Thomas Rodney, Revolutionary and Builder of the West
Author: William Baskerville Hamilton
Publisher:
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13:
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History of Delaware
Author: John Andrew Munroe
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780874139471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Originally undertaken by the author as a Bicentennial project in 1975, and now the standard history of the state, this volume chronicles the history of Delaware from the early 1600s to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
The Old Southwest, 1795-1830
Author: Thomas Dionysius Clark
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780806128368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the early years of the U.S. republic, its vital southwestern quadrant - encompassing the modern-day states between South Carolina and Louisiana - experienced nearly unceasing conflict. In The Old Southwest, 1795-1830: Frontiers in Conflict, historians Thomas D. Clark and John D. W. Guice analyze the many disputes that resulted when the United States pushed aside a hundred thousand Indians and overtook the final vestiges of Spanish, French, and British presence in the wilderness. Leaders such as Andrew Jackson, who emerged during the Creek War, introduced new policies of Indian removal and state making, along with a decided willingness to let adventurous settlers open up the new territories as a part of the Manifest Destiny of a growing country.
Antebellum Natchez
Author: D. Clayton James
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1993-05-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780807118603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAntebellum Natchez is most often associated with the grand and romantic aspects of the Old South and its landed gentry. Yet there was, as this book so amply illustrates, another Natchez—the Natchez of ordinary citizens, small businessmen, and free Negroes, and the Natchez under-the-Hill of brawling boatmen, professional gamblers, and bold-faced strumpets. Antebellum Natchez not only takes a critical look at the town’s aristocracy but also examines the depth of its commercial activities and the life of its middle- and lower-class elements. Author D. Clayton James brings the political, economic, and social aspects of antebellum Natchez into perspective and debunks a number of myths and illusions, including the notion that the town was a stronghold of Federalism and Whiggery. Starting with the Natchez Indians and their “Sun God” culture, James traces the development of the town from the native village through the plotting and intrigue of the changing regimes of the French, Spanish, British, and Americans. James makes a perceptive analysis of the aristocrats’ role in restricting the growth of the town, which in 1800 appeared likely to become the largest city in the transmontane region. “The attitudes and behavior of the aristocrats of Natchez during the final three decades of the antebellum period were characterized by escapism and exclusiveness,” says James. “With the aristocrats sullenly withdrawing into their world...Natchez lost forever the opportunity to become a major metropolis, and Mississippi was led to ruin.” Quoting generously from diaries, journals, and other records, the author gives the reader a valuable insight into what life in a Southern town was like before the Civil War. Antebellum Natchez is an important account of the role of Natchez and its colorful figures—John Quitman, Robert Walker, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, William C. C. Claiborne, and a host of others—in the colonial affairs of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the growth of the Old Southwest.
Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Delaware State, 1781-1792, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1792
Author: Claudia L. Bushman
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 1040
ISBN-13: 9780874133097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of the proceedings of Delaware's lower house completes the publication of Delaware's legislative papers, a project envisioned by Delawareans more than one hundred years ago.
Mississippi’s Federal Courts
Author: David M. Hargrove
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2019-01-17
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1496819519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis resource produces the first comprehensive history of the state’s federal courts from the inception of the Mississippi Territory to the late twentieth century. Using archival material and legal documents, David M. Hargrove untangles the state’s complex legal history, which includes slavery and secession, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Jim Crow and civil rights. In this important overview of the United States courts in Mississippi, Hargrove surveys the state’s federal judiciary as it rules on key issues in Mississippi’s past. He examines the court as it mediates conflict between regional and national agendas as well as protects constitutional rights of the state’s African American citizens during the Reconstruction and civil rights eras. Hargrove traces how political activities of the state’s federal judges affected public perceptions of an independent judiciary. Growing demands for federal judicial and law enforcement infrastructure, he notes, called for courthouses that remain iconic presences in the state’s largest cities. Hargrove presents detailed judicial biographies of judges who shaped Mississippi’s federal bench. Commissioned by the state’s federal judiciary to write the book, he offers balanced perspectives on jurists whose reputations have suffered in hindsight, while illuminating the achievements of those who have received little public recognition.
Proceedings of the Assembly of the Lower Counties on Delaware, 1770-1776, of the Constitutional Convention of 1776, and of the House of Assembly of the Delaware State, 1776-1781
Author: Delaware. Constitutional Convention
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780874132847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMakes important documents available to the public and to researchers for the first time about the state's role in the American Revolution and about Delaware's patriot statesmen.
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
Author: Ted Ownby
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2017-05-25
Total Pages: 2548
ISBN-13: 1496811577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Old Southwest to Old South
Author: Mike Bunn
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2023-02-22
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1496843843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMississippi’s foundational epoch—in which the state literally took shape—has for too long remained overlooked and shrouded in misunderstanding. Yet the years between 1798, when the Mississippi Territory was created, and 1840, when the maturing state came into its own as arguably the heart of the antebellum South, was one of remarkable transformation. Beginning as a Native American homeland subject to contested claims by European colonial powers, the state became a thoroughly American entity in the span of little more than a generation. In Old Southwest to Old South: Mississippi, 1798–1840, authors Mike Bunn and Clay Williams tell the story of Mississippi’s founding era in a sweeping narrative that gives these crucial years the attention they deserve. Several key themes, addressing how and why the state developed as it did, rise to the forefront in the book’s pages. These include a veritable list of the major issues in Mississippi history: a sudden influx of American settlers, the harsh saga of Removal, the pivotal role of the institution of slavery, and the consequences of heavy reliance on cotton production. The book bears witness to Mississippi’s birth as the twentieth state in the Union, and it introduces a cast of colorful characters and events that demand further attention from those interested in the state’s past. A story of relevance to all Mississippians, Old Southwest to Old South explains how Mississippi’s early development shaped the state and continues to define it today.
A Journey Through the West
Author: Thomas Rodney
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians Smith and Swick reunite the two halves of Rodney's journal--half was owned by the Historical Society of Delaware, and the other half by the Library of Congress--for the first time. The journal tells of Rodney's journey to his new post as a territorial judge and land commissioner for the newly formed Mississippi Territory. In it, he describes everything he encountered during the three-and-a-half-month journey, including flora, fauna, geology, archaeology, the urban centers of the day, and people that he met, including Meriwether Lewis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
