Author : Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Massachusetts
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : William Preston Vaughn
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 081315040X
Here, for the first time in more than eighty years, is a detailed study of political Antimasonry on the national, state, and local levels, based on a survey of existing sources. The Antimasonic party, whose avowed goal was the destruction of the Masonic Lodge and other secret societies, was the first influential third party in the United States and introduced the device of the national presidential nominating convention in 1831. Vaughn focuses on the celebrated "Morgan Affair" of 1826, the alleged murder of a former Mason who exposed the fraternity's secrets. Thurlow Weed quickly transformed the crusading spirit aroused by this incident into an anti-Jackson party in New York. From New York, the party soon spread through the Northeast. To achieve success, the Antimasons in most states had to form alliances with the major parties, thus becoming the "flexible minority." After William Wirt's defeat by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1832, the party waned. Where it had been strong, Antimasonry became a reform-minded, anti-Clay faction of the new Whig party and helped to secure the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison in 1836 and 1840. Vaughn concludes that although in many ways the Antimasonic Crusade was finally beneficial to the Masons, it was not until the 1850s that the fraternity regained its strength and influence.
Author : Ida B. Wells
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 022669156X
The NAACP co-founder, civil rights activist, educator, and journalist recounts her public and private life in this classic memoir. Born to enslaved parents, Ida B. Wells was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans. She co-founded the NAACP, started the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, and was a leader in the early civil rights movement, working alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Church Terrell, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony. This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Wells’s private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Eve L. Ewing, new images, and a new afterword by Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster. “No student of black history should overlook Crusade for Justice.” —William M. Tuttle, Jr., Journal of American History
Author : Stuart D. Brandes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813170589
The author masterfully blends intellectual, economic, and military history into a fascinating discussion of a great moral question for generations of Americans: Can some individuals rightly profit during wartime while other sacrifice their lives to protect the nation?
Author : Christopher A. Preble
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948647168
A historically-grounded examination of United States foreign policy that interrogates the ideological assumptions--whether explicit or tacit--that drive it.
Author : Jane R. McGoldrick
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : Alice Dunbar Nelson
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1513287478
Mine Eyes Have Seen (1918) is a one-act play by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Published in The Crisis, the influential journal of the NAACP, Mine Eyes Have Seen is a brutal portrait of race and identity in twentieth century America. Exploring themes of violence, faith, patriotism, and economic struggle, Dunbar Nelson crafts a poignant and unforgettable work of fiction. When their father, a successful black man, is lynched by vengeful white neighbors, Dan, Chris, and Lucy flee north with their mother. They reach the city safely, but their mother soon dies from heartbreak and exhaustion, leaving her children to fend for themselves. Dan, the eldest, manages to support his siblings until an accident at the factory leaves him crippled. This forces Chris, a bitter young man, to take financial responsibility for the family. When the United States enters the First World War, authorizing the Selective Service Act of 1917, Chris is drafted into the military. Despite his hesitation and distrust of a government that allowed his father to be murdered with impunity, he soon comes under the influence of patriotic white neighbors who encourage him to sacrifice his life for the nation. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alice Dunbar Nelson’s Mine Eyes Have Seen is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Boris Heersink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1107158435
Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.
Author : Booker T. Washington
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A sympathetic study by the great teacher & leader of a career which was identified with the race problem in the period of revolution & liberation. The sketch reveals Douglass as the personification of the historical events that marked the transition from slavery to citizenship.
Author : Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910" by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Florence Howe Hall, Maud Howe Elliott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
