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Author: Anders Bo Rasmussen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-05-19
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1108845568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first thorough analysis of Scandinavian Americans, examining citizenship, settler colonialism and whiteness in the Civil War era.
Author: Sebastian N. Page
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-01-28
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 110714177X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.
Author: Gregory Michno
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0870045024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas’s hills and prairies that continued for decades. During the 1860s, however, the bloodiest decade in the western Indian wars, there were no large-scale battles in Texas between the army and the Indians. Instead, the targets of the Comanches, the Kiowas, and the Apaches were generally the homesteaders out on the Texas frontier, that is, precisely those who should have been on the sidelines. Ironically, it was these noncombatants who bore the brunt of the warfare, suffering far greater losses than the soldiers supposedly there to protect them. It is this story that The Settlers’ War tells for the first time.
Author: Steve Cottrell
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Meyers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020-02-03
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1439668957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years leading up to the Civil War, Ohio had more African American settlements than any other state. Owing to a common border with several slave states, it became a destination for people of color seeking to separate themselves from slavery. Despite these communities having populations that sometimes numbered in the hundreds, little is known about most of them, and by the beginning of the twentieth century, nearly all had lost their ethnic identities as the original settlers died off and their descendants moved away. Save for scattered cemeteries and an occasional house or church, they have all but been erased from Ohio's landscape. Father-daughter coauthors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker piece together the stories of more than forty of these black settlements.
Author: William C. Davis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780806131290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of "The Fighting Men of the Civil War" now masterfully chronicles the grand history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular attention to exploration, expansion, conflict, and settlement.
Author: Sandy Hevener
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-12-08
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781546817567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Virginians scrambled to recover from the war that split the state, many moved. Adam Snyder urged his brother-in-law, William Hevener, to join him in a move to the new state of West Virginia. Adam was an attorney and William a political leader who handled large sums of money. Snyder wrote: "The infernal Radicals have us in a bad fix in this state. We have not got the rights the Negroes formally had. We can not practice law, hold office sit upon a jury or vote without taking the "test oath" a specimen of which I enclose. "If we can not get these laws and "test oaths" modified or declared unconstitutional (as they certainly are) by them this Country, I will be compelled to leave here ... ... "No Southern man can bring a suit against a Union Radical in this State, on any debt or contract which existed prior to April 1865. This State is controlled entirely by an ignorant, corrupt and unprincipled set of "Jack-legged Methodist preachers"-family Adam moved to Lewisburg West Virginia. His brother-in-law stayed. Much of his family, neighbors, including Colaw, Snyder, Lantz, Life, Wimer moved west and wrote these letters home. The family letters from 1780 through the 1880s herein glimpse into personal and economical challenges of the times.
Author: Berry Craig
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-10-03
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 0813146933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Civil War, the majority of Kentuckians supported the Union under the leadership of Henry Clay, but one part of the state presented a striking exception. The Jackson Purchase—bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Tennessee River to the east—fought hard for separation and secession, and produced eight times more Confederates than Union soldiers. Supporting states' rights and slavery, these eight counties in the westernmost part of the commonwealth were so pro-Confederate that the Purchase was dubbed "the South Carolina of Kentucky." The first dedicated study of this key region, Kentucky Confederates provides valuable insights into a misunderstood and understudied part of Civil War history. Author Berry Craig begins by exploring the development of the Purchase from 1818, when Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby acquired it from the Chickasaw tribe. Geographically isolated from the rest of the Bluegrass State, the area's early settlers came from the South, and rail and river trade linked the region to Memphis and western Tennessee rather than to points north and east. Craig draws from an impressive array of primary documents, including newspapers, letters, and diaries, to reveal the regional and national impact this unique territory had on the nation's greatest conflict. Offering an important new perspective on this rebellious borderland and its failed bid for secession, Kentucky Confederates will serve as the standard text on the subject for years to come.
Author: Susannah J. Ural
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2010-11-22
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0814785719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood outside the pale of civil-society: African Americans. But other groups--namely Jews, Germans, the Irish, and Native Americans--also became part of this struggle to exercise rights stripped from them by legislation, court rulings, and the prejudices that defined the age. Grounded in extensive research by experts in their respective fields, Civil War Citizens is the first volume to collectively analyze the wartime experiences of those who lived outside the dominant white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant citizenry of nineteenth-century America. The essays examine the momentous decisions made by these communities in the face of war, their desire for full citizenship, the complex loyalties that shaped their actions, and the inspiring and heartbreaking results of their choices-- choices that still echo through the United States today. Contributors: Stephen D. Engle, William McKee Evans, David T. Gleeson, Andrea Mehrländer, Joseph P. Reidy, Robert N. Rosen, and Susannah J. Ural.
Author: Anders Bo Rasmussen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-05-19
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1108988679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCivil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the US Civil War. Based on thousands of sources in multiple languages, that have to date been inaccessible to most US historians, Anders Bo Rasmussen brings the untold story of Scandinavian American immigrants to life by focusing on their lived community experience and positioning it within the larger context of western settler colonialism. Associating American citizenship with liberty and equality, Scandinavian immigrants openly opposed slavery and were among the most enthusiastic foreign-born supporters of the early Republican Party. However, the malleable concept of citizenship was used by immigrants to resist draft service, and support a white man's republic through territorial expansion on American Indian land and into the Caribbean. Consequently, Scandinavian immigrants after emancipation proved to be reactionary Republicans, not abolitionists. This unique approach to the Civil War sheds new light on how whiteness and access to territory formed an integral part of American immigration history.
