Alcott / Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The American Red Cross, Its Forerunners and Its Founder / On Clara Barton -- The Soft-Spoken Crusader by Suzanne LeVert / On Dorothea "Dragon" Dix -- Women Unite! / Emily Blackwell -- Charitable Organizations: -- B'nai B'rith's Birth and Growth by Nenjamin Kahn / B'nai B'rith -- Knights of Columbus / The Knights of Columbus -- The Founding of a Club to Improve the Lives of Local Working Girls / The Lend-A-Hand Club of Davenport, Iowa -- The Order of Good Things / The Fraternal Order of Eagles -- Philanthropic and Saintly Gives: -- George Peabody-Nineteenth-century Philanthropist by Elizabeth Schaaf / On George Peabody -- Was Jay Gould a Good Philanthropist? / W.T.Stead -- The Gospel of Wealth and Best Fields for Philanthropy / Andrew Carnegie -- Johnny Appleseed- A Poineer Hero by W.D.Hsley / On John Chapman -- A Hand Extended; Pope John Paul II / On Father Damien De Veuster -- An Indiana Educator by William Jackson / On Mother Theodore Guerin -- Epilogue: If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking / Emily Dickinson -- Part IV: Giving in "the American century" and its secularization : 1900-2007 -- Epigraph: What Good Am I? / Bob Dylan -- Folktales: -- The Golden Log; Don't Forget the Best / Two East Texas Folk Tales -- The Lone Ranger (Legend of the West) / Fran Striker -- African American Folklore: -- Folk-Sermon: Buliit on a Pieced-Up Rock / Zora Neal Hurston -- Two African-American Folktales: God's Christmas Gift to the Deveil; Thanksgiving that Things Aren't Worse / Langston Hughes and Arna Bontempts (editors) -- Why Whites Have Everything; All a Matter of Money / Daryl Cumber Dance -- The Haunted Church and the Sermon on Thithing; Tall Tales: The Stingiest Man; The Greediest Man / J. Mason Brewer -- Tales of Giving and Cheapness: -- Oil and Hell (A Sermon); Religion of the Oil Field; The Petroleum Geologist: A Folk Image [Oil Man Edgar Davis] / Oklahoma Oil Jokes and A Genreous Oil Man -- A Dreadful Mean Man [Cheap Even to Himself] / Donald M. Hines -- Two Folktales from Northern New Mexico: the Poor Rich Man; The Beggar / Paulette -- A Paying Busines / Tennessee Story -- The Bridal Ghost Dinner in New Orleans / Anonymous -- The Ugly American / William J. Lederer -- The Last Leaf / O. Henry -- Professor / Langston Hughes -- Verses and Songs: -- Ebenezer Gray's Religion / Anonymous -- A Beautiful Life / William M. Golden -- Mamie Desdume's Blues / Mamie Desdume -- Outwitted / Edwin Markham -- On Relife / Folk Rhymes -- The Suppliant / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Nature and Art / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Rhymes to be Traded for Bread [Prologue] / Vachel Lindsay -- I'd Rather Live by the Side of the Road / Anonymous -- The Golf Links / Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn -- Easy Essays / Peter Maurin -- The Ballad for Uncle Sam, or, Ballad for Americans / Hohn Treville Laouche -- The Gift Outright / Robert Frost -- Men with Broken Hearts / Hank WIlliams -- Be a Friend / Edgar Guest -- Chimes of Freedom / Bob Dylan -- Philanthropist / Reed Whittemore -- The Lovers of the Poor / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Give a Damn / Stuart Scharf -- Manifeso: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front / Wendell Berry -- The Money Song / Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx -- Thanks, Good Will, and A Generous Heart: -- The Value of Saintliness / William James -- Qualities of Love; Distinguishing Joy from Pleasure / Fulton J. Sheen -- Ordinary Day Saints / Kurt Vonnegut -- Gestures of Grace / Margaret Davis -- Altruism: Self-Sacrifice for Others / Lewis Thomas -- The Universe Is a Green Dragon / Brian Swimme -- Back Home; Grace and Gratitude [A Buddhist View] / Gary Snyder Back Home -- Simple Wisdom for Rich Living / Oseola McCarty -- Chance for Peace )Iron Cross Speech) / Dwight David Eisenhower -- Acceptance speech / Barry Goldwater -- First Inaugural Address / Ronald Reagan -- Inaugural Address / George Herbert Walker Bush -- Troubles, Needs, and Hopeful Remedies: -- Functions of African American Colleges and Churches; Dubois' Obituary for Madame C. J. Walker / W.E.B. Dubois -- On Getting Donations: The Science of Begging and Joys of Self-Forgetting -- Burying Leagues / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton -- The Tears of Evangeline [A Politician's Promise] / Huey P.Long -- The Rescue Home [For Girls in Trouble] / Isaac Erwin Avery -- Two Pieces from Grapevine (Texas) : Cultivate Your Community as You Would Cultivate Your Garden; Docents Notebook; Grapevine Historical Museum: How Grapevine Helped Pitcarrn Islanders -- Never Before / Herbert Hoover -- Mirrors ... and Pervasive Ballyhoo / Ferdinand Lundberg -- Charitable Effort / Jane Addams -- How the Agency Saved My Father / Howard Husock -- From Charity to Philanthropy / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Something Fishy / Nelson Algren -- Establishment of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University / Kenneth W. Morgan -- Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Why Americans Are Sleepwalkers / Allen Ginsberg -- Representative Service and Charitable Organizations: -- Orgins and Aims of the Rotary Club / Janet Lundquist -- Servants of All / Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity -- Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association: Eight Questions Answered -- Leadership in Giving: An Appeal for Philanthropy and Service by the Indian/ Bengali Community [in America] / S.S. Rama Rao Pappu and J.K.Bhattacharjee -- Muslim Charitable Organizations / Shariq Siddiqui -- Hurricane Katrina Chainsaw Brigade / Mormon Service Project -- Indiana-Native American Scholars in Higher Education Network / Charmayne "Charli" Shaw and Johnny Flynn I-Nashen -- The Life and Works of Philanthropists: --On Julius Rosenwald From Consicence to Community / Daniel J. Boorstin -- On Helen Keller Helen Keller [An Example of Courageous Human Spirit] / C.W.B. -- On Julian Price Julian Price, Visinary Business and Civic Investor -- On Thomas G. Cousins The Transformation of East Lake Meadows / Philippa Strum -- Giving Gift of Many Lives / Bob and Sherry Wechsler -- Critical Thinking on Helping and Giving: -- Idealism and Realism [Systems Theory and Philanthropic Decision-making] / C. West Chruchman -- The Difficult Art of Giving / John D. Rockefeller -- Finding Justice in Charity [On Getting Philanthropy Right] / Bill Moyers -- The Gift of Good Land / Wendell Berry -- Meditations; Voices from the Heart: In Celebration of America's Volunteers / Thomas Moore -- On Service and Philanthropy / James Hillman -- Michael Joyce's Mission: Using Philanthropy to Wage a War of Ideas / William A. Schambra -- Seven Principles of Compassionate Conservatism / Marvin Olasky -- The End of Poverty: An Interview with Jeffrey Sachs / Jeffrey Sachs -- The Public Face of Generosity / Celebrity Philanthropy -- On Philanthropy / Bill Clinton -- Epilogue: The Gife of Gravity / Wendell Berry -- Conclusion: Who is Generous? |
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Generosity.
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Generosity. |
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Humanitarianism.
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Humanitarianism. |
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Charities -- United States.
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Charities. |
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United States. |
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Endowments -- United States.
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Endowments. |
| Added Author |
Jackson, William J. (William Joseph), 1943-
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| ISBN |
1602580596 paperback |
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9781602580596 paperback |
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