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Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian

By: Francis Butler Simkins

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Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian

By: Francis Butler Simkins

The definitive biography of a controversial South Carolina leader Upon its initial publication in 1944, Pitchfork Ben Tillman was a signal event in the writing of modern South Carolina history. In a biography the Journal of Southern History called "definitive," Francis Butler Simkins, a South Carolinian and Columbia University-educated historian, brings his research skills and professional dispassion to bear upon a study of one of the state's most controversial political leaders. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) accomplished a political revolution in South Carolina when he defeated Governor Wade Hampton and the old guard Bourbons who had run the state since the end of Reconstruction. Tillman and his movement aimed to expand the political control of the state to lower- and middle-class whites at the expense of African Americans and the state's former leaders. During his political ascendancy as governor and then United States Senator, Tillman introduced the state's dispensary system and shaped the state's 1895 constitution into a bulwark of white supremacy. His legacy was one of divisiveness between black and white and between whites of differing economic and geographical backgrounds. Even as Tillman championed greater equity for white farmers and mill workers, he masterminded the pernicious system of segregation and disfranchisement for African Americans during the 1890s when he not only trampled their needs, but stripped them of fundamental political and civil rights. Almost single-handedly Tillman established the iniquities of Jim Crow that countless other Southern demagogues would imitate. These "accomplishments" would plague the South and the nation until this day. Orville Vernon Burton's new introduction to this Southern classic looks at both Tillman and author Francis Simkins as prime examples of southerners with tremendous talent but unsettling accomplishments.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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157003477X

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9781570034770

Tis Sixty Years Since: Address of Charles Francis Adams

By: Charles Francis Adams

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Tis Sixty Years Since: Address of Charles Francis Adams

By: Charles Francis Adams

In the single hour self-allotted for my part in this occasion there is much ground to cover,--the time is short, and I have far to go. Did I now, therefore, submit all I had proposed to say when I accepted your invitation, there would remain no space for preliminaries. Yet something of that character is in place. I will try to make it brief. As the legend or text of what I have in mind to submit, I have given the words "'Tis Sixty Years Since." As some here doubtless recall, this is the second or subordinate title of Walter Scott's first novel, "Waverley," which brought him fame. Given to the world in 1814,--hard on a century ago,--"Waverley" told of the last Stuart effort to recover the crown of Great Britain,--that of "The '45." It so chances that Scott's period of retrospect is also just now most appropriate in my case, inasmuch as I entered Harvard as a student in the year 1853--"sixty years since!" It may fairly be asserted that school life ends, and what may in contradistinction thereto be termed thinking and acting life begins, the day the young man passes the threshold of the institution of more advanced education. For him, life's responsibilities then begin. Prior to that confused, thenceforth things with him become consecutive,--a sequence. Insensibly he puts away childish things.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465503692

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9781465503695

́Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Charles Francis Adams

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́Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Charles Francis Adams

Reproduction of the original: ́Tis Sixty Years Since by Charles Francis Adams

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734066662

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9783734066665

The Infamous Harry Hayward

A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis

By: Shawn Francis Peters

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The Infamous Harry Hayward

A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis

By: Shawn Francis Peters

A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster” On a winter night in 1894, a young woman’s body was found in the middle of a road near Lake Calhoun on the outskirts of Minneapolis. She had been shot through the head. The murder of Kittie Ging, a twenty-nine-year-old dressmaker, was the final act in a melodrama of seduction and betrayal, petty crimes and monstrous deeds that would obsess reporters and their readers across the nation when the man who likely arranged her killing came to trial the following spring. Shawn Francis Peters unravels that sordid, spellbinding story in his account of the trial of Harry Hayward, a serial seducer and schemer whom some deemed a “Svengali,” others a “Machiavelli,” and others a “lunatic” and “man without a soul.” Dubbed “one of the greatest criminals the world has ever seen” by the famed detective William Pinkerton, Harry Hayward was an inveterate and cunning plotter of crimes large and small, dabbling in arson, insurance fraud, counterfeiting, and illegal gambling. His life story, told in full for the first time here, takes us into shadowy corners of the nineteenth century, including mesmerism, psychopathy, spiritualism, yellow journalism, and capital punishment. From the horrible fate of an independent young businesswoman who challenged Victorian mores to the shocking confession of Hayward on the eve of his execution (which, if true, would have made him a serial killer), The Infamous Harry Hayward unfolds a transfixing tale of one of the most notorious criminals in America during the Gilded Age.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452957118

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9781452957111

Defending Life

A Moral and Legal Case against Abortion Choice

By: Francis J. Beckwith

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Defending Life

A Moral and Legal Case against Abortion Choice

By: Francis J. Beckwith

Defending Life is arguably the most comprehensive defense of the pro-life position on abortion - morally, legally, and politically - that has ever been published in an academic monograph. It offers a detailed and critical analysis of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey as well as arguments by those who defend a Rawlsian case for abortion-choice, such as J. J. Thomson. The author defends the substance view of persons as the view with the most explanatory power. The substance view entails that the unborn is a subject of moral rights from conception. While defending this view, the author responds to the arguments of thinkers such as Boonin, Dworkin, Stretton, Ford and Brody. He also critiques Thomson's famous violinist argument and its revisions by Boonin and McDonagh. Defending Life includes chapters critiquing arguments found in popular politics and the controversy over cloning and stem cell research.

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482

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Cambridge University Press

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1139466429

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9781139466424

Atlas of American Indian Affairs

By: Francis Paul Prucha

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Atlas of American Indian Affairs

By: Francis Paul Prucha

Provides historical and current information on Native Americans such as culture and tribal areas, U.S. census information, land cessions, reservations, schools, hospitals, and agencies

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234

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803236891

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9780803236899

History and Its Images

Art and the Interpretation of the Past

By: Francis Haskell

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History and Its Images

Art and the Interpretation of the Past

By: Francis Haskell

Over the last four centuries, historians have turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this book, an art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material and examines the objects that became available to them.

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Yale University Press

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0300059493

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9780300059496

Order of Exercises. The Following is the Order of Exereises, Prepared by the Committee, and Distributed at the Meeting

By: Robert Henry Eddy,Francis Greenleaf Pratt

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Order of Exercises. The Following is the Order of Exereises, Prepared by the Committee, and Distributed at the Meeting

By: Robert Henry Eddy,Francis Greenleaf Pratt

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385441153

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9783385441156

Battling for Saipan

By: Francis A. O'Brien

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Battling for Saipan

By: Francis A. O'Brien

When V Amphibious Corps were preparing for the invasion of the Marianas Islands—Saipan, Guam, and Tinian—they were expecting a relatively easy fight. The Japanese appeared to be on the run. As D day for Saipan (the first of the three islands scheduled for conquest) loomed, V Corps planners felt safe in allocating a single army division as corps reserve for the conquest. As Lt. Col. William J. O’Brien’s First Battalion and the 105th Infantry landed on Saipan, they had little idea what was in store for them. Enemy opposition was fierce. For the next several weeks they faced the unremitting terror of nearly continuous combat. For the 105th Infantry, the battle climaxed in an overwhelming Japanese banzai attack July 7, 1944. The regiment suffered more than 900 casualties, almost half of whom were killed in action, including First Battalion’s commander, William O’Brien, who later received the Medal of Honor for his efforts. Throughout the battle, O’Brien provided a stirring example of frontline leadership to his previously untested troops. His story is just as inspiring today.

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Presidio Press

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0307513815

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9780307513816

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Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian

Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian

Tis Sixty Years Since: Address of Charles Francis Adams

Tis Sixty Years Since: Address of Charles Francis Adams

́Tis Sixty Years Since

́Tis Sixty Years Since

The Infamous Harry Hayward

The Infamous Harry Hayward

Defending Life

Defending Life

Atlas of American Indian Affairs

Atlas of American Indian Affairs

History and Its Images

History and Its Images

Order of Exercises. The Following is the Order of Exereises, Prepared by the Committee, and Distributed at the Meeting

Order of Exercises. The Following is the Order of Exereises, Prepared by the Committee, and Distributed at the Meeting

Battling for Saipan

Battling for Saipan

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