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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... never focused on racial problems in the postwar South to the exclusion of the issues of postwar industrialization and urbanization that appeared dramatically as early as 1866. Also, women were prominent in postwar records, exercising an ...
... never focused on racial problems in the postwar South to the exclusion of the issues of postwar industrialization and urbanization that appeared dramatically as early as 1866. Also, women were prominent in postwar records, exercising an ...
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... Never married, Wade Hampton's three sisters lived at Millwood, a potent reminder of how completely they depended on their brother. ''I feel that you . . . belong to me,'' Hampton wrote to his youngest sister, ''& that it is my duty as ...
... Never married, Wade Hampton's three sisters lived at Millwood, a potent reminder of how completely they depended on their brother. ''I feel that you . . . belong to me,'' Hampton wrote to his youngest sister, ''& that it is my duty as ...
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... never go to school, would never see a city, and would eat a diet of corn, game, pork, molasses, and greens. Some of the poorest ''white trash'' would struggle endlessly with hookworm, malaria, and pellagra that sapped their strength and ...
... never go to school, would never see a city, and would eat a diet of corn, game, pork, molasses, and greens. Some of the poorest ''white trash'' would struggle endlessly with hookworm, malaria, and pellagra that sapped their strength and ...
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... Never have I conceived,'' one recalled, ''of such a continuous, rushing hailstorm of shot, shell, and musketry as fell around and among us for hours together. We who escaped are constantly wondering how we could possibly have come out ...
... Never have I conceived,'' one recalled, ''of such a continuous, rushing hailstorm of shot, shell, and musketry as fell around and among us for hours together. We who escaped are constantly wondering how we could possibly have come out ...
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... never to stop fighting the Union, and he became more desperately certain of victory the more the South su√ered. In the 1863 reorganization of Lee's army, Hampton was put in charge of a cavalry brigade; by the end of the war he had been ...
... never to stop fighting the Union, and he became more desperately certain of victory the more the South su√ered. In the 1863 reorganization of Lee's army, Hampton was put in charge of a cavalry brigade; by the end of the war he had been ...
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