Author: Carl Schurz
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz
Author: Carl Schurz
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Speeches, correspondence and political papers of Carl Schurz Volume 1
Author: Schurz, Carl
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623766850
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623766850
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz
Author: Carl Schurz
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers
Author: Carl Schurz
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Third Party Movements Since the Civil War, with a Special Reference to Iowa
Author: Frederick Emory Haynes
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist
Author: Jefferson Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404020002
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780404020002
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages :
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Inventing Equality
Author: Michael Bellesiles
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250096189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passed at the end of the Civil War. On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood in front of a crowd in Rochester, New York, and asked, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” The audience had invited him to speak on the day celebrating freedom, and had expected him to offer a hopeful message about America; instead, he’d offered back to them their own hypocrisy. How could the Constitution defend both freedom and slavery? How could it celebrate liberty with one hand while withdrawing it with another? Theirs was a country which promoted and even celebrated inequality. From the very beginning, American history can be seen as a battle to reconcile the large gap between America’s stated ideals and the reality of its republic. Its struggle is not one of steady progress toward greater freedom and equality, but rather for every step forward there is a step taken in a different direction. In Inventing Equality, Michael Bellesiles traces the evolution of the battle for true equality—the stories of those fighting forward, to expand the working definition of what it means to be an American citizen—from the Revolution through the late nineteenth century. He identifies the systemic flaws in the Constitution, and explores through the role of the Supreme Court and three Constitutional amendments—the 13th, 14th, and 15th—the ways in which equality and inequality waxed and waned over the decades.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250096189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passed at the end of the Civil War. On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood in front of a crowd in Rochester, New York, and asked, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” The audience had invited him to speak on the day celebrating freedom, and had expected him to offer a hopeful message about America; instead, he’d offered back to them their own hypocrisy. How could the Constitution defend both freedom and slavery? How could it celebrate liberty with one hand while withdrawing it with another? Theirs was a country which promoted and even celebrated inequality. From the very beginning, American history can be seen as a battle to reconcile the large gap between America’s stated ideals and the reality of its republic. Its struggle is not one of steady progress toward greater freedom and equality, but rather for every step forward there is a step taken in a different direction. In Inventing Equality, Michael Bellesiles traces the evolution of the battle for true equality—the stories of those fighting forward, to expand the working definition of what it means to be an American citizen—from the Revolution through the late nineteenth century. He identifies the systemic flaws in the Constitution, and explores through the role of the Supreme Court and three Constitutional amendments—the 13th, 14th, and 15th—the ways in which equality and inequality waxed and waned over the decades.
Guide to Research Collections of Former United States Senators, 1789-1995
Author: Diane B. Boyle
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Dangerous Nation
Author: Robert Kagan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375724915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their global power and influence from the beginning. Driven by commercial, territorial, and idealistic ambitions, the United States has always perceived itself, and been seen by other nations, as an international force. This is a book of great importance to our understanding of our nation’s history and its role in the global community.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375724915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their global power and influence from the beginning. Driven by commercial, territorial, and idealistic ambitions, the United States has always perceived itself, and been seen by other nations, as an international force. This is a book of great importance to our understanding of our nation’s history and its role in the global community.
Guide to Research Collections of Former United States Senators, 1789-1982
Author:
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Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Publisher:
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Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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