A descendent of two U.S. presidents and winner of the Pulitzer
Prize, Henry Adams enjoyed a very particular place in American
life, not least due to his ancestry. Yet despite his prolific
writing in ...the years between 1877 and 1891, when he lived in
Washington, D.C., Adams has somehow slipped into the gap between
history and literature. In Henry Adams in Washington,
Ormond Seavey integrates the diverse aspects of Adams's writing,
arguing for his placement among the major American writers of the
nineteenth century.
Examining Adams's nine-volume History, which Seavey
argues demands renewed literary attention, as well as his two
novels, Democracy and Esther, and his biographies
of Albert Gallatin and John Randolph of Roanoke, Seavey shows how
Adams reveals his own character and personality in his writings,
particularly his fondness for the personal rather than the public
sphere. As a historian writing in Washington, D.C., Adams surely
encountered the expectation that public life takes precedence over
the personal; in the execution of both his historical writing and
his novels, however, he dwells instead on the personal costs of
public life and the diminishment of public figures who lack a
fulfilling personal life. Revealing Adams to be a missing link
between the essential American writers in the time of Emerson and
the modernist writers of the early twentieth century, Seavey shows
his novels to be considerations of contemporary political issues
while also recognizing the novelistic dimensions in his history and
biographies.
America’s rise from revolutionary colonies to a world power is often treated as inevitable. But Charles N. Edel’s provocative biography of John Q. Adams argues that he served as the central architect ...of a grand strategy whose ideas and policies made him a critical link between the founding generation and the Civil War–era nation of Lincoln.
The Lotka‐Volterra (LV) system is an interesting mathematical model because of its significant and wide applications in biological sciences and ecology. A fractional LV model in the Caputo sense is ...investigated in this paper. Namely, we provide a comparative study of the considered model using Haar wavelet and Adams‐Bashforth‐Moulton methods. For the first method, the Haar wavelet operational matrix of the fractional order integration is derived and used to solve the fractional LV model. The main characteristic of the operational method is to convert the considered model into an algebraic equation which is easy to solve. To demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed methods, some numerical tests are provided.
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce ...Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans' ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society. Focusing his study primarily on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution-notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington-Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains.By also interweaving individuals and groups that have historically been excluded from the discussion of honor-such as female thinkers, women patriots, slaves, and free African Americans-Smith makes a broad and significant argument about how the Revolutionary era witnessed a fundamental shift in ethical ideas. This thoughtful work sheds new light on a forgotten cause of the Revolution and on the ideological foundation of the United States.
In this paper, the operational matrix based on Bernstein wavelets is presented for solving fractional SIR model with unknown parameters. The SIR model is a system of differential equations that ...arises in medical science to study epidemiology and medical care for the injured. Operational matrices merged with the collocation method are used to convert fractional-order problems into algebraic equations. The Adams–Bashforth–Moulton predictor correcter scheme is also discussed for solving the same. We have compared the solutions with the Adams–Bashforth predictor correcter scheme for the accuracy and applicability of the Bernstein wavelet method. The convergence analysis of the Bernstein wavelet has been also discussed for the validity of the method.