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Language
English
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"A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 330 pages : illustrations (black-&-white), facsimiles, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman--a prophet, a printer, and a 'Contessa'--and how its breakup led to the success of America's most important social movement. In the crucial early years of the abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves' freedom. Journalist...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxii, 251 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how the Great Emancipator used the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in our country's most divisive era"--
Jonathan White illuminates why Lincolns unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A scholar uncovers Lincoln's strategy for abolishing slavery in this groundbreaking history of the sectional crisis and Civil War. Some celebrate Lincoln for freeing the slaves; others fault him for a long-standing conservatism on abolition and race. James Oakes gives us another option in this brilliant exploration of Lincoln and the end of slavery. Through the unforeseen challenges of the Civil War crisis, Lincoln and the Republican party adhered...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
1400L
Physical Desc
369 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe. Although Missouri was allowed to join the union with slavery, the compromise in fact closed off nearly all remaining federal territories to slavery. When Congressman...
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Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
vii, 168 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Self-Evident Lie explores and underscores the fear and complex meaning of "slavery" to northerners before the Civil War. Many northerners asked: If slavery was the beneficent and paternalistic institution that southerners claimed, could it not be applied with equal morality to whites as well as blacks? Republicans repeatedly expressed concern that proslavery arguments were not inherently racial. Irrespective of race, anyone could fall victim to...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners' national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. Although Southern...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 168 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
How partisan politics lead to the Civil War
What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession and war did not arise from two irreconcilable economies any more than from moral objections to slavery. Short-sighted politicians were to blame. Rarely looking...
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In Northern Men with Southern Loyalties, Michael Todd Landis forcefully contends that a full understanding of the Civil War and its causes is impossible without a careful examination of Northern Democrats and their proslavery sentiments and activities. He focuses on a variety of key Democratic politicians, such as Stephen Douglas, William Marcy, and Jesse Bright, to unravel the puzzle of Northern Democratic politcal allegiance to the South. As congressmen,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xii, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. Mason demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and in fact there was never a time between the Revolution and the Civil War in which slavery went uncontested. The American Revolution set in motion the split between...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
264 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's election as the first antislavery president was hardly preordained. From the country's inception, Americans had struggled to define slavery's relationship to freedom. Most Northerners supported abolition in the North but condoned slavery in the South, while most Southerners...
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Steven Hahn's provocative new book challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from slave emancipations of the eighteenth century through slave activity during the Civil War and on to the black power movements of the twentieth century, he asks us to rethink African-American history and politics in bolder, more dynamic terms."--Jacket
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan E. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation.