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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Prologue to Conflict
Author: Holman HamiltonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813158311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The crisis facing the United States in 1850 was a dramatic prologue to the conflict that came a decade later. The rapid opening of western lands demanded the speedy establishment of local civil administration for these vast regions. Outraged partisans, however, cried of coercion: Southerners saw a threat to the precarious sectional balance, and Northerners feared an extension of slavery. In this definitive study, Holman Hamilton analyzes the complex events of the anxious months from December, 1849, when the Senate debates began, until September, 1850, when Congress passed the measures.
History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Author: Joseph Kelly TurnerPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress
Author: Donald C. BaconA History of Lake County, Illinois
Author: John J. HalseyPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848
Author: William M. WiecekPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501726455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
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The Burnham Family; Or, Genealogical Records of the Descendants of the Four Emigrants of the Name, who Were Among the Early Settlers in America
Author: Roderick Henry BURNHAMPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Negro Trail Blazers of California
Author: Delilah Leontium BeasleyPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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This Mighty Scourge
Author: James M. McPhersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199830959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom and the New York Times bestsellers Crossroads of Freedom and Tried by War, among many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history. McPherson sheds light on topics large and small, from the average soldier's avid love of newspapers to the postwar creation of the mystique of a Lost Cause in the South. Readers will find insightful pieces on such intriguing figures as Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Jesse James, and William Tecumseh Sherman, and on such vital issues as Confederate military strategy, the failure of peace negotiations to end the war, and the realities and myths of the Confederacy. This Mighty Scourge includes several never-before-published essays--pieces on General Robert E. Lee's goals in the Gettysburg campaign, on Lincoln and Grant in the Vicksburg campaign, and on Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. All of the essays have been updated and revised to give the volume greater thematic coherence and continuity, so that it can be read in sequence as an interpretive history of the war and its meaning for America and the world. Combining the finest scholarship with luminous prose, and packed with new information and fresh ideas, this book brings together the most recent thinking by the nation's leading authority on the Civil War.
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