Author: John Edward SemmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
John H. B. Latrobe and His Times, 1803-1891
Author: John Edward SemmesJohn H. B. Latrobe and His Times, 1803-1891
Author: John Edward SemmesAndrew Jackson Donelson
Author: Richard Douglas SpencePublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826504000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
This richly detailed biography of Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) sheds new light on the political and personal life of this nephew and namesake of Andrew Jackson. A scion of a pioneering Tennessee family, Donelson was a valued assistant and trusted confidant of the man who defined the Age of Jackson. One of those central but background figures of history, Donelson had a knack for being where important events were happening and knew many of the great figures of the age. As his uncle's secretary, he weathered Old Hickory's tumultuous presidency, including the notorious "Petticoat War." Building his own political career, he served as US chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas, where he struggled against an enigmatic President Sam Houston, British and French intrigues, and the threat of war by Mexico, to achieve annexation. As minister to Prussia, Donelson enjoyed a ringside seat to the revolutions of 1848 and the first attempts at German unification. A firm Unionist in the mold of his uncle, Donelson denounced the secessionists at the Nashville Convention of 1850. He attempted as editor of the Washington Union to reunite the Democratic party, and, when he failed, he was nominated as Millard Fillmore's vice-presidential running mate on the Know-Nothing party ticket in 1856. He lived to see the Civil War wreck the Union he loved, devastate his farms, and take the lives of two of his sons.
John Pendleton Kennedy
Author: Andrew R. BlackPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807162957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
John Pendleton Kennedy (1795--1870) achieved a multidimensional career as a successful novelist, historian, and politician. He published widely and represented his district in the Maryland legislature before being elected to Congress several times and serving as secretary of the navy during the Fillmore administration. He devoted much of his life to the American Whig party and campaigned zealously for Henry Clay during his multiple runs for president. His friends in literary circles included Charles Dickens, Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. According to biographer Andrew Black, scholars from various fields have never completely captured this broadly talented antebellum figure, with literary critics ignoring Kennedy's political work, historians overlooking his literary achievements, and neither exploring their close interrelationship. In fact, Black argues, literature and politics were inseparable for Kennedy, as his literary productions were infused with the principles and beliefs that coalesced into the Whig party in the 1830s and led to its victory over Jacksonian Democrats the following decade. Black's comprehensive biography amends this fractured scholarship, employing Kennedy's published work and other writing to investigate the culture of the Whig party itself. Using Kennedy's best-known novel, the enigmatic Swallow Barn, or, A Sojourn in the Old Dominion (1832), Black illustrates how the author grappled unsuccessfully with race and slavery. The novel's unstable narrative and dissonant content reflect the fatal indecisiveness both of its author and his party in dealing with these volatile issues. Black further argues that it was precisely this failure that caused the political collapse of the Whigs and paved the way for the Civil War.
The Choctaws in Oklahoma
Author: Clara Sue KidwellPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806140063
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Choctaws in Oklahoma begins with the Choctaws' removal from Mississippi to Indian Territory in the 1830s and then traces the history of the tribe's subsequent efforts to retain and expand its rights and to reassert tribal sovereignty in the late twentieth century. This book illustrates the Choctaws' remarkable success in asserting their sovereignty and establishing a national identity in the face of seemingly insurmountable legal obstacles.
The American Historical Review
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
A History of the United States
Author: Edward ChanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Strange History of the American Quadroon
Author: Emily ClarkPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
A History of the United States: The period of transition, 1815-1848
Author: Edward ChanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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