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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $16.44
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Manufacturer: Belknap Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David W. Blight
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Publisher: Belknap Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2002-03-01
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion. In 1865, confronted with a ravaged landscape and a torn America, the North and South began a slow and painful process of reconciliation. The ensuing decades witnessed the triumph of a culture of reunion, which downplayed sectional division and emphasized the heroics of a battle between noble men of the Blue and the Gray. Nearly lost in national culture were the moral crusades over slavery that ignited the war, the presence and participation of African Americans throughout the war, and the promise of emancipation that emerged from the war. Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of African-American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial. Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale of the politics of memory, of how a nation healed from civil war without justice. By the early twentieth century, the problems of race and reunion were locked in mutual dependence, a painful legacy that continues to haunt us today.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $8.78
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Eric Foner
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8
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Publication Date: 2006-11-14
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: A Timeline of Emancipation In Forever Free, Eric Foner, the leading historian of America's Reconstruction era, reexamines one of the most misunderstood periods of American history: the struggle to overthrow slavery and establish freedom for African Americans in the years before, during, and after the Civil War. Forever Free is extensively illustrated, with visual essays by scholar Joshua Brown discussing the images of the period alongside Foner's text. | 1787 | | The United States Constitution is ratified, containing several protections for slavery, including the Fugitive Slave Clause, three-fifths clause, and a cause prohibiting the abolition of the slave trade from Africa before 1808. | | 1829-31 | | Publication of Appeal ... to the Coloured Citizens of the World by David Walker and The Liberator, a weekly newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison, marks the emergence of a new, militant abolitionist movement. | |  | | Diagram of a slave ship from an 1808 report | | | 1831 | August 22 | Nat Turner launches a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, resulting in the deaths of 55 whites persons before the uprising is crushed. | | 1846 | August | Congress adjourns after intense sectional debate over the Wilmot Proviso, a proposal to prohibit slavery in all territory acquired in the Mexican-American War. | | 1860 | November 6 | Election of Abraham Lincoln as president, representing the anti-slavery Republican Party | | 1861 | February 4 | Seven seceded southern states form the Confederate States of America | | April 12 | The Confederate attack on South Carolina's Fort Sumter begins the Civil War. | |  | | A woodcut published in an 1831 account of the Nat Turner uprising | | | May 24 | Gen. Benjamin F. Butler declares fugitive slaves at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, "contraband of war," who will not be returned to their owners. | | August 6 | First Confiscation Act provides for the emancipation of slaves employed as laborers by the Confederate army. | | 1862 | April 16 | Congress abolishes slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation to loyal owners, and also appropriates funds for "colonization" of freed slaves outside the United States. | | July 17 | Second Confiscation Act frees slaves of disloyal owners. | | September 22 | Five days after the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issues the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which warns the South that if the rebellion has not ended by January 1, he will emancipate the slaves. It also promises aid to states that adopt plans for gradual, compensated emancipation and refers to colonization of freed people outside the country. | | 1863 | January 1 | Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in areas under Confederate control. It exempts Tennessee and parts of Louisiana and Virginia and does not apply to the border states, and also authorizes the enlistment of black soldiers. | |  | | "Contrabands" in Cumberland Landing, Virginia, May 1862 | | | July 30 | Lincoln insists black Union soldiers captured by the Confederate army be treated as prisoners of war, not escaped slaves as Confederate president Jefferson Davis has threatened. | | December 8 | Lincoln issues the Proclamation of Amnesty of Reconstruction, offering a pardon and restoration of property (except slave property) to Confederates who take an oath of allegiance to the Union. | | 1864 | September 5 | New constitution of Louisiana abolishes slavery; new constitutions in Maryland, Missouri, and Tennessee follow suit in the next six months. | | November 8 | Lincoln reelected as president. | | January 16 | Gen. William T. Sherman issues Special Field Order 15, setting aside land in coastal South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida for settlement by black families in 40-acre plots. | | March 3 | Congress orders emancipation of wives and children of black soldiers. | | March 13 | Confederate Congress authorizes enlistment of black soldiers. | | April 11 | In the last speech before his death, two days after Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox, Lincoln favors limited black suffrage in the South. | |  | | Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln, Washington, DC | | | April 14 | Assassination of Lincoln. | | December 18 | Ratification of the 13th Amendment irrevocably abolishes slavery throughout the United States. | | 1866 | April 9 | Over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, establishing citizenship of black Americans and requiring that they be accorded equality before the law, principles later written into the Constitution in the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868. | |  | | John Wilkes Booth assassinates Lincoln, April 1865 | | | 1867 | March 2 | Congress passes the Reconstruction Act, again over President Johnson's veto, extending the right to vote to black men in the South and inaugurating the era of Radical Reconstruction, America's first experiment in interracial democracy. | | 1877 | February | After intense bargaining to resolve the disputed presidential election of 1876, Democrats agree to recognize Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president, and Hayes agrees to end federal support for remaining Reconstruction governments. | |  | | A March 1867 cartoon, following the passage of the Reconstruction Act, shows President Johnson and his southern allies angrily watching African Americans vote. | |
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $7.94
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas J. Schlereth
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8
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Publication Date: 1992-07-15
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era--the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $11.25
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C. Vann Woodward
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: Commemorative
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.89607309034
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Publication Date: 2001-11
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.
The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools desegregated, Strange Career was cited so often to counter arguments for segregation that Martin Luther King, Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement." The book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative newcomer to the region.
Hailed as one of the top 100 nonfiction works of the twentieth century, The Strange Career of Jim Crow has sold almost a million copies and remains, in the words of David Herbert Donald, "a landmark in the history of American race relations."
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $8.97
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Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Montgomery Ward
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Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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Edition: Facsimile
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.87
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Publication Date: 2008-04-01
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Reading Level: 656
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Description: Before the Internet, Wal-Mart, and the shopping mall, there was Montgomery Ward.
"Our mail order methods meet many wants," wrote a poetic but anonymous copywriter on a page of the 1895 Montgomery Ward & Co. catalogue. He had a gift for understatement. At its zenith from the 1880s to the 1940s, Montgomery Ward, like its cross-town Chicago rival, Sears, sold virtually everything the average American could think of or desire—and by mail. This was a revolution, and Ward's fired the first shot. To buy spittoons, books of gospel hymns, hat pins, rifles, wagons, violins, birdcages, or portable bathtubs, purchases that used to require many separate trips to specialist merchants, suddenly all the American shopper had to do was lick a stamp. This unabridged facsimile of the retail giant's 1895 catalogue showcases some 25,000 items, from the necessities of life (flour, shirts) to products whose time has passed (ear trumpets). It is an important resource for antiquaries, students of Americana, writers of historical fiction, and anyone who wants to know how much his great-grandfather paid for his suspenders. It is a true record of an era. 20,000 b/w illustrations.
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Price: $39.99
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Sale: $26.18
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Charles Postel
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8
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Publication Date: 2007-05-15
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Reading Level: 397
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Description: In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam power made America and the world a much smaller place. New technologies also made possible large-scale organization and centralization. Corporations grew exponentially and the rich amassed great fortunes. Those on the short end of these wrenching changes responded in the Populist revolt, one of the most effective challenges to corporate power in American history.
But what did Populism represent? Half a century ago, scholars such as Richard Hofstadter portrayed the Populist movement as an irrational response of backward-looking farmers to the challenges of modernity. Since then, the romantic notion of Populism as the resistance movement of tradition-based and pre-modern communities to a modern and commercial society has prevailed. In a broad, innovative reassessment, based on a deep reading of archival sources, The Populist Vision argues that the Populists understood themselves as--and were in fact--modern people, who pursued an alternate vision for modern America.
Taking into account both the leaders and the led, The Populist Vision uses a wide lens, focusing on the farmers, both black and white, men and women, while also looking at wager workers and bohemian urbanites. From Texas to the Dakotas, from Georgia to California, farmer Populists strove to use the new innovations for their own ends. They sought scientific and technical knowledge, formed highly centralized organizations, launched large-scale cooperative businesses, and pressed for reforms on the model of the nation's most elaborate bureaucracy - the Postal Service. Hundreds of thousands of Populist farm women sought education, employment in schools and offices, and a more modern life. Miners, railroad workers, and other labor Populists joined with farmers to give impetus to the regulatory state. Activists from Chicago, San Francisco, and other new cities provided Populism with a dynamic urban dimension
This major reassessment of the Populist experience is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics, society, and culture of modern America.
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Sale: $8.58
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Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Orville Vernon Burton
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Publisher: Hill and Wang
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Edition: Reprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2008-07-08
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age’s most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most profound. The enduring legacy of the age of Lincoln was inscribing personal liberty into the nation’s millennial aspirations. America has always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s pessimism accompanied marked extremism, as Millerites predicted the Second Coming, utopianists planned perfection, Southerners made slavery an inviolable honor, and Northerners conflated Manifest Destiny with free-market opportunity. Even amid historic political compromises the middle ground collapsed. In a remarkable reappraisal of Lincoln, the distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton shows how the president’s authentic Southernness empowered him to conduct a civil war that redefined freedom as a personal right to be expanded to all Americans. In the violent decades to follow, the extent of that freedom would be contested but not its central place in what defined the country. Presenting a fresh conceptualization of the defining decades of modern America, The Age of Lincoln is narrative history of the highest order. |
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Sale: $59.44
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James McPherson::James Hogue
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7
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Publication Date: 2000-06-30
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Reading Level: 816
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Description: Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The third edition incorporates recent scholarship and addresses renewed areas of interest in the Civil War/Reconstruction era including the motivations and experiences of common soldiers and the role of women in the war effort.. . . .
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Sale: $8.00
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frederick Douglass
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8092
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Publication Date: 1996-12-19
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: Based on the first edition of this autobiography in 1845, this text concerns the life of the great slave and upholder of emancipation, Frederick Douglass. In addition to its impact on the anti-slave movement of the time, the fugitive-slave narrative won recognition for its literary style.
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Sale: $25.16
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Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael F. Holt
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Publisher: University Press of Kansas
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.83
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Publication Date: 2008-10-15
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Reading Level: 300
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Description: With electoral votes disputed in three states, a Democrat winning the popular vote, and the Supreme Court stepping in to overrule Florida court decisions, the presidential election of 1876 was an eerie precursor to that of 2000. Rutherford Hayes's defeat of Samuel Tilden has been dubbed the "fraud of the century"; now one of America's preeminent political historians digs deeper to unravel its real significance. This election saw the highest voter turnout of any in U.S. history--a whopping 82 percent--and also the narrowest margin of victory, as a single electoral vote decided the outcome. Michael Holt offers a fresh interpretation of this disputed election, not merely to rehash claims of fraud but to explain why it was so close. Examining the post-Civil War political environment, he particularly focuses on its most curious feature: that Republicans were the only party in history to retain the presidency in the middle of a severe depression after decisively losing the preceding off-year congressional elections. Holt begins with the election of 1872 to demonstrate how competition for Liberal Republicans shaped the campaign strategies of both parties. He stresses the critical but little-noted importance of Colorado statehood in August--which changed the size of the electoral-vote majority needed to win--and provides a new answer to the vexing question of why a Democratic-controlled Congress had admitted Colorado in time to participate in the presidential election, when without its votes Tilden would have won. And he argues that the high voter turnout was attributable both to Republicans exploiting fears of ex-Confederates recapturing control of the government and to long-apathetic southern Democrats reacting to war memories and Reconstruction realities. By One Vote shows how this election triggered a Republican revival and established the GOP as the Democrats' major competitor. Holt's compelling analysis of the dispute over electoral votes also explains why charges of Republican fraud are questionable--and how Democrats were just as guilty of corruption. A masterly retelling of this controversial episode, Holt's study captures the mood of the country and testifies to the power that hatreds and fears aroused by the Civil War still exercised over the American people. This book is part of the American Presidential Elections series.
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Displaying records 11 through 20 of 1861
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