Author: H. Niles,EditorPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Niles' Weekly Register from March to September,1822-VOL.XXII or Volume X-New Series
Author: H. Niles,EditorNiles' Weekly Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Containing political, historical, geographical, scientifical, statistical, economical, and biographical documents, essays and facts: together with notices of the arts and manu factures, and a record of the events of the times.
Niles' Weekly Register ...
Author: Hezekiah NilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The First American Political Conventions
Author: Stan M. HaynesPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786490306
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
For almost two centuries, Americans have relied upon political conventions to provide the nation with new leadership. The modern convention, a four-day, carefully choreographed, prime-time television event designed to portray the party and its candidate in the most favorable light, continues many of the traditions and rules developed during the first conventions in the mid-19th century. This study analyzes the birth of the convention process in the 1830s and follows its development over 40 years, chronicling each of the presidential elections between 1832 and 1872, the leading candidates, and an analysis of the key issues, and memorable speeches and events on the convention floor. Other topics include back-room deal making, "dark horse" candidacies, meeting halls, parades, rallies, and other accompanying hoopla. This volume reveals the origins of a quintessentially American spectacle and sheds new light on an understudied aspect of the nation's political past.
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Author: Niles' National Register
Author: Hezekiah NilesNat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Author: Herbert ApthekerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486137309
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
First full-length study of the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history explores the nature of Southern society in the early 19th century and the conditions that led to the rebellion. The inspiration for the acclaimed 2016 movie Birth of a Nation.
The History of New England: New England in the Republic, 1776-1850
Author: James Truslow AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The History of New England
Author: James Truslow AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Black Hawk
Author: Kerry A. TraskPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466860928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A stirring retelling of the Black Hawk War that brings into dramatic focus the forces struggling for control over the American frontier Until 1822, when John Jacob Aster swallowed up the fur trade and the trading posts of the upper Mississippi were closed, the 6,000-strong Sauk Nation occupied one of North America's largest and most prosperous Indian settlements. Its spacious longhouse lodges and council-house squares, supported by hundreds of acres of planted fields, were the envy of white Americans who had already begun to encroach upon the rich Indian land that served as the center of the Sauk's spiritual world. When the inevitable conflicts between natives and white squatters turned violent, Black Hawk's Sauks were forced into exile, banished forever from the east side of the Mississippi River. Longing for what their culture had been, Black Hawk and his followers, including 700 warriors, rose up in a rage in the spring of 1832, and defiantly crossed the Mississippi from Iowa to Illinois in order to reclaim their ancestral home. Though the war lasted only three months, no other violent encounter between white America and native peoples embodies so clearly the essence of the Republic's inner conflict between its belief in freedom and human rights and its insatiable appetite for new territory. Kerry A. Trask gives new and vivid life to the heroic efforts of Black Hawk and his men, illuminating the tragic history of frontier America through the eyes of those who were cast aside in the pursuit of the new nation's manifest destiny.