PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY A Journal of American History and Culture Through 1876 April 15, 1992, and October 21, 1992 VOLUME 102 Worcester, Massachusetts 1993 Published by the Society COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS Jeremiah Kaplan, chairman Donald W. Krummel Donald M. Scott BoaRD OF ADVISORS FOR THE PROCEEDINGS John Bidwell Linda K. Kerber Richard Crawford John McCusker Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Jules D. Prown Robert A. Gross Barbara Sicherman STAFF OF THE PROCEEDINGS John B. Hench, editor The Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society are published with monies derived, in part, from The Alden Porter Johnson Endowment for Publication, The Ahmanson Publication Fund, and The Robert H. Taylor Publication Fund Copyright © 1992, 1993 by American Antiquarian Society Composed by The Stinehour Press Lunenburg, Vermont, and Printed in the United States of America at Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, Michigan International Standard Serial Number 0044-75 1x The Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society have been regularly published since 1849. The New Series, of which this volume is a part, began in 1880. The Proceedings of the Semiannual Meeting, held in April, appear in October of the same year; the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, held in October, appear in April of the following year. A year’s subscription costs $45.00. Single copies cost $22.50. Correspondence and manuscripts may be sent to John B. Hench, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609. Earlier volumes are available from Kraus Reprint Co., Route 100, Millwood, New York 10546. Subscribers to the current Proceedings may obtain a microfilm edition through University Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48 1 46. Articles are abstracted in America: History and Life. They are indexed in Bibliographic Index, Biography index, Essay and General Literature Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48—1984. Table of Contents Officers and Members of the Society SEMIANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 15, 1992 Proceedings Report oft he Council Obituaries Early English Paradigms for New World Natives ALDEN T. VAUGHAN THE REPUBLICAN SYNTHESIS REVISITED: Essays IN Honor oF GEORGE ATHAN BILLIAS Preface Introduction DREW R. McCOY Republicanism Revisited: The Case ofJ ames Burgh ISAAC KRAMNICK Republicanism, Liberalism, and Democracy: Political Culture in the New Nation ROBERT E. SHALHOPE The Republican Interpretation: Retrospect and Prospect LANCE BANNING Republicanism and Federalism in the Constitutional Decade PETER S. ONUF and CATHY MATSON Afterword GORDON S. WOOD My Intellectual Odyssey GEORGE ATHAN BILLIAS ANNUAL MEETING, OCTOBER 21, 1992 Proceedings Report of the Council Report of the Treasurer Obituaries SERENDIPITY AND SYNERGY: COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT, ACCESS, AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AT THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY IN THE McCorIson ERA Preface JOHN B. HENCH Doing Women’s History at the American Antiquarian Society PATRICIA CLINE COHEN Southern Historical Materials at the American Antiquarian Society WILLIAM W. FREEHLING The James Fenimore Cooper Collections at the American Antiquarian Society KAY SEYMOUR HOUSE The American Book and the American Bookman: For Marcus McCorison, on His Retirement ROGER E. STODDARD Response and Comment MARCUS A. MCCORISON The History oft he Book in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: Perspective and Evidence IAN R. WILLISON News at the Hearth: A Drama of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America THOMAS C. LEONARD The Manuscript in the British American World of Print DAVID S. SHIELDS Index