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Confessions Of An Umpire With An Attitude

By: Durwood Merrill,Jim Dent

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You're Out and You're Ugly, Too!

Confessions Of An Umpire With An Attitude

By: Durwood Merrill,Jim Dent

In the tradition of Ron Luciano's bestselling "The Umpire Strikes Back", Durwood Merrill, baseball's most outspoken umpire offers two decades' worth of his sometimes hilarious, always controversial opinions on managers, life on the diamond, the players, and more. of photos.

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306

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Macmillan

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0312182376

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9780312182373

Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861

By: Durwood Ball

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Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861

By: Durwood Ball

Unlike previous histories, this book argues that the politics of slavery profoundly influenced the western mission of the regular army - affecting the hearts and minds of officers and enlisted men both as the nation plummented toward civil war."--BOOK JACKET.

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332

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806133120

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9780806133126

An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South

Ezekiel Birdseye on Slavery, Capitalism, and Separate Statehood in East Tennessee, 1841-1846

By: Ezekiel Birdseye,Durwood Dunn

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An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South

Ezekiel Birdseye on Slavery, Capitalism, and Separate Statehood in East Tennessee, 1841-1846

By: Ezekiel Birdseye,Durwood Dunn

This volume, a collection of letters written by an abolitionist businessman who lived in East Tennessee prior to the Civil War, provides one of the clearest firsthand views yet published of a region whose political, social, and economic distinctions have intrigued historians for more than a century." "Between 1841 and 1846, Birdseye expressed his views and observations in letters to Gerrit Smith, a prominent New York reformer who arranged to have many of them published in antislavery newspapers such as the Emancipator and Friend of Man." "Those letters, reproduced in this book, drew on Birdseye's extensive conversations with slaveholders, nonslaveholders, and the slaves themselves. He found that East Tennesseans, on the whole, were antislavery in sentiment, susceptible to rational abolitionist appeal, and generally far more lenient toward individual slaves than were other southerners. Opposed to slavery on economic as well as moral grounds, Birdseye sought to establish a free labor colony in East Tennessee in the early 1840s and actively supported the region's abortive effort in 1842 to separate itself from the rest of the state."--[book jacket].

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328

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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0870499645

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9780870499647

The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism

By: Durwood Dunn

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The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism

By: Durwood Dunn

The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism addresses a much-neglected topic in both Appalachian and Civil War history—the role of organized religion in the sectional strife and the war itself. Meticulously researched, well written, and full of fresh facts, this new book brings an original perspective to the study of the conflict and the region. In many important respects, the actual Civil War that began in 1861 unveiled an internal civil war within the Holston Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South—comprising churches in southwestern Virginia, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and a small portion of northern Georgia—that had been waged surreptitiously for the previous five decades. This work examines the split within the Methodist Church that occurred with mounting tensions over the slavery question and the rise of the Confederacy. Specifically, it looks at how the church was changing from its early roots as a reform movement grounded in a strong local pastoral ministry to a church with a more intellectual, professionalized clergy that often identified with Southern secessionists. The author has mined an exhaustive trove of primary sources, especially the extensive, yet often-overlooked minutes from frequent local and regional Methodist gatherings. He has also explored East Tennessee newspapers and other published works on the topic. The author’s deep research into obscure church records and other resources results not only in a surprising interpretation of the division within the Methodist Church but also new insights into the roles of African Americans, women, and especially lay people and local clergy in the decades prior to the war and through its aftermath. In addition, Dunn presents important information about what the inner Civil War was like in East Tennessee, an area deeply divided between Union and Confederate sympathizers. Students and scholars of religious history, southern history, and Appalachian studies will be enlightened by this volume and its bold new way of looking at the history of the Methodist Church and this part of the nation.

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281

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1621900169

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9781621900160

John C. Calhoun and the Roots of War

By: Thomas A. Durwood,Teresa Noel Celsi

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John C. Calhoun and the Roots of War

By: Thomas A. Durwood,Teresa Noel Celsi

A biography of the senator from South Carolina who fought for the South's interests and to keep the institution of slavery.

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140

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0382240456

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9780382240454

You're Out and You're Ugly, Too!

Confessions Of An Umpire With An Attitude

By: Durwood Merrill,Jim Dent

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Confessions Of An Umpire With An Attitude

By: Durwood Merrill,Jim Dent

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Macmillan

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You're Out and You're Ugly, Too!

You're Out and You're Ugly, Too!

Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861

Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861

An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South

An Abolitionist in the Appalachian South

The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism

The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism

John C. Calhoun and the Roots of War

John C. Calhoun and the Roots of War

You're Out and You're Ugly, Too!

You're Out and You're Ugly, Too!

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