Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376) and index.
Contents
A new year and a fresh start -- Politics and the social milieu -- James Buchanan : President-elect -- The President, the Chief Justice, and a slave named Scott -- The heart of the matter : slavery and sectionalism -- Popular sovereignty, Kansas style -- Dog days -- Flush times and an autumn panic -- Northern politics : the parties in equipoise -- Politics as farce : the Lecompton Constitution -- Politics as tragedy : Buchanan's decision -- 1858 : the fruits of Lecompton.
Summary
It was a year packed with unsettling events. The Panic of 1857 closed every bank in New York City, ruined thousands of businesses, and caused widespread unemployment among industrial workers. The Mormons in Utah Territory threatened rebellion when federal troops approached with a non-Morman governor to replace Brigham Young. The Supreme Court outraged northernRepublicans and abolitionists with the Dred Scott decision ("a breathtaking example of judicial activism"). etc.
v. 1. Urbanization and the growth of cities -- v. 2. The physical city -- v. 3. Politics and government -- v. 4. The economy -- v. 5. The working class and its culture -- v. 6. Transportation and communication -- v. 7. Social structure and social mobility -- v. 8. Institutional life.
Vols. 1-2 originally published: New York : Grolier Club if the City of New York, 1907.
Vol. 3, by Mantle Fielding, was originally published in 1917 as a supplement to Stauffer's work.
Library has: v. 1, v. 2.
Reprint of the Grolier Club of the City of New York, 1907
Contents
Pt. 1. Biographical sketches, illustrated -- pt. 2. Check-list of the works of the earlier engravers -- Pt. 3. Biographical sketches and check lists of engravings : a supplement to David McNeely Staugger's American engravers.
edited by Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth I. Nybakken.
ISBN
0313262330 (alk. paper)
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Greenwood Press,
Date of Publication
1991.
Physical Description
viii, 435 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-393) and index.
Contents
The study of the American family / Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth I. Nybakken -- Changing approaches to the study of family life / Maris A. Vinovskis and Laura McCall -- The preindustrial family (1600-1815) / Ross W. Beales, Jr. -- The new model middle-class family (1815-1930) / Marilyn Dell Brady -- Families face the Great Depression (1930-1940) / Winifred D. Wandersee -- Families, World War II, and the baby boom (1940-1955) / Judith Sealander -- New rules : postwar families (1955-present) / Steven Mintz -- Women and families / Margaret M. Caffrey -- African American families / Karen Anderson -- Native American families / Nancy Shoemaker -- Immigrant working-class families / Selma Berrol.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-162) and index.
Summary
Here is a how-to-do-it book for local historians, whether beginners or seasoned veterans. It leads the local historian through the major sources and suggests appropriate techniques for researching and writing the history of a nearby farm. It discusses the value of oral history and photographs, notes the importance of farm architecture, and evaluates the importance of technological change, among other topics. This study also provides helpful suggestions for conducting research at libraries and state historical societies, as well as for writing the history of a farm. It will prove essential for all professional, as well as nonprofessional, historians. [from the publisher]
