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The Political Reconstruction Of American Tobacco, 1862-1933

by Patrick Mulford Oâ€™Connor

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 Emphasizes the significance of the thousands of manufacturers whose interest groups shaped federal tax policy and, in turn, forged a powerful and effective internal revenue system; the increasingly influential fertilizer producers and warehouse operators who determined tobaccoâ€™s value; and the crop scientists who sought to promote and rationalize US tobacco production.
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Embracing Emancipation - A Transatlantic History Of Irish Americans, Slavery, And The American Union, 1840-1865

by Ian Delahanty

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 WINNER, 2024 LAWRENCE J. McCAFFREY PRIZE FOR BEST BOOK ON IRISH AMERICA Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation tackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Irish Americans, who claimed to have been oppressed in Ireland, so vehemently opposed the antislavery movement in the United States? Challenging conventional answers to this question that focus on the cultural, political, and economic circumstances of the Irish in America, Embracing Emancipation locates the origins of Irish American opposition to antislavery in famine-era Ireland. There, a distinctively Irish critique of abolitionism emerged during the 1840s, one that was adopted and adapted by Irish Americans during the sectional crisis. The Irish critique of abolitionism meshed with Irish Americans belief that the American Union would uplift Irish people on both sides of the Atlanticif only it could be saved from the forces of disunion. Whereas conventional accounts of the Civil War itself emphasize Irish immigrants involvement in the New York City draft riots as a brutal coda to their unflinching opposition to emancipation, Delahanty uncovers a history of Irish Americans who embraced emancipation. Irish American soldiers realized that aiding Black southerners attempts at self-liberation would help to subdue the Confederate rebellion. Wartime developments in the United States and Ireland affirmed Irish American Unionists belief that the perpetuity of their adopted country was vital to the economic and political prospects of current and future immigrants and to their hopes for Irelands independence. Even as some Irish immigrants evinced their disdain for emancipation by lashing out against Union authorities and African Americans in northern cities, many others argued that their transatlantic interests in restoring the Union now aligned with slaverys demise. While myriad Irish Americans ultimately abandoned their hostility to antislavery, their backgrounds in and continuously renewed connections with Ireland remained consistent influences on how the Irish in America took part in debate over the future of American slavery.
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New Men - Reconstructing The Image Of The Veteran In Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature And Culture

by John A. Casey

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 New Men uncovers the narrative of veteran reentry into civilian life and exposes a growing gap between how former soldiers of the Civil War saw themselves and the representations of them created by late nineteenth-century American society. This gap generated a new conception of the â€œveteranâ€ still influential today.
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Retreats Of Reconstruction - Race, Leisure, And The Politics Of Segregation At The New Jersey Shore, 1865-1920

by David E. Goldberg

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 Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political economy and threatened segregationist practices. Exploiting early class divisions, black working-class activists staged a series of successful protests that helped make northern leisure spaces a critical battleground in a larger debate about racial equality. While some scholars emphasize the triumph of black consumer activism with defeating segregation, Goldberg argues that the various consumer ideologies that first surfaced in northern leisure spaces during the Reconstruction era contained desegregation efforts and prolonged Jim Crow.Combining intellectual, social, and cultural history, The Retreats of Reconstruction examines how these decisions helped popularize the doctrine of "separate but equal" and explains why the politics of consumption is critical to understanding the "long civil rights movement."
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The Political Reconstruction Of American Tobacco, 1862-1933

by Patrick Mulford Oâ€™Connor

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Our Onward March - The Grand Army Of The Republic In The Progressive Era

by Jonathan D. Neu

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A Contested Terrain - Freedpeople'S Education In North Carolina During The Civil War And Reconstruction

by Annemarie Brosnan

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Embracing Emancipation - A Transatlantic History Of Irish Americans, Slavery, And The American Union, 1840-1865

by Ian Delahanty

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The Political Reconstruction Of American Tobacco, 1862-1933

by Patrick Mulford Oconnor

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 A deeply researched and clearly argued account of the mutual growth of the federal government and the modern tobacco Nearly everything about the United States tobacco economy changed in the generation following the American Civil War. From labor to consumption, manufacturing to regulation, tobacco was utterly reconstructed, comparatively a new industry, as one contemporary wrote. The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 18621933 exposes the causes of these changes, and in the process, it reconsiders cornerstones of the American national narrative. Through a detailed rendering of tobaccos late-nineteenth-century political economy, this book argues that the federal states and American capitalisms development were mutually constitutiveand fundamentally politicalprocesses. From the Civil War to the Progressive Era, diverse political movements across tobaccos commodity chain drove state and market development, creating the immense power and stifling poverty that defined tobaccos reconstruction. The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 18621933 emphasizes the significance of the thousands of manufacturers whose interest groups shaped federal tax policy and, in turn, forged a powerful and effective internal revenue system; the increasingly influential fertilizer producers and warehouse operators who determined tobaccos value; and the crop scientists who sought to promote and rationalize US tobacco production. As these actors reshaped tobaccos commodity chain, they missed, and even dismissed, the interests of tobacco growers, especially newly emancipated African Americans and smallholding whites throughout the South. The ruling logic of tobaccos reconstructed political economy rationalized agrarian indebtedness, justified low prices, and intensified labor discipline on thousands of small farms. In emphasizing these exclusions, The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 18621933 reveals how nineteenth-century state and economic development coincided with and even created rural poverty.
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Our Onward March - The Grand Army Of The Republic In The Progressive Era

by Jonathan D. Neu

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 Provides vital new evidence that Union veterans remained stubbornly opposed to the nations reconciliationist tendencies and unwilling to surrender the causes for which they fought Union soldiers service to the nation did not end in 1865. Instead, it persisted well into the twentieth century as hundreds of thousands of veterans joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and directed the reform and improvement of their communities through their fraternal membership in thousands of local posts around the country. In Our Onward March, Jonathan D. Neu shows how Union veterans of the GAR drew on lessons they learned in the Civil Warlessons about broad principles like democracy, freedom, and loyaltyto undertake grassroots civic projects designed to address the rampant social ills and challenging foreign policy issues associated with US modernization. Armed this time with sage wisdom and unwavering principles, they mobilized again to consummate their wartime victory with reform-minded activism on behalf of establishing an even more perfect Union. Extending the boundaries of Americas postCivil War era, Neu investigates the GAR during the Progressive era, a period in the organizations history that scholars have overlooked. Countering stubborn notions that the GAR was merely a pension advocacy group or an insular bastion of sentimental nostalgia, he reveals instead that the organization reached a turning point in 1890, after which it became an active and decentralized civic association whose members worked to instill a commitment to public life, engagement with community issues, and pride in the democracy they had defended as young men. Anchored by illuminating new source material, including post-minute books and fraternal records, Our Onward March places aging GAR members squarely among the diverse constellation of turn-of-the-century social reformers, using their memory of the Civil War to promote robust, veteran-led civic engagement. By situating Union veterans in this context, we see a more accurate portrait of the GAR post in American cultureas a local center of progressive activism.
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A Contested Terrain - Freedpeople'S Education In North Carolina During The Civil War And Reconstruction

by Annemarie Brosnan

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 A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational experiences of Black North Carolinians during the American Civil War and Reconstruction period, 18611877. By highlighting the collaborative efforts that led to the growing network of schools for the formerly enslaved people, it argues that schooling the Freedpeople was a contested terrain, fraught with conflicting visions of Black freedom and the role education should play. Although Black men and women emerged as the driving force behind the educational endeavors of this period, their work was facilitated by Northern aid and missionary societies, the federally-mandated Freedmens Bureau, and over 1,400 teachers from various regional and racial backgrounds. Yet the educational landscape was far from uniform, and the individuals and organizations involved had their distinct visions regarding the nature and purpose of Freedpeoples education. Through the use of qualitative and quantitative research methods, this book offers new insights into the reasons why Black and white Northerners and Southerners elected to become teachers. By examining their diverse motivations and experiences, it argues that attitudes toward Freedpeoples education were complex and fluid, defying neat characterization. Despite mounting obstacles and opposition to their work, Black North Carolinians unrelenting quest for education ultimately gave rise to free public schooling for both races, the professionalization of Black teachers, and an extensive network of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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Our Onward March - The Grand Army Of The Republic In The Progressive Era

by Jonathan D. Neu

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Unforgettable Sacrifice - How Black Communities Remembered The Civil War

by Hilary N. Green

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Unforgettable Sacrifice - How Black Communities Remembered The Civil War

by Hilary N. Green

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A Contested Terrain - Freedpeople'S Education In North Carolina During The Civil War And Reconstruction

by Annemarie Brosnan

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Embracing Emancipation - A Transatlantic History Of Irish Americans, Slavery, And The American Union, 1840-1865

by Ian Delahanty

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The Civil War And The Summer Of 2020

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 George Floydâ€™s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States. This volume is intended for non-historians interested in showing the intertwined and longstanding connections between systematic racism, violence, resistance, and the memory of the Civil War era in the United States that finally exploded in the summer of 2020.
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Abolitionist Twilights - History, Meaning, And The Fate Of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909

by Raymond James Krohn

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 Provides unique insight into Reconstructions downfall and Jim Crows emergence. In the years and decades following the American Civil War, veteran abolitionists actively thought and wrote about the campaign to end enslavement immediately. This study explores the late-in-life reflections of several antislavery memorial and historical writers, evaluating the stable and shifting meanings of antebellum abolitionism amidst dramatic changes in postbellum race relations. By investigating veteran abolitionists as movement chroniclers and commemorators and situating their texts within various contexts, Raymond James Krohn further assesses the humanitarian commitments of activists who had valued themselves as the enslaved peoples steadfast friends. Never solely against slavery, post-1830 abolitionism challenged widely held anti-Black prejudices as well. Dedicated to emancipating the enslaved and elevating people of color, it equipped adherents with the necessary linguistic resources to wage a valiant, sustained philanthropic fight. Abolitionist Twilights focuses on how the status and condition of the freedpeople and their descendants affected book-length representations of antislavery persons and events. In probing veteran abolitionist engagement in or disengagement from an ongoing African American freedom struggle, this ambitious volume ultimately problematizes scholarly understandings of abolitionisms racial justice history and legacy.
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Abolitionist Twilights - History, Meaning, And The Fate Of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909

by Raymond James Krohn

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Abolitionist Twilights - History, Meaning, And The Fate Of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909

by Raymond James Krohn

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Continent In Crisis - The U.S. Civil War In North America

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 Written by leading historians of the midnineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of Americas mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil Wars connections with Europe and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the West. As the United States went through its Civil War and Reconstruction, Mexico endured its own civil war and then waged a four-year campaign to expel a French-imposed monarch. Meanwhile, Britains North American colonies were in complex and contested negotiations that culminated in confederation in 1867. In the West, indigenous nations faced an onslaught of settlers and soldiers seeking to conquer their lands for the United States. Yet despite this synchronicity, mainstream histories of the Civil War mostly ignore its connections to the political upheaval occurring elsewhere in North America. By reading North America into the history of the Civil War, this volume shows how battles over sovereignty in neighboring states became enmeshed with the fratricidal conflict in the United States. Its contributors explore these entangled histories in studies ranging from African Americans fleeing U.S. slavery by emigrating to Mexico to Confederate privateers finding allies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This continental perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for grabs.
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Curriculum By Design - Innovation And The Liberal Arts Core

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