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Author : James Knox Polk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Letters of James K. Polk to Andrew J. Donelson, 1843-1848 written by James Knox Polk and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Knox Polk
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499470
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Correspondence of James K. Polk written by James Knox Polk and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 13 Michael David Cohen, editor ; Bradley J. Nichols, editorial assistant.
Author : Paul Kahan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612348475
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Amiable Scoundrel written by Paul Kahan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln's secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799-1889) was one of the nineteenth century's most prominent political figures. In his wake, however, he left a series of questionable political and business dealings and, at the age of eighty, even a sex scandal. Far more than a biography of Cameron, Amiable Scoundrel is also a portrait of an era that allowed--indeed, encouraged--a man such as Cameron to seize political control. The political changes of the early nineteenth century enabled him not only to improve his status but also to exert real political authority. The changes caused by the Civil War, in turn, allowed Cameron to consolidate his political authority into a successful, well-oiled political machine. A key figure in designing and implementing the Union's military strategy during the Civil War's crucial first year, Cameron played an essential role in pushing Abraham Lincoln to permit the enlistment of African Americans into the U.S. Army, a stance that eventually led to his forced resignation. Yet his legacy has languished, nearly forgotten save for the fact that his name has become shorthand for corruption, even though no evidence has ever been presented to prove that Cameron was corrupt. Amiable Scoundrel puts Cameron's actions into a larger historical context by demonstrating that many politicians of the time, including Abraham Lincoln, used similar tactics to win elections and advance their careers. This study is the fascinating story of Cameron's life and an illuminating portrait of his times.
Author : Richard Douglas Spence
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826504000
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Andrew Jackson Donelson written by Richard Douglas Spence and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Michael B. Ballard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617036390
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Of Times and Race written by Michael B. Ballard and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Times and Race contains eight essays on African American history from the Jacksonian era through the early twentieth century. Taken together, these essays, inspired by noted scholar John F. Marszalek, demonstrate the many nuances of African Americans' struggle to grasp freedom, respect, assimilation, and basic rights of American citizens. Essays include Mark R. Cheathem's look at Andrew Jackson Donelson's struggle to keep his plantations operating within the ever-growing debate over slavery in mid-nineteenth century America. Thomas D. Cockrell examines Southern Unionism during the Civil War and wrestles with the difficulty of finding hard evidence due to sparse sources. Stephen S. Michot examines issues of race in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, and finds that blacks involved themselves in both armies, curiously clouding issues of slavery and freedom. Michael B. Ballard delves into how Mississippi slaves and Union soldiers interacted during the Vicksburg campaign. Union treatment of freedmen and of U. S. colored troops demonstrated that blacks escaping slavery were not always welcomed. Horace Nash finds that sports, especially boxing, played a fascinating role in blending black and white relations in the West during the early twentieth century. Timothy Smith explores the roles of African Americans who participated in the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the creation of the Shiloh National Military Park. James Scott Humphreys analyzes the efforts of two twentieth-century historians who wished to debunk the old, racist views of Reconstruction known as the Dunning school of interpretation. Edna Green Medford provides a concluding essay that ties together the essays in the book and addresses the larger themes running throughout the text.
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Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Knox Polk
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Correspondence of James K. Polk: August 1847-March 1848 written by James Knox Polk and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl Jack Bauer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803261075
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Mexican War, 1846-1848 written by Karl Jack Bauer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this . . . is the best military history of that conflict. . . . Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory, compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. The events that led to war are described with reference to military strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good maps. . . . Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers, discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation, relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession. . . . This is an outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing which will be admired and emulated."-Journal of American History. K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works. Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).
Author : James Knox Polk
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Letters of James K. Polk to Cave Johnson, 1833-1848 written by James Knox Polk and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hibbert De Witt
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Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Tennessee Historical Magazine written by John Hibbert De Witt and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Knox Polk
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Correspondence of James K. Polk: April 1848-June 1849 written by James Knox Polk and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based in the History Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the James K. Polk Project sought to locate all extant letters by or to the United States' eleventh president (1845-49) and to publish an annotated edition of selected letters in print and online. Students, scholars, and all interested in U.S. history can use these resources to learn about one of the most consequential presidents and about a key period in the country's development. Since beginning its work in 1958, the project has published thirteen volumes of the Correspondence of James K. Polk. All are held by numerous libraries and are available for purchase. They also are available online for free. In 2019 the project completed work on volume 14, which covers the last year of Polk's presidency and his brief retirement. It will be released in the fall of 2020."--
Author : Mark R. Cheathem
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807135658
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Old Hickory's Nephew written by Mark R. Cheathem and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though remembered largely by history as Andrew Jackson's nephew, Andrew Jackson Donelson was himself a significant figure in nineteenth-century America: a politician, planter, diplomat, newspaper editor, and vice-presidential candidate. His relationship with his uncle and mentor defined his life, as he struggled to find the political and personal success that he wanted and his uncle thought he deserved. In Old Hickory's Nephew, the first definitive biography of this enigmatic man, Mark R. Cheathem explores both Donelson's political contributions and his complex, tumultuous, and often-overlooked relationship with Andrew Jackson. Born in Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1799, Donelson lost his father only five years later. Andrew Jackson soon became a force in his nephew's life, seeing in his namesake his political protégé. Jackson went so far as to predict that Donelson would one day become president. After attending West Point, Donelson helped establish the Jacksonian wing of the Democratic party and edited a national Democratic newspaper. As a diplomat, he helped bring about the annexation of Texas and, following in his uncle's footsteps, he became the owner of several plantations. On the surface, Donelson was a political and personal success. But few lives are so straightforward. The strong relationship between the uncle and nephew -- defined by the concept of honor that suffused the southern society in which they lived -- quickly frayed when Donelson and his wife defied his uncle during the infamous Peggy Eaton sex scandal of Jackson's first presidential administration. This resulted, Cheathem shows, in a tense relationship, full of distrust and suspicion, between Donelson and Jackson that lasted until the "Hero of New Orleans" died in 1845. Donelson later left the Democratic party in a tiff and joined the American, or Know Nothing, party, which selected him as Millard Fillmore's running mate in 1856. Though Donelson tried to establish himself as his uncle's political successor and legator, his friends and foes alike accused him of trading on his uncle's name to gain political and financial success. The life of Andrew Jackson Donelson illuminates the expectations placed upon young southern men of prominent families as well as the complexities and contradictions in their lives. In this biography, Cheathem awakens interest in a nearly forgotten but nonetheless intriguing figure in American history.
Author : Elizabeth Feaster Baker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512814091
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Henry Wheaton, 1785-1848 written by Elizabeth Feaster Baker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the distinguished American authority on international law, representative to various foreign powers, and lifelong promoter of good will among nations.
Author : James Knox Polk
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826512017
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Correspondence of James K. Polk written by James Knox Polk and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk's correspondence shifted from those issues relating, to the formation of his administration and distribution of party patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas, preparation for its defense, restoration of diplomatic relations with Mexico, and termination of joint occupancy of the Oregon Country. In addition to the texts, briefs, and annotations, the editors have calendared all of the documents for the last six months of 1845. Entries for unpublished letters include the documents' dates, addressees, classifications, repositories, and precis. The Polk Project is sponsored by the University of Tennessee and assisted by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Tennessee Historical Commission.
Author : Michael A. Morrison
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864323
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Slavery and the American West written by Michael A. Morrison and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.
Author : Mississippi Valley Historical Association
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Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association written by Mississippi Valley Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letter 1848 Mar. 5, Berlin to A.J. Donelson Jr written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a letter from Andrew Jackson Donelson, then serving as ambassador to Prussia, to his son of the same name, dated March 5, 1848. The father writes that he is going to obtain vacation time for his son from President Polk so that he may visit his family in Berlin. Donelson advises his son against accruing more debts and to learn to live within his financial means. He writes much on how and why to keep track of one's finances.
