Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Catalogue of the New York State Library: 1861
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Catalogue of the New York State Library : 1861. General Library: First Supplement
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Catalogue of the New York State Library ...
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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Catalogue of the New York State Library: 1855--Catalogue of the New York State Library: 1861
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
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Catalogue of the New-York State Library
Author: New York State Library (Albany).Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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The Democratic Machine, 1850-1854
Author: Roy Franklin NicholsPublisher: New York : Columbia University
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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A Secret Society History of the Civil War
Author: Mark A. LausePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, Mark A. Lause analyzes how the Old World's traditions influenced various underground groups and movements in America, particularly George Lippard's Brotherhood of the Union, an American attempt to replicate the political secret societies that influenced the European revolutions of 1848. Lause traces the Brotherhood's various manifestations, the most conspicuous being the Knights of the Golden Circle (out of which developed the Ku Klux Klan), and the Confederate secret groups through which John Wilkes Booth and others attempted to undermine the Union. Lause profiles the key leaders of these organizations, with special focus on George Lippard, Hugh Forbes, and George Washington Lafayette Bickley. Antebellum secret societies ranged politically from those with progressive or even revolutionary agendas to those that pursued conservative or oppressive goals. This book shows how, in the years leading up to the Civil War, these clandestine organizations exacerbated existing sectional tensions in the United States. Lause's research indicates that the pervasive influence of secret societies may have played a part in key events such as the Freesoil movement, the beginning of the Republican party, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Lincoln's election, and the Southern secession process of 1860-1861. This exceptional study encompasses both white and African American secret society involvement, revealing the black fraternal experience in antebellum America as well as the clandestine operations that provided assistance to escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad. Unraveling these pervasive and extensive networks of power and influence, A Secret Society History of the Civil War demonstrates that antebellum secret societies played a greater role in affecting Civil War-era politics than has been previously acknowledged.
The Stormy Present
Author: Adam I. P. SmithPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats to consider the everyday conservatism that characterized the majority of Northern voters. A sense of ongoing crisis in these Northern states created anxiety and instability, which manifested in a range of social and political tensions in individual communities. In the face of such realities, Smith argues that a conservative impulse was more than just a historical or nostalgic tendency; it was fundamental to charting a path to the future. At stake for Northerners was their conception of the Union as the vanguard in a global struggle between democracy and despotism, and their ability to navigate their freedoms through the stormy waters of modernity. As a result, the language of conservatism was peculiarly, and revealingly, prominent in Northern politics during these years. The story this book tells is of conservative people coming, in the end, to accept radical change.
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