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Book Political and Social Essays

Download or read book Political and Social Essays written by Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes her essays on slavery, secession, women's role, and political economy, fully annotated, along with an Introduction by Michael O'Brien, Chair of the Editorial Board of the Southern Texts Society.

Book Slavery and the Commerce Power

Download or read book Slavery and the Commerce Power written by David L. Lightner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States in 1940. This lively and readable book tells the comprehensive story of his life and work in America, his politics and personality, and how he came to influence not only Jewish debate but also wider religious and cultural debates in the postwar decades. A worthy sequel to his widely-praised biography of Heschel's early years, Edward Kaplan's new volume draws on previously unseen archives, FBI files, interviews with people who knew Heschel, and analyses of his extensive writings. Kaplan explores Heschel's shy and private side, his spiritual radicalism, and his vehement defence of the Hebrew prophets' ideal of absolute integrity and truth in ethical and political life. Of special interest are Heschel's interfaith activities, including a secret meeting with Pope Paul VI during Vatican II, his commitment to civil rights with Martin Luther King, Jr., his views on the state of Israel, and his opposition to the Vietnam War. A tireless challenger to spiritual and religious complacency, Heschel stands as a dramatically important witness.

Book The Journal of Southern History

Download or read book The Journal of Southern History written by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews."

Book Letters  Collected and Edited by Mary C  Simms Oliphant

Download or read book Letters Collected and Edited by Mary C Simms Oliphant written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Gilmore Simms
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1954
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book Letters written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of Tennessee Imprints  1793 1840  in Tennessee Libraries

Download or read book List of Tennessee Imprints 1793 1840 in Tennessee Libraries written by Tennessee Historical Records Survey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slavery and the American West

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  • Author : Michael A. Morrison
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2000-11-15
  • ISBN : 0807864323
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book Slavery and the American West written by Michael A. Morrison and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.

Book Bibliography of the Official Publications of Louisiana  1803 1934

Download or read book Bibliography of the Official Publications of Louisiana 1803 1934 written by Tennessee Historical Records Survey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slavery  a Bibliography and Union List of the Microform Collection

Download or read book Slavery a Bibliography and Union List of the Microform Collection written by Microfilming Corporation of America and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Road to Disunion

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  • Author : William W. Freehling
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1991-12-05
  • ISBN : 0199840326
  • Pages : 655 pages

Download or read book The Road to Disunion written by William W. Freehling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-12-05 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, where the egalitarian spirit sweeping the North seeped down through border states already uncertain about slavery, where even sections of the same state (for instance, coastal and mountain Virginia) divided bitterly on key issues. It was the world of Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson, and also of Gullah Jack, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass. Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunion, historian William Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading to secession are here: the Missouri Compromise, the Nullification Controversy, the Gag Rule ("the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy"), the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Freehling vividly recounts each crisis, illuminating complex issues and sketching colorful portraits of major figures. Along the way, he reveals the surprising extent to which slavery influenced national politics before 1850, and he provides important reinterpretations of American republicanism, Jeffersonian states' rights, Jacksonian democracy, and the causes of the American Civil War. But for all Freehling's brilliant insight into American antebellum politics, Secessionists at Bay is at bottom the saga of the rich social tapestry of the pre-war South. He takes us to old Charleston, Natchez, and Nashville, to the big house of a typical plantation, and we feel anew the tensions between the slaveowner and his family, the poor whites and the planters, the established South and the newer South, and especially between the slave and his master, "Cuffee" and "Massa." Freehling brings the Old South back to life in all its color, cruelty, and diversity. It is a memorable portrait, certain to be a key analysis of this crucial era in American history.

Book Shifting Grounds

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  • Author : Paul Quigley
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199376476
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Shifting Grounds written by Paul Quigley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Civil War brought with it a crisis of nationalism. This text reinterprets southern conceptions of allegiance, identity, and citizenship within the contexts of antebellum American national identity and the transatlantic 'Age of Nationalism.'

Book Off 83 Pgt Old Bks

Download or read book Off 83 Pgt Old Bks written by House of Collectibles and published by . This book was released on 1983-04 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civil War

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  • Author : Louis P. Masur
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2011-02-10
  • ISBN : 0199792399
  • Pages : 135 pages

Download or read book The Civil War written by Louis P. Masur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic effects. Masur begins by examining the complex origins of the war, focusing on the pulsating tensions over states rights and slavery. The book then proceeds to cover, year by year, the major political, social, and military events, highlighting two important themes: how the war shifted from a limited conflict to restore the Union to an all-out war that would fundamentally transform Southern society, and the process by which the war ultimately became a battle to abolish slavery. Masur explains how the war turned what had been a loose collection of fiercely independent states into a nation, remaking its political, cultural, and social institutions. But he also focuses on the soldiers themselves, both Union and Confederate, whose stories constitute nothing less than America's Iliad. In the final chapter Masur considers the aftermath of the South's surrender at Appomattox and the clash over the policies of reconstruction that continued to divide President and Congress, conservatives and radicals, Southerners and Northerners for years to come. In 1873, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley wrote that the war had "wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations." From the vantage of the war's sesquicentennial, this concise history of the entire Civil War era offers an invaluable introduction to the dramatic events whose effects are still felt today.

Book All for Liberty

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  • Author : Jeff Strickland
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-12-16
  • ISBN : 1108492592
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book All for Liberty written by Jeff Strickland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Nicholas Kelly, an enslaved man who gave his life for liberty leading the Charleston workhouse slave rebellion.

Book The Official Price Guide to Old Books   Autographs

Download or read book The Official Price Guide to Old Books Autographs written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: