Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-310) and index.
Summary
Although the United States has always portrayed itself as a sanctuary for the world's victim's of poverty and oppression, anti-immigrant movements have enjoyed remarkable success throughout American history. None attained greater prominence than the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, a fraternal order referred to most commonly as the Know Nothing party. Vowing to reduce the political influence of immigrants and Catholics, the Know Nothings burst onto the American political scene in 1854, and by the end of the following year they had elected eight governors, more than one hundred congressmen, and thousands of other local officials including the mayors of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago. After their initial successes, the Know Nothings attempted to increase their appeal by converting their network of lodges into a conventional political organization, which they christened the "American Party." Recently, historians have pointed to the Know Nothings' success as evidence that ethnic and religious issues mattered more to nineteenth-century voters than better-known national issues such as slavery. In this important book, however, Anbinder argues that the Know Nothings' phenomenal success was inextricably linked to the firm stance their northern members took against the extension of slavery. Most Know Nothings, he asserts, saw slavery and Catholicism as interconnected evils that should be fought in tandem. Although the Know Nothings certainly were bigots, their party provided an early outlet for the anti-slavery sentiment that eventually led to the Civil War. Anbinder's study presents the first comprehensive history of America's most successful anti-immigrant movement, as well as a major reinterpretation of the political crisis that led to the Civil War.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [1181]-1201) and index.
Summary
"The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was represented at every level of American politics - local, state, and federal - in the years before the Civil War, and controlled the White House for eight of the twenty-two years that it existed. Now, in The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, Michael Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written - a monumental history covering in rich detail the American political landscape from the Age of Jackson to impending disunion."--BOOK JACKET.
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Exploring Local Business History -- Learning the Internal History of a Business -- Developing the History of a Business in its Environment -- Local Business History:Internal Sources -- Local Business History: External Sources -- Presenting Local Business History.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-227) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Immigrants to Paradise: White Women in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake -- Ch. 2. Goodwives and Bad: New England Women in the Seventeenth Century -- Ch. 3. The Sisters of Pocahontas: Native American Women in the Centuries of Colonization -- Ch. 4. In a "Babel of Confusion": Women in the Middle Colonies -- Ch. 5. The Rhythms of Labor: African-American Women in Colonial Society -- Ch. 6. The Rise of Gentility: Class and Regional Differences in the Eighteenth Century -- Ch. 7. "Beat of Drum and Ringing of Bell": Women in the American Revolution -- Epilogue. Fair Daughters of Columbia: White Women in the New Republic.
Summary
The Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as earlier scholars tended to overlook - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. First Generations is one of the first books to examine these women's experiences, to look at them not only as wives, mothers, household managers, laborers, rebels,
but, invariably, as active participants in the creation of their societies. In fascinating biographical portraits and analyses of collective experiences, Carol Berkin conveys the varieties of female lives, separated by class, region, and race but linked by laws and presumptions that defined them by gender.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ; v. 123, no. 3
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"To be sure, Thomas Paine in no way supported slavery; indeed he found it repulsive and sincerely hoped for its eradication. But so did many late-eighteenth-century intellectuals. It might even be argued that Thomas Jefferson, vilified in recent historical literature for his ambivalence about race, tried harder than Paine to challenge chattel slavery. It is a great leap from private thought to public action, especially when that action challenges the racial assumptions and the social and economic foundations of a people and their society. By examining what little Paine wrote about slavery, this essay argues that he made no such leap. Intellectually, Paine was antislavery, but he rarely transofrmed his thought into visible and public action. Throughout his lifetime Paine avoided, for the most part, the issues of slavery and abolition, and he also joined other revolutionaries in the conviction that American citizens would only be white."
A snapshot evaluation of stream environmental quality in the Little Conestoga Creek Basin, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania a cooperative project between the residents of Lancaster County, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, and the U.S. Geological Survey
