Massachusetts troublemakers : rebels, reformers, and radicals from the Bay State / Paul Della Valle.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Della Valle, Paul
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Guilford, Conn. : Globe Pequot Press, c2009.
Subjects:	Revolutionaries > Massachusetts > Biography. Social reformers > Massachusetts > Biography. Radicals > Massachusetts > Biography. Massachusetts > Biography. Massachusetts > History > Anecdotes. Anecdotes. Biography. History.

Table of Contents:

Thomas Morton (circa 1574-1647) : the lord of misrule
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) : America's first feminist
Metacom, aka King Philip (1638-1676) : the George Washington of Native Americans
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) : the MVP (Most Valuable Propagandist) of the New England patriots
Daniel Shays (1747-1825) : reluctant leader of a little rebellion
Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) : the patriotic ink-stained wretch
Deborah Samson (1760-1827) : the official heroine of the Commonwealth fought like a man
William Miller (1782-1849) : the great disappointer
Joseph Palmer (1789-1873) : persecuted for wearing the beard
David Walker (circa 1796-1830) : "Are we men?"
Horace Mann (1796-1859) : "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity"
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) : the voice for the mad
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) : transcendentalist, journalist, and feminist
Elihu Burritt (1810-1879) : the learned blacksmith
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) : "Live deep and suck out all the marrow of life"
Lucy Stone (1818-1893) : "A soul as free as the air"
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) : a woman with a cause
Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863) : "Take the fort or die there"
James Michael Curley (1874-1958) : Boston's mayor of the poor
Major Taylor (1878-1932) : the Worcester whirlwind.

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