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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... party lines to create both a new definition of what it meant to be an American and a new vision of the government's role in the lives of its citizens. The stark division that contemporaries saw in nineteenth-century Amer- ica was not as ...
... party lines to create both a new definition of what it meant to be an American and a new vision of the government's role in the lives of its citizens. The stark division that contemporaries saw in nineteenth-century Amer- ica was not as ...
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... Party became loathed by its opponents as a patronage-spewing behemoth acting in the interests of African Americans and rich eastern businessmen, antigovernment protesters across the nation idealized the rural West as the opposite of the ...
... Party became loathed by its opponents as a patronage-spewing behemoth acting in the interests of African Americans and rich eastern businessmen, antigovernment protesters across the nation idealized the rural West as the opposite of the ...
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... Party as a sectional party dedicated to preventing the westward expansion of slavery indicated a crisis was at hand. The South had long ago lost its parity in the House of Representatives, where representation was apportioned by ...
... Party as a sectional party dedicated to preventing the westward expansion of slavery indicated a crisis was at hand. The South had long ago lost its parity in the House of Representatives, where representation was apportioned by ...
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... party line to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act, overturning the tradition of a free Northwest established by the Missouri Compromise in 1820. ''I had seen the slave power o≈cially represented by some of its foremost champions—overbearing ...
... party line to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act, overturning the tradition of a free Northwest established by the Missouri Compromise in 1820. ''I had seen the slave power o≈cially represented by some of its foremost champions—overbearing ...
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... party's election war chest. Failure to provide either meant a lost job. Under this system, Democrats watching the Republican-controlled government expand to provide large numbers of new jobs could not hope that any of those new jobs ...
... party's election war chest. Failure to provide either meant a lost job. Under this system, Democrats watching the Republican-controlled government expand to provide large numbers of new jobs could not hope that any of those new jobs ...
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