Expansion and Conflict
Expansion and Conflict

Author: William Edward Dodd

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this volume is to show the action and reaction of the most important social, economic, political, and personal forces that have entered into the make-up of the United States as a nation. The primary assumption of the author is that the people of this country did not compose a nation until after the close of the Civil War in 1865. Of scarcely less importance is the fact that the decisive motive behind the different groups in Congress at every great crisis of the period under discussion was sectional advantage or even sectional aggrandizement. If Webster ceased to be a particularist after 1824 and became a nationalist before 1830, it was because the interests of New England had undergone a similar change; or, if Calhoun deserted about the same time the cause of nationalism and became the most ardent of sectionalists, it was also because the interests of his constituents, the cotton and tobacco planters of the South, had become identified with particularism, that is, States rights.

A History of the American People
A History of the American People

Author: Woodrow Wilson

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1605204668

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Not a little strength of character underlay Mr. Van Buren s bland exterior, his conciliating manners, his air of sweet accommodation. He was also, in his way, a consummate master of men. He mastered them by insight, by intimate and friendly counsel, and by knowing the end he sought. But he did not rule or dominate by force of will. That slender little gentleman, always courteous, always placid, always ready to listen, and wait to have his way, could not hold or rule the imagination as the rugged veteran did who had preceded him from Chapter II: The Bank and the Treasury Before he served as the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921, before he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, THOMAS WOODROW WILSON (1856 1924) was a lawyer and an academic: a university professor of history and politics, and president of Princeton University. It was during his tenure at Princeton that he penned this five-volume history of the United States, and it reflects many of the biases he later brought to national politics, from racial prejudice to anti-immigration attitudes. In Volume IV, Wilson discusses the Democratic revolution of the 1820s and 1830s, introduces us to the great figures of the day including Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and many others and delves deep into the tumultuous years of the Civil War, when the United States faced the greatest threat to its existence. The appendix offers an illuminating parallel comparison of the U.S. Constitution with that of the Confederate States of America. This beautiful replica of the 1902 first edition features all the original halftone illustrations. Students of Wilson and of the ever-changing lens through which history is told and retold will find this an enlightening and illuminating work.