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The Battle-field of Bunker Hill, with a Relation of the Action by William Prescott, and Illustrative Documents

By: Richard Frothingham,William Prescott

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The Battle-field of Bunker Hill, with a Relation of the Action by William Prescott, and Illustrative Documents

By: Richard Frothingham,William Prescott

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385503639

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9783385503632

Adams and Calhoun

From Shared Vision to Irreconcilable Conflict

By: William F. Hartford

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Adams and Calhoun

From Shared Vision to Irreconcilable Conflict

By: William F. Hartford

Examines the evolving lives of two men who were crucial political figures in the consequential decades prior to the Civil War Although neither of them lived to see the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun did as much any two political figures of the era to shape the intersectional tensions that produced the conflict. William F. Hartford examines the lives of Adams and Calhoun as a prism through which to view the developing sectional conflict. While both men came of age as strong nationalists, their views, like those of the nation, diverged by the 1830s, largely over the issue of slavery. Hartford examines the two men's responses to issues of nationalism and empire, sectionalism and nullification, slavery and antislavery, party and politics, and also the expansion of slavery. He offers fresh insights into the sectional conflict that also accounts for the role of personal idiosyncrasy and interpersonal relationships in the coming of the Civil War.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643363956

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9781643363950

The Road to Disunion

Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: Volume I

By: William W. Freehling

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The Road to Disunion

Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854: Volume I

By: William W. Freehling

Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, where the egalitarian spirit sweeping the North seeped down through border states already uncertain about slavery, where even sections of the same state (for instance, coastal and mountain Virginia) divided bitterly on key issues. It was the world of Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson, and also of Gullah Jack, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass. Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunion, historian William Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading to secession are here: the Missouri Compromise, the Nullification Controversy, the Gag Rule ("the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy"), the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Freehling vividly recounts each crisis, illuminating complex issues and sketching colorful portraits of major figures. Along the way, he reveals the surprising extent to which slavery influenced national politics before 1850, and he provides important reinterpretations of American republicanism, Jeffersonian states' rights, Jacksonian democracy, and the causes of the American Civil War. But for all Freehling's brilliant insight into American antebellum politics, Secessionists at Bay is at bottom the saga of the rich social tapestry of the pre-war South. He takes us to old Charleston, Natchez, and Nashville, to the big house of a typical plantation, and we feel anew the tensions between the slaveowner and his family, the poor whites and the planters, the established South and the newer South, and especially between the slave and his master, "Cuffee" and "Massa." Freehling brings the Old South back to life in all its color, cruelty, and diversity. It is a memorable portrait, certain to be a key analysis of this crucial era in American history.

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Oxford University Press

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0199840326

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Logic and Experience

The Origin of Modern American Legal Education

By: William P. LaPiana

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Logic and Experience

The Origin of Modern American Legal Education

By: William P. LaPiana

The 19th century saw dramatic changes in the legal education system in the United States. Before the Civil War, lawyers learned their trade primarily through apprenticeship and self-directed study. By the end of the 19th century, the modern legal education system which was developed primarily by Dean Christopher Langdell at Harvard was in place: a bachelor's degree was required for admission to the new model law school, and a law degree was promoted as the best preparation for admission to the bar. William P. LaPiana provides an in-depth study of the intellectual history of the transformation of American legal education during this period. In the process, he offers a revisionist portrait of Langdell, the Dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1900, and the earliest proponent for the modern method of legal education, as well as portraying for the first time the opposition to the changes at Harvard.

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Oxford University Press

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019535995X

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The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought

Law and Ideology in America, 1886-1937

By: William M. Wiecek

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The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought

Law and Ideology in America, 1886-1937

By: William M. Wiecek

This volume examines legal ideology in the US from the height of the Gilded Age through the time of the New Deal, when the Supreme Court began to discard orthodox thought in favour of more modernist approaches to law. Wiecek places this era of legal thought in its historical context, integrating social, economic, and intellectual analyses.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195147138

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Faux's Memorable Days in America

Reprint of the Original Edition: London 1823

By: W. Faux

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Faux's Memorable Days in America

Reprint of the Original Edition: London 1823

By: W. Faux

An Englishman travels to America. Odd story of being given the gift of a slave on p. 102. Considerable commentary on land and farming in addition to the usual comments on Americans and their character.

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Applewood Books

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142900083X

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The American Biographical Dictionary

By: William Allen

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The American Biographical Dictionary

By: William Allen

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382330717

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The Christian College (RenewedMinds)

A History of Protestant Higher Education in America

By: William C. Ringenberg

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The Christian College (RenewedMinds)

A History of Protestant Higher Education in America

By: William C. Ringenberg

When it first appeared in 1984 The Christian College was the first modern comprehensive history of Protestant higher education in America. Now this second edition updates the history, featuring a new chapter on the developments of the past two decades, a major introduction by Mark Noll, a new preface and epilogue, and a series of instructive appendixes.

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Baker Books

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1441241876

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9781441241870

A Companion to the Mercersburg Theology

Evangelical Catholicism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

By: William B. Evans

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A Companion to the Mercersburg Theology

Evangelical Catholicism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

By: William B. Evans

This volume tells the story of a mid-nineteenth-century theological movement emanating from the small German Reformed Seminary in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, where John Williamson Nevin and Philip Schaff taught. There they explored themes--such as the centrality of the incarnation for theology, the importance of the church as the body of Christ and the sphere of salvation, liturgical and sacramental worship, and the organic historical development of the church and its doctrines--that continue to resonate today with many who seek a deeper and more historically informed expression of the Christian faith that is both evangelical and catholic.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498207456

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9781498207454

Baseball

The Presidents' Game

By: William B. Mead,Paul Dickson

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Baseball

The Presidents' Game

By: William B. Mead,Paul Dickson

Looks at the long-standing love between baseball and its forerunners and all of the presidents of the United States

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802775152

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9780802775153

Imputation and Impartation

Union with Christ in American Reformed Theology

By: William B. Evans

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Imputation and Impartation

Union with Christ in American Reformed Theology

By: William B. Evans

This book explores the history of the theme of 'union with Christ' in the Reformed tradition. After chapters on the legacy of Calvin and Reformed Orthodoxy, the author uncovers three trajectories in American Reformed theology in which salvation as union with Christ is understood in remarkably different ways. The subsequent twentieth-century history of the theme is also explored. This detailed examination of New England Calvinism, Princeton Calvinism, and the Mercersburg Theology highlights the historic diversity present in Reformed thought, and the implications of that diversity for contemporary Evangelical and Reformed thought.

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160608478X

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A Record of the Descendants of Capt. George Denison, of Stonington, Conn. With Notices of his Father and Brothers, and Some Account of Other Denisons who Settled in America in the Colony Times

By: John D. Baldwin,William Clift

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A Record of the Descendants of Capt. George Denison, of Stonington, Conn. With Notices of his Father and Brothers, and Some Account of Other Denisons who Settled in America in the Colony Times

By: John D. Baldwin,William Clift

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3368858343

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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

By: William J. Cooper

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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

By: William J. Cooper

“A vivid and convincing account of one of the most significant—but too often overlooked—figures in our history.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as an aloof intellectual. Viciously assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from defeat in 1828’s presidential election to lead the nation as a lonely Massachusetts congressman in the fight against slavery. Award-winning historian William J. Cooper’s “balanced, wellsourced, and accessible work” (Publishers Weekly) demonstrates that Adams should be considered our lost Founding Father, his moral and political vision the final link to the visionaries who created our nation. With his heroic arguments in the Amistad trial forever memorialized, Adams stood strong against the expansion of slavery that would send the nation hurtling into war. This “well-crafted” (William McFeely) biography reveals Adams to be one of the most battered, but courageous and inspirational, politicians in American history.

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Liveright Publishing

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1631493892

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9781631493898

Herndon on Lincoln

Letters

By: William H. Herndon

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Herndon on Lincoln

Letters

By: William H. Herndon

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon began work on a brief, "subjective" biography of his former law partner, but his research turned up such unexpected and often startling information that it became a lifelong obsession. The biography finally published in 1889, Herndon's Lincoln, was a collaboration with Jesse W. Weik in which Herndon provided the materials and Weik did almost all the writing. For this reason, and because so much of what Herndon had to say about Lincoln was not included in the biography, David Donald has observed, "To understand Herndon's own rather peculiar approach to Lincoln biography, one must go back to his letters." An exhaustive collection of what Herndon was told by others about Lincoln was published by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis in Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln . In this new volume, Wilson and Davis have produced a comprehensive edition of what Herndon himself wrote about Lincoln in his own letters. Because of Herndon's close association with Lincoln, his intimate acquaintance with his partner's legal and political careers, and because he sought out informants who knew Lincoln and preserved information that might otherwise have been lost, his letters have become an indispensable resource for Lincoln biography. Unfiltered by a collaborator and rendered in Herndon's own distinctive voice, these letters constitute a matchless trove of primary source material. Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must for libraries, research institutions, and students of a towering American figure and his times.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097920

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9780252097928

Constitutional Construction

Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning

By: Keith E. Whittington,William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Politics Keith E Whittington

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Constitutional Construction

Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning

By: Keith E. Whittington,William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Politics Keith E Whittington

This book argues that the Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect, on which legal scholars have focused, is the degree to which the Constitution acts as a binding set of rules that can be neutrally interpreted and externally enforced by the courts against government actors. This is the process of constitutional interpretation. But according to Keith Whittington, the Constitution also permeates politics itself, to guide and constrain political actors in the very process of making public policy. In so doing, it is also dependent on political actors, both to formulate authoritative constitutional requirements and to enforce those fundamental settlements in the future. Whittington characterizes this process, by which constitutional meaning is shaped within politics at the same time that politics is shaped by the Constitution, as one of construction as opposed to interpretation. Whittington goes on to argue that ambiguities in the constitutional text and changes in the political situation push political actors to construct their own constitutional understanding. The construction of constitutional meaning is a necessary part of the political process and a regular part of our nation's history, how a democracy lives with a written constitution. The Constitution both binds and empowers government officials. Whittington develops his argument through intensive analysis of four important cases: the impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson, the nullification crisis, and reforms of presidential-congressional relations during the Nixon presidency.

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Harvard University Press

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0674045157

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The Battle-field of Bunker Hill, with a Relation of the Action by William Prescott, and Illustrative Documents

The Battle-field of Bunker Hill, with a Relation of the Action by William Prescott, and Illustrative Documents

Adams and Calhoun

Adams and Calhoun

The Road to Disunion

The Road to Disunion

Logic and Experience

Logic and Experience

The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought

The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought

Faux's Memorable Days in America

Faux's Memorable Days in America

The American Biographical Dictionary

The American Biographical Dictionary

The Christian College (RenewedMinds)

The Christian College (RenewedMinds)

A Companion to the Mercersburg Theology

A Companion to the Mercersburg Theology

Baseball

Baseball

Imputation and Impartation

Imputation and Impartation

A Record of the Descendants of Capt. George Denison, of Stonington, Conn. With Notices of his Father and Brothers, and Some Account of Other Denisons who Settled in America in the Colony Times

A Record of the Descendants of Capt. George Denison, of Stonington, Conn. With Notices of his Father and Brothers, and Some Account of Other Denisons who Settled in America in the Colony Times

The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

Herndon on Lincoln

Herndon on Lincoln

Constitutional Construction

Constitutional Construction

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