West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil WarYale University Press, 28 Mar 2007 - 416 halaman “This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics” (Publishers Weekly). The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many ways, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners forged a national identity that united three very different regions into a country that could become a world power. A sweeping history of the United States from the era of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, this engaging book tracks the formation of the American middle class while stretching the boundaries of our understanding of Reconstruction. Historian Heather Cox Richardson ties the North and West into the post–Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South. By weaving together the experiences of real individuals who left records in their own words—from ordinary Americans such as a plantation mistress, a Native American warrior, and a labor organizer, to prominent historical figures such as Andrew Carnegie, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, and Sitting Bull—Richardson tells a story about the creation of modern America. |
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... began by knitting socks and sewing shirts for the soldiers and supplied the mustering soldiers with co√ee and hot food. As supplies became scarce, women directly petitioned government o≈cials for aid when their men went to war. Then ...
... began by knitting socks and sewing shirts for the soldiers and supplied the mustering soldiers with co√ee and hot food. As supplies became scarce, women directly petitioned government o≈cials for aid when their men went to war. Then ...
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... began, northerners, like southerners, believed the conflict would be short and bloodless and would not demand any significant reworking of northern society. Indeed, northerners fought the war to defend their society just the way it was ...
... began, northerners, like southerners, believed the conflict would be short and bloodless and would not demand any significant reworking of northern society. Indeed, northerners fought the war to defend their society just the way it was ...
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... began work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1848 as a bobbin boy for $1.20 a week, but he quickly moved up to bookkeeping, and then, in 1850, into a telegraph o≈ce as a messenger boy. ''From the dark cellar . . . begrimed with coal dirt ...
... began work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1848 as a bobbin boy for $1.20 a week, but he quickly moved up to bookkeeping, and then, in 1850, into a telegraph o≈ce as a messenger boy. ''From the dark cellar . . . begrimed with coal dirt ...
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... began as Lincoln called the Thirty-Seventh Congress into emergency session in July 1861. The Union could not fight the war without money, and Congress set out to find it. The legislators turned first to taxes and tari√s, traditional ...
... began as Lincoln called the Thirty-Seventh Congress into emergency session in July 1861. The Union could not fight the war without money, and Congress set out to find it. The legislators turned first to taxes and tari√s, traditional ...
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... began to work directly for the government, as ''government girls'' kept records and cut the sheets of newly printed money into individual bills.∂∂ The war fed the northern economy. Just as congressmen had hoped, farming boomed during ...
... began to work directly for the government, as ''government girls'' kept records and cut the sheets of newly printed money into individual bills.∂∂ The war fed the northern economy. Just as congressmen had hoped, farming boomed during ...
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