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University Distinguished Speaker Series: Joshua Kendall
Who Was Noah Webster?
- The Noah Webster House
- List of Webster's Papers at New York Public LibraryView the 15 page Finding Aid to the Webster Papers at NYPL Archives!
Noah Webster at Cannon Memorial Library
Noah Webster's first edition of An American dictionary of the English language / republished in facsimile editionCall Number: Cannon Library, Reference section, First Floor PE1625 .W3 1995ISBN: 091249803XPublication Date: 1995Prefaced by an article Noah Webster, founding father of American scholarship and education by Rosalie J. Slater. Reprint. Originally published in 2 v.: An American dictionary of the English language. New York : S. Converse, 1828.
Compass and clock : defining moments in American culture : 1800, 1850, 1900 by Call Number: Cannon Library, Second Floor E169.1 .W528 1999ISBN: 0810940965Publication Date: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1999.Noah Webster and American Language, 79 - 84.
See the Facsimile of the 1828 Dictionary!
View the Joshua Kendall - Constitution Day Event
Joshua Kendall Speaks About Noah Webster on Think Podcast
Read Reviews On the Book's Website AND MORE...
- In Praise of The Forgotten Founding FatherReviews, Article Download, AND Tour Dates Listed
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.PDF Articles
- Colonial PolymathSheidlower, NYT Book Review, May 27, 2011
- The Definition of Yankee Know-HowKendall, LA Times, Oct. 15, 2008
Kendall's Book Soon To Arrive @ Cannon Library
The forgotten founding father : Noah Webster's obsession and the creation of an American culture by Call Number: No call number availableISBN: 0399156992Publication Date: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010.George Washington's cultural attaché : the definer of American identity -- From farmboy to best-selling author. Hartford childhood and Yale manhood ; Spelling the new nation ; Traveling salesman -- Founding father. Counting his way across America ; Courtship at the Constitutional Convention ; Marriage and a turn away from words ; Editor of New York City's first daily -- Lexicographer. Setting his sights on Johnson and Johnson, Jr. ; Paterfamilias ; A lost decade ; The walking dictionary ; "More fleshy than ever before" -- Webster's after Webster : the director of defining.
