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To what extent did Harriet Lance influence the public policies of James Buchanan?

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Author
Rosenberger, Homer Tope,
Date of Publication
1970.
King of Spain." �The President Continues To Share Private Political Views With Harriet From the time he was United States Minister to the Court of St. James, Buchanan continued to confide in Harriet the political matters of the day. How could he do otherwise? Politics and the law were his life. Harriet
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by Homer T. Rosenberger.
Author
Rosenberger, Homer Tope,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1970.
Physical Description
[1]-22 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 74, no. 1
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.
Presidents - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 74, number 1 (1970), p. 1-22Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.74
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James Buchanan and his family at Wheatland

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Author
Cahalan, Sally Smith.
Date of Publication
c1988.
Call Number
728.37 C132j
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James Buchanan's Wheatland
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by Sally Smith Cahalan ; [photography by John P. Herr].
Author
Cahalan, Sally Smith.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
James Buchanan Foundation,
Date of Publication
c1988.
Physical Description
100 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Notes
Cover title: James Buchanan's Wheatland.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Family.
Buchanan family.
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.)
Presidents - United States
Lancaster (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
728.37 C132j
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Harriet Lane, First Lady of the White House

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Author
Shelley, Mary Virginia.
Date of Publication
c1980.
Call Number
920.7 L265s 1980
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Mary Virginia Shelley & Sandra Harrison Munro ; with ill. by Regina Weatherlow.
ISBN
0915010291 :
Author
Shelley, Mary Virginia.
Place of Publication
Lititz, PA
Publisher
Sutter House,
Date of Publication
c1980.
Physical Description
48 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Summary
Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.
Subjects
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903. - Juvenile literature.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868. - Family - Juvenile literature.
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868. - Family.
Presidents - United States
Presidents
Additional Author
Munro, Sandra Harrison,
Weatherlow, Regina.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
920.7 L265s 1980
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Harriet Lane, First Lady of the White House

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Author
Shelley, Mary Virginia.
Date of Publication
2011.
Call Number
920.7 L265s 2011
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Mary Virginia Shelley & Sandra Harrison Munro.
Author
Shelley, Mary Virginia.
Place of Publication
Charleston, S. C
Publisher
The Authors,
Date of Publication
2011.
Physical Description
42 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.
Subjects
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903. - Juvenile literature.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868. - Family - Juvenile literature.
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868. - Family.
Presidents - United States
Presidents
Additional Author
Munro, Sandra Harrison,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
920.7 L265s 2011
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Worst. President. Ever. : James Buchanan, the POTUS rating game, and the legacy of the least of the lesser presidents

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Author
Strauss, Robert,
Date of Publication
2016.
Call Number
923.173 B918str
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Robert Strauss.
ISBN
9781493024834
1493024833
Author
Strauss, Robert,
Place of Publication
Guilford, Connecticut
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield,
Date of Publication
2016.
Physical Description
xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introducing the worst. President. Ever -- The Young Buck -- Up from Lancaster -- The man who would be president, again and again -- The election of 1856: the most consequential in American history -- The worst presidency begins -- The middle Buchanan presidency: hardly better -- Mr. Buchanan's War -- The legacy of the least of the lesser presidents.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Biography.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918str
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James Buchanan, the bachelor of the White House: an inquiry on the subject of feminine influence in the life of our fifteenth president

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Author
Auchampaugh, Philip G.
Call Number
923.172 B918auch
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by Philip G Auchampaugh.
Author
Auchampaugh, Philip G.
Physical Description
p. 154-166; 218-234.
Notes
In: Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine: v. 20, Nos. 3 & 4 (January and April 1939)
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.
Coleman, Anne.
Parker, Esther.
Henry, James Buchanan.
Presidents - United States
Presidents
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.172 B918auch
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James Buchanan : fifteenth president of the United States

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Author
Brill, Marlene Targ.
Date of Publication
c1988.
Call Number
923.173 B918br
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by Marlene Targ Brill.
ISBN
0516013580
9780516013589
Author
Brill, Marlene Targ.
Place of Publication
Chicago
Publisher
Childrens Press,
Date of Publication
c1988.
Physical Description
98 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Encyclopedia of presidents
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
Describes the early life and political career of the man who served as president in the years just before the Civil War.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Presidents.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861 - Juvenile literature.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918br
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America's bachelor president and the First Lady

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Author
Stern, Milton.
Date of Publication
c2004.
Call Number
923.173 B918ste
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by Milton Stern.
ISBN
1413729088
9781413729085
Author
Stern, Milton.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
PublishAmerica,
Date of Publication
c2004.
Physical Description
326 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-326).
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.
Presidents - United States - Biography.
Presidents' spouses - United States - Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918ste
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Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1860.
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st
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United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
Washington, [D.C.]
Publisher
George W. Bowman, printer,
Date of Publication
1860.
Physical Description
v. ; 23 cm.
Series
36th Congress. 1st session. Senate Ex. Doc ; no. 2
Notes
Library has Vol. 1 only.
Contents
v. 1. Annual message of the President ; Report of the Secretary of the Interior ; Report of the Secretary of War ; Report of the Secretary of the Navy ; Report of the Postmaster-General -- v. 2. Report of the Secretary of War --
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Messages.
Political science.
Presidents.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861 - Sources.
United States - History - 1849-1877 - Sources.
United States.
History.
Sources.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Department of the Interior.
United States. War Department.
United States. Navy Department.
United States. Postmaster General.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st
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Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress at the commencement of the second session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1860.
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860
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Message of the President of the United States, December 3, 1860
Annual message of the President
Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
George W. Bowman,
Date of Publication
1860.
Physical Description
28 p. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Slavery - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860
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President Buchanan: Trapped in a whirlwind : Harriet Lane: torn between love and loyalty: the Union unravels in Secession Crisis

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Author
Kessler, Charles H.
Date of Publication
2003.
Call Number
923.173 B918t
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by Charles H. Kessler.
Author
Kessler, Charles H.
Place of Publication
[s.l
Publisher
s.n.]
Date of Publication
2003.
Notes
"A History Novel".
Subjects
Buchanan, James , - 1791-1868 - Fiction.
Johnston, Harriet Lane , - 1830-1903 - Fiction.
Presidents - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918t
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Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress at the commencement of the first session of the thirty fifth congress

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Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1857.
Call Number
923.173 B918 1857 v.2
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Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
Cornelius Wendell, Printer,
Date of Publication
1857.
Physical Description
572 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Ex. doc. / House of Representatives, 35th Congress, 1st session ; no. 943
Notes
Entire volume is dedicated to Report of the Secretary of War, 1857.
Includes accompanying documents and reports.
Library has Vol. II
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Utah Expedition, 1857-1858.
United States - Politics and government - 1849-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1857 v.2
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Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress : at the commencement of the second session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1860.
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th 2nd
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Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
G.W. Bowman, printer,
Date of Publication
1860.
Physical Description
v. ; 23 cm.
Series
36th Cong., 2d Sess. House of Representatives. Ex. doc.
Notes
Includes reports of heads of departments.
On spine: Message and documents, 1860-1861 part 1.
Library has: v. 1.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th 2nd
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James Buchanan and the coming of the Civil War

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Date of Publication
c2013.
Call Number
973.68 B918
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edited by John W. Quist and Michael J. Birkner.
ISBN
9780813044262 (alk. paper)
081304426X (alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Gainesville
Publisher
University Press of Florida,
Date of Publication
c2013.
Physical Description
x, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Papers from a conference held at LancasterHistory.org in 2008. Presentation copy from the editors.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Bum rap or bad leadership? -- James Buchanan, Dred Scott, and the whisper of conspiracy / Paul Finkelman -- Prelude to armageddon: James Buchanan, Brigham Young, and a president's initiation to bloodshed / William P. MacKinnon -- General Jackson is dead: James Buchanan, Stephen A. Douglas, and Kansas policy / Nicole Etcheson -- In defense of doughface diplomacy: a reevaluation of the foreign policy of James Buchanan / John M. Belohlavek -- President James Buchanan: executive leadership and the crisis of the democracy / Michael A. Morrison -- The South has been wronged: James Buchanan and the secession crisis / Jean H. Baker -- "In the midst of a great revolution": the northern response to the secession crisis / William G. Shade -- Joseph Holt, James Buchanan, and the secession crisis / Daniel W. Crofts -- A conversation with William W. Freehling and Michael F. Holt, September 19, 2008 / Moderated by John W. Quist -- Epilogue: James Buchanan's Civil War / Michael J. Birkner.
Summary
An edited volume examining the presidency of James Buchanan and his role engaging the complexities of the debate surrounding the president immediately before Lincoln.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Additional Author
Quist, John W.
Birkner, Michael J.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.68 B918
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The worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens : place, personality, and politics in the Civil War era

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Date of Publication
[2019]
Call Number
973.68 B619
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edited by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller, and John W. Quist.
ISBN
9780807170816 (cloth : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Baton Rouge
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press,
Date of Publication
[2019]
Physical Description
xiv, 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Series
Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : possessing the power : the role of force in James Buchanan's Caribbean policy / Amy S. Greenberg -- The bachelor's mess : James Buchanan and the domestic politics of doughfacery in Jacksonian America / Thomas J. Balcerski -- Stephen A. Douglas, free-soiler : a counterfactual analysis of party reformation in the 1850s / Douglas R. Egerton -- "General Jackson is dead" : dissecting a popular anecdote of nineteenth-century party leadership / Matthew Pinsker -- "Buck all over" : James Buchanan and a trail of broken relationships / William P. MacKinnon -- Slavery and the breakup of the Democratic Party in the North : a battle of ideas and organization / Frank Towers -- Friends and outliers : Varina Davis, James Buchanan, and gender relations in Antebellum Washington / Joan E. Cashin -- "Like the baseless fabric of a vision" : Thaddeus Stevens and confiscation reconsidered / John David Smith -- "Eastern and Western empire" : Thaddeus Stevens and the greater Reconstruction / Michael Green -- A conversation with Bruce Levine and James Oakes : moderated by Randall M. Miller.
Summary
"The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery debate divided his peers and the political system. Thaddeus Stevens, meanwhile, as Whig turned Republican, invested in the federal government to encourage economic development and social reform, especially antislavery and Republican Reconstruction"--
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Political and social views.
Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868 - Political and social views.
Legislators - United States - Biography.
Politicians - United States - Biography.
United States - History - 1815-1861.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 19th century.
Additional Author
Birkner, Michael J.,
Miller, Randall M.,
Quist, John W.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.68 B619
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Diplomatic failure : James Buchanan's Inagural address / Michael L. Carrafiello

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Author
Carrafiello, Michael L.
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Carrafiello, Michael L.
Physical Description
145 -165 p.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868
Presidents - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861
Contained In
Pennsylvania History v.77, no.2, Spring 2010Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 PHA v.77, no.2
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James Buchanan

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Author
Baker, Jean H.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
2004.
Call Number
923.173 B918ba
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Jean H. Baker.
ISBN
0805069461
Author
Baker, Jean H.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Times Books,
Date of Publication
2004.
Physical Description
xviii, 172 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series
The American presidents
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-161) and index.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918ba
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James Buchanan, the patronage, and the northern Democratic Party, 1857-1858

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Author
Meerse, David Edward,
Date of Publication
1969.
Call Number
923.173 B918me
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Author
Meerse, David Edward,
Place of Publication
Urbana, Ill
Date of Publication
1969.
Physical Description
viii, 601 l. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: l. 591-600.
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1983. 21 cm.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868
Democratic Party (U.S.) - Northeastern States.
Democratic Party (U.S.) - Northwest, Old.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918me
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Nativism and slavery : the northern Know Nothings and the politics of the 1850's

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Author
Anbinder, Tyler.
Date of Publication
1992.
Call Number
320.973 S532
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Responsibility
Tyler Anbinder.
ISBN
0195072332
9780195072334
Author
Anbinder, Tyler.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1992.
Physical Description
xv, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
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.
Subjects
American Party.
American Party
Nativism.
Antislavery movements - United States.
Know-Nothings.
United States - Politics and government - 1853-1857.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Politics - History, 1845-1861
United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
320.973 S532
Websites
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0603/91043352-d.html
http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780195072334.pdf
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James Buchanan : Bibliography

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15427
Date of Publication
2005.
Call Number
923.173 B918bib
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Responsibility
compiled by Barbara Hunsberger.
Place of Publication
Computer printout
Date of Publication
2005.
Physical Description
20 l. ; 29 c,/
Notes
Materials held by the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Subjects
Buchanan, James , - 1791-1868.
Johnston, Hariet Lane , - 1830-1903.
Presidents - Bibliography.
Presidents' spouses - United States - Bibliograpy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918bib
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