Surveys the history of colonial America and the first hundred years of nationhood and outlines key events in U.S. history

American History Before 1877 (MCGRAW HILL COLLEGE CORE BOOKS)

Education & Teaching

Silverman, Jason H.

Studying & Workbooks

McGraw=Hill

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American History Before 1877

Business & Money

Real Estate

McGraw-Hill Companies

Theory of Organisations by David Silverman examines why people are in groups and how they get together.

Theory Of Organisations

Management & Leadership

Basic Books

A study of relief and recovery efforts in South Carolina after the American Civil War, this text focuses on the people involved, particularly those who are often excluded from works on this period. The intention is to enable readers to discover an expanded past, one which frequently remains hidden.

Relief and Recovery in Post-Civil War South Carolina: A Death by Inches (Studies in American History)

History

Hope, W. Martin

Americas

Edwin Mellen Pr

Unwelcome Guests: Canada West's Response to American Fugitive Slaves, 1800-1865 (Series in Comparative Stds in Race & Ethnicity/Natl Univ Pubns)

Associated Faculty Pr Inc

Lincoln and the Immigrant (Concise Lincoln Library)

Between 1840 and 1860, America received more than four and a half million people from foreign countries as permanent residents, including a huge influx of newcomers from northern and western Europe, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans who became U.S. citizens with the annexation of Texas and the Mexican Cession, and a smaller number of Chinese immigrants. While some Americans sought to make immigration more difficult and to curtail the rights afforded to immigrants, Abraham Lincoln advocated for the rights of all classes of citizens. In this succinct study, Jason H. Silverman investigates Lincoln’s evolving personal, professional, and political relationship with the wide variety of immigrant groups he encountered throughout his life, revealing that Lincoln related to the immigrant in a manner few of his contemporaries would or could emulate. From an early age, Silverman shows, Lincoln developed an awareness of and a tolerance for different peoples and their cultures, and he displayed an affinity for immigrants throughout his legal and political career. Silverman reveals how immigrants affected not only Lincoln’s day-to-day life but also his presidential policies and details Lincoln’s opposition to the Know Nothing Party and the antiforeign attitudes in his own Republican Party, his reliance on German support for his 1860 presidential victory, his appointment of political generals of varying ethnicities, and his reliance on an immigrant for the literal rules of war. Examining Lincoln's views on the place of the immigrant in America’s society and economy, Silverman’s pioneering work offers a rare new perspective on the renowned sixteenth president.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Southern Illinois University Press

Between 1840 and 1860, America received more than four and a half million people from foreign countries as permanent residents, including a huge influx of newcomers from northern and western Europe, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans who became U.S. citizens with the annexation of Texas and the Mexican Cession, and a smaller number of Chinese immigrants. While some Americans sought to make immigration more difficult and to curtail the rights afforded to immigrants, Abraham Lincoln advocated for the rights of all classes of citizens. In this succinct study, Jason H. Silverman investigates Lincoln’s evolving personal, professional, and political relationship with the wide variety of immigrant groups he encountered throughout his life, revealing that Lincoln related to the immigrant in a manner few of his contemporaries would or could emulate.\nFrom an early age, Silverman shows, Lincoln developed an awareness of and a tolerance for different peoples and their cultures, and he displayed an affinity for immigrants throughout his legal and political career. Silverman reveals how immigrants affected not only Lincoln’s day-to-day life but also his presidential policies and details Lincoln’s opposition to the Know Nothing Party and the antiforeign attitudes in his own Republican Party, his reliance on German support for his 1860 presidential victory, his appointment of political generals of varying ethnicities, and his reliance on an immigrant for the literal rules of war.\nExamining Lincoln's views on the place of the immigrant in America’s society and economy, Silverman’s pioneering work offers a rare new perspective on the renowned sixteenth president.

This is the long-neglected story of Lincoln's signature act to ensure that immigrants would always be welcome on the shores of America and that the country's labor force would remain productive and plenty in the face of a seemingly relentless war which deprived America of hundreds of thousands of its laborers.Believing that immigration was the "great replenishing stream," Lincoln believed that anyone risking the journey to America deserved the opportunity to better themselves.To accomplish this, Lincoln persevered over nativism, xenophobia, and intense political opposition to see his law passed.Although he didn't live to see the industrial revolution of the late nineteenth century and the millions of immigrants who fled to the shores of America seeking a better life, Lincoln's economic philosophy, his compassion, and his Act to Encourage Immigration paved the way for the future.

When America Welcomed Immigrants: The Short and Tortured History of Abraham Lincoln's Act to Encourage Immigration

Jason H. Silverman

"Distinguished Lincoln scholar, Jason Silverman, himself an accomplished football player in his day, has done it again. Finding yet another hitherto neglected topic in the great pantheon of Lincoln literature, Silverman has proven once more that there's always something new to discover about Lincoln. By mining untapped local and county histories, newspapers, and reminiscences of Lincoln's contemporaries, Silverman has cobbled together an impressive narrative history of the athleticism of the sixteenth president. This is a wonderfully creative, lively written, and exhaustively researched book. Now we know what a good sport the Great Emancipator was." - Lawrence E. Comstock, London, Ontario

Abraham Lincoln the Athlete: A Proud Competitor, but a Humble Sportsman

Palmetto Publishing Group

The first book-length treatment of the 17th South Carolina Volunteers, based on David J. Logan's newspaper articles, diaries and journals. Logan's letters home also provide rare insight into the relationship between Civil War husband and wife.

A Rising Star Of Promise: The Wartime Diary And Letter Of David Jackson Logan, 17th South Carolina Volunteers 1861-1864 (Battles & Campaigns of the Carolinas)

Thomas Jr., Samuel N.

Logan, David Jackson

Savas Publishing Company

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American History Before 1877 (MCGRAW HILL COLLEGE CORE BOOKS)

American History Before 1877

Theory Of Organisations

Relief and Recovery in Post-Civil War South Carolina: A Death by Inches (Studies in American History)

Unwelcome Guests: Canada West's Response to American Fugitive Slaves, 1800-1865 (Series in Comparative Stds in Race & Ethnicity/Natl Univ Pubns)

Lincoln and the Immigrant (Concise Lincoln Library)

Lincoln and the Immigrant (Concise Lincoln Library)

When America Welcomed Immigrants: The Short and Tortured History of Abraham Lincoln's Act to Encourage Immigration

Abraham Lincoln the Athlete: A Proud Competitor, but a Humble Sportsman

A Rising Star Of Promise: The Wartime Diary And Letter Of David Jackson Logan, 17th South Carolina Volunteers 1861-1864 (Battles & Campaigns of the Carolinas)