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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... hard work and that all Americans were working their way up together. On the other hand were special interests— those who believed that there were fundamental conflicts in society that must be adjusted by the federal government ...
... hard work and that all Americans were working their way up together. On the other hand were special interests— those who believed that there were fundamental conflicts in society that must be adjusted by the federal government ...
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... hard, but they were easier to bear than the loss of homes, abandoned either in fear of northern invaders or in the devastation that followed their arrival. The shelling of Charleston drove Allston and her mother into the country ...
... hard, but they were easier to bear than the loss of homes, abandoned either in fear of northern invaders or in the devastation that followed their arrival. The shelling of Charleston drove Allston and her mother into the country ...
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... hard at the hands of the mountain Unionists.''≤∫ At the end of the war, Hampton bitterly lamented that ''four years of war—a war savage, bloody, and cruel beyond nearly every other on record—left the South bleeding at every pore—her ...
... hard at the hands of the mountain Unionists.''≤∫ At the end of the war, Hampton bitterly lamented that ''four years of war—a war savage, bloody, and cruel beyond nearly every other on record—left the South bleeding at every pore—her ...
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... hard for workers to combine to demand higher wages during a war for the very existence of the nation. Irish-American worker Terence V. Powderly recalled the resolution of a union whose entire membership enlisted in the army when the war ...
... hard for workers to combine to demand higher wages during a war for the very existence of the nation. Irish-American worker Terence V. Powderly recalled the resolution of a union whose entire membership enlisted in the army when the war ...
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... hard to restore the prewar nation with changes that he believed would prevent southern aristocratic slaveholders from ever again breaking it up. The Thirty-eighth Congress had adjourned in March, shortly before Lincoln's death, and the ...
... hard to restore the prewar nation with changes that he believed would prevent southern aristocratic slaveholders from ever again breaking it up. The Thirty-eighth Congress had adjourned in March, shortly before Lincoln's death, and the ...
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