EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book A Paper Containing a Statement and Vindication of Certain Political Opinions   Read Before the Democratic Association  Chestnut Hill  Nov  1862

Download or read book A Paper Containing a Statement and Vindication of Certain Political Opinions Read Before the Democratic Association Chestnut Hill Nov 1862 written by William Bradford Reed and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Heaven Will Frown on Such a Cause as This

Download or read book Heaven Will Frown on Such a Cause as This written by Joanna Dunlap Cowden and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiwar protest has long been an under-reported component of the Civil War story. "Heaven Will Frown on Such a Cause as This" traces the life stories of six men in northern states who denounced the war against the Confederacy. These men were called "copperheads" by their opponents, but they labeled themselves "Peace Democrats."

Book The Papers of Jefferson Davis

Download or read book The Papers of Jefferson Davis written by Jefferson Davis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Being powerless to direct the current, I can only wait to see whither it runs," wrote Jefferson Davis to his wife, Varina, on October 11, 1865, five months after the victorious United States Army took him prisoner. Indeed, in the tumultuous years immediately after the Civil War, Davis found himself more acted upon than active, a dramatic change from his previous twenty years of public service to the United States as a major political figure and then to the Confederacy as its president and commander in chief. Volume 12 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy as he and his family fight to find their place in the world after the Civil War. A federal prisoner, incarcerated in a "living tomb" at Fort Monroe while the government decided whether, where, and by whom he should be tried for treason, Davis was initially allowed to correspond only with his wife and counsel. Released from prison after two hard years, he was not free from legal proceedings until 1869. Stateless, homeless, and without means to support himself and his young family, Davis lived in Canada and then Europe, searching for a new career in a congenial atmosphere. Finally, in November 1869, he settled in Memphis as president of a life insurance company and, for the first time in four years, had the means to build a new life. Throughout this difficult period, Varina Howell Davis demonstrated strength and courage, especially when her husband was in prison. She fought tirelessly for his release and to ensure their children's education and safety. Their letters clearly demonstrate the Davises' love and their dependence on each other. They both worried over the fate of the South and of family members and friends who had suffered during the war. Though disfranchised, Davis remained careful but not totally silent on the subject of politics. Even while in prison, he wrote without regret of his decision to follow Mississippi out of the Union and of his unswerving belief in the constitutionality of state rights and secession. Likewise, he praised all who supported the Confederacy with their blood and who, like himself, had lost everything.

Book Lincoln s Wrath

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey Manber
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2006-11-01
  • ISBN : 1402228732
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Lincoln s Wrath written by Jeffrey Manber and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the blistering summer of 1861, President Lincoln began pressuring and ordering the physical shutdown of any Northern newspaper that voiced opposition to the war. These attacks were sometimes carried out by soldiers, sometimes by angry mobs under cover of darkness. Either way, the effect was a complete dismantling of the free press. In the midst stood publisher John Hodgson, an angry bigot so hated that a local newspaper gleefully reported his defeat in a bar fight. He was also firmly against Lincoln and the war--an opinion he expressed loudly through his newspaper. When his press was destroyed, first by a mob, then by U.S. Marshals "upon authority of the President of the United States," Hodgson decided to take on the entire United States. Thus began a trial in which one small-town publisher risked imprisonment or worse, and the future of free speech hung in the balance. Based on 10 years of original research, Lincoln's Wrath brings to life one of the most gripping, dramatic and unknown stories of U.S. history.

Book The History of Slavery and Emancipation  Speech Delivered by H  T  U   Etc

Download or read book The History of Slavery and Emancipation Speech Delivered by H T U Etc written by H. T. UTLEY and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas written by New York Public Library. Reference Dept and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas written by New York Public Library. Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Union There Is Strength

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Heath
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2019-02-15
  • ISBN : 0812251113
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book In Union There Is Strength written by Andrew Heath and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics of riot, disease, and labor conflict led some to wonder whether growth would lead to disintegration. As slavery and territorial conquest forced Americans to ponder a similar looming disunion at the national level, Philadelphians searched for ways to hold their city together across internal social and sectional divisions—a project of consolidation that reshaped their city into the boundaries we know today. A bold new interpretation of a crucial period in Philadelphia's history, In Union There Is Strength examines the social and spatial reconstruction of an American city in the decades on either side of the American Civil War. Andrew Heath follows Philadelphia's fortunes over the course of forty years as industrialization, immigration, and natural population growth turned a Jacksonian-era port with a population of two hundred thousand into a Gilded Age metropolis containing nearly a million people. Heath focuses on the utopian socialists, civic boosters, and municipal reformers who argued that the path to urban greatness lay in the harmonious consolidation of jarring interests rather than in the atomistic individualism we have often associated with the nineteenth-century metropolis. Their rival visions drew them into debates about the reach of local government, the design of urban space, the character of civic life, the power of corporations, and the relations between labor and capital—and ultimately became entangled with the question of national union itself. In tracing these links between city-making and nation-making in the mid-nineteenth century, In Union There Is Strength shows how its titular rallying cry inspired creative, contradictory, and fiercely contested ideas about how to design, build, and live in a metropolis.

Book The American Catalogue of Books  1861 1866     with Supplement  containing pamphlets  sermons  and addresses on the Civil War in the United States  1861 1866  and Appendix containing names of learned societies and     their publications  1861 1866

Download or read book The American Catalogue of Books 1861 1866 with Supplement containing pamphlets sermons and addresses on the Civil War in the United States 1861 1866 and Appendix containing names of learned societies and their publications 1861 1866 written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civil War Issues in Philadelphia  1856 1865

Download or read book Civil War Issues in Philadelphia 1856 1865 written by William Dusinberre and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia, before the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, was not simply a "Northern" city. Unlike proslavery Washington but also unlike antislavery Boston, Philadelphia lay in the "Northern border area," where mixed sympathies led to divided loyalties and to frequent convulsions over the great issues that preceded the war. In Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865, author William Dusinberre examines three traditional interpretations of the war and shows how each has to be modified to fit Philadelphia's experience. In Part I he portrays the fundamental Philadelphia attitudes as they appeared in 1856 and the two main controversies—the fugitive slave question and the territorial issue—as they developed until 1858. Part II is devoted to the John Brown affair and the secession crisis. Part III analyzes wartime issues: the treatment of dissenters, the Negro question, and the recruitment of short-term soldiers when Confederate armies approached Pennsylvania. From this investigation emerges a vivid portrait of the North's second greatest city and its leading citizens—racist sympathizers with the South, cautious conciliators, firm conservatives, unconstrained anti-Southerners, outnumbered idealists—contending with the crisis of the Civil War periods.

Book Sale

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1408 pages

Download or read book Sale written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mastering Wartime

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Matthew Gallman
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2000-09-12
  • ISBN : 9780812217445
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Mastering Wartime written by J. Matthew Gallman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering Wartime is the first comprehensive study of a Northern city during the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman argues that, although the war posed numerous challenges to Philadelphia's citizens, the city's institutions and traditions proved to be sufficiently resilient to adjust to the crisis without significant alteration. Following the wartime actions of individuals and groups-workers, women, entrepreneurs-he shows that while the war placed pressure on private and public organizations to centralize, Philadelphia's institutions remained largely decentralized and tradition bound. Gallman explores the war's impact on a wide range of aspects of life in Philadelphia. Among the issues addressed are recruitment and conscription of soldiers, individual responses to wartime separation and death, individual and institutional benevolence, civic rituals, crime and disorder, government contracting, and long-term economic development. The book compares the wartime years to the antebellum period and discusses the war's legacies in the postwar decade.

Book Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Mr  Richard W  Roche

Download or read book Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Mr Richard W Roche written by Richard W. Roche and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: