Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877Routledge, 2014 M06 6 - 402 pages The American Civil War was without doubt the defining event in the history of the United States. This up-to-date analyisis of a critical period goes beyond the origins, course and consequences of the Civil War to bring in other important themes such as racial conflict, gender relations, religion, the popular memory and state formation. |
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... Southern History L.C Manuscripts Division , Library of Congress , Washington , DC SHC NC Southern Historical Collection , University of North Carolina Library , Chapel Hill , Map 1 The United States in 1860 Source: After Parish,
... Southern History L.C Manuscripts Division , Library of Congress , Washington , DC SHC NC Southern Historical Collection , University of North Carolina Library , Chapel Hill , Map 1 The United States in 1860 Source: After Parish,
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... Washington and his Companions in Arms , The Republic ( ' Better than all the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them ' ) , The President of the United States , The United States Military ( Toes and friends unite in saying of their ...
... Washington and his Companions in Arms , The Republic ( ' Better than all the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them ' ) , The President of the United States , The United States Military ( Toes and friends unite in saying of their ...
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... Washington, DC, but reserved the rest to the individual states. The intention of the Founding Fathers was to create a balanced federal system in which power was diffused, firstly, between Washington and the states, and secondly, between ...
... Washington, DC, but reserved the rest to the individual states. The intention of the Founding Fathers was to create a balanced federal system in which power was diffused, firstly, between Washington and the states, and secondly, between ...
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... Washington, the first president of the United States and the victorious commander of the Continental Army. Mason Locke Weems's Life of Washington (1809) was required reading for every child growing up in the early nineteenth century ...
... Washington, the first president of the United States and the victorious commander of the Continental Army. Mason Locke Weems's Life of Washington (1809) was required reading for every child growing up in the early nineteenth century ...
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... Washington and Jefferson were famously ambivalent about the institution and a state constitutional convention in Virginia seriously considered the possibility of abolition as late as 1830-31. The enormous profits to be garnered from ...
... Washington and Jefferson were famously ambivalent about the institution and a state constitutional convention in Virginia seriously considered the possibility of abolition as late as 1830-31. The enormous profits to be garnered from ...
Contents
Political Crises of the 1850s | |
Secession and Civil | |
The Quest for Southern Independence | |
The Union in Wartime | |
The Struggle Over Reconstruction 186576 | |
The Far West in the MidNineteenth Century | |
Reform Reaction and Reunion at the Dawn of the Gilded | |
The United States in the Era of Civil | |
Index | |
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