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J. Ritchie Garrison, Professor Emeritus of History in the History Department at the University of Delaware
Professor Emeritus of History
University of Delaware
77 E. Main St.
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-2678
http://udemancipationproject.wordpress.com/
Biography
Ritchie Garrison teaches courses in material culture, decorative arts, and US history. He has authored Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1771-1860, American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field (coedited with Ann Smart Martin), and After Ratification: Material Life in Delaware, 1789-1820, (coedited with Bernard L. Herman and Barbara McLean Ward), and Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England. The latter won the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s 2007 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize for the best book on North American Vernacular Architecture and the Historic New England 2007 Book Prize. Other research projects include: a study of outbuilding patterns the early Republic, research on the early warehouses and commercial structures in the early port cities of the Atlantic World, the development of center tables in 19th century America, and an edited edition of two Civil War diaries kept by officers in the Massachusetts 54th and 55th Colored Regiments.
Publications
Books:
- Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England/ (University of Tennessee Press, 2006).
- Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1771-1860 (University of Tennessee Press, 2003).
Edited Volumes
- American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field Coedited with Ann Smart Martin (Winterthur Museum, 1997).
- After Ratification: Material Life in Delaware, 1789-1820 Coedited with Bernard L. Herman and Barbara McLean Ward (University of Delaware Museum Studies, 1989).
| 77 E. Main St. | Newark, DE 19716 | <div class="ExternalClassF0310BC320914A829244F15ECA4201FF"><p>Ritchie Garrison teaches courses in material culture, decorative arts, and US history. He has authored <em>Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1771-1860</em>, <em>American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field </em>(coedited with Ann Smart Martin), and <em>After Ratification: Material Life in Delaware, 1789-1820</em>, (coedited with Bernard L. Herman and Barbara McLean Ward), and <em>Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England</em>. The latter won the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s 2007 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize for the best book on North American Vernacular Architecture and the Historic New England 2007 Book Prize. Other research projects include: a study of outbuilding patterns the early Republic, research on the early warehouses and commercial structures in the early port cities of the Atlantic World, the development of center tables in 19th century America, and an edited edition of two Civil War diaries kept by officers in the Massachusetts 54th and 55th Colored Regiments.</p></div> | <div class="ExternalClass963B00D5C879487998949E44EF3BC7D1"><h4>Books:</h4><ul><li><em>Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England/<em> (University of Tennessee Press, 2006).</em></em></li><em><em><li><em>Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1771-1860</em> (University of Tennessee Press, 2003).</li></em></em></ul><em><em><h4>Edited Volumes</h4><ul><li><em>American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field</em> Coedited with Ann Smart Martin (Winterthur Museum, 1997).</li><li><em>After Ratification: Material Life in Delaware, 1789-1820</em> Coedited with Bernard L. Herman and Barbara McLean Ward (University of Delaware Museum Studies, 1989).</li></ul></em></em></div> | | | | | Publications | | | | | | jrg@udel.edu | | Garrison, J. Ritchie | 302-831-2678 | | <img alt="Professor Ritchie Garrison" src="/Images%20Bios/faculty/Garrison_Richie.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Professor Emeritus of History | | | http://udemancipationproject.wordpress.com/ | | http://primus.nss.udel.edu/CoursesSearch/search-results?first_instr_name=Garrison | | |
| Two Carpenters: Architecture and Building in Early New England | Garrison, J. Ritchie | | University of Tennessee Press | | 2006 | http://utpress.org/title/two-carpenters/ | <p>This innovative study
examines the lives of two New England carpenters, Calvin and George
Stearns, who were active in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Drawing on their written accounts and examining their legacy of
buildings—a record as extensive and richly detailed as any that
exists—J. Ritchie Garrison recovers the stylistic influences, family
patterns, work habits, social customs, tools, and business practices
that shaped the Stearnses’ identities as rural builders during a time of
profound change.</p><p>Although study of the region’s architectural forms began in the late
nineteenth century and social historians have extensively discussed the
emergence of rural capitalism in New England, there is still much to
learn about the process by which these landscapes and buildings came
into being. As Garrison shows, the Stearnses personified the dynamic
interrelationships of city and country, and of industry and farming, as
they filtered change through the actions of everyday living. Profusely
illustrated with drawings and photographs, the book follows the
Stearnses as they moved from newly settled towns on New England’s
northern frontier, to federal-era Boston, the agricultural village of
Northfield, Massachusetts, and the resort community of Brattleboro,
Vermont.</p><p>By tracing the lives and careers of these two carpenters, Garrison
provokes readers to consider why things look the way they do, how they
got that way, and what they mean. J. Ritchie Garrison is director of the
Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and professor of history
at the University of Delaware. His is the author of <em>Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770–1860</em>.</p> | | |
| Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1771-1860 | Garrison, J. Ritchie | | University of Tennessee Press | | 2003 | http://utpress.org/title/landscape-and-material-life/ | <p>This innovative study draws on anthropology, archaeology, art
history, folklore, and history to illuminate the rich texture of a
historic landscape and the complex process by which it changed over a
ninety-year period between the American Revolution and the Civil War.
Focusing on Franklin County in the upper Connecticut Valley of
Massachusetts, a landscape that shares many characteristics with greater
New England and with the rural North, Garrison describes the region’s
town plans, agricultural patterns, dwellings, barns, outbuildings,
fences, and transportation networks–and how they changed. He
demonstrates that the transformation of this rural landscape was a
dynamic process, a complex interaction between tradition and innovation,
driven by people’s shifting expectations about material life.</p><p>Garrison’s carefully researched, narrative study begins with the
lives of individual inhabitants and from them generates a larger
picture. Who lived in Franklin County, what they thought and wrote
about, what choices they made and what principles they lived by, what
buildings and crops they raised and with what tools and methods, how
they organized their homes, family life, farms, and workspaces, what
they did with their leisure time, how they spent their money or
manifested their social status–these are the topics of his
investigation. His study provides insight into the changing values that
accompanied the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society and
raises questions about the nature of tradition and the character of
American “folklife.”</p> | | |
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