Letters of the Houston Family, 1851-1938
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Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fincastle Presbyterian Church (Fincastle, Va.) |
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Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fincastle Presbyterian Church (Fincastle, Va.) |
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Author | : Angela Esco Elder |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2022-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469667754 |
Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials—as well as songs, literary works, and material objects like mourning gowns—to explore white Confederate widows' stories, examining the records of their courtships, marriages, loves, and losses to understand their complicated relationship with the Confederate state. Elder shows how, in losing their husbands, many women acquired significant cultural capital, which positioned them as unlikely actors to gain political influence. Confederate officialdom championed a particular image of white widowhood—the young wife who selflessly transferred her monogamous love from her dead husband to the deathless cause for which he'd fought. But a closer look reveals that these women spent their new cultural capital with great shrewdness and variety. Not only were they aware of the social status gained in widowhood; they also used that status on their own terms, turning mourning into a highly politicized act amid the battle to establish the Confederacy's legitimacy. Death forced all Confederate widows to reconstruct their lives, but only some would choose to play a role in reconstructing the nation.
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Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : Jefferson Davis |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1971-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807109434 |
Much of Jefferson Davis' life and career has been obscured in controversy and misinterpretation. This full, carefully annotated edition will make it possible for scholars to reassess the man who served as President of the Confederacy and who in the aftermath of war became the symbolic leader of the South. For almost a decade a dedicated team of scholars has been collecting and documenting Davis' papers and correspondence for this multi-volume work. The first volume includes not only Davis' private and public correspondence but also the important letters and documents addressed to and concerning him. Two autobiographical accounts, a detailed genealogy of the Davis family, and a complete bibliography are also included. This volume covers Davis' early years in Mississippi and Kentucky, his career at West Point, his first military assignments, and his tragic marriage to Sarah Knox Taylor. Together, the letters and documents unfold a human story of the first thirty-two years of a long life that later became filled with turbulence and controversy.
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
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Author | : University of Texas. Library. Archives Collection |
Publisher | : Austin : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Texas |
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The University of Texas Archives; a guide to the historical manuscripts collections in the University of Texas library. Compiled and edited by Chester V. Kielman. Preface by Dora Dieterich Bonham.
Author | : Louise Littleton Davis |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1999-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781455609208 |
"Another series of fascinating stories. . . . It is flavorful history, well researched." - Tennessee Historical Quarterly "A welcome addition to the folklore of our region. . . .These vignettes about Nashville's early times, chock full of fascinating lore, are written in a readable style." - Nashville Banner "This book should be in the library of anyone who is interested in the history of Nashville." - The Tennessean In Nashville Tales, her third volume of Tennessee historical tales, the author tracks those bold early adventurers who were bent on seeking personal fame and fortune. These courageous, and often flamboyant, individuals carved the modern state along their way. Nashville, the capital of the Volunteer State, has produced its share of adventurers, fortune seekers, builders, and statesmen whose influence still endures today.
Author | : Terry Corps |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2009-07-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0810870169 |
The brief period from 1829 to 1849 was one of the most important in American history. During just two decades, the American government was strengthened, the political system consolidated, and the economy diversified. All the while literature and the arts, the press and philanthropy, urbanization, and religious revivalism sparked other changes. The belief in Manifest Destiny simultaneously caused expansion across the continent and the wretched treatment of the Native Americans, while arguments over slavery slowly tore a rift in the country as sectional divisions grew and a national crisis became almost inevitable. The A to Z of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny takes a close look at these sensitive years. Through a chronology that traces events year-by-year and sometimes even month-by-month actions are clearly delineated. The introduction summarizes the major trends of the epoch and the four administrations therein. The details are then supplied in several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, and the bibliography concludes this essential tool for anyone interested in history.
Author | : Emily Anne Croom |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009-12 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780806317878 |
Originally published: Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2000.
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Total Pages | : 1080 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Union |
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