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The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas

Persistence in the Midst of Ruin

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

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The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas

Persistence in the Midst of Ruin

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

This groundbreaking study, first published in 1994, draws on a rich variety of primary sources to describe Arkansas society before, during, and after the Civil War. While the Civil War devastated the state, this book shows how those who were powerful before the war reclaimed their dominance during Reconstruction. Most importantly, the white elite's postwar commitment to a cotton economy led them to set up a sharecropping system very much like slavery, in which workers had little control over their own labor. In arguing for both change and continuity, Moneyhon reconciles contemporary accounts of the war's effects while addressing ongoing debates within the historical literature.

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University of Arkansas Press

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155728735X

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Texas After The Civil War

The Struggle Of Reconstruction

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

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Texas After The Civil War

The Struggle Of Reconstruction

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.

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Texas A&M University Press

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158544362X

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The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

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The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

The Republican Union League of America played a major role in the Southern Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. A secret organization introduced into Texas in 1867 to mobilize newly enfranchised black voters, it was the first political body that attempted to secure power by forming a biracial coalition. Originally intended by white Unionists simply to marshal black voters to their support, it evolved into an organization that allowed blacks to pursue their own political goals. It was abandoned by the state’s Republican Party following the 1871 state elections. From the beginning the use of the league by the Republican party proved controversial. While its opponents charged that its white leadership simply manipulated ignorant blacks to achieve power for themselves, ultimately encouraging racial conflict, the League not only educated blacks in their new political rights but also protected them in the exercise of those rights. It gave blacks a voice in supporting the legislative program of Gov. Edmund J. Davis, helping him to push through laws aimed at the maintenance of law and order, securing basic civil rights for blacks, and the creation of public schools. Ultimately, its success and its secrecy provoked hostile attacks from political opponents, leading the party to stop using it. Nonetheless, the Union League created a legacy of black activism that lasted throughout the nineteenth century and pushed Texas toward a remarkably different world from the segregated and racist one that developed after the league disappeared.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623499577

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Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

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Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

In Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929 Carl Moneyhon examines the struggle of Arkansas's people to enter the economic and social mainstreams of the nation in the years from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of the Great Depression. Economic changes brought about by development of the timber industry, exploitation of the rich coal fields in the western part of the state, discovery of petroleum, and building of manufacturing industries transformed social institutions and fostered a demographic shift from rural to urban settings.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610750284

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Edmund J. Davis of Texas

Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

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Edmund J. Davis of Texas

Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected the ideals of the nation than those of so many of his contemporaries. Carl H. Moneyhon presents a long overdue favorable account of a man who was determined to make progressive changes and stand in stark opposition to the state’s political elite. What moved this man to take such a dramatic stand against his political peers? Moneyhon strives to answer this very question. Edmund J. Davis was not only a part of the political elite during the Civil War, but he also opposed secession. He refused to follow most of Texas’ leaders and actively opposed the Confederacy by attempting to bring Texas back to the Union. After the war, Davis was a leader in reconstructing the state based on true free labor and pursued progressive and egalitarian policies as governor of Texas. Through the entire reconstruction process Davis faced extreme Confederate hostility. After leaving the governor’s mansion an unpopular man and politician, he still remained dedicated to changing Texas. He worked to change his adopted state until the day he died.

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Texas A&M University Press

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0875657508

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Texas After The Civil War

The Struggle Of Reconstruction

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

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The Struggle Of Reconstruction

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Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.

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Dining at the Governor's Mansion

By: Carl McQueary

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Dining at the Governor's Mansion

By: Carl McQueary

You are invited to dine at the Texas Governor’s Mansion, to be the guest of the first ladies and two women governors of the Lone Star State, as they offer (through author Carl McQueary) some of their finest recipes and favorite stories of life in the heart of Austin. The ingredients in Dining at the Governor’s Mansion include one part culinary history and one part social history, along with a generous helping of recipes cooked by Texas first ladies, or (in later years) their personal chefs, from the completion of the Austin mansion in 1856 down to the present. Carl McQueary’s folksy cookbook offers a look at food and its preparation, entertaining at the Mansion, and the challenges the women faced keeping the old home together. It includes brief biographical sketches of the first ladies, who usually orchestrated food service for both family meals and social or political events, and considerable background on the mansion’s infrastructure challenges, interior decoration, landscaping, and restoration. The book also provides an intimate portrait of Texas life during the last century and a half, since the trends in food enjoyed by the governors and their families, especially in their private lives, have been surprisingly similar to those enjoyed by even the humblest of Texas citizens. Most of all, it presents dozens of tasty, appetizing, historic recipes tested by McQueary in his own kitchen and annotated for the contemporary cook. No matter how you slice it up—as Texas history, food history, women’s hisory, or cookbook—Dining at the Governor’s Mansion offers a palate-pleasing smorgasbord for your reading, dining, or gift-giving pleasure.

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1585442542

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Portraits of Conflict

A Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War

By: Carl Moneyhon,Carl H. Moneyhon,Bobby Leon Roberts

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Portraits of Conflict

A Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War

By: Carl Moneyhon,Carl H. Moneyhon,Bobby Leon Roberts

Centering on the common soldier, this photojournalistic album tells the stories of individuals--their heroics, fear, boredom--with some 250 photographs, five maps, and related documents. It also documents, by-the-by, the rise of field photography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557281580

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Edmund J. Davis of Texas

Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

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Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor

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Arkansas and the New South, 1874–1929

By: Carl Moneyhon

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Arkansas and the New South, 1874–1929

By: Carl Moneyhon

This study is the first published in the Histories of Arkansas, a new series that will build a complete chronological history of the state from the colonial period through modern times. Under the general editorship of noted historian Elliott West, this series will include various thematic histories as well as the chronologically arranged core volumes. In Arkansas and the New South, 1874–1929 Carl Moneyhon examines the struggle of Arkansas’s people to enter the economic and social mainstreams of the nation in the years from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of the Great Depression. Economic changes brought about by development of the timber industry, exploitation of the rich coal fields in the western part of the state, discovery of petroleum, and building of manufacturing industries transformed social institutions and fostered a demographic shift from rural to urban settings. Arkansans were notably successful in bringing the New South to their state, relying on individual enterprise and activist government as they integrated more fully into the national economy and society. But by 1929 persistent problems in the still dominant agricultural sector, the onset of the depression, and heightening social tensions arrested progress and dealt the state a major economic setback that would only be overcome in the years following World War II. Expanding upon scholarly articles that merely touch on this era in Arkansas history and delving into pertinent primary sources, Moneyhon offers not only an overall look at the state but also an explanation for the singular path it took during these momentous years.

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1610755529

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Portraits of Conflict

A Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War

By: Carl H. Moneyhon,Bobby Leon Roberts

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A Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War

By: Carl H. Moneyhon,Bobby Leon Roberts

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1557281599

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George T. Ruby

Champion of Equal Rights in Reconstruction Texas

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

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George T. Ruby

Champion of Equal Rights in Reconstruction Texas

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

This is the biography of George T. Ruby, an African American statesman who was active in Texas politics and fought for equal rights for black freedmen in Reconstruction Texas"--

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Texas Christian University Press

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0875657486

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The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas

By: Carl H. Moneyhon

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By: Carl H. Moneyhon

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Portraits of Conflict: a Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War (p)

A Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War

By: Bobby Leon Roberts

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A Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War

By: Bobby Leon Roberts

This book tells stories of the individual: his heroism, his fear, his boredom. With over 250 photographs, five maps, and related documents, Moneyhon and Roberts make immediate the physical and spiritual suffering of the ordinary recruit in his fight for his country and its land. - Publisher.

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1610753151

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Portraits of Conflict

A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War

By: Bobby Leon Roberts,Carl H. Moneyhon

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Portraits of Conflict

A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War

By: Bobby Leon Roberts,Carl H. Moneyhon

This largest volume yet in the University of Arkansas Press's award-winning series on the Civil War deepens our understanding of the nation's costliest human conflict. It tells the stories of the ordinary soldierstheir heroism and fear, the boredom and the miseryin the midst of war. - Publisher.

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1557282609

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Book's by Carl Moneyhon

The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas

The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas

Texas After The Civil War

Texas After The Civil War

The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas

The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas

Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929

Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929

Edmund J. Davis of Texas

Edmund J. Davis of Texas

Texas After The Civil War

Texas After The Civil War

Dining at the Governor's Mansion

Dining at the Governor's Mansion

Portraits of Conflict

Portraits of Conflict

Edmund J. Davis of Texas

Edmund J. Davis of Texas

Arkansas and the New South, 1874–1929

Arkansas and the New South, 1874–1929

Portraits of Conflict

Portraits of Conflict

George T. Ruby

George T. Ruby

The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas

The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas

Portraits of Conflict: a Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War (p)

Portraits of Conflict: a Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War (p)

Portraits of Conflict

Portraits of Conflict

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