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A press divided : newspaper coverage of the Civil War
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ISBN: 9781412854665 Year: 2014 Publisher: New Brunswick London Transaction Publishers

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I freed myself : African American self-emancipation in the Civil War era
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ISBN: 9781139061148 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Lincoln Persuasion : Remaking American Liberalism
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ISBN: 0691602484 0691631964 0691037647 1400863619 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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In this, his last work, J. David Greenstone provides an important new analysis of American liberalism and of Lincoln's unique contribution to the nation's political life. Greenstone addresses Louis Hartz's well-known claim that a tradition of liberal consensus has characterized American political life from the time of the founders. Although he acknowledges the force of Hartz's thesis, Greenstone nevertheless finds it inadequate for explaining prominent instances of American political discord, most notably the Civil War.Originally published in 1993.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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Lincoln's political generals : the battlefield performance of seven controversial appointees
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ISBN: 1476616817 9781476616810 9780786478576 0786478578 Year: 2014 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,

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Belligerent Muse : Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War
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ISBN: 1469618796 1469618788 9781469618784 9798890848048 Year: 2014 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : The University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper accounts, great speeches, and enduring literary works. In Belligerent Muse, Stephen Cushman considers the Civil War writings of five of the most significant and best known narrators of the conflict: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ambrose Bierce, and Joshua Lawrence Chamber


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The First Lincoln Campaign
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ISBN: 0674420977 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,


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Abraham Lincoln’s Cyphering Book and Ten other Extraordinary Cyphering Books
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ISBN: 9783319025025 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing

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This well-illustrated book provides strong qualitative and comparative support for the main arguments developed by Nerida Ellerton and Ken Clements in their groundbreaking Rewriting this History of School Mathematics in North America 1607–1861: The Central Role of Cyphering Books. Eleven extraordinary handwritten school mathematics manuscripts are carefully analyzed—six were prepared entirely in Great Britain, four entirely in North America, and one partly in Great Britain and partly in North America. The earliest of the 11 cyphering books was prepared around 1630, and the latest in 1835. Seven of the manuscripts were arithmetic cyphering books; three were navigation cyphering books, and one was a mensuration/surveying manuscript. One of the cyphering books examined in this book was prepared, over the period 1819–1826, by a young Abraham Lincoln, when he was attending small one-teacher schools in remote Spencer County, Indiana. Chapter 6 in this book provides the first detailed analysis of young Abraham’s cyphering book—which is easily the oldest surviving Lincoln manuscript. Another cyphering book, this one prepared by William Beattie in 1835, could have been prepared as a special gift for the King of England. The analyses make clear the extent of the control which the cyphering tradition had over school mathematics in North America and Great Britain between 1630 and 1840. In their final chapter Ellerton and Clements identify six lessons from their research into the cyphering tradition which relate to present-day circumstances surrounding school mathematics. These lessons are concerned with sharp differences between intended, implemented and attained curricula, the remarkable value that many students placed upon their cyphering books, the ethnomathematical circumstances which surrounded the preparations of the extraordinary cyphering books, and qualitative differences between British and North American school mathematics.


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The Lincoln letters
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ISBN: 1304832414 4064066213787 9700000008110 Year: 2014 Publisher: [New York, New York] : Sheba Blake Publishing,

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From the "Four score and seven years ago" that every American schoolchild knows to personal notes and dozens of memorable letters, debates, and speeches from a critical time in this nation's history, here is a remarkable collection of Lincoln's letters. Through them, we can follow the sixteenth president's development from country lawyer to healer of a wounded nation. Two hundred years after his birth, Lincoln's writing endures. Witty and wise, Lincoln speaks today as powerfully as he did when he was president.


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Lincoln and the war's end
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ISBN: 080933352X 9780809333523 9780809333516 0809333511 Year: 2014 Publisher: Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press,

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On the night of his reelection on November 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln called on the nation to "re-unite in a common effort, to save our common country." By April 9 of the following year, the Union had achieved this goal with the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. In this lively volume, John C. Waugh chronicles in detail Lincoln's role in the final five months of the war, revealing how Lincoln and Grant worked together to bring the war to an end. Beginning with Lincoln's reelection, Waugh highlights the key military and pol


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Lincoln's assassination
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ISBN: 0809333503 9780809333509 9780809333493 080933349X Year: 2014 Publisher: Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press,

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For 150 years, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has fascinated the American people. Relatively few academic historians, however, have devoted study to it, viewing the murder as a side note tied to neither the Civil War nor Reconstruction. Over time, the traditional story of the assassination has become littered with myths, from the innocence of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd to John Wilkes Booth's escape to Oklahoma or India, where he died by suicide several years later. In this succinct volume, Edward Steers, Jr. sets the record straight, expertly analyzing the historical evidence to explai

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