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Speech Of Hon Richard Yates
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Book Synopsis To Govern the Devil in Hell by : Pearl Ponce
Download or read book To Govern the Devil in Hell written by Pearl Ponce and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of "Bleeding Kansas" and the violence that preceded the American Civil War by five years. Although ample attention has been devoted to understanding why territorial violence broke out in Kansas in 1856, of equal concern but less illuminated is the question of why government, both local and national, allowed the violence to continue unstanched for so long. This question is fundamentally about governance-its existence, exercise, limits, and continuance-and its study has ramifications for understanding both Kansas events and why the American experiment in government failed in 1861. In addition, the book also sheds light on the nature of democracy, the challenges of implanting it in distant environs, the necessity of cooperation at the various levels of government, and the value of strong leadership. To Govern the Devil in Hell uses the prism of governance to investigate what went wrong in territorial Kansas. From the first elections in late 1854 and early 1855, local government was tarnished with cries of illegitimacy that territorial officials could not ameliorate. Soon after, a shadow government was created which further impeded local management of territorial challenges. Ultimately, this book addresses why Presidents Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan failed to act, what hindered Congress from stepping into the void, and why and how the lack of effective governance harmed Kansas and later the United States.
Book Synopsis The Life and Public Services of Hon. Henry Wilson by : Elias Nason
Download or read book The Life and Public Services of Hon. Henry Wilson written by Elias Nason and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Richard Yates, Civil War Governor by : Richard Yates
Download or read book Richard Yates, Civil War Governor written by Richard Yates and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859-1865 (LOA #46) by : Abraham Lincoln
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859-1865 (LOA #46) written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1989-10-01 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln was the greatest writer of the Civil War as well as its greatest political leader. His clear, beautiful, and at times uncompromisingly severe language forever shaped the nation’s understanding of its most terrible conflict. This volume, along with its companion, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858, comprises the most comprehensive selection ever published. Over 550 speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, and other writings—including the Inaugural and Gettysburg addresses and the moving condolence letter to Mrs. Bixby—record the words and deeds with which Lincoln defended, preserved, and redefined the Union.
Book Synopsis Calculating the Value of the Union by : James L. Huston
Download or read book Calculating the Value of the Union written by James L. Huston and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as it pertained to slavery was at the center of the Civil War. In the early years of the nineteenth century, southern slaveholders sought a national definition of property rights that would recognize and protect their ownership of slaves. Northern interests, on the other hand, opposed any national interpretation of property rights because of the threat slavery posed to the northern free labor market, particularly if allowed to spread to western territories. This impasse sparked a process of political realignment that culminated in the creation of the Republican Party, ultimately leading to the secession crisis. Deeply researched and carefully written, this study rebuts recent trends in antebellum historiography and persuasively argues for a fundamentally economic interpretation of the slavery issue and the coming of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis The Life and Public Services of Henry Wilson by : Elias Nason
Download or read book The Life and Public Services of Henry Wilson written by Elias Nason and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Abraham Lincoln by : Ida Minerva Tarbell
Download or read book The Life of Abraham Lincoln written by Ida Minerva Tarbell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln by : Abraham Lincoln
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Abraham Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries by :
Download or read book The Magazine of History, with Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Writings of Abraham Lincoln by : Abraham Lincoln
Download or read book The Writings of Abraham Lincoln written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects some of Lincoln's writings, including speeches and letters, and features four interpretive essays that explore the President's legacy.
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness by : Paul Simon
Download or read book Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness written by Paul Simon and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cat. No. 01.0010 on inside front cover.
Book Synopsis The Loyal People of the North-west by : Stella S. Coatsworth
Download or read book The Loyal People of the North-west written by Stella S. Coatsworth and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magazine of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Congressional Globe by : United States. Congress
Download or read book The Congressional Globe written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln by : John G. Nicolay
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by John G. Nicolay and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle by : Ulysses S. Grant
Download or read book The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle written by Ulysses S. Grant and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 2082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like no other event in our history, the Civil War divided the nation, redrew our notions of freedom and citizenship, and provided the backdrop for some of the most enduring works in the American literary canon. This Modern Library eBook bundle collects five titles that illuminate that transformative conflict: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, the classic novels Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Red Badge of Courage, The Essential Writings of Jefferson Davis, and The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF ULYSSES S. GRANT The memoirs of the legendary Union general chart the fortunes that shaped his life and character—from his frontier boyhood to his heroics in battle to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War “rescued” him. Among autobiographies of great military figures, Grant’s is considered one of the finest. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN Abraham Lincoln called Uncle Tom’s Cabin “the book that made this great war.” Langston Hughes called it “a moral battle cry.” Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic novel offers a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery and a portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances. THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE One of the greatest works of American literature, The Red Badge of Courage gazes fearlessly into the bright hell of war through the eyes of one young soldier, the reluctant Henry Fleming. Stephen Crane’s novel imagines the Civil War’s terror and loss with an unblinking vision so modern and revolutionary that critics hailed it as a work of literary genius. JEFFERSON DAVIS: THE ESSENTIAL WRITINGS The Confederate president is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history. Editor William J. Cooper combs through the authoritative Papers of Jefferson Davis for this selection of letters, major speeches, and public and private writings. Collectively, they present a multifaceted portrait of a man who continues to fascinate scholars and Civil War buffs alike. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN The greatest of all American presidents left us a vast legacy of writings, some of which are among the most famous in our history. From the plainspoken eloquence of the Gettysburg Address to the soaring rhetoric of his Second Inaugural, this marvelous volume serves as a guide to Lincoln’s life through his speeches, letters, and public remarks.
Book Synopsis Slavery and the American West by : Michael A. Morrison
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.
