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Behind the familiar names of the military and political leaders whose names we all know--Lincoln, Davis, Lee, Grant, Sherman, and Jackson, are the people whose lives and hard work defined the Civil War era: abolitionists, slaves, inventors, manufacturers, painters, lawyers, writers, spies, nurses, and preachers. These are the people who helped shape both the war and our ideas about it. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Civil War Era Biographies is a comprehensive collection of articles on roughly 900 individuals from the Civil War era, including people from both the years leading up to the war and the period of Reconstruction that came after. Also included are maps of key battles, a timeline that progresses from President Lincoln's election to the end of the war, and a list of innovations used or developed during the war.
Spanning the era from the end of Reconstruction (1877) to 1920, the entries of this reference were chosen with attention to the people, events, inventions, political developments, organizations, and other forces that led to significant changes in the U.S. in that era. Seventeen initial stand-alone essays describe as many themes.
Uncovers buried Lincoln treasure from the papers of one of Lincoln's private secretaries, John G Nicolay. Through the interviews, Nicolay learned that Lincoln broke off his initial engagement to Mary Todd in 1841, that he suffered from frequent despondency, and that he was constantly anxious that his wife would embarrass him.
By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).
More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett's showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.
These letters of a man deeply concerned about his country, directly involved in political action, and torn, as the Civil War approached, by the conflict between his abolitionist zeal and his Quaker pacifism--letters here collected for the first time and many of them hitherto unpublished--shatter the stereotype of Whittier as "the good gray poet." The many letters to such figures as John Quincy Adams, Charles Sumner, and William Lloyd Garrison form a detailed record of the abolitionist movement from its inception to its merging with the Free Soil party in the 1850s. The first two volumes reproduce all the extant letters from 1828 to 1860, with full annotations. The last volume is selective, excluding several thousand perfunctory items and including only the historically or biographically interesting letters of the last three decades of the poet's life.
In 1860, the country was once again having a presidential election. This election and its results would prove to be one of the most contentious of any that the United States had ever faced since becoming a nation. John Brown had attempted a slavery revolt which caused concern because it went beyond the normal abolition methodology of speeches and editorials degrading slavery. But the revolt had been quickly put down and John Brown had been hung. As the year progressed however, it became very clear that the security of the country was changing; minds were being hardened and sides were being chosen. This change initially manifested itself in the Democratic Presidential convention. The old Democrat Party was torn in two by the failure of the northern and southern Democrats to agree on a platform and a candidate, so consequently two Democrat Party conventions emerged and two Presidential Democratic candidates were on the ballot. However, the new Republican Party, its candidate Abraham Lincoln, and its platform of no slavery in the territories had found a following in the northern states. And to further complicate matters, a fourth party emerged, named the National Union Party, with its slogan. “The Union, the Constitution and the Enforcement of the Laws,” and put forth its own candidate. The election of Abraham Lincoln was seen by the South as a sectional victory for the abolitionists who favored the elimination of slavery. Although the Republican Party platform did not have a plank of slavery elimination, it did have a plank stating that slavery was to be excluded from the territories. The South saw this as an unconstitutional act and also believed that a Republican administration would actively work to eventually eliminate slavery everywhere and consequently, destroy their way of life. So, the southern states began utilizing the method they had threatened since the administration of Andrew Jackson, which was secession. The act of dissolution which most citizens had never seriously considered was now being actively utilized by the slave-holding states. The country immediately looked for solutions to resolve their differences, but these solutions generally involved amending the Constitution in ways beneficial only to the slave-holding states. The Republicans, having just won an election were in no mood to compromise and the seceded states had no inclination to return to the Union they had just left. In addition, the two sections of the country began gearing up for war; the South especially needed the armaments and property that the U.S. Government held on their soil. So, the engagement of wills coalesced at Ft. Sumter; the vital coastal defense and customs facility snuggled squarely in the Charleston harbor. Both sides showed their mettle here and the country slid into the abyss; not emerging as a new nation for four years and after the lives of almost three-quarters of a million men were extinguished. All of these events were printed in the numerous local newspapers which the average citizen relied upon for local news, state news and national news. But the various newspapers were generally edited to present the local editors views on the various subjects under consideration which influenced their readers. There were generally three views, depending in what section of the country you lived. The South was pro-slavery; the North was generally anti-slavery and the Border States could fall into both categories, depending on location. This book is the story of how five of those newspapers reported these happenings to a worried and divisive nation.
An intriguing collection of insider information on little known aspects of commonly used business techniques, instruments, policies, and personalities that influenced the rise of the world's most successful business system. Bulls, Bears, Boom, and Bust: A Historical Encyclopedia of American Business Concepts translates the language of business in an engaging, compelling way. From mercantilism to microchips, indentured servants to venture capitalists, William Penn to Bill Gates, this one-of-a-kind lexicon provides general readers with an accessible introduction to the vernacular of the American business community, while providing business professionals with a handy resource for quick authoritative answers. Divided into five chronological sections, Bulls, Bears, Boom, and Bust ranges from colonial times to the present, charting the dramatic history of business innovations and institutions in the United States. It contains over 200 topical entries that define business-related terms and explain their relevance to American business and economic history. In addition, each section provides information about the people behind the signature developments in American business (innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs, namesakes of familiar companies, key political figures).
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