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Showing 1 to 20 of 281 for “"1861"”.
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Confederate Lynchburg, 1861-1865
In 1860, Lynchburg was a thriving tobacco town. The "golden leaf" had stimulated the economy and made the city financially sound. When civil war erupted, Lynchburg cast her fate with Virginia and the Confederacy. Mobilization began at a rapid rate. Men flocked to the ranks, industries geared to war …
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Old Capital Prison, 1861-1865
… government assumed control of the building in 1861, it served as a prison for several classes of persons before its ultimate demise in 1865. Federal officials were overwhelmingly unprepared for the task of prisoner control. At no point before the outbreak of hostilities had any official …
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Washington, Willard's and political lieutenants, 1861
… sojourn prior to his first inauguration in 1861. The research for this study was based on the Joseph Willard papers and the Willard's Hotel Register, 18601861, located in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Additional interpretation came from the Indiana Historical Society where …
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Frontier conflict in the Bowen district, 1861-1874
NO ABSTRACT AVAILABLE
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Conservationism and farming in North Queensland, 1861-1970
This is a study of the ideas behind natural resource use in North Queensland. I argue that settlers followed an implicit code which valued caring for, as well as exploiting the land. The earliest settlers took pride in being pioneers who conquered, reshaped and harnessed Nature. Later generations …
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Indian Uprisings in Humboldt County, Nevada 1861-1863
… and dependency upon the towns were founded in 1861, but there was no newspaper for the for the area until the publication of the first issue of The Humboldt Register, May 2, 1863. The Sacramento Union of Sacramento, California, from 1861 on, occasionally ran letters from correspondents, small …
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The Diplomacy of General James Watson Webb, 1861-1869
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Campaigns and Elections in Confederate Texas 1861 and 1863
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Education in the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219937.pdf: 24199283 bytes, checksum: 791a0f43303c680b10d5404e90921dd3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Saint Mary's Mission (Mission City, British Columbia) 1861 to 1900
This thesis examines the pre-1900 relationship between the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a French order of Roman Catholic priests, and the Sto:lo of the Fraser Valley. It considers the effects of the strict and inflexible Oblate system on the Sto:lo. Primary sources for this study were found at the …
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Dying to live forever Sophia Harris journal 1860 to 1861
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
Many historians have examined the Civil War soldier, but few scholars have explored the racial attitudes and policies of the Confederate army. Although Southern men did not fight for slavery alone, the defense of the peculiar institution, and the racial control they believed it assured, united …
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Slavery and the origins of Louisiana’s prison industry, 1803-1861
This thesis examines the role that chattel slavery played in shaping a system of for-profit incarcerations in Louisiana between 1803 and 1862. In doing so, it challenges the conventional historical narrative of American penal development, which identifies the origins of the prison industrial …
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Discovering the Balkans: British Travellers in Southeastern Europe, 1861--1911
… of British travellers in the region up to 1861, William Gladstone and the politicization of Balkan travel literature, and the influence of the 1870s Balkan crisis on the nature of travel to the Balkans. Section III investigates the background and influence of ethnography in British travel …
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The Northern Democracy and The Crisis of Disunion, 1860-1861
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T18:01:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6915321.pdf: 11396007 bytes, checksum: 4d4b95b381e499fd3e65ecc17d6c8841 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Reform in the land of Serf and Slave, 1825-1861
This thesis argues that the significance of pre-Civil War southern opposition to slavery has been largely marginalized and mischaracterized by previous historiography. By contextualizing southern antislavery activism as but a single wing within a broader reformist movement, historians can move …
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