The American Spirit in the Writings of Americans of Foreign Birth
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The American Spirit in the Writings of Americans of Foreign Birth
American literature; Americanization; Noncitizens -- United States
Patri, Angelo 173
_A Schoolmaster of the Great City_
Ravage, Marcus E. 150
_An American in the Making_
Rihbany, Abraham M. 91
_A Far Journey_
Riis, Jacob (1849-1914) 61
_The Making of an American_
_Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen_
Sartorio, Enrico C. 136
_Social and Religious Life of
Italians in America_
Schaff, Philip (1819-1893) 20
_American Nationality._ Pam.
Schurz, Carl (1829-1906) 38
_Abraham Lincoln: An Essay._ Houghton
_Speeches._ 1865. Lippincott
Steiner, Edward A. 96
_From Alien to Citizen_
_Nationalizing America_
Stern, Elizabeth G. 160
_My Mother and I_
Straus, Oscar S. 72
_The American Spirit_
Van der Zee, Jacob 66
_The Hollanders of Iowa_
Wernaer, Robert M. 166
_The Soul of America_
Yezierska, Anzia 181
_How I Found America._ (In “Century
Magazine,” November, 1920)
FOOTNOTE:
[1] Several titles have been supplied by the editor; those given in the
words of the author are enclosed in quotation marks.
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The American Spirit in the Writings of Americans of Foreign Birth
PHILIP SCHAFF
It is as a theologian and as editor of the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia
and other religious works that Philip Schaff is chiefly known; but
there is a slighter work of his which hardly deserves the neglect
into which it has fallen,--that is, his address on “American
Nationality,” delivered before the Irving Society of the College
of St. James, Maryland, June 11th, 1856. He was born at Coire,
Switzerland, and was educated at the Stuttgart Gymnasium and at the
universities of Tübingen, Halle and Berlin. After traveling for a
while as a private tutor he was called to a professorship in the
theological seminary of the German Reformed Church at Mercersburg,
Pennsylvania, and came to the United States in 1844. In 1870 he
accepted the professorship of sacred literature in Union Theological
Seminary, New York City. He revisited Europe several times, on one
occasion going to Russia in behalf of oppressed people there. It is
not unnatural that one who was born in a land that has sheltered so
many nationalities, and where a strong spirit of liberty has always
existed, should have so keen and farsighted an appreciation of the
meaning and influence of the cosmopolitan character of the American
nation.
Cosmopolitan Character of American Nationality
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