American Life from Civil War to the Present
Author | : John Henry Cary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : John Henry Cary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : John Henry Cary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : John Henry Cary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Thomas L. Hartshorne |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780321333810 |
This anthology of readings portrays the lives of ordinary Americans and examines the diversity of the American people, from the earliest settlement of America to Reconstruction.
Author | : Alice Fahs |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2005-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807875813 |
The Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life. This volume collects twelve essays by leading Civil War scholars who demonstrate how the meanings of the Civil War have changed over time. The essays move among a variety of cultural and political arenas--from public monuments to parades to political campaigns; from soldiers' memoirs to textbook publishing to children's literature--in order to reveal important changes in how the memory of the Civil War has been employed in American life. Setting the politics of Civil War memory within a wide social and cultural landscape, this volume recovers not only the meanings of the war in various eras, but also the specific processes by which those meanings have been created. By recounting the battles over the memory of the war during the last 140 years, the contributors offer important insights about our identities as individuals and as a nation. Contributors: David W. Blight, Yale University Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina Alice Fahs, University of California, Irvine Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia J. Matthew Gallman, University of Florida Patrick J. Kelly, University of Texas, San Antonio Stuart McConnell, Pitzer College James M. McPherson, Princeton University Joan Waugh, University of California, Los Angeles LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri Jon Wiener, University of California, Irvine
Author | : Julius Weinberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : John Henry Cary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Drew Gilpin Faust |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2009-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0375703837 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author | : John N. Cary |
Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Mary Lethert Wingerd |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816648689 |
In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.-Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota--the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota. In North Country: The Making of Minnesota, Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state--origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant, largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the two parties, this racially hybridized society was a meeting point for cultural and economic exchange until the western expansion of American capitalism and violation of treaties by the U.S. government during the 1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls Minnesota's Civil War. A cornerstone text in the chronicle of Minnesota's history, Wingerd's narrative is augmented by more than 170 illustrations chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard in comprehensive captions that depict the fascinating, often haunting representations of the region and its inhabitants over two and a half centuries. North Country is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it, at one time or another, home.