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John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier
University of Minnesota Press 1965; US$ 67.50This biography is the absorbing and significant story of a frontier life in America in the nineteenth century. John Wesley North was a carpetbagger in the best sense of the word, and professor Stonehouse points out that no fallacy is more persistent in Am more...
William Henry Seward
Potomac Books Inc. 1996; US$ 22.95From Kirkus Reviews :A friendly yet not uncritical biography of the secretary of state in the Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Cabinets. Taylor--who chronicled his father's life in General Maxwell Taylor (1987)- -offers neither much original scholarship nor more...
Memoirs of My Life and Times
Cooper Square Press 2001; US$ 26.99Civil War general Fremont recounts his early years, when he explored the American West from 1828 to 1846 with Kit Carson. more...
American Mobbing, 1828-1861
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 49.99American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America. David Grimsted argues that, though the issue of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions from authorities. In the South, riots against suspected abolitionists... more...
Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00Ordinance in 1787 banned African American slavery in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, making the new territory officially "free," slavery in fact persisted in the region through the end of the Civil War. Slaves accompanied presidential appointees serving as soldiers or federal officials in the Upper Mississippi, worked in federally supported... more...
Robert Toombs
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00Robert Toombs of Georgia stands as one of the most fiery and influential politicians of the nineteenth century. Sarcastic, charming, egotistical, and gracious, he rose quickly from state office to congressman to senator in the decades before the Civil War. Though he sought sectional reconciliation throughout the 1840s and 1850s, he eventually became... more...
Horace Greeley
NYU Press 2006; US$ 40.00From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 after losing the presidential election to General Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley (b. 1811) was a quintessential New Yorker. He thrived on the citys ceaseless energy, with his New York Tribune at the forefront of a national revolution in reporting... more...
James Madison Hood
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 38.00Captain James Madison Hood was the real U.S. Consul in the novel Anna and the King of Siam, but before his arrival in Bangkok, he was also a merchant ship captain, builder of clipper ships, legislator in both Massachusetts and Illinois, industrialist, and land speculator. He was present at the birth of the Republican Party. As U.S. Consul, he presided... more...
At the Precipice
The University of North Carolina Press 2010; US$ 32.00Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession, and take concrete steps after Fort Sumter to subdue what President Abraham Lincoln deemed treasonous rebellion? At the Precipice seeks to answer these and related questions by focusing on the different... more...
Salmon P. Chase
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 69.99A biography of Salmon P. Chase, one of the principal political figures in the American Civil War period. A rival to Abraham Lincoln for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1860, he subsequently became Secretary of the Treasury in Lincoln's war-time cabinet. more...









