Author: John C. Haugland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Alexander Ramsey and the Republican Party, 1855-1875
Author: John C. Haugland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The Radical Republicans
Author: Hans L. Trefousse
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0804153922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
This is the story of the men who, as political realists, fought for the cause of racial reform in America before, during, and after the Civil War. Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, Benjamin F. Wade, and Zachariah Chandler are the central figures in Mr. Trefousse's study of the Radical Republicans who steered a course between the extreme abolitionists on the one hand and the more cautious gradualists on the other, as they strove to break the slaveholder's domination of the federal government andthen to wrest from the postbellum South an acknowledgment of the civil rights of the Negro. The author delineates their key role in founding the Republican party and follows their struggle to keep the party firm in its opposition to the expansion of slavery, to commit it to emancipation, and finally to make it the party of racial justice. This is the story as well of the tangled relationship of the Radical Republicans with Abraham Lincoln—a relationship of both quarrels and mutual support. The author stresses the similarity between Lincoln's ultimate aims and those of the Radical Republicans, demonstrating that without Lincoln's support Sumner and his colleagues could never have accomplished their ends—and that without their help Lincoln might not have succeeded in crushing the rebellion and putting an end to the slavery. And he argues that by 1865 Lincoln's Reconstruction policies were nearing those of the Radicals and that, had he lived, they would not have broken with him as they did with his successor. Lincoln's assassination left the Radicals with no means to translate their demands into effective action. Their efforts to remake the South in such a way as to secure justice for the Negro brought them into conflict with President Johnson, in whose impeachment they played a leading role. Although they succeeded in initiating congressional Reconstruction and adding the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, the Radicals lost power after the failure of the Johnson impeachment. Mr. Trefousse shows how, despite their declining influence throughout the 1870s, their accomplishments helped make possible—a century later—the resumption of the struggle for civil rights.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0804153922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
This is the story of the men who, as political realists, fought for the cause of racial reform in America before, during, and after the Civil War. Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, Benjamin F. Wade, and Zachariah Chandler are the central figures in Mr. Trefousse's study of the Radical Republicans who steered a course between the extreme abolitionists on the one hand and the more cautious gradualists on the other, as they strove to break the slaveholder's domination of the federal government andthen to wrest from the postbellum South an acknowledgment of the civil rights of the Negro. The author delineates their key role in founding the Republican party and follows their struggle to keep the party firm in its opposition to the expansion of slavery, to commit it to emancipation, and finally to make it the party of racial justice. This is the story as well of the tangled relationship of the Radical Republicans with Abraham Lincoln—a relationship of both quarrels and mutual support. The author stresses the similarity between Lincoln's ultimate aims and those of the Radical Republicans, demonstrating that without Lincoln's support Sumner and his colleagues could never have accomplished their ends—and that without their help Lincoln might not have succeeded in crushing the rebellion and putting an end to the slavery. And he argues that by 1865 Lincoln's Reconstruction policies were nearing those of the Radicals and that, had he lived, they would not have broken with him as they did with his successor. Lincoln's assassination left the Radicals with no means to translate their demands into effective action. Their efforts to remake the South in such a way as to secure justice for the Negro brought them into conflict with President Johnson, in whose impeachment they played a leading role. Although they succeeded in initiating congressional Reconstruction and adding the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, the Radicals lost power after the failure of the Johnson impeachment. Mr. Trefousse shows how, despite their declining influence throughout the 1870s, their accomplishments helped make possible—a century later—the resumption of the struggle for civil rights.
American Civil War [6 volumes]
Author: Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851096825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3030
Book Description
This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction. The Civil War was undoubtedly the most important and seminal event in 19th-century American history. Students who understand the Civil War have a better grasp of the central dilemmas in the American historical narrative: states rights versus federalism, freedom versus slavery, the role of the military establishment, the extent of presidential powers, and individual rights versus collective rights. Many of these dilemmas continue to shape modern society and politics. This comprehensive work facilitates both detailed reading and quick referencing for readers from the high school level to senior scholars in the field. The exhaustive coverage of this encyclopedia includes all significant battles and skirmishes; important figures, both civilian and military; weapons; government relations with Native Americans; and a plethora of social, political, cultural, military, and economic developments. The entries also address the many events that led to the conflict, the international diplomacy of the war, the rise of the Republican Party and the growing crisis and stalemate in American politics, slavery and its impact on the nation as a whole, the secession crisis, the emergence of the "total war" concept, and the complex challenges of the aftermath of the conflict.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851096825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3030
Book Description
This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction. The Civil War was undoubtedly the most important and seminal event in 19th-century American history. Students who understand the Civil War have a better grasp of the central dilemmas in the American historical narrative: states rights versus federalism, freedom versus slavery, the role of the military establishment, the extent of presidential powers, and individual rights versus collective rights. Many of these dilemmas continue to shape modern society and politics. This comprehensive work facilitates both detailed reading and quick referencing for readers from the high school level to senior scholars in the field. The exhaustive coverage of this encyclopedia includes all significant battles and skirmishes; important figures, both civilian and military; weapons; government relations with Native Americans; and a plethora of social, political, cultural, military, and economic developments. The entries also address the many events that led to the conflict, the international diplomacy of the war, the rise of the Republican Party and the growing crisis and stalemate in American politics, slavery and its impact on the nation as a whole, the secession crisis, the emergence of the "total war" concept, and the complex challenges of the aftermath of the conflict.
Race and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1848-1865
Author: James D. Bilotta
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This fascinating book represents the only major synthesis to date integrating the 'scientific' racism developed in the antebellum period with the growth of the political antislavery movement. Thoroughly researched, the book examines the racial attitudes of numerous Free Soil and Republican politicians, journalists and popular writers in the context of that racism prevalent in the scientific/intellectual community. Since Southern slavery meant the presence in the United States of large numbers of black-skinned people, questions touching the future status of that institution were, to many antislavery politicians and writers, racial questions as well as sectional or economic ones. This work details how Free Soil and Republican policy was influenced by the racist dogma of the period.
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This fascinating book represents the only major synthesis to date integrating the 'scientific' racism developed in the antebellum period with the growth of the political antislavery movement. Thoroughly researched, the book examines the racial attitudes of numerous Free Soil and Republican politicians, journalists and popular writers in the context of that racism prevalent in the scientific/intellectual community. Since Southern slavery meant the presence in the United States of large numbers of black-skinned people, questions touching the future status of that institution were, to many antislavery politicians and writers, racial questions as well as sectional or economic ones. This work details how Free Soil and Republican policy was influenced by the racist dogma of the period.
Senators of the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
An Early Political and Administrative History of the University of Minnesota, 1851-84
Author: Norene Davis Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1996
Author: Joel D. Treese
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780872891241
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 2136
Book Description
"Closing date of compilation, September 30, 1996".--T.p.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780872891241
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 2136
Book Description
"Closing date of compilation, September 30, 1996".--T.p.
William Windom
Author: Robert Seward Salisbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This is the first book devoted exclusively to the political career of William Windom. It illuminates not only the personal biography of Windom, arguably Minnesota's most influential political figure of the 19th century, but it also casts much light on the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties during the period 1860-1890. Salisbury offers evidence which refutes the traditional view of the Gilded Age that Republicans were the party of big business, characterized by a mediocrity of leadership and permeated by corruption and venality. Rather, Windom and a majority of both parties maintained a consistent stance throughout this period on such questions as the desirability of governmental intervention in the economy, the regulation of private behavior by governmental coercion, and attitudes toward the nation's number of groups which were discriminated against, including women and blacks. An intensive analysis of William Windom's political career - he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for ten years, in the U.S. Senate for twelve years, and was twice appointed Secretary of the Treasury - reveals the post-Civil War era to hold several more nuances than contemporary beliefs allow. Salisbury offers important observations about the essence of both parties and the general political mood of the 19th century.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This is the first book devoted exclusively to the political career of William Windom. It illuminates not only the personal biography of Windom, arguably Minnesota's most influential political figure of the 19th century, but it also casts much light on the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties during the period 1860-1890. Salisbury offers evidence which refutes the traditional view of the Gilded Age that Republicans were the party of big business, characterized by a mediocrity of leadership and permeated by corruption and venality. Rather, Windom and a majority of both parties maintained a consistent stance throughout this period on such questions as the desirability of governmental intervention in the economy, the regulation of private behavior by governmental coercion, and attitudes toward the nation's number of groups which were discriminated against, including women and blacks. An intensive analysis of William Windom's political career - he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for ten years, in the U.S. Senate for twelve years, and was twice appointed Secretary of the Treasury - reveals the post-Civil War era to hold several more nuances than contemporary beliefs allow. Salisbury offers important observations about the essence of both parties and the general political mood of the 19th century.
Dissertation Abstracts
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
The Complete Cataloging Reference Set
Author: Nancy B. Olson
Publisher: DeKalb, Ill. : Media Marketing Group/Minnesota Scholarly Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
“This is a book of examples of descriptive cataloging using the Anglo-American cataloguing rules, second edition (AACR 2)”--Introduction, page [i]
Publisher: DeKalb, Ill. : Media Marketing Group/Minnesota Scholarly Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
“This is a book of examples of descriptive cataloging using the Anglo-American cataloguing rules, second edition (AACR 2)”--Introduction, page [i]