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Andrew Johnson

A Biography

By: Hans Louis Trefousse

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Andrew Johnson

A Biography

By: Hans Louis Trefousse

A study of President Johnson's public life and achievements as the man who succeeded Lincoln to the presidency in a time of political upheaval.

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0393317420

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Rutherford B. Hayes

The American Presidents Series: The 19th President, 1877-1881

By: Hans Trefousse

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Rutherford B. Hayes

The American Presidents Series: The 19th President, 1877-1881

By: Hans Trefousse

A leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle of 2000 The disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, in which Congress set up a special electoral commission, handing the disputed electoral votes to Hayes, brings recent events into sharp focus. Historian Hans L. Trefousse explores Hayes's new relevance and reconsiders what many have seen as the pitfalls of his presidency. While Hayes did officially terminate the Reconstruction, Trefousse points out that this process was already well under way by the start of his term and there was little he could do to stop it. A great intellectual and one of our best-educated presidents, Hayes did much more in the way of healing the nation and elevating the presidency.

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Times Books

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1466871784

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9781466871786

First Among Equals

Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration

By: Hans Louis Trefousse

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First Among Equals

Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration

By: Hans Louis Trefousse

In this book, a leading historian finally takes the full measure of Lincoln's reputation. Drawing on a range of primary documents - speeches, newspaper accounts and editorials, private letters, memoirs, and other sources - Hans L. Trefousse gives us the voices of Lincoln's own time. From citizens North and South, at home and abroad, here are politicians and ordinary people, soldiers and statesmen, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, in a rich chorus of American opinion. Trefousse carefully crafts a clear picture of how his contemporaries measured Lincoln's great strengths - and shortcomings."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823224686

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9780823224685

Thaddeus Stevens

Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian

By: Hans L. Trefousse

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Thaddeus Stevens

Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian

By: Hans L. Trefousse

One of the most controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, Thaddeus Stevens is best remembered for his role as congressional leader of the radical Republicans and as a chief architect of Reconstruction. Long painted by historians as a vindictive 'dictator of Congress,' out to punish the South at the behest of big business and his own ego, Stevens receives a more balanced treatment in Hans L. Trefousse's biography, which portrays him as an impassioned orator and a leader in the struggle against slavery. Trefousse traces Stevens's career through its major phases: from his days in the Pennsylvania state legislature, when he antagonized Freemasons, slaveholders, and Jacksonian Democrats, to his political involvement during Reconstruction, when he helped author the Fourteenth Amendment and spurred on the passage of the Reconstruction Acts and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Throughout, Trefousse explores the motivations for Stevens's lifelong commitment to racial equality, thus furnishing a fuller portrait of the man whose fervent opposition to slavery helped move his more moderate congressional colleagues toward the implementation of egalitarian policies.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807864994

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9780807864999

First Among Equals

Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration

By: Hans Louis Trefousse

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Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961

By: Hans Louis Trefousse,Tom Wicker

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961

By: Hans Louis Trefousse,Tom Wicker

An American icon and hero faces a nation--and a world--in transition, as seen in this retrospective of the popular president's career.

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Macmillan

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0805069070

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9780805069075

The Radical Republicans

By: Hans L. Trefousse

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The Radical Republicans

By: Hans L. Trefousse

This is the story of the men who, as political realists, fought for the cause of racial reform in America before, during, and after the Civil War. Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, Benjamin F. Wade, and Zachariah Chandler are the central figures in Mr. Trefousse's study of the Radical Republicans who steered a course between the extreme abolitionists on the one hand and the more cautious gradualists on the other, as they strove to break the slaveholder's domination of the federal government andthen to wrest from the postbellum South an acknowledgment of the civil rights of the Negro. The author delineates their key role in founding the Republican party and follows their struggle to keep the party firm in its opposition to the expansion of slavery, to commit it to emancipation, and finally to make it the party of racial justice. This is the story as well of the tangled relationship of the Radical Republicans with Abraham Lincoln—a relationship of both quarrels and mutual support. The author stresses the similarity between Lincoln's ultimate aims and those of the Radical Republicans, demonstrating that without Lincoln's support Sumner and his colleagues could never have accomplished their ends—and that without their help Lincoln might not have succeeded in crushing the rebellion and putting an end to the slavery. And he argues that by 1865 Lincoln's Reconstruction policies were nearing those of the Radicals and that, had he lived, they would not have broken with him as they did with his successor. Lincoln's assassination left the Radicals with no means to translate their demands into effective action. Their efforts to remake the South in such a way as to secure justice for the Negro brought them into conflict with President Johnson, in whose impeachment they played a leading role. Although they succeeded in initiating congressional Reconstruction and adding the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, the Radicals lost power after the failure of the Johnson impeachment. Mr. Trefousse shows how, despite their declining influence throughout the 1870s, their accomplishments helped make possible—a century later—the resumption of the struggle for civil rights.

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Knopf

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0804153922

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Thaddeus Stevens

Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian

By: Hans L. Trefousse

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Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian

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National Monuments and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany

By: Hans A. Pohlsander

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National Monuments and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany

By: Hans A. Pohlsander

No century in modern European history has built monuments with more enthusiasm than the 19th. Of the hundreds of monuments erected, those which sprang from a nation-wide initiative and addressed themselves to a nation, rather than part of a nation, we may call national monuments. Nelson's Column in London or the Arc de Triomphe in Paris are obvious examples. In Germany the 19th century witnessed a veritable flood of monuments, many of which rank as national monuments. These reflected and contributed to a developing sense of national identity and the search for national unity; they also document an unsuccessful effort to create a «genuinely German» style. They constitute a historical record, quite apart from aesthetic appeal or ideological message. As this historical record is examined, German national monuments of the 19th century are described and interpreted against the background of the nationalism which gave birth to them.

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Peter Lang

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3039113526

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German Monuments in the Americas

Bonds Across the Atlantic

By: Hans A. Pohlsander

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German Monuments in the Americas

Bonds Across the Atlantic

By: Hans A. Pohlsander

This book looks at the many transatlantic bonds which have linked and still link Germany and the United States. German immigrants to the Americas brought with them a good deal of cultural baggage. They cultivated their German heritage in their schools, churches, and clubs. They expressed pride in this heritage by erecting monuments to Goethe or Schiller, Beethoven or Wagner, Alexander von Humboldt or «Turnvater» Jahn. They claimed Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Carl Schurz, Gustave Koerner, and John A. Roebling as their own. But German-born or German-trained sculptors did not limit themselves to German subjects. They also paid tribute to America by creating sculptures of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and others who occupy a place of honor in American history. While a few German monuments can be found in Canada and in Latin America, the number of German monuments in the United States is surprisingly large. These monuments illustrate the contribution - often overlooked or ignored - of the German-American community to American society and American cultural life.

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Peter Lang

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3034301383

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The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office

By: Hans-Adolph Jacobsen,Arthur L. Smith Jr.

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The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office

By: Hans-Adolph Jacobsen,Arthur L. Smith Jr.

The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office explores the struggle between entrenched diplomats in the Foreign Office and Party loyalists, who presumed that with the assumption of power in 1933 total state control was theirs.

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Routledge

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1135906726

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Rutherford B. Hayes

The American Presidents Series: The 19th President, 1877-1881

By: Hans Trefousse

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Rutherford B. Hayes

The American Presidents Series: The 19th President, 1877-1881

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Times Books

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1466871784

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The Radical Republicans

By: Hans L. Trefousse

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The Radical Republicans

By: Hans L. Trefousse

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The Mainstream of Civilization

By: Joseph Reese Strayer,Hans Wilhelm Gatzke

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The Mainstream of Civilization

By: Joseph Reese Strayer,Hans Wilhelm Gatzke

Traces the history of the world's major civilizations discussing their special characteristics and contributions.

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0155515683

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The Mainstream of Civilization

By: Joseph R. Strayer,Hans W. Gatzke

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The Mainstream of Civilization

By: Joseph R. Strayer,Hans W. Gatzke

Traces the history of the world's major civilizations discussing their special characteristics and contributions.

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Harcourt Brace College Publishers

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015551573X

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Andrew Johnson

By: Megan M. Gunderson

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Andrew Johnson

By: Megan M. Gunderson

This biography introduces readers to Andrew Johnson, including his career as a tailor, early political career, and key events from Johnson's administration including Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Johnson's impeachment. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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Carl Schurz

A Biography

By: Hans Louis Trefousse

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Carl Schurz

A Biography

By: Hans Louis Trefousse

The biography of Carl Schurz is a story of an amazing life. At the age of 19, Schurz, a student at the University of Bonn, became involved in the Revolution of 1848. Participating in the revolutionary army, he managed to escape through a sewer during the siege of Rastatt, flee across the Rhine to France, and come back to rescue his professor, Gottfried Kinkel, from a jail near Berlin. This deed made him famous, and when he came to American in 1852, Schurz was nominated for lieutenant governor of Wisconsin on the Republican ticket. He quickly rose in the party and was the head of the Wisconsin delegation at the 1860 National Convention. He worked hard for the cause, and Lincoln rewarded him with the post of Minister to Spain. At the outbreak of war he returned to join the Union Army, became a Major General, and took part in several important battles. After the war, he moved to Missouri, was elected Senator from that State, and became a role model for his fellow German Americans. In 1871 he became one of the main figures in the Liberal Republican movement, and in 1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him Secretary of the Interior. After his retirement from the cabinet, Schurz became active in the politics of New York, as an advocate of municipal and civil service reform. He was a leading Mugwump who supported Grover Cleveland in 1884 and at the end of his life became a violent opponent of imperialism. He died in 1906. Carl Schurz, the man, his story, his ideals and his example, are particularly appropriate today because of the light his life sheds on the never-ending problems of immigration, assimilation, and the retention of ethnic identity. Carl Schurz's career furnishes a model example for all of these.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823218554

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"First Among Equals"

Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration

By: Hans L. Trefousse

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"First Among Equals"

Abraham Lincoln's Reputation During His Administration

By: Hans L. Trefousse

One hundred and forty years after his assassination on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln towers more than ever above the landscape of American politics. In myth and memory, he is always the Great Emancipator and savior of the Union, second in stature only to George Washington. But was Lincoln always so exalted? Was he, as some historians argue, a poor President, deeply disliked, whose legacy was ennobled only by John Wilkes Booth's bullet? In this fascinating book, a leading historian finally takes the full measure of Lincoln's reputation. Drawing on a remarkable range of primary documents, speeches, newspaper accounts and editorials, private letters, memoirs, and other sources--Hans L. Trefousse gives us the voices of Lincoln's own time. From North and South, at home and abroad, here are politicians and ordinary people, soldiers and statesmen, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, in a rich chorus of American opinion. The result is a masterly portrait of Lincoln the President in the eyes of his fellow Americans.

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0823290697

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961

By: Hans Louis Trefousse,Tom Wicker

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961

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An American icon and hero faces a nation--and a world--in transition, as seen in this retrospective of the popular president's career.

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0805069070

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Carl Schurz

A Biography

By: Hans Trefousse

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A Biography

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Before Watergate

Problems of Corruption in American Society

By: Abraham Seldin Eisenstadt,Ari Hoogenboom,Hans Louis Trefousse

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Before Watergate

Problems of Corruption in American Society

By: Abraham Seldin Eisenstadt,Ari Hoogenboom,Hans Louis Trefousse

This fourth volume in the Brooklyn Studies in Society and Change series, originally published by Brooklyn College Press, represents conference proceedings which address one of the least understood aspects of American history and political culture) corruption. These essays primarily explore the nature and incidence of American political corruption. Co-published with Atlantic Research Publications, Inc.

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0819155624

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