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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... citizens. In spring 1865, Americans everywhere had to ask themselves how the di√erent sections of the country could reconstruct themselves into a nation that o√ered individuals economic opportunity and political freedom at the same ...
... citizens. In spring 1865, Americans everywhere had to ask themselves how the di√erent sections of the country could reconstruct themselves into a nation that o√ered individuals economic opportunity and political freedom at the same ...
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... citizens. The stark division that contemporaries saw in nineteenth-century Amer- ica was not as simple as they thought, either. From the very beginning of the postwar era, the government that Republicans had constructed to benefit ...
... citizens. The stark division that contemporaries saw in nineteenth-century Amer- ica was not as simple as they thought, either. From the very beginning of the postwar era, the government that Republicans had constructed to benefit ...
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... citizens meant that the question of who should have a voice in government took on great practical meaning. Who was, or should be, a citizen of the new nation? Should African Americans vote? Women? Immigrants? The poor? Would they make ...
... citizens meant that the question of who should have a voice in government took on great practical meaning. Who was, or should be, a citizen of the new nation? Should African Americans vote? Women? Immigrants? The poor? Would they make ...
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... citizens, black cowboy Nat Love's race-blind westerners, Americans who begged the government to go to war to save the lives of Cuban women and children. They are both the worst and the best of America. ∏ Introduction.
... citizens, black cowboy Nat Love's race-blind westerners, Americans who begged the government to go to war to save the lives of Cuban women and children. They are both the worst and the best of America. ∏ Introduction.
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... citizens but rather were ''wage-slaves,'' according to southern critics. Because slavery was essentially a paternalistic system, such southerners argued, northern workers were worse o√ than southern slaves. ''The Southern slave is ...
... citizens but rather were ''wage-slaves,'' according to southern critics. Because slavery was essentially a paternalistic system, such southerners argued, northern workers were worse o√ than southern slaves. ''The Southern slave is ...
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