Philadelphia (611 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia 19123)
Publisher
The Society,
Date of Publication
1984.
Physical Description
viii, 132 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographies.
Contents
PATTERNS OF GERMAN-AMERICAN HISTORY by Kathleen Neils Conzen / GERMANS AND THE CITY by James M. Bergquist / GERMAN IMMIGRANTS AND AMERICAN POLITICS: PROBLEMS OF LEADERSHIP, PARTIES, AND ISSUES by Frederick C. Luebke / IMMIGRANT CULTURE AND RELIGION : CHURCH AND FAITH AMONG GERMAN AMERICANS by Reinhard R. Doerries / THE PALATINE CONNECTION : THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN CULTURE AND IT'S EUROPEAN ROOTS by Don Yoder / PLAIN PEOPLE AND THE ART OF SURVIVAL by John A. Hostetler / GERMAN AMERICANS: EIGHT MILLION INDIVIDUAL TRANSPLANTS by Klaus Wust
Summary
The book contains the lectures of several historians about the German migrations to America.
Pennsylvania State University Press ; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
c2002.
Physical Description
xxxi, 654 p. ill. 27 cm.
Series
A keystone book
Contents
The first Pennsylvanians / Daniel K. Richter -- Encounter and experiment : the Colonial period / Susan E. Klepp -- The promise of revolution : 1750-1800 / William Pencak -- Building democratic communities : 1800-1850 / Emma Lapsansky -- Civil wars : 1850-1900 / Walter Licht -- Reforming the Commonwealth : 1900-1950 / David R. Contosta -- The postindustrial age : 1950-2000 / Philip Jenkins -- The making and unmaking of the Pennsylvanian empire / Michael Zuckerman -- Geography / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Architecture / Richard J. Webster -- Archaeology / Verna L. Cowin -- Folklore and folklife / Simon J. Bronner -- Genealogy / James M. Beidler -- Photography / Linda Ries -- Art / Randall M. Miller and William Pencak -- Oral history / Linda Shopes -- Literature / David Demarest.
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"--
