Description: Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
Brief description: Ronald Hoffman is director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Review Quotes:
"An important collection of essays. . . . Though many traditional types of sources are consulted (manuscripts, diaries, journals), the authors push boundaries to consider the nontraditional object as well. Interpretations and views of daily life are broadened and what it meant to live in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century America is reexamined."--Journal of American Culture