Revolutionary generation
Subtitle: Harvard men and the consequences of independence
By: Conrad Edick Wright.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Harvard University -- Alumni and alumnae -- Biography.; Harvard University -- Alumni and alumnae -- History.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.; United States -- History -- 1783-1865 -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This book offers a collective biography of the 204 members of the Harvard College classes of 1771 through 1774, men whose lives intersected with the War for Independence and the other formative events of the founding years of the American Republic. The names of a few of these men are still familiar, including painter John Trumbull and Congressman Fisher Ames, but this study's principal importance lies in these schoolmates' shared experiences - experiences that were also common to a much wider group of youths who reached adulthood in the 1770s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alma mater, September 8, 1836; title: Family pride; title: Cambridge College; title: Apprenticing for life; title: A time for choices; title: Revolutionary changes; title: The age of responsibility; title: Party passions; title: The best and the brightest; title: The last great change; title: American scholars, August 31, 1837; title: Appendix : life structures and generations, understanding the Harvard classes of 1771-1774.