Description What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the Newly United States together. org), and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.. common-place.
She is cofounder and coeditor of the Web magazine Common-place (www.
She is the author of The Name of War: King Philip\'s War and the Origins of American Identity, which won the Bancroft Prize, Phi Beta Kappa\'s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians\' Book Prize, and the New England Historical Association\'s Book Award.
About the author Jill Lepore is an associate professor of history at Boston University.
Through these superbly told stories, she chronicles the challenges faced by a young country trying to unify its diverse people.
Lepore brilliantly explores the personalities, work, and influence of these figures, seven men driven by radically different aims and temperaments.
From Noah Webster\'s attempts to standardize American spelling, to Alexander Graham Bell\'s use of "Visible Speech" to help teach the deaf to talk, to Sequoyah\'s development of a Cherokee syllabary as a means of preserving his people\'s independence, these stories form a compelling portrait of a developing nation\'s struggles.
In A is for American, award-winning historian Jill Lepore portrays seven men who turned to language to help shape a new nation\'s character and boundaries.
Description What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the Newly United States together
