From e3e2c8c914e16ffc7bed864ae20487bb2a609c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:47:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Yes. --- Draft.md | 19 +++++++++++++++---- Horsford.md | 4 ++++ bibliography.bib | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Draft.md b/Draft.md index 8f3ec29..2d8d64d 100644 --- a/Draft.md +++ b/Draft.md @@ -47,15 +47,26 @@ to the philosophy [which stated] the physical world was governed by laws ensuring perfect equilibrium."[@KirsNor98, 35] "Accordingly, when Europeans heard about the New World, they anticipated that it would contain at least an embryonic counterpart of features of the geography and human behavior of the -Old World."[@KirsNor99, 35] This may have contributed to the city's association +Old World."[@KirsNor98, 35] This may have contributed to the city's association with more civilized inhabitants. # How the Myth Found new Popularity in the Late 19th Century -# Conclusion - - +The myth of Norumbega saw a brief resurgence in late 19th century Boston. Eben +Norton Horsford was a chemist working in Boston, best known for his work in +baking powder.[@HorsBread61] Throughout his life, however, he showed some +interest in history and archaeology. He would collect fossils around his +father's farm in Moscow (now Leister) New York where he grew up,[@JackHors92, +340] and expressed interest in learning the language of the Seneca +Indians[@JackHors92, 340], to which his father worked as a +missionary.[@JackHors92, 103] Later in his life, he would often visit his +wife's family's estate on Shelter Island, New York.[@AdamsMemBiog08, 104] +There, he became interested in the island's history and "erected a monument to +the Quakers, who found shelter there from Puritan +persecution."[@AdamsMemBiog08, 104] He would later repeat this pattern of +interest and monument construction in Massachusetts. +Horsford's first major action on his \pagebreak # References diff --git a/Horsford.md b/Horsford.md index d153419..74afa91 100644 --- a/Horsford.md +++ b/Horsford.md @@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ - Also has religious elements, just as the Norumbega myth & Protestantism vs. Catholicism. +## Baking Powder + +- + ## Later Life and Interest in Norumbega - "In the comparative leisure of his later years he became deeply interested in diff --git a/bibliography.bib b/bibliography.bib index 6bb6c06..1361d3d 100644 --- a/bibliography.bib +++ b/bibliography.bib @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ editor = {New England Historic Genealogical Society}, year = {1908}, publisher = {New England Historic Genealogical Society}, - address = {Boston, MA}, + address = {Boston, Massachusetts}, volume = {9}, pages = {103--105}, } @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ title = {These Truths: A History of the United States}, year = {2018}, publisher = {W. W. Norton \& Company, Inc.}, - address = {New York, N.Y.}, + address = {New York City, New York}, annote = {Review: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/indimagahist.115.4.08.} } @@ -76,3 +76,33 @@ year = {1998}, annote = {From a peer reviewed academic journal, on JSTOR.}, } + +% https://archive.org/details/theoryartofbread00hors/ +@book{HorsBread61, + author = {Eben Norton Horsford}, + title = {The Theory and Art of Bread-Making. A New Process Without the use of Fermet}, + year = {1861}, + publisher = {Welsh Bigelow \& Co.}, + address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts}, + annote = {A primary source, written by Horsford.} +} + +% https://archive.org/details/problemofnorthme00hors/page/n9/mode/2up +@book{HorsProb89, + author = {Eben Norton Horsford}, + title = {The Problem of the Northmen}, + year = {1889}, + publisher = {John Wilson and Son}, + address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts}, + annote = {A primary source, written by Horsford.} +} + +% https://archive.org/details/discoveryofameri00hors/page/n9/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater +@book{HorsDisc87, + author = {Eben Norton Horsford}, + title = {Discovery of America by Northmen}, + year = {1888}, + publisher = {The Riverside Press}, + address = {Cambridge, Massachusetts}, + annote = {A primary source, originally delivered orally by Horsford at the dedication of a statue of Lief Ericson in Faneuil Hall, 1887.} +}