Author : Walter Lynwood Fleming
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Buildings
ISBN :
Narrative of Bering's second expedition, 1733-1743, by an expedition member.
Author : John David Smith
Publisher : Signet
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
ISBN : 9780451532268
This anthology of primary documents traces Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War, chronicling the way Americans--Northern, Southern, black, and white--responded to the changes unleashed by the surrender at Appomattox and the end of slavery. Showcasing an impressive collection of original documents, including government publications, newspaper articles, speeches, pamphlets, and personal letters, this book captures the voices of a broad range of Americans, including Civil War veterans, former slaveholders, Northerners living in the South, and African-American men and women who lived through one of the most trying, complex, and misunderstood periods of American history.
Author : William E. Gienapp
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393975550
An ample, wide-ranging collection of primary sources, The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection, opens a window onto the political, social, cultural, economic, and military history from 1830 to 1877.
Author : Christian G. Samito
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809328895
The first comprehensive collection of legal history documents from the Civil War and Reconstruction, this volume shows the profound legal changes that occurred during the Civil War era and highlights how law, society, and politics inextricably mixed and set American legal development on particular paths that were not predetermined. Editor Christian G. Samito has carefully selected excerpts from legislation, public and legislative debates, court cases, investigations of white supremacist violence in the South, and rare court-martial records, added his expert analysis, and illustrated the selections with telling period artwork to create an outstanding resource that demonstrates the rich and important legal history of the era.
Author : Willie Lee Nichols Rose
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 082032065X
Documenting multiple aspects of slavery and its development in North America, this collection provides more than one hundred excerpts from personal accounts, songs, legal documents, diaries, letters, and other written sources. The book assembles a remarkable portrayal of the day-to-day connections between, and among, slaves and their owners across more than two centuries of subjugation and resistance, despair and hope. Beginning with a chronicle of the origins of slavery in the British colonies of North America, the collection traces the growth of the system to the antebellum period and includes accounts of slave revolts, auctions, slave travel and laws, and family life. Intimate as well as comprehensive, the documents reveal the individual views, goals, and lives of slaves and their masters, making this engaging work one of the most respected catalogs of firsthand information about slavery in North America.
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 1985
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780521132138
Author : Willie Lee Rose
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820320618
Just seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina’s Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upriver to Beaufort. Planters and farmers fled before their attackers, allowing virtually all their major possessions, including ten thousand slaves, to fall into Union hands. Rehearsal for Reconstruction, winner of the Allan Nevins Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Prize, is historian Willie Lee Rose’s chronicle of change in this Sea Island region from its capture in 1861 through Reconstruction. With epic sweep, Rose demonstrates how Port Royal constituted a stage upon which a dress rehearsal for the South’s postwar era was acted out.
Author : Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848314132
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Author : David E. Shi
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2010
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780393934045
A companion primary-source reader for America: A Narrative History.
Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393652580
“Gripping and essential.”—Jesse Wegman, New York Times An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activism and adoption amidst intense postwar politics to their virtual nullification by narrow Supreme Court decisions and Jim Crow state laws. Today these amendments remain strong tools for achieving the American ideal of equality, if only we will take them up.
