• Volume I Notes on Contributors x Preface xviii Acknowledgments xxiii Part I Campaigns and Battles
• 1
• 1 Virginia
• 1861
• 3 Clayton R. Newell
• 2 Missouri
• 19 Jeffrey Patrick
• 3 Mississippi Valley Campaign
• 41 Barbara A. Gannon
• 4
• 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign
• 56 Jonathan A. Noyalas
• 5 Logistics
• 74 Brian Holden Reid
• 6 Peninsula Campaign
• 95 Timothy J. Orr
• 7 Soldiers
• 114 Lorien Foote
• 8 Kentucky
• 132 Aaron Astor
• 9 Guerrillas
• 154 Barton A. Myers
• 10 Maryland Campaign of
• 1862
• 178 Benjamin Franklin Cooling
• 11 Battle of Antietam
• 195 D. Scott Hartwig
• 12 Civil War Tactics
• 211 Jennifer M. Murray
• 13 Battle of Fredericksburg
• 231 Mark A. Snell
• 14 Blockading Campaigns
• 240 Samuel Negus
• 15 Chancellorsville Campaign
• 262 Christian B. Keller
• 16 Battle of Gettysburg
• 280 Carol Reardon
• 17 African-American Soldiering
• 297 Andre M. Fleche
• 18 Vicksburg Campaign
• 316 Steven Nathaniel Dossman
• 19 Occupation
• 328 Jacqueline Glass Campbell
• 20 Arkansas
• 338 Buck T. Foster
• 21 Indian America
• 365 Megan Kate Nelson
• 22 Naval Development and Warfare
• 386 Kurt Henry Hackemer
• 23 Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga
• 410 Keith S. Bohannon
• 24 Atlanta Campaign
• 428 Robert L. Glaze
• 25 Georgia and Carolinas Campaigns
• 444 Anne Sarah Rubin
• 26 Prisons
• 456 James Gillispie
• 27
• 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign
• 476 Scott C. Patchan
• 28 Overland Campaign,
• 1864
• 492 Mark Grimsley
• 29 Louisiana and Texas Campaigns
• 501 Bradley R. Clampitt
• 30 Petersburg Campaign
• 521 Brian Matthew Jordan
• 31 Technology and War
• 540 Andrew S. Bledsoe
• 32 War and Environment
• 561 Kathryn Shively Meier
• 33 Appomattox Campaign
• 573 Bradley A. Wineman
• 34 Medicine and Health Care
• 590 Michael A. Flannery
• 35 Civil War Veterans
• 608 James Marten Volume II Notes on Contributors x Preface xviii Acknowledgments xxiii Part II Leaders
• 629
• 36 Ulysses S. Grant
• 631 James J. Broomall
• 37 Robert E. Lee
• 652 Elizabeth Brown Pryor
• 38 United States Generals
• 673 Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
• 39 Abraham Lincoln
• 691 Brian Dirck
• 40 Jefferson Davis
• 710 Lynda Lasswell Crist
• 41 Frederick Douglass
• 724 L. Diane Barnes Part III Politics, Society, and Culture
• 741
• 42 Civil War Diplomacy
• 743 Jay Sexton
• 43 Ethnicity
• 763 David T. Gleeson
• 44 Women
• 779 Judith Giesberg
• 45 Manhood
• 795 Brian Craig Miller
• 46 Northern Politics
• 811 Adam I.P. Smith
• 47 Southern Politics
• 830 John M. Sacher
• 48 Northern Dissent
• 849 Matthew Warshauer
• 49 Southern Dissent
• 867 Margaret M. Storey
• 50 Northern Home Front
• 891 Robert M. Sandow
• 51 Southern Home Front
• 909 Aaron Sheehan-Dean
• 52 Abolitionists in the Civil War
• 927 Stanley Harrold
• 53 Slavery in the Civil War
• 949 Jaime Amanda Martinez
• 54 Emancipation
• 965 Yael A. Sternhell
• 55 Literature
• 987 Michael T. Bernath
• 56 Music
• 1003 Christian McWhirter
• 57 Religion
• 1021 Sean A. Scott
• 58 Constitution and Law
• 1035 Christian G. Samito
• 59 Nationalism
• 1056 Paul Quigley
• 60 Wartime Political Economy
• 1073 Sean Patrick Adams Part IV The Civil War in History
• 1087
• 61 Theory and Method
• 1089 Paul Christopher Anderson
• 62 The Global Civil War
• 1103 Don H. Doyle
• 63 Wartime Origins of Reconstruction
• 1121 John C. Rodrigue
• 64 Memory
• 1139 Caroline E. Janney Name Index
• 1155 Subject Index 1167.
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A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). * Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War * Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship * Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory.
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• Preface
• Settlement of the Champlain Valley
• A postponed war
• The eve of the war
• the northeast
• War comes
• Indians, furs, and prisoners of war
• The tragic first winter
• A summer of setbacks:
• 1813
• The Hampton-Wilkinson fiasco
• The third tense summer:
• 1814
• The British occupation of Plattsburgh
• The battle of Plattsburgh
• Aftermath
• Appendix.

This is the story of marching men and clashing ships, of suffering, and of occasional heroic deeds. As in wars past, and for similar reasons, Lake Champlain and the region surrounding Lower Canada, Vermont, and Upstate New York became one of the major theaters of military action. For two and a half years, people in the region saw armies raised, defeated, and disbanded. They witnessed their own militia repeatedly called out to protect the border areas and to serve as adjuncts to regular army units. Despite a series of disheartening military reverses, loss of life, and destruction of property, civilians maintained a remarkable degree of resilience. They fled if battle threatened but soon returned to pick up the threads of their lives. Everest's story shows us a war in microcosm and allows us a close-up experience of the small events that helped shape the destiny of a youthful and growing nation.
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• Preface
• Settlement of the Champlain Valley
• A postponed war
• The eve of the war
• the northeast
• War comes
• Indians, furs, and prisoners of war
• The tragic first winter
• A summer of setbacks:
• 1813
• The Hampton-Wilkinson fiasco
• The third tense summer:
• 1814
• The British occupation of Plattsburgh
• The battle of Plattsburgh
• Aftermath
• Appendix.

This is the story of marching men and clashing ships, of suffering, and of occasional heroic deeds. As in wars past, and for similar reasons, Lake Champlain and the region surrounding Lower Canada, Vermont, and Upstate New York became one of the major theaters of military action. For two and a half years, people in the region saw armies raised, defeated, and disbanded. They witnessed their own militia repeatedly called out to protect the border areas and to serve as adjuncts to regular army units. Despite a series of disheartening military reverses, loss of life, and destruction of property, civilians maintained a remarkable degree of resilience. They fled if battle threatened but soon returned to pick up the threads of their lives. Everest's story shows us a war in microcosm and allows us a close-up experience of the small events that helped shape the destiny of a youthful and growing nation.
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• List of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction
• 1 Stuart Leibiger
• 1 James Madison's Political Thought: The Ideas of an Acting Politician
• 4 Jack N. Rakove
• 2 James Madison's Journey to an "Honorable and Useful Profession, " 1751--1780
• 21 Paul Douglas Newman
• 3 James Madison, 1780--1787: Nationalism and Political Reform
• 39 Adam Tate
• 4 James Madison and the Grand Convention: "The Great Difficulty of Representation"
• 56 Gordon Lloyd and Christopher Burkett
• 5 James Madison and the Ratification of the Constitution: A Triumph Over Adversity
• 74 Kevin R. C. Gutzman
• 6 James Madison in The Federalist: Elucidating "The Particular Structure of this Government"
• 91 Michael Zuckert
• 7 James Madison, Republican Government, and the Formation of the Bill of Rights: "Bound by Every Motive of Prudence"
• 109 Alan Gibson
• 8 James Madison in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789--1797: America's First Congressional Floor Leader
• 127 Carey Roberts
• 9 James Madison and the National Gazette Essays: The Birth of a Party Politician
• 143 Denver Brunsman
• 10 James Madison, the Virginia Resolutions, and the Philosophy of Modern American Democracy
• 159 Garrett Ward Sheldon
• 11 James Madison's Secretary of State Years, 1801--1809: Successes and Failures in Foreign Relations
• 176 Mary Hackett
• 12 President James Madison's Domestic Policies, 1809--1817: Jeffersonian Factionalism and the Beginnings of American Nationalism
• 192 Aaron N. Coleman
• 13 President James Madison and Foreign Affairs, 1809--1817: Years of Principle and Peril
• 207 David J. Siemers
• 14 James Madison's Retirement, 1817--1836: Engaging the Republican Past, Present, and Future
• 224 James H. Read
• 15 James Madison and George Washington: The Indispensable Man's Indispensable Man
• 241 Stuart Leibiger
• 16 James Madison and Thomas Jefferson: A "Friendship Which Was For Life"
• 259 Jeffry H. Morrison
• 17 James and Dolley Madison and the Quest for Unity
• 274 Catherine Allgor
• 18 James Madison and Montpelier: The Rhythms of Rural Life
• 292 David B. Mattern
• 19 James Madison and the Dilemma of American Slavery
• 306 Jeff Broadwater
• 20 James Monroe's Political Thought: The People the Sovereigns
• 324 Arthur Scherr
• 21 James Monroe, 1758--1783: Student and Soldier of the American Revolution
• 343 Daniel Preston
• 22 James Monroe and the Confederation, 1781--1789: The Making of a Virginia Statesman
• 359 Robert W. Smith
• 23 James Monroe in the 1790s: A Republican Leader
• 375 William M. Ferraro
• 24 James Monroe as Governor of Virginia and Diplomat Abroad, 1799--1810: A Revolution of Principles and the Triumph of Pragmatism
• 391 David A. Nichols
• 25 James Monroe as Secretary of State and Secretary of War, 1809--1817: Toward Republican Strategic Sobriety
• 405 MackubinThomas Owens
• 26 James Monroe, James Madison, and the War of
• 1812: A Difficult Interlude
• 421 J.C.A. Stagg
• 27 President James Monroe's Domestic Policies, 1817--1825: "To Advance the Best Interests of Our Union"
• 438 Michael J. McManus
• 28 President James Monroe and Foreign Affairs, 1817--1825: An Enduring Legacy
• 456 Sandra Moats
• 29 The Domestic Life of James Monroe: The Man at Home
• 472 Meghan C. Budinger
• 30 James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson: Republican Government and the British Challenge to America, 1780--1826
• 489 Michael Schwarz
• 31 James Monroe and James Madison: Republican Partners
• 505 Brook Poston
• 32 James Madison and James Monroe Historiography: A Tale of Two Divergent Bodies of Scholarship
• 521 Peter Daniel Haworth References
• 541 Index 558.
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A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe features essays from leading academics that consider various aspects of the lives and legacies of our fourth and fifth presidents. Provides historians and students of history with a wealth of new insights into the lives and achievements of two of America's most accomplished statesmen, James Madison and James Monroe Features 32 state-of-the field historiographic essays from leading academics that consider various aspects of the lives and legacies of our fourth and fifth presidents Synthesizes the latest findings, and offers new insights based on original research into primary sources Addresses topics that readers often want to learn more about, such as Madison and slavery.
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• The American Wars of Independence as Elements of Global Cultural and Political Change / Douglas Comer
• Archaeology, Computer Technology, and the Battle of Princeton as a Cross-Cultural, Trans-Atlantic Encounter / Robert A. Selig, Matthew Harris
• St. Eustatius: The Nexus for Colonial Caribbean Capitalism / R. G. Gilmore III
• World Powers at Play in the Western Pacific: The Coastal Fortifications of Southern Cebu, Philippines / John A. Peterson
• Materiality and Meaning: The Search for the Rochambeau Camp in Fairfax County, VA / Douglas Comer.

The publication explores the ways in which archaeological research can inform us about the manner and motives of European involvement in the development of a sovereign United States. The five chapters focus on different archaeological sites (four terrestrial sites) and each consider the special ways in which archaeology can contribute to our understanding of the cultural dynamics that set the historic course of events in motion that culminated in United States sovereignty. An introduction and conclusion examine how the material culture that is the central focus of archaeological research should be preserved, managed, and interpreted. While much is known through historical documents, this volume seeks to enrich, modify, and challenge the written record by attention to the archaeological remains. The scale of analysis ranges from the artifact through the site to the landscape. Chapters address the changing relationships between specific European countries and the United States as indicated by the presence of artifacts or types of artifacts (e.g., weapons, domestic, architectural) made or traded by other countries during different time periods; an analysis of "space syntax" seen at battlefields or fortifications; the importance of conceptually reconstructing terrain crossed by troops or at battlefields. The Archaeology of Interdependence: European Involvement in the Development of a Sovereign United States presents innovative investigations of what material culture at all scales might tell us about the political, economic, or ideological relationships among cultures that corroborates, contradicts, or enriches the historic record.
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• Chapter one: Andrew Jackson and his meaning to America
• Chapter two: Republican violence
• Chapter three: Frontiersman, citizen soldier, and hero
• Chapter four: Conqueror and hero
• Chapter five: The reluctant president
• Chapter six: The world is governed too much
• Chapter seven: Nullifying the nullifiers
• Chapter eight: True Republican, true American, and true heir
• Appendix : President Andrew Jackson's farewell address, March 4,
• 1837
• Notes.

"He was a man of the frontier, self-made but appreciative of those who gave him their loyalty and support. He was, pure and simple, and American..." Andrew Jackson was controversial in his time-and even more controversial in our own. Indian fighter, ardent patriot, hero of the War of 1812, the very embodiment of America's democratic and frontier spirit, Andrew Jackson was an iconic figure. Today, Jackson is criticized and reviled - condemned as a slave-owner, repudiated as the president who dispatched the Indians down the "Trail of Tears, " dropped with embarrassment by the Democratic Party, and demanded by many to be removed from the twenty-dollar bill. Who is the real Andrew Jackson? The beloved Old Hickory whom Americans once revered? Or the villain who has become a prime target of the Social Justice Warriors? Using letters, diaries, newspaper columns, and notes, historian Bradley Birzer provides a fresh and enlightening perspective on Jackson -unvarnished, true to history, revealing why President Donald Trump sees Andrew Jackson as a political role model, and illustrating the strong parallels between the anxieties of Jacksonian America and the anxieties of the "Hillbilly Elegy" voting bloc of today. In this brilliant new book, Bradley Birzer makes the case that Jackson was... The epitome of the American frontier republican. Passionately devoted to individual liberty. A staunch proponent of Christian morality. Not only dedicated but also vital to the preservation of the Union. A significant and influential role model to President Donald J. Trump. In Defense of Andrew Jackson sets the record straight on our seventh president, revealing a radically new but historically accurate perspective on Jackson. "I'm not an Andrew Jackson fan, but I'm definitely a Bradley Birzer fan. His case for Old Hickory is as strong as any I've seen and deserves to be reckoned with."- THOMAS E. WOODS JR., author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. "Most discussion of Andrew Jackson falls into predictable ruts, defaulting automatically to cliches that reflect more on our own time than his. Whether America is entering another `Jacksonian' period depends upon understanding the first one more clearly, and we have Bradley Birzer to thank for taking up a spirited defense of this complicated man and his legacy." - STEVEN F. HAYWARD, author of The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989. "Liberal revisionists have pounded Andrew Jackson down to the point where Democrats are ashamed to admit he founded their party. In Defense of Andrew Jackson sets the record straight on America's first populist president." - JAMES S. ROBBINS, author of Erasing America: Losing Our Future by Destroying Our Past. "As a man and a military hero, Andrew Jackson is as American as they come. But in this timely biography, Bradley Birzer has managed to peel back layers of cliche and reveal our seventh president as a more complex human being than current textbooks allow." - GLEAVES WHITNEY, director of Grand Valley State University's Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imperial Children and Empire Formation in the Nineteenth Century
• 1. Birthing Empire: Economies of Childrearing and the Establishment of American Colonialism in Hawai`i
• 2. Playing with Fire: White Childhood and Environmental Legacies in Nineteenth-Century Hawai`i
• 3. Schooling Power: Teaching Anglo-Civic Duty in the Hawaiian Islands, 1841-53
• 4. Cannibals in America: U.S. Acculturation and the Construction of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century White Immigrants from the Hawaiian Islands
• 5. Crossing the Pali: White Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and the Racial Divide in Hawai`i, 1820-98 Conclusion: White Hawaiians before the World Notes Bibliography Index.
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2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History Association Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in the islands had birthed more than 250 white children, considered Hawaiian subjects by the indigenous monarchy and U.S. citizens by missionary parents. In Hawaiian by Birth Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting these children and, in turn, the impact the children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy. These children of white missionaries would eventually alienate themselves from the Hawaiian monarchy and indigenous population by securing disproportionate economic and political power. Their childhoods-complicated by both Hawaiian and American influences-led to significant political and international ramifications once the children reached adulthood. Almost none chose to follow their parents into the missionary profession, and many rejected the Christian faith. Almost all supported the annexation of Hawai`i despite their parents' hope that the islands would remain independent. Whether the missionary children moved to the U.S. mainland, stayed in the islands, or traveled the world, they took with them a sense of racial privilege and cultural superiority. Schulz adds children's voices to the historical record with this first comprehensive study of the white children born in the Hawaiian Islands between 1820 and 1850 and their path toward political revolution.
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• Cover ; Contents; Preface; Sources; Index.

This definitive biography of James K. Polk, the second of three projected volumes, covers the most important years of Polk's political career-from a twice-defeated gubernatorial candidate in Tennessee to dark-horse candidate for the presidency and one of the most successful first eighteen months of any American president. The months of Polk's administration covered here contain the bulk of his expansionist program-the annexation of Texas, the settlement of the Oregon boundary with Great Britain, and the war with Mexico that led to the acquisition of California and New Mexico. This period also covers the first session of the 29th Congress, which produced under Polk's guidance the most important domestic legislation of any Congress of the century. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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In an 1873 decision, the Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote--highly unusual in those days--upheld a bribery-procured Louisiana slaughterhouse monopoly that had been challenged by a group of butchers whose businesses were jeopardized. By that decision (called the Slaughter-House cases), one of the most important and beneficial products of the Civil War--a revolutionary constitutional provision intended to protect civil rights against oppression by state governments--was nullified. The repercussions of that unfortunate decision are still being felt today. In Death-Grip: Loosening the Law's Stranglehold over Economic Liberty, Clint Bolick looks at the state of economic liberty in our country today and explains how the consequences of Slaughter-House continue to manifest themselves to this day. Bolick examines the history and intent of the Fourteenth Amendment and the judicial nullification of the privileges (or immunities) clause in the Slaughter-House cases and their aftermath through the years. Looking at more recent decisions, he sees hope in the current campaign to restore economic liberty as a fundamental civil right. Armed with knowledge, passion, and commitment to principle, he concludes, we can win the battle to restore economic liberty once and for all.
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• Introduction-- Johnathan O'Neill and Joseph Postell
• 1. Constitutional Conservatism During the Progressive Era: The National Association for Constitutional Government and Constitutional Review-- Johnathan O'Neill
• 2. The Progressive Origins of Conservative Hostility to Lochner v. New York-- David E. Bernstein
• 3. William Howard Taft and the Struggle for the Soul of the Constitution-- Sidney M. Milkis
• 4. The Election of
• 1912 and the Origins of Constitutional Conservatism-- William Schambra
• 5. William Howard Taft on America and the Philippines: Equality, Natural Rights, and Imperialism-- John Grant
• 6. Civilization versus Modernity: The League of Nations in the Crisis of World Civilization-- W. Taylor Reveley
• 7. 'Roaring' against Progressivism: Calvin Coolidge's Principled Conservatism-- Joseph Postell
• 8. Rational Compromise: Charles Evans Hughes as a Progressive Originalist-- James R. Stoner, Jr.
• 9. The Two Phases of Herbert Hoover's Constitutional Conservatism-- Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport Epilogue-- Charles Kesler.
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During the Progressive Era (1880-1920), leading thinkers and politicians transformed American politics. Historians and political scientists have given a great deal of attention to the progressives who effected this transformation. Yet relatively little is known about the conservatives who opposed these progressive innovations, despite the fact that they played a major role in the debates and outcomes of this period of American history. These early conservatives represent a now-forgotten source of inspiration for modern American conservatism. This volume gives these constitutional conservatives their first full explanation and demonstrates their ongoing relevance to contemporary American conservatism.
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• Prologue: Boston, May 29,
• 1855
• Bondage. Constance Cornwell, Prince William County, Virginia,
• 1805
• Prudence Nelson Bell, Nelson's Plantation and Mill,
• 1826
• Jesse and Albert Bell Nelson, Washington,
• 1847
• Henry Williams, Boston,
• 1850
• Manumission. John Albion Andrew, Boston,
• 1852
• Elizabeth Williams, Prince William County,
• 1852
• Evelina Bell, Washington, February
• 1855
• Becoming Ida May. Mary Hayden Green Pike, Calais, Maine, November
• 1854
• Julian Vannerson, Washington, February
• 1855
• Richard Hildreth, Boston, March
• 1855
• Charles Sumner, Washington, February
• 1855
• Sensation. "A white slave from Virginia," New York, March
• 1855
• The Williams family, Boston, March 7,
• 1855
• "Features, skin, and hair," Boston, March
• 1855
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Worcester, Massachusetts, March 27,
• 1855
• "The antislavery enterprise," Boston, March 29,
• 1855
• Private passages. Private life, Boston, October
• 1855
• "The crime against Kansas," Washington, May
• 1856
• Frederick Douglass, Boston,
• 1860
• Prudence Bell, Plymouth County, Massachusetts,
• 1864
• Epilogue: Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 2017.

When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Famous abolitionists Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry David Thoreau, and John Albion Andrew would help Mary and her family in freedom, but Senator Charles Sumner saw a monumental political opportunity. Due to generations of sexual violence, Mary's skin was so light that she "passed" as white, and this fact would make her the key to his white audience's sympathy. During his sold-out abolitionist lecture series, Sumner paraded Mary in front of rapt audiences as evidence that slavery was not bounded by race. Weaving together long-overlooked primary sources and arresting images, including the daguerreotype that turned Mary into the poster child of a movement, Jessie Morgan-Owens investigates tangled generations of sexual enslavement and the fraught politics that led Mary to Sumner. She follows Mary's story through the lives of her determined mother and grandmother to her own adulthood, parallel to the story of the antislavery movement and the eventual signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Girl in Black and White restores Mary to her rightful place in history and uncovers a dramatic narrative of travels along the Underground Railroad, relationships tested by oppression, and the struggles of life after emancipation. The result is an expose of the thorny racial politics of the abolitionist movement and the pervasive colorism that dictated where white sympathy lay-one that sheds light on a shameful legacy that still affects us profoundly today.
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• Contents Introduction: The Promise of the Virtual
• 1. Stephen Crane's Abilities
• 2. Realizing Trilby: Henry James, George du Maurier, and the Intermedial Scene
• 3. Syncope Fever: James Weldon Johnson and the Black Phonographic Voice
• 4. Wonder and Decay: Djuna Barnes's New York
• 5. Gertrude Stein Talking Acknowledgments Notes Index.
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In Virtual Modernism, Katherine Biers offers a fresh view of the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing dynamic readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, she argues that American modernist writers developed a \u201cpoetics of the virtual\u201d in response to the rise of mass communications technologies before World War I. These authors\u2019 modernist formal experimentation was provoked by the immediate, individualistic pleasures and thrills of mass culture. But they also retained a faith in the representational power of language-and the worth of common experience-more characteristic of realism and naturalism. In competition with new media experiences such as movies and recorded music, they simultaneously rejected and embraced modernity.Biers establishes the virtual poetics of these five writers as part of a larger \u201cvirtual turn\u201d in the United States, when a fascination with the writings of Henri Bergson, William James, and vitalist philosophy-and the idea of virtual experience-swept the nation. Virtual Modernism contends that a turn to the virtual experience of language was a way for each of these authors to carve out a value for the literary, both with and against the growth of mass entertainments. This technologically inspired reengagement with experience was formative for American modernism.Situated at the crossing points of literary criticism, philosophy, media studies, and history, Virtual Modernism provides an examination of Progressive Era preoccupations with the cognitive and corporeal effects of new media technologies that traces an important genealogy of present-day concerns with virtuality.
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• Machine generated contents note:
• 1 Two Old Soldiers
• 2 Reunion
• 3 Old Age and Stolen Valor
• 4 Albert Woolson
• 5 Walter Williams
• 6 Old Men in Blue
• 7 Old Men in Gray
• 8 Centennial
• 9 Last in Blue
• 10 Debunked?
• 11 In His Memory-Clouded Mind
• 12 Last in Gray
• 13 Of the Dead, Speak No Evil
• Postscript
• Sources
• Index.

• Social welfare in the states
• Independence and dependence under the public purpose doctrine
• Payments to firemen and soldiers, 1854-1876
• Military pensions in the courts, 1877-1923
• Civil service pensions, 1883-1924
• Mothers' pensions in the courts, 1911-1923
• Pensions for the blind and workmen's compensation, 1906-1917
• Old age pensions, 1911-1937.

In Public Pensions, Susan M. Sterett traces the legal and constitutional structures underlying early social welfare programs in the United States. Sterett explains the status of state and local government payments for public servants and the poor from the mid-nineteenth century until the Great Depression. The most visible public payments for service in the United States were directed to soldiers, who risked death for the nation. However, firemen, not soldiers, first captured local governments- attention; social welfare programs for soldiers were modeled on firemen's pensions. The dangerous work of firefighting and of combat provided the fundamental legal analogy for courts as governments expanded pensions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Nothing about the state court doctrine approving payments for dangerous, local service would allow pensions for indigent mothers and for the elderly, which states began to consider after 1910. Counties and railroads that objected to the new taxes could fight programs based on the old doctrine, established for firefighters, soldiers, and finally civil servants. State litigation provided one of the many grounds for contesting expanded welfare states in the early twentieth-century United States. Sterett demonstrates that state courts maintained a gendered division between the service that marked citizenship and the dependence that marked indigence, even during the promising ferment of the early twentieth century.
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• The early life of Frederick Douglass
• Lesson: A brief history of slavery in America
• Coming to understand slavery
• Unfit to be a slave
• The escape
• Life as a runaway slave
• Lesson: Photography and Frederick Douglass
• England and freedom
• A voice grows louder
• Lesson: A brief explanation of the Civil War
• The war against slavery
• Later years.

Recently returned to the cultural spotlight, Frederick Douglass's impact on American history is felt even in today's current events. Comic book writer and filmmaker David F. Walker joins with the art team of Damon Smyth and Marissa Louise to bring the long, exciting, and influential life of Douglass to life in comic book form. Taking you from Douglass's life as a young slave through his forbidden education to his escape and growing prominence as a speaker, abolitionist, and influential cultural figure during the Civil War and beyond, The Life of Frederick Douglass presents a complete illustrated portrait of the man who stood up and spoke out for freedom and equality. Along the way, special features provide additional background on the history of slavery in the United States, the development of photography (which would play a key role in the spread of Douglass's image and influence), and the Civil War. Told from Douglass's point of view and based on his own writings, The Life of Frederick Douglass provides an up-close-and-personal look at a history-making American who was larger than life. -- Amazon.com.

• 1. Japanese Chemistry Students in Britain and the United States in the 1860s
• 2. American and British Chemists and Lab-based Chemical Education in Early Meiji Japan
• 3. The Making of Japanese Chemists in Japan, Britain, and the United States
• 4. Defining Scientific and Technological Education in Chemistry in Japan, 1880-1886
• 5. Constructing a Pedagogical Space for Pure Chemistry at the Imperial University
• 6. Making Use of a Pedagogical Space for Pure Chemistry
• 7. Connecting Applied Chemistry Teaching to Manufacturing Epilogue: Departure from Meiji Japanese Chemistry.
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Anglo-Japanese and American-Japanese connections in chemistry had a major impact on the institutionalization of scientific and technological higher education in Japan from the late nineteenth century and onwards. They helped define the structure of Japanese scientific pedagogical and research system that lasted well into the post-World World II period of massive technological development, when it became one of the biggest providers of chemists and chemical engineers in the world next to Europe and the United States. In telling this story, Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry explores various sites of science education such as teaching laboratories and classrooms - where British and American teachers mingled with Japanese students - to shed new light on the lab as a site of global human encounter and intricate social relations that shaped scientific practice.
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