The 1850s saw in America the breakdown of the Jacksonian party system in the North and the emergence of a new sectional party--the Republicans--that succeeded the Whigs in the nation's two-party system. This monumental work uses demographic, voting, and other statistical analysis as well as the more traditional methods and sources of political history to trace the realignment of American politics in the 1850s and the birth of the Republican party. Gienapp powerfully demonstrates that the organization of the Republican party was a difficult, complex, and lengthy process and explains why, even after an inauspicious beginning, it ultimately became a potent political force. The study also reveals the crucial role of ethnocultural factors in the collapse of the second party system and thoroughly analyzes the struggle between nativism and antislavery for political dominance in the North. The volume concludes with the decisive triumph of the Republican party over the rival American party in the 1856 presidential election. Far-reaching in scope yet detailed in analysis, this is the definitive work on the formation of the Republican party in antebellum America. ... Publisher descri[ption.
edited by Jessie Carney Smith ; foreword by Alex Haley.
ISBN
0313225931 (lib. bdg.)
Place of Publication
Westport, Conn
Publisher
Greenwood Press,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
xxxix, 440 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographies and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Librarians and genealogical research / Russell E. Bidlack -- Basic sources for genealogical research / Jean Elder Cazort -- Library records and research / Casper L. Jordan -- Researching family history / Bobby L. Lovett -- The national archives and records service / James D. Walker -- The genealogical society of Utah library / Roger Scanland -- American indian records and research / Jimmy B. Parker -- Asian-American records and research / Greg Gubler -- Black American records and research / Lyman De Platt.
The first century of German language printing in the United States of America : a bibliography based on the studies of Oswald Seidensticker and Wilbur H. Oda
Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989 : the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First through the One Hundredth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, inclusive
"Compiled and edited under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, Congress of the United States ... Bruce A. Ragsdale, editor in chief ... Kathryn Allamong Jacob, editor in chief"--P. v.
Rev. ed. of: Biographical directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971.
edited by Bernard Bailyn and John B. Hench ; with a foreword by Marcus A. McCorison ; and an afterword by James Russell Wiggins.
ISBN
0912296186 :
Place of Publication
Worcester, [Mass.]
Publisher
American Antiquarian Society,
Date of Publication
1980.
Physical Description
383 p. ; 27 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Essays: 1. Printers and the American Revolution -- by Stephen Botein / 2. Freedom of the press in revolutionary America : The evolution of libertarianism, 1760 - 1820 -- by Richard Buel Jr / 3. The role of the newspaper press in the southern colonies on the eve of the Revolution : an interpretation -- by Robert M. Weir / 4. The Colonial German-language press and the American Revolution -- by Willi Paul Adams / 5. The character and coherence of the Loyalist press -- by Janice Potter and Robert M. Calhoon / 6. British correspondence in the colonial press, 1763 - 1775 ; a study in Anglo-American Misunderstanding before the American Revolution -- by Paul Langford / 7. Some statistics on American printing, 1764-1783, by G. Thomas Tanselle / 8. Afterword : The Legacy of the Press in the American Revolution, by James Russell Wiggins
Summary
In the forward, the book is described as a colleciton of "essays on the activities, place, and influence of American printers and journalists during the period of our Revolution."
