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Civil War Senator
William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic
Inbunden, 2011
585 kr
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One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806--1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of …
Troubled Commemoration
The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965
Häftad, 2011
344 kr
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In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. …
Secession Winter
When the Union Fell Apart
Av Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
316 kr
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Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays …
Civil War Memories
Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865
Häftad, 2018
343 kr
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At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its …
Hollow Victory
How Northerners Lost the Battle to Remember the Civil War
Inbunden, 2027
322 kr
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Hollow Victory offers the first comprehensive account of how the Union Cause—once celebrated as a triumph of democracy and racial justice—was gradually eclipsed in American memory. Drawing on extensive research, Robert J. Cook traces how Union veterans, African Americans, and Republican politicians …
Secession Winter
When the Union Fell Apart
Av Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
436 kr
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Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays …
