Exiled : The Last Days of Sam Houston
Ron Rozelle;Ron Rozelle
After an undisputed record of political achievement—leading the decisive battle for Te...
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Exiled : The Last Days of Sam Houston
2017
After an undisputed record of political achievement—leading the decisive battle for Texas independence at San Jacinto, serving twice as president of the Republic of Texas, twice again as a United States senator after annexation, and finally as governor of Texas—Sam Houston found himself in the winter of his life in a self-imposed exile among the pines of East Texas. Houston was often a bundle of complicated contradictions. He was a spirited advocate for public education but had little formal education himself. He was very much “a Jackson man” but disagreed with his mentor on the treatment of Native Americans. He was a slaveholder who opposed abolition but scuttled his own political reputation by resisting the South's move toward secession . After refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy in 1861 , Houston was swiftly evicted from the governor's office. “Let me tell you what is coming,” he later said from a window at the Tremont Hotel in Galveston. “After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it.” Houston died just two years later, and the nation was indeed fractured. Ron Rozelle's masterful biographical portrait here lingers on Houston's final years, especially as lived out in Huntsville, when so much of his life's work seemed on the verge of coming undone. Artfully written for the general reader, Exiled: The Last Days of Sam Houston is a compelling look at Sam Houston's legacy and twilight years.
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The Annotated Frederick Douglass.
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Atlantic Monthly. Dec2023, Vol. 332 Issue 5, p30-39. 9p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
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The Annotated Frederick Douglass.
Atlantic Monthly. Dec2023, Vol. 332 Issue 5, p30-39. 9p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
"The Annotated Frederick Douglass" is an essay written by Frederick Douglass in 1866, reflecting on the end of slavery and advocating for a transformative and egalitarian Reconstruction of America after the Civil War . Douglass emphasizes the importance of Congress and the nation's decisions during this time, as they will shape the future of the country. He calls for equal rights for all citizens, particularly Black civil and political rights , and warns against the dangers of a privileged class. Douglass criticizes the previous session of Congress for attempting to disenfranchise colored citizens and argues for the enfranchisement of black citizens. [Extracted from the article]
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THE MISTRIAL.
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THE MISTRIAL.
New Yorker. 12/11/2023, Vol. 99 Issue 41, p14-19. 6p. 4 Cartoon or Caricatures.
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Abraham Lincoln : A Life
Michael Burlingame;Michael Burlingame
Now in paperback, this award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portr...
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Abraham Lincoln : A Life
2012; Vol. 00001
Now in paperback, this award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.Named One of the 10 Top Lincoln Books by Chicago TribuneNamed One of the 5 Best Books of 2009 by The AtlanticWinner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in U.S. History and Biography/Autobiography, Association of American PublishersWinner, 2010 Lincoln Prize from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg CollegeIn the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce our current understanding of America's sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's life during his presidency and the Civil War , narrating in fascinating detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln's own battles with relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new interpretations of Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease. But through it all—his difficult childhood, his contentious political career, a fratricidal war , and tragic personal losses—Lincoln preserved a keen sense of humor and acquired a psychological maturity that proved to be the North's most valuable asset in winning the Civil War . Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this landmark publication establishes Burlingame as the most assiduous Lincoln biographer of recent memory and brings Lincoln alive to modern readers as never before.
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Dictionary of American History
Kutler, Stanley I.;Kutler, Stanley I.
Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sour...
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Dictionary of American History
2003
Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day.
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Robert E. Lee on Trial for Treason.
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Robert E. Lee on Trial for Treason.
Modern Age. Winter2022, Vol. 64 Issue 1, p60-62. 3p.
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Baby Ninth Amendments : How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters
Anthony B. Sanders;Anthony B. Sanders
Listing every right that a constitution should protect is hard. American constitution ...
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Baby Ninth Amendments : How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters
2023
Listing every right that a constitution should protect is hard. American constitution drafters often list a few famous rights such as freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and free exercise of religion, plus a handful of others. However, we do not need to enumerate every liberty because there is another way to protect them: an'etcetera clause.'It states that there are other rights beyond those specifically listed:'The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights , shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.'Yet scholars are divided on whether the Ninth Amendment itself actually does protect unenumerated rights , and the Supreme Court has almost entirely ignored it. Regardless of what the Ninth Amendment means, two-thirds of state constitutions have equivalent provisions, or'Baby Ninth Amendments,'worded similarly to the Ninth Amendment. This book is the story of how the'Baby Ninths'came to be and what they mean. Unlike the controversy surrounding the Ninth Amendment, the meaning of the Baby Ninths is straightforward: they protect individual rights that are not otherwise enumerated. They are an'etcetera, etcetera'at the end of a bill of rights . This book argues that state judges should do their duty and live up to their own constitutions to protect the rights 'retained by the people'that these'etcetera clauses'are designed to guarantee. The fact that Americans have adopted these provisions so many times in so many states demonstrates that unenumerated rights are not only protected by state constitutions, but that they are popular. Unenumerated rights are not a weird exception to American constitutional law. They are at the center of it. We should start treating constitutions accordingly.
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History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison
Adams, Henry;Harbert, Earl N.;Adams, Henry;Harbert, Earl N.
Federalism and Secession
Jorge Cagiao y Conde;Alain-G. Gagnon;Jorge Cagiao y Conde;Alain-G. Gagnon
The controversial issue of secession has received little attention from experts of fed...
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Federalism and Secession
2021; Vol. 00026
The controversial issue of secession has received little attention from experts of federalism. The best federal studies either evade it or dismiss it in a few lines. However, the issue of secession has been present throughout the history of federations. This book is one of the first to explore the complex relationship between federalism and secession . The authors whose work is presented here recognize the potential of federalism as a way to organize relations between several different states, peoples, nations or territories under the same government. However, they are not naïve or idealist about the ability of the federal idea to succeed in the complex situations in which it is applied. In some cases success seems assured (the United States, Switzerland, Germany, etc.), and the merits of federalism can be showcased. But there are also failures (the former Yugoslavia, or more recently Brexit) and semi-failures that have generated turbulence in recent years in devolutive systems (Scotland in the United Kingdom, Catalonia in Spain) or federative systems (Québec in Canada). This book provides a nuanced portrait of the issue of secession in federal contexts and lays the groundwork for questioning the still too fragile legacy of the great thinkers of federalism.
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Gettysburg 1963 : Civil Rights , Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America's Most Famous Small Town
Jill Ogline Titus;Jill Ogline Titus
The year 1963 was unforgettable for Americans. In the midst of intense Cold War turmoi...
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Gettysburg 1963 : Civil Rights , Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America's Most Famous Small Town
2021
The year 1963 was unforgettable for Americans. In the midst of intense Cold War turmoil and the escalating struggle for Black freedom, the United States also engaged in a nationwide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Civil War . Commemorative events centered on Gettysburg, site of the best-known, bloodiest, and most symbolically charged battle of the conflict. Inevitably, the centennial of Lincoln's iconic Gettysburg Address received special focus, pressed into service to help the nation understand its present and define its future--a future that would ironically include another tragic event days later with the assassination of another American president. In this fascinating work, Jill Ogline Titus uses centennial events in Gettysburg to examine the history of political, social, and community change in 1960s America. Examining the experiences of political leaders, civil rights activists, preservation-minded Civil War enthusiasts, and local residents, Titus shows how the era's deep divisions thrust Gettysburg into the national spotlight and ensured that white and Black Americans would define the meaning of the battle, the address, and the war in dramatically different ways.
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The War After the War : A New History of Reconstruction
John Patrick Daly;John Patrick Daly
The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that...
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The War After the War : A New History of Reconstruction
2022
The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War . This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed a successful biracial coalition that elected state and local officials. White supremacist insurrectionaries battled with these coalitions and won the Southern Civil War , successfully overthrowing democratically elected governments. The repercussions of these political setbacks would be felt for decades to come.With this book John Patrick Daly examines the political and racial battles for power after the Civil War , as white supremacist terror, guerrilla, and paramilitary groups attacked biracial coalitions in their local areas. The Ku Klux Klan was the most infamous of these groups, but ex-Confederate extremists fought democratic change in the region under many guises. The biracial coalition put up a brave fight against these insurrectionary forces, but the federal government offered the biracial forces little help. After dozens of battles and tens of thousands of casualties between 1865 and 1877 , the Southern Civil War ended in the complete triumph of extremist insurrection and white supremacy. As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of the Southern Civil War , its lessons are more vital than ever.
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White supremacy movements--Southern States--History--19th century - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Content provider:
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Claiming Union Widowhood : Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South
Brandi Clay Brimmer;Brandi Clay Brimmer
In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from t...
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Claiming Union Widowhood : Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South
2020
In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War . Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines how the mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers struggled to claim pensions in the face of evidentiary obstacles and personal scrutiny. Brimmer exposes and examines the numerous attempts by the federal government to exclude black women from receiving the federal pensions that they had been promised. Her analyses illustrate the complexities of social policy and law administration and the interconnectedness of race, gender, and class formation. Expanding on previous analyses of pension records, Brimmer offers an interpretive framework of emancipation and the freedom narrative that places black women at the forefront of demands for black citizenship.
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Widows--North Carolina--History--19th century - African American women--North Carolina--History--19th century - Military pensions--United States--Civil War, 1861-1865 - Military pensions--North Carolina - Women's rights--United States--History--19th century - Racism--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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From Slavery to Civil Rights : On the Streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present
Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham;Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham
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From Slavery to Civil Rights : On the Streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present
2020; Vol. 00017
An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund. The history of Louisiana from slavery until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows that unique influences within the state were responsible for a distinctive political and social culture. In New Orleans, the most populous city in the state, this was reflected in the conflict that arose on segregated streetcars that ran throughout the crescent city. This study chronologically surveys segregation on the streetcars from the antebellum period in which black stereotypes and justification for segregation were formed. It follows the political and social motivation for segregation through reconstruction to the integration of the streetcars and the white resistance in the 1950s while examining the changing political and social climate that evolved over the segregation era. It considers the shifting nature of white supremacy that took hold in New Orleans after the Civil War and how this came to be played out daily, in public, on the streetcars. The paternalistic nature of white supremacy is considered and how this was gradually replaced with an unassailable white supremacist atmosphere that often restricted the actions of whites, as well as blacks, and the effect that this had on urban transport. Streetcars became the'theatres'for black resistance throughout the era and this survey considers the symbolic part they played in civil rights up to the present day.
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African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans - Segregation in transportation--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century - Segregation in transportation--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century - African Americans--Civil rights--Louisiana--New Orleans - Electric railroads--Cars--Louisiana--New Orleans--HistoryContent provider:
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Causes of the Civil War
Jennifer L. Rowan;Jennifer L. Rowan
The institution of slavery shaped the economic, social, and political history of the U...
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Causes of the Civil War
2020
The institution of slavery shaped the economic, social, and political history of the United States. Tensions between supporters and opponents of slavery simmered for decades with ever-increasing intensity, before boiling over into a devastating four-year civil war . This book examines the series of compromises aimed at diffusing sectional conflict during the first half of the nineteenth century, the development of political strategies, the outbreak of armed hostilities, and the eventual secession of eleven Southern states in a bid to perpetuate the institution of slavery.
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Human and Minority Rights Protection by Multiple Diversity Governance : History, Law, Ideology and Politics in European Perspective
Joseph Marko;Sergiu Constantin;Joseph Marko;Sergiu Constantin
Human and Minority Rights Protection by Multiple Diversity Governance provides a compr...
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Human and Minority Rights Protection by Multiple Diversity Governance : History, Law, Ideology and Politics in European Perspective
2019
Human and Minority Rights Protection by Multiple Diversity Governance provides a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of minority protection through national constitutional law and international law in Europe. Using a critical theoretical and methodological approach, this textbook: provides a historical analysis of state formation and nation building in Europe with context of religious wars and political revolutions, including the (re-)conceptualisation of basic concepts and terms such as territoriality, sovereignty, state, nation and citizenship; deconstructs all primordial theories of ethnicity and provides a sociologically informed political theory for how to reconcile the functional prerequisites for political unity, legal equality and social cohesion with the preservation of cultural diversity; examines the liberal and nationalist ideological framing of minority protection in liberal-democratic regimes, including the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice; analyses the ongoing trend of re-nationalisation in all parts of Europe and the number of legal instruments and mechanisms from voting rights to proportional representation in state bodies, forms of cultural and territorial autonomy and federalism. This textbook will be essential reading for students, scholars and practitioners interested in European politics, human and minority rights , constitutional and international law, governance and nationalism. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
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Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.--EuropeContent provider:
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The Right -Wing Critique of Europe : Nationalist, Sovereignist and Right -Wing Populist Attitudes to the EU
Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas;Francesco Berti;Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas;Francesco Ber...
The Right-Wing Critique of Europe analyses the opposition to the European Union from a...
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The Right -Wing Critique of Europe : Nationalist, Sovereignist and Right -Wing Populist Attitudes to the EU
2022
The Right -Wing Critique of Europe analyses the opposition to the European Union from a variety of right -wing organisations in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. In recent years, opposition to the processes of globalisation and the programme of closer European integration, understood as a threat to the sovereignty of individual member states, has led to an intensification of Eurosceptic sentiments on the Old Continent. The results of the European parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2019, the Brexit referendum and electoral results in different European countries are all testament to the considerable growth of radical populist-nationalist and conservative-sovereignist movements and parties. The common idea that binds these groups, both in Western Europe and in Central and Eastern Europe, is a hostile attitude towards the idea of (an ever-more integrated) united Europe. These parties reject not only the project of building a European federation, but also the current model of the European Union and the values underlying its attitudes. They are united by their criticism of EU policies, in particular those concerning security, emigration, multiculturalism, gender equality and the rights of minorities, as well as economic liberalism and the common currency. However, this criticism manifests itself with varying degrees of intensity, and not all parties fit the classic definition of Euroscepticism but instead represent its mild form, Eurorealism. The authors bring together reflections on the organic and complex critique of the European Union, its policies and cultural and ideological character. The book provides a comparative analysis of this criticism at the transnational level. This book will be of interest to researchers of European politics, the radical right and Euroscepticism. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Political parties--European Union countries - Nationalism--European Union countries - Populism--European Union countries - European federation--Public opinionContent provider:
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Endless Holocausts : Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
David Michael Smith;David Michael Smith
An argument against the myth of'American exceptionalism'Endless Holocausts: Mass Death...
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Endless Holocausts : Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
2023
An argument against the myth of'American exceptionalism'Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism has plagued the globe for over a century. However much the ruling class insists on U.S. superiority, we find ourselves in the midst of a sea change. Perpetual wars , deteriorating economic conditions, the resurgence of white supremacy, and the rise of the Far Right have led millions of people to abandon their illusions about this country. Never before have so many people rejected or questioned traditional platitudes about the United States.In Endless Holocausts author David Michael Smith demolishes the myth of exceptionalism by demonstrating that manifold forms of mass death, far from being unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benign historical record, have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world. At the same time, Smith points to an extraordinary history of resistance by Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, people in other nations brutalized by U.S. imperialism, workers, and democratic-minded people around the world determined to fight for common dignity and the sake of the greater good.
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National characteristics, American - World politics - Crimes against humanity--History - Political violence--United States--History - Genocide--History - Imperialism--Social aspects--United StatesContent provider:
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Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics
Benjamin Abrams;Peter Robert Gardner;Benjamin Abrams;Peter Robert Gardner
When we observe protest marches, striking workers on picket lines, and insurgent movem...
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Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics
2023
When we observe protest marches, striking workers on picket lines, and insurgent movements in the world today, a litany of objects routinely fill our field of vision. Some such objects are ubiquitous the world over, like flags, banners, and placards. Others are situationally unique: Who could have anticipated the historical importance of a flower placed in the barrel of a gun, a flaming torch, a sea of umbrellas, a motorist's yellow vest, a feather headdress, an AK-47, or a knitted pink hat? This book explores the “stuff” at the heart of protests, revolutions, civil wars , and other contentious political events, with particular focus on those objects that have or acquire symbolic importance. In the context of “contentious politics” (disruptive political episodes where people try to change societies without going through institutions), certain objects can divide and unite social groups, tell stories, make declarations, spark controversy, and even trigger violent upheavals. This book draws together scholars from a variety of fields to discuss symbolic objects in contentious politics: their meanings, uses, functions, and social responses. In bringing these phenomena together, this book offers a serious, distinctive, and cohesive theoretical contribution that draws upon diverse scholarly work in order to form the building blocks for future inquiry in the field. The aim is not merely to “close the gap” in the literature, but to create space in the field for further and more fruitful inquiry.
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Symbolism in politics--Case studies - Political culture--Case studies - Social conflict--Case studiesContent provider:
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Reconstruction : The Rebuilding of the United States After the Civil War
Judy Dodge Cummings;Judy Dodge Cummings
A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both he...
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Reconstruction : The Rebuilding of the United States After the Civil War
2021
A deep dive into the period after the Civil War , when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students ages 12 to 15 in today's cultural climate. After the Civil War , Americans struggled to repair the divided nation. How does a country rebuild the infrastructure, government, and economy of a huge region while taking steps to resolve the status of 4 million newly freed slaves? In Reconstruction: The Rebuilding of the United States After the Civil War , middle schoolers examine the era from 1865 to 1877 , a time when the United States wrestled with questions that still plague the country today: Who should have access to citizenship and voting rights ? How should the power of the federal government be balanced against the rights of the states? What is the proper government response to white supremacy? Readers use an inquiry-based approach to explore how political, economic, and social problems were handled during Reconstruction. Along the way, they design models for combating similar twenty-first-century problems, using critical and creative thinking skills. Graphic novel-style illustrations, amazing historical photography, and primary sources bring the past to life and illustrate how Reconstruction affected both blacks and whites. Title is available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook formats.
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The People’s Constitution : 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
John F. Kowal;Wilfred U. Codrington III;John F. Kowal;Wilfred U. Codrington...
The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the...
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The People’s Constitution : 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
2021
The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That's obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It's a story of how We the People have improved our government's structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change. The People's Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy. From the addition of the Bill of Rights , a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the post–Civil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People's Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America's national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers'promise of a more perfect union.
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A Short History of the American Civil War
Paul Christopher Anderson;Paul Christopher Anderson
The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousne...
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A Short History of the American Civil War
2020
The American Civil War (1861 -65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history, claiming the lives of at least 600,000 soldiers and an unknown number of civilians and slaves. The Civil War was also one of the world's first truly industrial conflicts, involving railroads, the telegraph, steamships and mass-manufactured weaponry. The eventual victory of the Union over the Confederacy rang the death-knell for American slavery, and set the USA on the path to becoming a truly world power. Paul Christopher Anderson shows how and why the conflict remains the nation's defining moment, arguing that it was above all a struggle for power and political supremacy but was also a struggle for the idea of America. Melding social, cultural and military history, the author explores iconic battles like Shiloh, Chickamauga, Antietam and Gettysburg, as well as the bitterly contesting forces underlying them and the myth-making that came to define them in aftermath. He shows that while both sides began the war in order to preserve - the integrity of the American state in the case of the Union, the integrity of a culture, a value system, and as slave society in the case of the Confederacy - it allowed the American South to define a regional identity that has survived into modern times.
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Chains
Linda Jaivin;Esther Sunkyung Klein;Annie Luman Ren;Linda Jaivin;Esther Sunk...
Speaking to the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in Octobe...
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Chains
2023; Vol. 02022
Speaking to the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in October 2022, President Xi Jinping reiterated his commitment to the'opening up'policy of his predecessors — a policy that has burnished the party's political legitimacy among its citizens by enabling four decades of economic development. Yet, for all the talk of openness, 2022 was a year of both literal and symbolic locks and chains — including, of course, the long, coercive, and often brutally enforced lockdowns of neighbourhoods and cities across China, most prominently Shanghai. Then there was a vlogger's accidental discovery of the ‘woman in chains', sparking an anguished, nationwide conversation about human trafficking. That was part of a broader (if frequently censored) conversation about gendered violence and women's rights , in a year when women's representation at the highest levels of power, which was already minimal, decreased even further. There was trouble with supply chains and, with the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, in August, island chains as well. Despite the tensions in the Asia-Pacific, the People's Republic of China expanded its diplomatic initiatives among Pacific island nations and celebrated fifty years of diplomatic links with both Japan and Australia. As the year drew to a close, a tragic fire in a locked-down apartment building in Ürümqi triggered a series of popular protests that brought an end to three years of ‘zero COVID'. The China Story Yearbook: Chains provides informed perspectives on these and other important stories from 2022.
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Föderalismus-Rhetorik-Dekonstruktionen – Rechtsdogmatik als Literaturdogmatik. : Instrumentalföderalismus in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als romantisch-lyrische Lesekonvention vor Gericht.
Rico David Neugärtner;Rico David Neugärtner
Im US-amerikanischen wie im deutschen Föderalismus gebrauchen Gerichte ›selbstbewusst‹...
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Föderalismus-Rhetorik-Dekonstruktionen – Rechtsdogmatik als Literaturdogmatik. : Instrumentalföderalismus in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als romantisch-lyrische Lesekonvention vor Gericht.
2023; Vol. 00006
Im US-amerikanischen wie im deutschen Föderalismus gebrauchen Gerichte ›selbstbewusst‹ dogmatische Topoi wie ›state dignity‹ oder ›Bundestreue‹, welche nicht im Verfassungstext enthalten sind. Diese ›ungeschriebenen‹ Figuren sind offen für ideenpolitische Instrumentalisierung: Sie dienen als Vehikel, um Vorstellungen von ›(Sub)Nationalstaatlichkeit‹, ›Demokratie‹ oder ›Freiheit‹ auszutarieren. Ihre politik-theoretische Einbettung im Modell des ›Bundes‹, Referenzfelder ihrer Verwendung (etwa Kulturpolitik, Umweltrecht, öffentliche Sicherheit, Personal und Finanzen, Wahlrecht, Verfassungsänderungen) und ihre rhetorisch-diskursiven Wirkungsbedingungen sind Gegenstände der vergleichenden Studie. Die Rhetorikanalyse erfolgt interdisziplinär: Das untersuchte Muster kreist um anthropomorphe, ›lyrische‹ Vorstellungen von ›Würde‹ und ›Treue‹. Unter Rückgriff auf die literaturwissenschaftliche Dekonstruktion analysiert das Buch die Kraft anthropomorpher Dogmatik in Recht und Literatur.
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The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice
Chris Cunneen;Antje Deckert;Amanda Porter;Juan Tauri;Robert Webb;Chris Cunn...
The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice focuses on the growing wo...
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The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice
2023
The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice focuses on the growing worldwide movement aimed at decolonizing state policies and practices, and various disciplinary knowledges including criminology, social work and law. The collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge, politically engaged work from a diverse group of writers who take as a starting point an analysis founded in a decolonizing, decolonial and/or Indigenous standpoint. Centering the perspectives of Black, First Nations and other racialized and minoritized peoples, the book makes an internationally significant contribution to the literature. The chapters include analyses of specific decolonization policies and interventions instigated by communities to enhance jurisdictional self-determination; theoretical approaches to decolonization; the importance of research and research ethics as a key foundation of the decolonization process; crucial contemporary issues including deaths in custody, state crime, reparations, and transitional justice; and critical analysis of key institutions of control, including police, courts, corrections, child protection systems and other forms of carcerality. The handbook is divided into five sections which reflect the breadth of the decolonizing literature: • Why decolonization? From the personal to the global • State terror and violence • Abolishing the carceral • Transforming and decolonizing justice • Disrupting epistemic violence This book offers a comprehensive and timely resource for activists, students, academics, and those with an interest in Indigenous studies, decolonial and post-colonial studies, criminal legal institutions and criminology. It provides critical commentary and analyses of the major issues for enhancing social justice internationally. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
