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Day They Hanged Old Brown
The Making of Celebrity and Martyrdom in the Civil War Era
Inbunden, 2025
430 kr
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Abolitionist, fanatic, terrorist, freedom fighter, alleged murderer—all of those labels fit John Brown. Yet he also qualified as a mid-nineteenth-century celebrity. Reserved only for a few, celebrity in Brown’s time was, in historian Carolyn Eastman’s words, a quality “of being well known, an …
Securing the West
Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850
Inbunden, 2014
688 kr
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Few issues defined the period between American independence and the Mexican War more sharply than westward settlement and the role of the federal government in that expansion. In Securing the West, John R. Van Atta examines the visions of the founding generation and the increasing influence of …
Wolf by the Ears
The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
Häftad, 2015
279 kr
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From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bomb-the question of slavery-lay at the heart of national politics. An implicit understanding between North and South helped to keep the issue at bay: northern states, where slavery had been set on course for …
Charging Up San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America
Inbunden, 2018
609 kr
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How Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders exemplified “manhood” and civic virtue.Below a Cuban sun so hot it stung their eyes, American troops hunkered low at the base of Kettle Hill. Spanish bullets zipped overhead, while enemy artillery shells landed all around them. Driving Spanish forces from …
Charging Up San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America
Häftad, 2018
318 kr
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How Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders exemplified “manhood” and civic virtue.Below a Cuban sun so hot it stung their eyes, American troops hunkered low at the base of Kettle Hill. Spanish bullets zipped overhead, while enemy artillery shells landed all around them. Driving Spanish forces from …
Wolf by the Ears
The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
Inbunden, 2015
504 kr
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From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bomb-the question of slavery-lay at the heart of national politics. An implicit understanding between North and South helped to keep the issue at bay: northern states, where slavery had been set on course for …
