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Download or read book Webster s Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement 1850 written by Herbert Darling Foster and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Darling Foster's book, 'Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850,' delves into the historical context and significance of Daniel Webster's famed speech, analyzing its impact on the secession movement during a tumultuous time in American history. Foster's scholarly approach explores the intricacies of Webster's rhetoric and the political climate of the 1850s, offering a detailed examination of how one speech could influence a nation on the brink of division. Through meticulous research and insightful commentary, Foster presents a compelling study that sheds light on the complexities of this crucial moment in American politics. Herbert Darling Foster, a renowned historian and expert on 19th-century American history, brings his expertise to this thorough analysis of Webster's pivotal speech and its role in shaping the course of the secession movement. Readers with an interest in American history, political rhetoric, and the lead-up to the Civil War will find Foster's book to be a valuable and thought-provoking read that offers new insights into a critical chapter in the nation's past.
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Download or read book The World Rushed In written by J. S. Holliday and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.
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