Author: Floyd Calvin Shoemaker
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Jeffrey L. Pasley
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826222315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441

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"This book, planned as the first of two volumes, aims to explore the Missouri Crisis and the many reverberations and ramifications thereof. The volumes are offered as part of the University of Missouri and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy's contribution to the state's 2021 bicentennial commemoration"--

Author: Gary R. Kremer
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082622248X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Conceived of as a way to commemorate Missouri’s bicentennial of statehood, this unique work presents the perspective of Gary Kremer, one of the Show-Me State’s foremost historians, as he ponders why history played out as it did over the course of the two centuries since Missouri’s admittance to the Union. In the writing of what is much more than a survey history, Kremer, himself a fifth-generation Missourian, infuses the narrative with his vast knowledge and personal experiences, even as he considers what being a Missourian has meant—across the many years and to this day—to all of the state’s people, and how the forces of history—time, place, race, gender, religion, and class—shaped people and determined their opportunities and choices, in turn creating collective experiences that draw upon the past in an attempt to make sense of the present and plan for the future. Key elements of the book include the centrality of race to the Missouri experience—from the time Missourians began to seek statehood in 1817 all the way up to the Black Lives Matter movement of the 21st century—as well as ongoing tensions created by the urban-rural divide and struggle to define the proper role of government in society.

Author: Floyd Calvin Shoemaker
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385311322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1182

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author: Floyd Calvin Shoemaker
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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Author: Francis Asbury Sampson
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Author: John R. Van Atta
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 1421416549
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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“In this engaging work, Van Atta . . . provides an in-depth analysis of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, a seminal event on the road to the Civil War.” —Choice In Wolf by the Ears, John R. Van Atta discusses how the question of slavery surfaced in the divisive fight over Missouri statehood. As Thomas Jefferson wrote at the time, a nation dealing with the politically implacable issue of slavery essentially held the “wolf” by the ears—and could neither let go nor hang on forever. The first organized Louisiana Purchase territory to lie completely west of the Mississippi River and northwest of the Ohio, Missouri carried special significance for both pro- and anti-slavery advocates. Northern congressmen leaped out of their seats to object to the proposed expansion of the slave “empire,” while slave-state politicians voiced outrage at the northerners’ blatant sectional attack. Although the Missouri confrontation ultimately appeared to end amicably with a famous compromise that the wily Kentuckian Henry Clay helped to cobble together, the passions it unleashed proved vicious, widespread, and long lasting. Van Atta deftly explains how the Missouri crisis revealed the power that slavery had already gained over American nation building. He explores the external social, cultural, and economic forces that gave the confrontation such urgency around the country, as well as the beliefs, assumptions, and fears that characterized both sides of the slavery argument. Wolf by the Ears provides students in American history with an ideal introduction to the Missouri crisis while at the same time offering fresh insights for scholars of the early republic. “Van Atta has written the clearest narrative of the Missouri crisis to date.” —Louisiana History

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Clarence Henry McClure
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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