Download or read book Wendell Phillips Social Justice and the Power of the Past written by A J Aiséirithe and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into an elite Boston family and a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, white Massachusetts aristocrat Wendell Phillips’s path seemed clear. Yet he rejected his family’s and society’s expectations and gave away most of his great wealth by the time of his death in 1884. Instead he embraced the most incendiary causes of his era and became a radical advocate for abolitionism and reform. Only William Lloyd Garrison rivaled Phillips’s importance to the antislavery and reform movements, and no one equaled his eloquence or intellectual depth. His presence on the lecture circuit brought him great celebrity both in America and in Europe and helped ensure that his reputation as an advocate for social justice extended for generations after his death. In Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past, the world’s leading Phillips scholars explore the themes and ideas that animated this activist and his colleagues. These essays shed new light on the reform movement after the Civil War, especially regarding Phillips’s sustained role in Native American rights and the labor movement, subjects largely neglected by contemporary historical literature. In this collection, Phillips’s views on matters related to race, ethnicity, gender, and class serve as a lens through which the contributors examine crucial social justice questions that remain powerful to this day. Tackling a range of subjects that emerged during Phillips’s career, from the effectiveness of agitation, the dilemmas of democratic politics, and antislavery constitutional theory, to religion, violence, interracial friendships, women’s rights, Native American rights, labor rights, and historical memory, these essays offer a portrait of a man whose deep sense of fairness and justice shaped the course of American history.
Download or read book Speeches Lectures and Letters written by Wendell Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rebellion Record written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rebellion Record Supp 1861 64 written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speeches Lectures and Letters written by Wendell Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speeches Lectures written by Wendell Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United States of the United Races written by Greg Carter and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barack Obama’s historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, The United States of the United Races reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. In this genealogy, Greg Carter re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America. Tracing the centuries-long conversation that began with Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s Letters of an American Farmer in the 1780s through to the Mulitracial Movement of the 1990s and the debates surrounding racial categories on the U.S. Census in the twenty-first century, Greg Carter explores a broad range of documents and moments, unearthing a new narrative that locates hope in racial mixture. Carter traces the reception of the concept as it has evolved over the years, from and decade to decade and century to century, wherein even minor changes in individual attitudes have paved the way for major changes in public response. The United States of the United Races sweeps away an ugly element of U.S. history, replacing it with a new understanding of race in America.
Download or read book Why the Civil War Came written by Gabor S. Boritt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Since that fateful day, the debate over the causes of the American Civil War has never ceased. What events were instrumental in bringing it about? How did individuals and institutions function? What did Northerners and Southerners believe in the decades of strife preceding the war? What steps did they take to avoid war? Indeed, was the great armed conflict avoidable at all? Why the Civil War Came brings a talented chorus of voices together to recapture the feel of a very different time and place, helping the reader to grasp more fully the commencement of our bloodiest war. From William W. Freehling's discussion of the peculiarities of North American slavery to Charles Royster's disturbing piece on the combatants' savage readiness to fight, the contributors bring to life the climate of a country on the brink of disaster. Mark Summers, for instance, depicts the tragically jubilant first weeks of Northern recruitment, when Americans on both sides were as yet unaware of the hellish slaughter that awaited them. Glenna Matthews underscores the important war-catalyzing role played by extraordinary public women, who proved that neither side of the Mason-Dixon line was as patriarchal as is thought. David Blight reveals an African-American world that "knew what time it was," and welcomed war. And Gabor Boritt examines the struggle's central figure, Lincoln himself, illuminating in the years leading up to the war a blindness on the future president's part, an unwillingness to confront the looming calamity that was about to smash the nation asunder. William E. Gienapp notes perhaps the most unsettling fact about the Civil War, that democratic institutions could not resolve the slavery issue without resorting to violence on an epic scale. With gripping detail, Why the Civil War Came takes readers back to a country fraught with bitterness, confusion, and hatred--a country ripe for a war of unprecedented bloodshed--to show why democracy failed, and violence reigned.
Download or read book We Are the Revolutionists written by Mischa Honeck and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking “Forty-Eighters,” refugees of the failed European revolutions of 1848–49, fueled apprehensions about the nation’s future. Reaching America did not end the foreign revolutionaries’ pursuit of freedom; it merely transplanted it. In We Are the Revolutionists, Mischa Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of these exiled democrats by probing their relationship to another group of beleaguered agitators: America’s abolitionists. Honeck details how individuals from both camps joined forces in the long, dangerous battle to overthrow slavery. In Texas and in cities like Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Boston this cooperation helped them find new sources of belonging in an Atlantic world unsettled by massive migration and revolutionary unrest. Employing previously untapped sources to write the experience of radical German émigrés into the abolitionist struggle, Honeck elucidates how these interethnic encounters affected conversations over slavery and emancipation in the United States and abroad. Forty-Eighters and abolitionists, Honeck argues, made creative use not only of their partnerships but also of their disagreements to redefine notions of freedom, equality, and humanity in a transatlantic age of racial construction and nation making.
Download or read book Crown of Thorns written by Eyal J. Naveh and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naveh (American history, Tel Aviv U.) applies a religious concept of martyrdom to the context of American political culture and examines the ways in which Americans have depicted certain individuals as national martyrs. She argues that only Martin Luther King Jr. among modern leaders has the potential to turn into a national martyr legend like John Brown or Abraham Lincoln. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book United States from the Discovery of the North American Continent to the Present Time written by Julian Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Gregarious Saints written by Lawrence J. Friedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-05-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Friedman studies the abolition movement through individuals and groups in the USA.
Download or read book History of the United States of America written by James Schouler and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Evening Post A Century of Journalism written by Allan Nevins and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism' by Allan Nevins, readers are taken on a detailed journey through the history and evolution of one of the most significant newspapers in American journalism. Nevins employs a scholarly approach, combining meticulous research with engaging storytelling to provide a comprehensive account of The Evening Post's impact on shaping public opinion and politics throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Through analyzing the newspaper's editorial decisions and reporting style, Nevins sheds light on how journalism functioned as both a mirror and a shaper of society during this pivotal period in American history. Allan Nevins, a distinguished historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, brings his expertise in American history to bear in this insightful study of The Evening Post. His in-depth knowledge of the subject matter, as well as his ability to contextualize the newspaper within the broader historical landscape, make this book a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of media and politics in America. Nevins's passion for telling the untold stories of the past shines through in this meticulously researched work. For readers fascinated by the history of journalism and its role in shaping public discourse, 'The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism' is a valuable and enlightening read. Nevins's immersive writing style and thorough exploration of his subject make this book a captivating journey into the annals of American media history.
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