Author: United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The records consist of letters, endorsements, reports and financial records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands 1865-1871
Author: United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The records consist of letters, endorsements, reports and financial records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The records consist of letters, endorsements, reports and financial records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
National Archives Microfilm Publications in the National Archives, New England Region
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. New England Region
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher: National Archives & Records Administration
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Describes the kinds of population, immigration, military, and land records found in the National Archives, and shows how to use them for genealogical research.
Publisher: National Archives & Records Administration
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Describes the kinds of population, immigration, military, and land records found in the National Archives, and shows how to use them for genealogical research.
Reconstruction in Alabama
Author: Michael W. Fitzgerald
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807166073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Reconstruction in Alabama examines the Civil War and Reconstruction era in Alabama, the first full-scale reexamination in over a century. Michael W. Fitzgerald research shows how predominant black belt majorities enabled concentrations of freedpeople to deter most terrorist violence for several years. The impact of a resulting labor shortage in the heart of the plantation region forced rich planters toward relative moderation until a severe depression swept away the possibility of racial coexistence and economic balance.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807166073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Reconstruction in Alabama examines the Civil War and Reconstruction era in Alabama, the first full-scale reexamination in over a century. Michael W. Fitzgerald research shows how predominant black belt majorities enabled concentrations of freedpeople to deter most terrorist violence for several years. The impact of a resulting labor shortage in the heart of the plantation region forced rich planters toward relative moderation until a severe depression swept away the possibility of racial coexistence and economic balance.
Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Documents on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Documents on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Texas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Prince of Jockeys
Author: Pellom McDaniels III
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813143853
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Isaac Burns Murphy (1861--1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered one of the finest riders of all time, Murphy was the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times, and his 44 percent win record remains unmatched. Despite his success, Murphy was pushed out of Thoroughbred racing when African American jockeys were forced off the track, and he died in obscurity. In The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy, author Pellom McDaniels III offers the first definitive biography of this celebrated athlete, whose life spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the adoption of Jim Crow legislation. Despite the obstacles he faced, Murphy became an important figure -- not just in sports, but in the social, political, and cultural consciousness of African Americans. Drawing from legal documents, census data, and newspapers, this comprehensive profile explores how Murphy epitomized the rise of the black middle class and contributed to the construction of popular notions about African American identity, community, and citizenship during his lifetime.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813143853
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Isaac Burns Murphy (1861--1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered one of the finest riders of all time, Murphy was the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times, and his 44 percent win record remains unmatched. Despite his success, Murphy was pushed out of Thoroughbred racing when African American jockeys were forced off the track, and he died in obscurity. In The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy, author Pellom McDaniels III offers the first definitive biography of this celebrated athlete, whose life spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the adoption of Jim Crow legislation. Despite the obstacles he faced, Murphy became an important figure -- not just in sports, but in the social, political, and cultural consciousness of African Americans. Drawing from legal documents, census data, and newspapers, this comprehensive profile explores how Murphy epitomized the rise of the black middle class and contributed to the construction of popular notions about African American identity, community, and citizenship during his lifetime.
Freaks of Fortune
Author: Jonathan Levy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071123
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Until the early nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions—insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets—while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk’s rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one’s own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name “financial services industry.” Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century’s waning faith in God’s providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071123
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Until the early nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions—insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets—while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk’s rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one’s own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name “financial services industry.” Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century’s waning faith in God’s providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.
New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky
Author: John David Smith
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813197813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
As a Unionist but also proslavery state during the American Civil War, Kentucky occupied a contentious space both politically and geographically. In many ways, its pragmatic attitude toward compromise left it in a cultural no-man's-land. The constant negotiation between the state's nationalistic and Southern identities left many Kentuckians alienated and conflicted. Lincoln referred to Kentucky as the crown jewel of the Union slave states due to its sizable population, agricultural resources, and geographic position, and these advantages, coupled with the state's difficult relationship to both the Union and slavery, ultimately impacted the outcome of the war. Despite Kentucky's central role, relatively little has been written about the aftermath of the Civil War in the state and how the conflict shaped the commonwealth we know today. New Perspectives on Civil War–Era Kentucky offers readers ten essays that paint a rich and complex image of Kentucky during the Civil War. First appearing in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, these essays cover topics ranging from women in wartime to Black legislators in the postwar period. From diverse perspectives, both inside and outside the state, the contributors shine a light on the complicated identities of Kentucky and its citizens in a defining moment of American history.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813197813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
As a Unionist but also proslavery state during the American Civil War, Kentucky occupied a contentious space both politically and geographically. In many ways, its pragmatic attitude toward compromise left it in a cultural no-man's-land. The constant negotiation between the state's nationalistic and Southern identities left many Kentuckians alienated and conflicted. Lincoln referred to Kentucky as the crown jewel of the Union slave states due to its sizable population, agricultural resources, and geographic position, and these advantages, coupled with the state's difficult relationship to both the Union and slavery, ultimately impacted the outcome of the war. Despite Kentucky's central role, relatively little has been written about the aftermath of the Civil War in the state and how the conflict shaped the commonwealth we know today. New Perspectives on Civil War–Era Kentucky offers readers ten essays that paint a rich and complex image of Kentucky during the Civil War. First appearing in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, these essays cover topics ranging from women in wartime to Black legislators in the postwar period. From diverse perspectives, both inside and outside the state, the contributors shine a light on the complicated identities of Kentucky and its citizens in a defining moment of American history.
Black Family Research
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description