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Impeachment of a President
Andrew Johnson, the Blacks, and Reconstruction
Inbunden, 1998
1163 kr
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In Impeachment of a President, Hans L. Trefousse focuses on the causes of the failure to convict, the consequences of the acquittal, and the relationship of the impeachment to the ill success of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of material, some only recently made available, Professor Trefousse …
Impeachment of a President
Andrew Johnson, the Blacks, and Reconstruction
Häftad, 1999
500 kr
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In Impeachment of a President, Hans L. Trefousse focuses on the causes of the failure to convict, the consequences of the acquittal, and the relationship of the impeachment to the ill success of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of material, some only recently made available, Professor Trefousse …
Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction
Av Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller
Häftad, 1999
485 kr
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The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations addresses the history of the Freedmen's Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this lively and well-documented book, the authors discuss the diversity of conditions and the personalities of the Bureau's agents …
Carpetbagger of Conscience
A Biography of John Emory Bryant
Av Ruth Currie
Inbunden, 1999
1199 kr
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This is a biography of John Emory Bryant, a veteran of the Civil War who became a Carpetbagger in Georgia during the Reconstruction era. A member of the Eighth Maine Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, Bryant fought at the Battle of the Crater. After his service in the war, he returned to Maine …
Carpetbagger of Conscience
A Biography of John Emory Bryant
Av Ruth Currie
Häftad, 1999
455 kr
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This is a biography of John Emory Bryant, a veteran of the Civil War who became a Carpetbagger in Georgia during the Reconstruction era. A member of the Eighth Maine Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, Bryant fought at the Battle of the Crater. After his service in the war, he returned to Maine …
Imperfect Equality
African Americans and the Confines of White Ideology in Post–Emancipation Maryland.
Av Richard Fuke
Inbunden, 1999
1163 kr
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In Imperfect Equality, Richard Fuke has explores the immediate aftermath of slavery in Maryland, which differed in important ways from the slaveholding states of the South: it never left the Union; white radicals had a period of access to power; and even prior to legal emancipation, a large free …
Imperfect Equality
African Americans and the Confines of White Ideology in Post–Emancipation Maryland.
Av Richard Fuke
Häftad, 1999
490 kr
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In Imperfect Equality, Richard Fuke has explores the immediate aftermath of slavery in Maryland, which differed in important ways from the slaveholding states of the South: it never left the Union; white radicals had a period of access to power; and even prior to legal emancipation, a large free …
New Birth of Freedom
The Republican Party and the Freedmen's Rights
Av Herman Belz
Inbunden, 2000
1368 kr
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A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights, 1861–1866, is an account of how laws, policies and constitutional amendments defining and protecting the personal liberty and civil rights of the country's African American population were adopted during the Civil War. A study in …
New Birth of Freedom
The Republican Party and the Freedmen's Rights
Av Herman Belz
Häftad, 2000
446 kr
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A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights, 1861–1866, is an account of how laws, policies and constitutional amendments defining and protecting the personal liberty and civil rights of the country's African American population were adopted during the Civil War. A study in …
"a Free Ballot and a Fair Count"
The Department of Justice and the Enforcement of Voting Rights in the South , 1877-1893
Inbunden, 2001
1046 kr
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"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count" examines the efforts by the Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed by Congress in 1870–71 known as the Enforcement Acts. These laws were designed to enforce the voting rights guarantees for African-Americans under the recently ratified …
"a Free Ballot and a Fair Count"
The Department of Justice and the Enforcement of Voting Rights in the South , 1877-1893
Häftad, 2001
485 kr
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"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count" examines the efforts by the Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed by Congress in 1870–71 known as the Enforcement Acts. These laws were designed to enforce the voting rights guarantees for African-Americans under the recently ratified …
Emma Spaulding Bryant
Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist: Letters 1860–1900
Av Emma Frances Spauldi Bryant, Ruth Currie
Häftad, 2006
455 kr
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Emma Spaulding's life might have been the simple story of a nineteenth-century woman in rural Maine. Instead, wooed by the ambitious John Emory Bryant, the Yankee Reconstruction activist and Georgia politician, she became the Civil War bride of a Republican carpetbagger intent on reforming the …
Freedom's First Generation
Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890
Häftad, 2004
402 kr
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In this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells the story of what race relations in postbellum America "might have been." Here, if only for a time, the promises of Emancipation and Reconstruction were fulfilled. …
Politics of Judicial Interpretation
The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876
Häftad, 2004
448 kr
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This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which federal judges, attorneys, and other law officers defined a new era of civil and political rights in the South and implemented the revolutionary 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction. …
Civil War Confiscation Acts
Failing to Reconstruct the South
Av John Syrett
Häftad, 2011
448 kr
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This book is the first full account in more than 20 years of two significant, but relatively understudied, laws passed during the Civil War. The Confiscation Acts (1861–62) were designed to sanction slave holding states by authorizing the Federal Government to seize rebel properties (including land …
Preserving the Constitution
Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era
Inbunden, 2006
1368 kr
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"Americans' ideas about constitutional liberty played a crucial role in the history of Reconstruction. They provided the basis for the Republican program of equal rights; ironically, they also set the limits to that program and reduced the prospects for its success. Americans were as concerned with …
Preserving the Constitution
Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era
Häftad, 2006
548 kr
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"Americans' ideas about constitutional liberty played a crucial role in the history of Reconstruction. They provided the basis for the Republican program of equal rights; ironically, they also set the limits to that program and reduced the prospects for its success. Americans were as concerned with …
Doom of Reconstruction
The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era
Inbunden, 2007
1104 kr
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In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. In this innovative study, Andrew Slap arguesforcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites …
Confederate Phoenix
Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina
Inbunden, 2008
1163 kr
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In this innovative book, Edmund L. Drago tells the first full story of white children and their families in the most militant Southern state, and the state where the Civil War erupted. Drawing on a rich array of sources, many of them formerly untapped, Drago shows how the War transformed the …
Great Task Remaining Before Us
Reconstruction As America's Continuing Civil War
Av Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller
Inbunden, 2010
1294 kr
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Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, …
Great Task Remaining Before Us
Reconstruction As America's Continuing Civil War
Av Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller
Häftad, 2010
490 kr
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Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, …
Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau
Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation
Inbunden, 2010
1368 kr
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Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands—more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"—assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the post–Civil War South. Although it was called the Freedmen's Bureau, the …
Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau
Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation
Häftad, 2010
490 kr
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Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands—more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"—assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the post–Civil War South. Although it was called the Freedmen's Bureau, the …
New Men
Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2015
768 kr
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Scholars of the Civil War era have commonly assumed that veterans of the Union and Confederate armies effortlessly melted back into society and that they adjusted to the demands of peacetime with little or no difficulty. Yet the path these soldiers followed on the road to reintegration was far more …
Too Great a Burden to Bear
The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas
Inbunden, 2016
1920 kr
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In its brief seven-year existence, the Freedmen's Bureau became the epicenter of the debate about Reconstruction. Historians have only recently begun to focus on the Bureau's personnel in Texas, the individual agents termed the "hearts of Reconstruction." Specifically addressing the …
Educational Reconstruction
African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
Inbunden, 2016
1616 kr
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Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War.Hilary Green …
Educational Reconstruction
African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
Häftad, 2016
490 kr
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Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War.Hilary Green …
Too Great a Burden to Bear
The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas
Häftad, 2016
548 kr
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In its brief seven-year existence, the Freedmen's Bureau became the epicenter of the debate about Reconstruction. Historians have only recently begun to focus on the Bureau's personnel in Texas, the individual agents termed the "hearts of Reconstruction." Specifically addressing the …
Retreats of Reconstruction
Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865-1920
Inbunden, 2016
1411 kr
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Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political economy and threatened segregationist practices. Exploiting early class divisions, black working-class activists staged a series of successful protests …
Retreats of Reconstruction
Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865-1920
Häftad, 2016
351 kr
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Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political economy and threatened segregationist practices. Exploiting early class divisions, black working-class activists staged a series of successful protests …
