The Civil War political tradition : ten portraits of those who formed it /
"Offers biographical sketches of ten prominent Americans who confronted the central issues of the Civil War era-slavery, racism, and equality-evaluating their careers and shedding light on leadership, core American values, and problems plaguing US democracy. Those profiled include John C. Calho...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2023.
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Series: | Nation divided.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Henry Clay: Old Virtues in New Times
- John C. Calhoun: Inveterate Ideologue
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Power of Her Pen
- Frederick Douglass: The Outsider as Resolute Prophet
- Stephen A. Douglas: Overtaken by Polarization
- Jefferson Davis: A Defiant Tradition and Tradition Defied
- Abraham Lincoln: Riding the Storm to Historic Progress
- Horace Greeley: American Enthusiast
- Albion Tourgée: Civil War as a Sustained Clash of Cultures
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Profound Radical
- A Brief Guide to Further Reading
- Index
- Recent books in the series