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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Profiles memorable members of the Polk family, including soldiers, land speculators, a president, slave-holding aristocrats, cattle barons, and financiers.
William Hannon (1730s-1776) was probably born in Virginia. He married in Virginia and settled in North Carolina by the 1760s where he was the father of a large family. In 1776 William and all but three of his children were killed by Cherokee Indians. One of his sons, Edwin Hannon (1766-1825) married Caroline Earle and was the father of twelve children. Descendants live in North Carolina and other parts of the United States.
Robert Pollock (d.1699/1704) and his family immigrated from County Donegal, Ireland to Somerset County, Maryland. The surname was shortened or anglicized to Polk (all his children used Polk). Descendants and relatives lived in Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, California and elsewhere.