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American creation : triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18541
Author
Ellis, Joseph J.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
2007.
Call Number
973.3 E47
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Joseph J. Ellis.
ISBN
9780307263698
030726369X
Author
Ellis, Joseph J.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
A. A. Knopf,
Date of Publication
2007.
Physical Description
xi, 283 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
An ironic examination of the founding years of our country. Historian Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders. He explains how the idea of a strong federal government, championed by Washington, was eventually embraced by the American people, the majority of whom had to be won over. And he details the emergence of the two-party system--then a political novelty--which today stands as the founders' most enduring legacy. But Ellis is equally incisive about their failures, making clear how their inability to abolish slavery and to reach a just settlement with the Native Americans has played an equally important role in shaping our national character. Ellis strips the mythic veneer of the revolutionary generation to reveal men possessed of both brilliance and blindness.--From publisher description.
Subjects
Statesmen - United States
Politicians - United States
Political culture - United States
National characteristics, American.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - 1783-1815.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783.
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1809.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.3 E47
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Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17601
Author
Foner, Eric.
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Date of Publication
2006.
Call Number
973.8 F673f
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Responsibility
Eric Foner ; illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown.
ISBN
0375702741 (pbk.) :
9780375702747 (pbk.)
Author
Foner, Eric.
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Vintage Books,
Date of Publication
2006.
Physical Description
xxx, 268 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Forever Free project : Peter O. Almond & Stephen B. Brier, senior producers ; Christine Doudna, editor."
Originally published: Knopf, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.
Contents
The peculiar institution -- True likenesses -- Forever free -- Re-visions of war -- The meanings of freedom -- Altered relations -- An American crisis -- The tocsin of freedom -- On the offensive -- The facts of reconstruction -- Countersigns -- The abandonment of reconstruction -- Jim Crow -- The unfinished revolution.
Summary
Draws on a wide range of documents to offer a new interpretation of the Emancipation and Reconstruction years and the lasting impact they had on the nation's history.
Subjects
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Slaves - United States.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - African Americans.
United States - Race relations - History - 19th century.
United States - Politics and government - 1865-1900.
Additional Author
Brown, Joshua,
Additional Corporate Author
Forever Free, Inc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.8 F673f
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The rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln

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Author
Wilentz, Sean.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
c2005.
Call Number
973.5 W676
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Responsibility
Sean Wilentz.
ISBN
0393058204 (hardcover)
9780393058208 (hardcover)
Author
Wilentz, Sean.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Norton,
Date of Publication
c2005.
Physical Description
xxiii, 1044 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. The crisis of the new order. -- American democracy in a revolutionary age -- The Republican interest and the self-created democracy -- The making of Jeffersonian democracy -- Jefferson's two presidencies -- Nationalism and the War of 1812 -- II. Democracy ascendant. -- The era of bad feelings -- Slavery, compromise, and democratic politics -- The politics of moral improvement -- The aristocracy and democracy of America -- The Jackson era: uneasy beginnings -- Radical democracies -- 1832: Jackson's crucial year -- Banks, abolitionists, and the equal rights democracy -- "The republic has degenerated into a democracy" -- The politics of hard times -- Whigs, Democrats, and democracy -- III. Slavery and the crisis of American democracy. -- Whig debacle, Democratic confusion -- Antislavery, annexation, and the advent of young Hickory -- The bitter fruits of Manifest Destiny -- War, slavery, and the American 1848 -- Political truce, uneasy consequences -- The truce collapses -- A nightmare broods over society -- The faith that right makes might -- The Iliad of all our woes.
Summary
Political historian Wilentz traces an arc from the earliest days of the Republic to the opening shots of the Civil War, showing how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy. He brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians and Federalists clashed over the role of ordinary citizens in government of, by, and for the people. The triumph of Andrew Jackson soon defined this role on the national level, while city democrats, Anti-Masons, fugitive slaves, and a host of others hewed their own local definitions. In these definitions Wilentz recovers the beginnings of a discontent--two starkly opposed democracies, one in the North and another in the South--and the wary balance that lasted until the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked its bloody resolution.--From publisher description.
Subjects
Presidents - United States
Politicians - United States
Democracy - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.5 W676
Websites
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029466.html
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e8w5-aa
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Lincoln : a life of purpose and power

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Author
Carwardine, Richard.
Edition
1st American ed.
Date of Publication
2006.
Call Number
923.173 L736c
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Responsibility
Richard Carwardine.
ISBN
1400044561
9781400044566
Author
Carwardine, Richard.
Edition
1st American ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf,
Date of Publication
2006.
Physical Description
xv, 394 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Originally published: London : Pearson Education, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-360) and index.
Contents
1. Inner power : Lincoln's ambition and political vision, 1809-54 -- Ambition -- Political vision -- Moral crisis : 1854 -- The religious roots of moral power -- 2. The power of opinion : Lincoln : the Illinois public and the new political order, 1854-58 -- Lincoln, democratic politics and public opinion -- Illinois public opinion and the anti-Nebraska fusion movement -- The senatorial campaign of 1858 -- 3. The power of party : winning the presidency, 1858-60 -- Presidential ambition : Lincoln, his party and the road to the Decatur convention -- The Republican presidential nomination -- The 1860 presidential campaign : the power of a righteous party -- 4. Confronting the limits of power : from president-elect to war president, 1860-61 -- In the antechamber to power : holding the party line -- From Springfield to Sumter : building a united front -- Strategies for 'a people's war' -- 'What shall I do? The people are impatient ... ' -- 5. The purposes of power : evolving objectives, 1861-65 -- Reading the public -- 'Every indispensable means' : toward the Emancipation Proclamation -- Faith and purposes -- Faithfulness of purpose : emancipation, reconstruction and black citizenship -- 6. The instruments of power : coercion and voluntary mobilization, 1861-65 -- Coercion, repression and executive power -- Popular mobilization : the 'power of the right word' and the agency of party -- Popular mobilization : churches and philanthropic organizations -- The Union army as a moral force -- The election of 1864 : 'the second birth of our nation' -- 7. Conclusion : power in death -- Chronology of Lincoln's life.
Summary
A portrait of America's sixteenth president follows Lincoln's life and career during his rise to political power and his years in the White House, arguing that he looked beyond the political system to find support in his struggle to end slavery.
Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.
Presidents - United States - Biography.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 L736c
Websites
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047230-b.html
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047230-d.html
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047230-s.html
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047230-t.html
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Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War

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Author
Lehman, James O.
Date of Publication
2007.
Call Number
973.7088 L523
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Responsibility
James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt.
ISBN
9780801886720 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801886724 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author
Lehman, James O.
Place of Publication
Baltimore, Md
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Date of Publication
2007.
Physical Description
xi,353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Young Center books in Anabaptist and Pietist studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : religion, religious minorities, and the American Civil War -- Politics and peoplehood in a restless republic -- Our country is at war -- Conscription, combat, and Virginia's "war of self-defense," 1861-1862 -- Negotiation and notoriety in Pennsylvania, 1862 -- Patterns of peace and patriotism in the Midwest -- The fighting comes north, 1862-1863 -- Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Mennonite politics -- Did Jesus Christ teach men war? -- Resistance and revenge in Virginia, 1863-1864 -- Burning the Shenandoah Valley -- Reconstructed nation, reconstructed peoplehood.
Subjects
Mennonites - United States
Amish - United States
Anabaptists - United States
Pacifists - United States
War
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Religious aspects.
United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.
Additional Author
Nolt, Steven M.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7088 L523
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Voices from the gathering storm : the coming of the American Civil War

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Date of Publication
c2001.
Call Number
973.7 V889
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Responsibility
[compiled by] Glenn M. Linden.
ISBN
0842029982 (alk. paper)
0842029990 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Wilmington, Del
Publisher
Scholarly Resources,
Date of Publication
c2001.
Physical Description
xxxii, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-236).
Contents
Part 1. A growing rivalry between the North and South, 1846-1854. The Mexican War, the Wilmot Proviso, and the election of 1848 ; The Compromise of 1850 ; The fugitive slave controversy, the election of 1852, and growing sectionalism -- Part 2. Southern successes, Northern anxieties, 1854-1857. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, bleeding Kansas, and the Republican Party ; The elction of 1856 and its aftermath -- Part 3. The Union comes apart, 1857-1861. Dred Scott, Kansas, and the events of 1858 ; John Brown's raid, party conventions, the election of 1860, and secession.
Summary
Voices from the Gathering Storm explains the dramatic change in thinking about the nature and value of the American Union from 1846 to1861 which impelled citizens from 11 southern states to declare independence and the remaining 22 states to fight the bloodiest war in the nation's history. This reader tells the story of seventeen Northerners and Southerners who lived through the critical fifteen years prior to the Civil War. In their letters and diaries, they describe in their own words what it was like to live during the sectional crisis and the coming of the war. [from the publisher]
Subjects
United States - Politics and government - 1849-1861 - Sources.
United States - History - 1849-1877 - Sources.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Causes - Sources.
Additional Author
Linden, Glenn M.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7 V889
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The meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster

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Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Date of Publication
1927
and government--1775-1783. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 101-103 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.31 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal
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Responsibility
by Herbert H. Beck.
Author
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1927
Physical Description
101-103 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7
Subjects
United States. - Continental Congress.
Constitutional history - United States.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 31, number 7 (1927), p. 101-103Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31
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Letters of the Continental Congress in Lancaster

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1927
, September 27th, in the court house, which stood in the center of Penn square. For this reason Lancaster claims the distinction of having been the capital of the United States, even though it was but for a day. As Howe was in possession of Philadelphia, then the largest city in America, only 62 miles distant
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Responsibility
by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1927
Physical Description
31-34 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 3
Subjects
United States. - Continental Congress.
Constitutional history - United States.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 31, number 3 (1927), p. 31-34Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31
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Secessionists triumphant, 1854-1861

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Author
Freehling, William W.,
Date of Publication
c2007.
Call Number
973.711 D853
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Responsibility
William W. Freehling.
ISBN
9780195058154
0195058151
Author
Freehling, William W.,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
c2007.
Physical Description
xvi, 605 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series
The road to disunion ; 02.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-586) and index.
Subjects
Secession.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Causes.
Southern States - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.711 D853
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The life and letters of Walter H. Page

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Author
Hendrick, Burton Jesse,
Date of Publication
1922-25.
Call Number
923.27 P133h
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by Burton J. Hendrick ...
Author
Hendrick, Burton Jesse,
Place of Publication
Garden City, N.Y
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Company,
Date of Publication
1922-25.
Physical Description
3 v. fronts., plates, ports., facsims. 25 cm. (v. 3: 28 cm.)
Notes
Plates and portraits printed on both sides.
"First edition after the printing of 377 de luxe copies."
Vol. III: Containing the letters to Woodrow Wilson.
LCHS missing v. 2.
Subjects
Page, Walter Hines, - 1855-1918.
United States - Foreign relations - Great Britain.
Great Britain - Foreign relations - United States.
Additional Author
Wilson, Woodrow,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.27 P133h
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