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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Civil War Era"”.
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Lincoln's Conservatives: Conservative Unionism and Political Tradition in the Civil War Era
… conservatives in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet--Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Salmon P. Chase, and Gideon Welles--as exemplars of nineteenth-century political thought, this study examines the formation of American conservatism in the Civil War era from an anthropological perspective, treating it …
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Madness, Scalawagery, and Reconstruction: Dr. William M. Compton and Civil War Era Politics
… seeks to advance scholars' understanding of Civil War era Mississippi through an examination of the often overlooked role former Whigs and scalawags played in the state's postwar politics. Using the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum and the career of its scalawag superintendent Dr. William M. …
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HENRY WILLIAM RAVENEL, 1814-1887: SOUTH CAROLINA SCIENTIST IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA
… done in such a vacuum was necessarily very general and distorted in its perspectives. T. Carey Johnson exaggerated the importance of southern science, while Clement Eaton denigrated it, attributing the South's supposed lack in scientific contributions to the effect of two of her major …
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Making their own faith : Lutheranism and American culture in the Civil War era.
From 1830 to 1900, the American Lutheran church grew from less than 50,000 members to more than 1,600,000—five times the growth rate of the U.S. population—and became the nation's fourth largest religious denomination. Along with this tremendous growth came dramatic changes in theological and …
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"""For God, Mac, and country"": The political worlds of midwestern Germans during the Civil War era"
… residing in the Old Northwest during the Civil War enjoyed a rich and unique political culture. As Democrats and as foreign-born citizens, German midwesterners remained actively involved in party politics throughout the Civil War. German Democrats focused on the draft, civil liberties' …
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Unresolved: notions of ‘truth’ in interpretations of post civil war era artworks by Akram Zaatari and Walid Raad
… surrounding the events of the recent Lebanese war. Long after physical combat ended, the different parties involved continued to cling to mutually exclusive narratives, and so both artists see truth as a continuing casualty of the events of the civil war. While one artist, Zaatari, seems to …
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Render unto Caesar, render unto God : Texas denominational colleges and universities and the politics of the Civil War era.
… is a study of church-state relations. Its overarching goal is to illuminate the manner in which religion and government interact. The setting for this study is the Civil War era, which includes the period from the 1840s to the 1880s. The actors in this study are the state of Texas, Texas …
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War is a terrible enemy to temperance: drinking, self-control, and the meaning of loyalty in the Civil War era
When the American Civil War began in 1861, people on both sides of the conflict believed that the conduct of soldiers and civilians would shape if not determine the war's outcome. In this context, the nation-wide temperance movement began a period of transition. Before the 1860s, interest in …
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'A plea for Missouri' : the American Home Missionary Society and the Civil War-era struggle for Missouri and the West
… would embrace American virtues including temperance and Sabbath observance. This would be accomplished through moral suasion or, failing that, by force of law. The AHMS encouraged the in-migration of New Englanders – in its view, the exemplars of the highest possible virtue – in the hope of …
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Black Enlisted Men in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866-1930
… court martial records and black veterans’ pension files—to examine the experiences of black soldiers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands during the post-Civil War era. It focuses on soldiers’ cross-cultural encounters with the racially and ethnically diverse communities that surrounded …
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A catalogue of the brass musical instruments of the Carl Busch Collection at the University of Illinois
… the 119 brass instruments are a set of American Civil War Era over-the-shoulder instruments, three Antoniophones, a Besson cornophone, and several keyed bugles. Also in this catalogue are Herbert L. Clarke's cornets.
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House Legends and Perceptions of the Civil War: a Multiple Case Study on the Civil War Legends Told About Antebellum Homes in the New River Valley, Roanoke Valley, and Nearby Counties of Virginia
… was designed to identify recurring themes in Civil War legends that are told in reference to antebellum homes in regions of Southwest Virginia. Existing literature indicates that collecting these legends is an important task because doing so helps others to better understand the community of …
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Internal Dissent: East Tennessee's Civil War, 1849-1865.
… politically and ideologically divided during the Civil War. The entrance of the East Tennessee and Virginia and East Tennessee and Georgia railroads connected the economically isolated region to Virginia and the deep South. This trade network created a southern subculture within East Tennessee. …
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By the Same Spirit: Edwardsean Pneumatology in the Younger Edwards
Jonathan Edwards Jr. (1745–1801) is often portrayed as a spiritless preacher who drove away his congregation with metaphysical abstractions. Accordingly, this received caricature describes Edwards Jr. as distorting the Edwardsean legacy. This negative caricature of Edwards Jr was produced by the …
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"Bondage or Barbarism," Parson Brownlow and the Rhetoric of Racism in East Tennessee, 1845-1867.
… rhetoric of William "Parson" Brownlow during the Civil War era. Within the pages of the <em>Whig</em>, Brownlow's famous newspaper, he created a fixed image of African Americans. Brownlow argued that when removed from slavery, people of African descent naturally became barbaric, and thus slavery …
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“They Know Too Much Already:” Black Education in Post-Emancipation Era Columbus, GA, 1866-1876
… freedmen schools created after the U.S. Civil War. As a result, a comprehensive history of Columbus’s freedmen does not exist, and those written are fragmented. The focus of this study is to document the beginnings of Columbus’s freedmen school efforts in the post-emancipation era, …
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"Of old Puritan stock" : shifting Catholic memory of the Puritans across the long nineteenth century, 1788–1920.
… with Protestants. During the antebellum era, Catholics used "Puritan" to mean bigot and hypocrite, but Civil War-era rhetoric connected North and Union with "Puritan," catalyzing a shift in the meaning of "Puritan" among American-born Catholics and converts to Catholicism in the North. …
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Civil War Twin: Exploring Ethical Challenges in Designing an Educational Face Recognition Application
… in a four-phase design process to create Civil War Twin (CWT), an educational web-based application where users can discover their lookalikes from the American Civil War era (1861-65) while learning more about facial recognition and history. Through this design process, we synthesize …
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Virginians' Responses to the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1963
… fall of 1863 this paper will bring to light what Civil War-era Southerners thought of the Gettysburg Address. This work is confined to Virginia not because that state is representative of the Confederacy, but because Southern reporting on the Address was wholly shaped by the Richmond papers. The …
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