A mong the writers who have had a consequential effect on the issue of race in America, Albion W. Tourgée (1838-1905) may be the least noticed, for reasons unclear. This is the latest of several ...

These habits have lingered, too. “Albion’s Seed” makes the brazen case that the tangled roots of America’s restless and contentious spirit can be found in the interplay of the distinctive ...

The 946-page book by David Hackett Fischer is titled “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America.” It was published by Oxford University Press. Fischer compiled data on each wave of ...

(Wikimedia Commons) Thirty-three years ago, David Hackett Fischer resuscitated the effort to develop a historical narrative of the United States with a book called Albion’s Seed, a sweeping ...

andGreater Appalachia—in his 1989 classic Albion’s Seed, and added New France in Champlain’s Dream, published twenty years later. Russell Shorto described the salientcharacteristics of New ...