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Book Miscellaneous McPherson family papers

Download or read book Miscellaneous McPherson family papers written by W. S. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Miscellaneous McPherson Family Papers

Download or read book Miscellaneous McPherson Family Papers written by W.S Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Includes biographical sketch; fur trade packet; newsclipping re Norway House; record of births, marriages, and deaths in the McPherson family (1825-1846); and Royal Gazettes, no.31 and 40 (1850).

Book Scarlett s Sisters

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  • Author : Anya Jabour
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009-11-13
  • ISBN : 0807887641
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Scarlett s Sisters written by Anya Jabour and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women. Examining the lives of more than 300 girls and women between ages fifteen and twenty-five, Jabour traces the socialization of southern white ladies from early adolescence through young adulthood. Amidst the upheaval of the Civil War, Jabour shows, elite young women, once reluctant to challenge white supremacy and male dominance, became more rebellious. They adopted the ideology of Confederate independence in shaping a new model of southern womanhood that eschewed dependence on slave labor and male guidance. By tracing the lives of young white women in a society in flux, Jabour reveals how the South's old social order was maintained and a new one created as southern girls and young women learned, questioned, and ultimately changed what it meant to be a southern lady.

Book R W  Jones Family Papers

Download or read book R W Jones Family Papers written by Jones (Family and published by . This book was released on 187? with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hewes' archive of approximately 1,000 letters and archival materials for one of the most important orange ranches in southern California.

Book Miscellaneous Paper

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  • Author : Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Miscellaneous Paper written by Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forged in Battle

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  • Author : Joseph T. Glatthaar
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2000-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780807125601
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Forged in Battle written by Joseph T. Glatthaar and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen months after the start of the American Civil War, the Federal government, having vastly underestimated the length and manpower demands of the war, began to recruit black soldiers. This revolutionary policy gave 180,000 free blacks and former slaves the opportunity to prove themselves on the battlefield as part of the United States Colored Troops. By the end of the war, 37,000 in their ranks had given their lives for the cause of freedom. In Forged in Battle, originally published in 1990, award-winning historian Joseph T. Glatthaar re-creates the events that gave these troops and their 7,000 white officers justifiable pride in their contributions to the Union victory and hope of equality in the years to come. Unfortunately, as Glatthaar poignantly demonstrates, memory of the United States Colored Troops' heroic sacrifices soon faded behind the prejudice that would plague the armed forces for another century.

Book The War Was You and Me

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  • Author : Joan E. Cashin
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 0691218110
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book The War Was You and Me written by Joan E. Cashin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of the Civil War. That experience was inherently dramatic. Southerners lived through the breakup of basic social and economic institutions, including, of course, slavery. Northerners witnessed the reorganization of society to fight the war. And citizens of the border regions grappled with elemental questions of loyalty that reached into the family itself. These original essays--all commissioned from established scholars, based on archival research, and written for a wide readership--recover the stories of civilians from Natchez to New England. They address the experiences of men, women, and children; of whites, slaves, and free blacks; and of civilians from numerous classes. Not least of these stories are the on-the-ground experiences of slaves seeking emancipation and the actions of white Northerners who resisted the draft. Many of the authors present brand new material, such as the war's effect on the sounds of daily life and on reading culture. Others examine the war's premiere events, including the battle of Gettysburg and the Lincoln assassination, from fresh perspectives. Several consider the passionate debate that broke out over how to remember the war, a debate that has persisted into our own time. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Peter W. Bardaglio, William Blair, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Margaret S. Creighton, J. Matthew Gallman, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Anthony E. Kaye, Robert Kenzer, Elizabeth D. Leonard, Amy E. Murrell, George C. Rable, Nina Silber, Mark M. Smith, Mary Saracino Zboray, and Ronald J. Zboray. Together they describe the profound transformations in community relations, gender roles, race relations, and culture wrought by the central event in American history.

Book While God is Marching on

Download or read book While God is Marching on written by Steven E. Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Civil War not only pitted brother against brother but Christian against Christian. This is a study of soldiers' religious beliefs and how they influenced the course of that tragic conflict. It shows how Christian teaching and practice shaped the worldview of soldiers on both sides.

Book A Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives  1789 1987

Download or read book A Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives 1789 1987 written by Cynthia Pease Miller and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nothing but Victory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven E. Woodworth
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2007-12-18
  • ISBN : 0307427064
  • Pages : 943 pages

Download or read book Nothing but Victory written by Steven E. Woodworth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched directly into the heart of the Confederacy and won major victories at Shiloh and at the rebel strongholds of Vicksburg and Atlanta.Acclaimed historian Steven Woodworth has produced the first full consideration of this remarkable unit that has received less prestige than the famed Army of the Potomac but was responsible for the decisive victories that turned the tide of war toward the Union. The Army of the Tennessee also shaped the fortunes and futures of both Grant and Sherman, liberating them from civilian life and catapulting them onto the national stage as their triumphs grew. A thrilling account of how a cohesive fighting force is forged by the heat of battle and how a confidence born of repeated success could lead soldiers to expect “nothing but victory.”

Book Free Soil  Free Labor  Free Men

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  • Author : Eric Foner
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1995-04-20
  • ISBN : 0199879982
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Free Soil Free Labor Free Men written by Eric Foner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new introduction, Eric Foner puts his argument into the context of contemporary scholarship, reassessing the concept of free labor in the light of the last twenty-five years of writing on such issues as work, gender, economic change, and political thought. A significant reevaluation of the causes of the Civil War, Foner's study looks beyond the North's opposition to slavery and its emphasis upon preserving the Union to determine the broader grounds of its willingness to undertake a war against the South in 1861. Its search is for those social concepts the North accepted as vital to its way of life, finding these concepts most clearly expressed in the ideology of the growing Republican party in the decade before the war's start. Through a careful analysis of the attitudes of leading factions in the party's formation (northern Whigs, former Democrats, and political abolitionists) Foner is able to show what each contributed to Republican ideology. He also shows how northern ideas of human rights--in particular a man's right to work where and how he wanted, and to accumulate property in his own name--and the goals of American society were implicit in that ideology. This was the ideology that permeated the North in the period directly before the Civil War, led to the election of Abraham Lincoln, and led, almost immediately, to the Civil War itself. At the heart of the controversy over the extension of slavery, he argues, is the issue of whether the northern or southern form of society would take root in the West, whose development would determine the nation's destiny. In his new introductory essay, Foner presents a greatly altered view of the subject. Only entrepreneurs and farmers were actually "free men" in the sense used in the ideology of the period. Actually, by the time the Civil War was initiated, half the workers in the North were wage-earners, not independent workers. And this did not account for women and blacks, who had little freedom in choosing what work they did. He goes onto show that even after the Civil War these guarantees for "free soil, free labor, free men" did not really apply for most Americans, and especially not for blacks. Demonstrating the profoundly successful fusion of value and interest within Republican ideology prior to the Civil War, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men remains a classic of modern American historical writing. Eloquent and influential, it shows how this ideology provided the moral consensus which allowed the North, for the first time in history, to mobilize an entire society in modern warfare.

Book Miscellaneous Papers

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  • Author : Gentry family
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Miscellaneous Papers written by Gentry family and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Download or read book Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin written by State Historical Society of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Southern Historical Collection

Download or read book The Southern Historical Collection written by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A still useful, well-annotated guide to the collection as it was in 1970. This is a guide to the over 5,000,000 documents in The Southern Historical Collection located in the University Of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill.

Book The Free State of Jones

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  • Author : Victoria E. Bynum
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2003-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780807854679
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The Free State of Jones written by Victoria E. Bynum and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across a century, Victoria Bynum reinterprets the cultural, social, and political meaning of Mississippi's longest civil war, waged in the Free State of Jones, the southeastern Mississippi county that was home to a Unionist stronghold during the Civil War and home to a large and complex mixed-race community in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Book Gleanings of Freedom

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  • Author : Max Grivno
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2011-12-05
  • ISBN : 0252093569
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Gleanings of Freedom written by Max Grivno and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason–Dixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, Max Grivno reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.