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The Fall of Kentucky's Rock

Western Kentucky Democratic Politics since the New Deal

By: George G. Humphreys

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The Fall of Kentucky's Rock

Western Kentucky Democratic Politics since the New Deal

By: George G. Humphreys

This in-depth study offers a new examination of a region that is often overlooked in political histories of the Bluegrass State. George G. Humphreys traces the arc of politics and the economy in western Kentucky from avid support of the Democratic Party to its present-day Republican identity. He demonstrates that, despite its relative geographic isolation, the region west of the eastern boundary of Hancock, Ohio, Butler, Warren, and Simpson Counties to the Mississippi River played significant roles in state and national politics during the New Deal and postwar eras. Drawing on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, Humphreys explores the area's political transformation from a solid Democratic voting bloc to a conservative stronghold by examining how developments such as advances in agriculture, the diversification of the economy, and the civil rights movement affected the region. Addressing notable deficiencies in the existing literature, this impressively researched study will leave readers with a deeper understanding of post-1945 Kentucky politics.

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390

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University Press of Kentucky

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ISBN 10

0813182344

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9780813182346

God's Almost Chosen Peoples

A Religious History of the American Civil War

By: George C. Rable

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God's Almost Chosen Peoples

A Religious History of the American Civil War

By: George C. Rable

Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the war. Examining a wide range of published and unpublished documents--including sermons, official statements from various churches, denominational papers and periodicals, and letters, diaries, and newspaper articles--Rable illuminates the broad role of religion during the Civil War, giving attention to often-neglected groups such as Mormons, Catholics, blacks, and people from the Trans-Mississippi region. The book underscores religion's presence in the everyday lives of Americans north and south struggling to understand the meaning of the conflict, from the tragedy of individual death to victory and defeat in battle and even the ultimate outcome of the war. Rable shows that themes of providence, sin, and judgment pervaded both public and private writings about the conflict. Perhaps most important, this volume--the only comprehensive religious history of the war--highlights the resilience of religious faith in the face of political and military storms the likes of which Americans had never before endured.

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599

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807899313

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9780807899311

Slave And Freeman

The Autobiography of George L. Knox

By: George Knox

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Slave And Freeman

The Autobiography of George L. Knox

By: George Knox

Born in Tennessee in 1841, George L. Knox survived slavery and service with both Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War and afterward made his way north to find a chilly reception in Indiana. His autobiography covers the first 44 years of his life and tells how he persevered against threats, harassment, and physical intimidation to become a leading citizen of Indianapolis and an important figure of the Republican Party.

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307

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University Press of Kentucky

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ISBN 10

0813194164

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9780813194165

History of Florida

By: George Fairbanks

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History of Florida

By: George Fairbanks

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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358

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368137212

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9783368137212

But There Was No Peace

The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction

By: George C. Rable

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But There Was No Peace

The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction

By: George C. Rable

This is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony. Historians have often stressed the limited and even conservative nature of Federal policy in the Reconstruction South. However, George C. Rable argues, white southerners saw the intent and the results of that policy as revolutionary. Violence therefore became a counterrevolutionary instrument, placing the South in a pattern familiar to students of world revolution.

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282

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University of Georgia Press

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0820330116

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9780820330112

Mississippi

By: Charles George,Linda George

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Mississippi

By: Charles George,Linda George

Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of Mississippi.

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148

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Children's Press(CT)

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0516206885

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9780516206882

Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South, 1861-1865

By: George Edmonds

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Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South, 1861-1865

By: George Edmonds

Elizabeth Avery Meriwether was the author of many books, giving accurate and vivid descriptions of historical incidents of importance in the South. Her plots were widely regarded as skillfully conceived and developed, told with remarkable vigor, and true pictures of conditions that were passing away, making her books important additions to the literature of old Southern life. “Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War of the South of 1861 and 1865,” which she wrote under the pen name George Edmonds and first published in 1904, was considered by Meriwether herself to be the most valuable book that she ever wrote or could write, because in it she told the truth about historical events: “This little work is offered. It does not aspire to the dignity of History. It is mostly a collection of facts under one cover, which I trust will prove of use to the future historians of the South. Perhaps the fittest title to this work would be “A Protest Against Injustice”—the injustice of misrepresentation—of false charges—of lies. The feeling of injustice certainly inspired the idea of this work. The greater number of the facts herein laid before the reader were not drawn from Southern or Democratic sources, but from high Republican authorities. Part first of this work presents Abraham Lincoln to the people of this generation as his contemporaries saw and knew him. The characteristics portrayed will be a revelation to many readers.”

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499

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789120497

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9781789120493

The Fall of Kentucky's Rock

Western Kentucky Democratic Politics since the New Deal

By: George G. Humphreys

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The Fall of Kentucky's Rock

Western Kentucky Democratic Politics since the New Deal

By: George G. Humphreys

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University Press of Kentucky

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Book's by George G. Humphreys

The Fall of Kentucky's Rock

The Fall of Kentucky's Rock

God's Almost Chosen Peoples

God's Almost Chosen Peoples

Slave And Freeman

Slave And Freeman

History of Florida

History of Florida

But There Was No Peace

But There Was No Peace

Mississippi

Mississippi

Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South, 1861-1865

Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South, 1861-1865

The Fall of Kentucky's Rock

The Fall of Kentucky's Rock

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