Author: Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln and the Union
Author: Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Commander in Chief
Author: Geoffrey Perret
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374531270
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
An award-winning presidential biographer and military historian explains that in choosing to fight un-winnable wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, Presidents Truman, Johnson, and George W. Bush collectively sought to establish a presidency so powerful that they have created a permanent threat to the Constitution.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374531270
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
An award-winning presidential biographer and military historian explains that in choosing to fight un-winnable wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, Presidents Truman, Johnson, and George W. Bush collectively sought to establish a presidency so powerful that they have created a permanent threat to the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln and the Union
Author: Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Abraham Lincoln and the Union
Author: Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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History of the American People
Author: David Saville Muzzey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Lincoln and Emancipation
Author: Edna Greene Medford
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809333643
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this succinct study, Edna Greene Medford examines the ideas and events that shaped President Lincoln’s responses to slavery, following the arc of his ideological development from the beginning of the Civil War, when he aimed to pursue a course of noninterference, to his championing of slavery’s destruction before the conflict ended. Throughout, Medford juxtaposes the president’s motivations for advocating freedom with the aspirations of African Americans themselves, restoring African Americans to the center of the story about the struggle for their own liberation. Lincoln and African Americans, Medford argues, approached emancipation differently, with the president moving slowly and cautiously in order to save the Union while the enslaved and their supporters pressed more urgently for an end to slavery. Despite the differences, an undeclared partnership existed between the president and slaves that led to both preservation of the Union and freedom for those in bondage. Medford chronicles Lincoln’s transition from advocating gradual abolition to campaigning for immediate emancipation for the majority of the enslaved, a change effected by the military and by the efforts of African Americans. The author argues that many players—including the abolitionists and Radical Republicans, War Democrats, and black men and women—participated in the drama through agitation, military support of the Union, and destruction of the institution from within. Medford also addresses differences in the interpretation of freedom: Lincoln and most Americans defined it as the destruction of slavery, but African Americans understood the term to involve equality and full inclusion into American society. An epilogue considers Lincoln’s death, African American efforts to honor him, and the president’s legacy at home and abroad. Both enslaved and free black people, Medford demonstrates, were fervent participants in the emancipation effort, showing an eagerness to get on with the business of freedom long before the president or the North did. By including African American voices in the emancipation narrative, this insightful volume offers a fresh and welcome perspective on Lincoln’s America.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809333643
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In this succinct study, Edna Greene Medford examines the ideas and events that shaped President Lincoln’s responses to slavery, following the arc of his ideological development from the beginning of the Civil War, when he aimed to pursue a course of noninterference, to his championing of slavery’s destruction before the conflict ended. Throughout, Medford juxtaposes the president’s motivations for advocating freedom with the aspirations of African Americans themselves, restoring African Americans to the center of the story about the struggle for their own liberation. Lincoln and African Americans, Medford argues, approached emancipation differently, with the president moving slowly and cautiously in order to save the Union while the enslaved and their supporters pressed more urgently for an end to slavery. Despite the differences, an undeclared partnership existed between the president and slaves that led to both preservation of the Union and freedom for those in bondage. Medford chronicles Lincoln’s transition from advocating gradual abolition to campaigning for immediate emancipation for the majority of the enslaved, a change effected by the military and by the efforts of African Americans. The author argues that many players—including the abolitionists and Radical Republicans, War Democrats, and black men and women—participated in the drama through agitation, military support of the Union, and destruction of the institution from within. Medford also addresses differences in the interpretation of freedom: Lincoln and most Americans defined it as the destruction of slavery, but African Americans understood the term to involve equality and full inclusion into American society. An epilogue considers Lincoln’s death, African American efforts to honor him, and the president’s legacy at home and abroad. Both enslaved and free black people, Medford demonstrates, were fervent participants in the emancipation effort, showing an eagerness to get on with the business of freedom long before the president or the North did. By including African American voices in the emancipation narrative, this insightful volume offers a fresh and welcome perspective on Lincoln’s America.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-.
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Quarterly Booklist
Author: Pratt Institute. Free Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Quest of Nations
Author: Theodore Robert Woosnam Lunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania: A History and Guide
Author:
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271038964
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271038964
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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