Author: George Thompson
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The Prison Bard, Or, Poems on Various Subjects
Author: George Thompson
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The Prison Bard; Or, Poems on Various Subjects, Etc
Author: George THOMPSON (Missionary.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The Prison Bard
Author: George Thompson
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Category : Imprisonment
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Category : Imprisonment
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The Prison of Democracy
Author: Sara M. Benson
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520296966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America’s monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian Territory (1825–1854) and Bleeding Kansas (1854–1864), both sites of contestation over slavery and freedom. Author Sara M. Benson argues that Leavenworth reshaped the design of punishment in America by gradually normalizing state-inflicted violence against citizens. Leavenworth’s peculiar architecture illustrates the real roots of mass incarceration—as an explicitly race- and nation-building system that has been ingrained in the very fabric of US history rather than as part of a recent post-war racial history. The book sheds light on the truth of the painful relationship between the carceral state and democracy in the US—a relationship that thrives to this day.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520296966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America’s monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian Territory (1825–1854) and Bleeding Kansas (1854–1864), both sites of contestation over slavery and freedom. Author Sara M. Benson argues that Leavenworth reshaped the design of punishment in America by gradually normalizing state-inflicted violence against citizens. Leavenworth’s peculiar architecture illustrates the real roots of mass incarceration—as an explicitly race- and nation-building system that has been ingrained in the very fabric of US history rather than as part of a recent post-war racial history. The book sheds light on the truth of the painful relationship between the carceral state and democracy in the US—a relationship that thrives to this day.
Moral Problems in American Life
Author: Karen Halttunen
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
American history is filled with moments of grave moral doubt and institutional crisis, with conflicts over fundamental values, with ethical dilemmas and paradoxes. This volume surveys the moral landscape of the American past from slavery to the Vietnam War. Bringing together fourteen of the most original historians practicing today, the book illuminates a critical dimension of American history, even as it shows how historical study contributes to present-day debates about values and the moral life.These essays examine a wide range of questions that have engaged past generations of Americans and persist into the present—questions about the composition of a moral community and the case for civil disobedience, about the appropriate responses to injustices and inequalities, and about the ethical implications of artistic expression, school curricula, sexual behaviors, and popular media. Focusing on the impact of moral problems on everyday experience, the authors consider these questions in light of reform movements and religious practices; changing social institutions such as marriage, public schools, labor unions, and penitentiaries; and enduring moral forces from the Bible to the U.S. Constitution. Together their essays give historical context to a wide variety of American practices and beliefs and, in doing so, provide a new framework for understanding cultural life.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501725491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
American history is filled with moments of grave moral doubt and institutional crisis, with conflicts over fundamental values, with ethical dilemmas and paradoxes. This volume surveys the moral landscape of the American past from slavery to the Vietnam War. Bringing together fourteen of the most original historians practicing today, the book illuminates a critical dimension of American history, even as it shows how historical study contributes to present-day debates about values and the moral life.These essays examine a wide range of questions that have engaged past generations of Americans and persist into the present—questions about the composition of a moral community and the case for civil disobedience, about the appropriate responses to injustices and inequalities, and about the ethical implications of artistic expression, school curricula, sexual behaviors, and popular media. Focusing on the impact of moral problems on everyday experience, the authors consider these questions in light of reform movements and religious practices; changing social institutions such as marriage, public schools, labor unions, and penitentiaries; and enduring moral forces from the Bible to the U.S. Constitution. Together their essays give historical context to a wide variety of American practices and beliefs and, in doing so, provide a new framework for understanding cultural life.
Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Hon. Albert G. Greene
Author: Albert Gorton Greene
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Bibliography of Slavery and Civil War in Missouri
Author: Francis Asbury Sampson
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Missouri Historical Review
Author: Francis Asbury Sampson
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico
Author: George H. Junne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313065055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Through their families, communities, and institutions, these Western Blacks left behind a long history, which is just now beginning to receive systematic scholarly treatment. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history. Entries are organized both geographically and topically, and cover a broad range of subjects including cross-cultural interaction, health, art, and law. Contains a complete compilation of African-American newspapers.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313065055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Through their families, communities, and institutions, these Western Blacks left behind a long history, which is just now beginning to receive systematic scholarly treatment. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history. Entries are organized both geographically and topically, and cover a broad range of subjects including cross-cultural interaction, health, art, and law. Contains a complete compilation of African-American newspapers.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.