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Hace 2 días · In his two-volume memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881), former Confederate president Jefferson Davis argued that slavery “was in no wise the cause of the conflict” and that slaves had been “contented with their lot.”
Hace 5 días · american antiquarian society's public program. the rise and fall of the second american republic reconstruction, 1862 1920 with manisha sinha in conversation with john stauffer, the american antiquarian society is located on the ancestral homelands of the nipmuc tribal community who remain an active presence here in central massachusetts. tonight's program is being recorded and will be ...
Hace 5 días · Confederate States of America, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, following the election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. president, prompting the American Civil War (1861–65). The Confederacy acted as a separate government until defeated in the spring of 1865.
Hace 2 días · The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) by Jefferson Davis; The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1885) by Mark Twain; Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South (1887) by Jules Verne; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890) by Ambrose Bierce; The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane
Hace 3 días · Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens both wrote postwar arguments in favor of secession's legality and the international legitimacy of the Government of the Confederate States of America, most notably Davis' The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.
Hace 4 días · Book: Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. Stephanie McCurry. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780674045897; 456pp.; Price: £25.95. Reviewer: Dr Paul Quigley. University of Edinburgh. Citation:
Hace 1 día · In June 1978, James A. Field Jr. damned the subject of American imperialism as ‘the worst chapter in almost any book’. After summarising the elements of an ‘inverted Whig interpretation of history’, including an over-emphasis on the determinative impact of crude social Darwinism, a psychic crisis of jingoism, domestic over-production, and the creation of the New Navy as the root causes ...
