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Make way for Sam Houston
Traces the life of the soldier who led the fight for Texas' independence from Mexico, served as governor and senator, and opposed secession during the Civil War.
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State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
With the exception of two short periods of direct British intervention during the Anglo-Afghan Wars of 1839-42 and 1878-80, the history of nineteenth-century Afghanistan has received little attention from western scholars. This study seeks to shift the focus of debate from the geostrategic concern with Afghanistan as the bone of contention between imperial Russian and British interests to a thorough investigation of the sociopolitical circumstances prevailing within the country. On the basis of unpublished British documents and works by Afghan historians, it lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the political mechanisms at work during the early Muhammadzai era by analysing them both from the viewpoint of the center and the pierphery.
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A picture book of Sam Houston
\"Sam Houston was a teacher, a lawyer, a war hero, and statesman. He is best known for defeating the Mexican Army in 1836 and establishing Texas as an independent nation. He served two terms as the president of the Republic of Texas and helped Texas to become the twenty-eighth state.\"--Amazon.com.
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A Sea of Blood and Smoking Ruin
The institution of slavery in the US, the holding of people of African descent as chattel property, was a curse and a tragedy to everyone involved. The \"Peculiar Institution,\" as southerners called it--not because it was strange, but because it was largely limited in the US to the South and therefore defined the South--was wrong. It was wrong not primarily as a political matter and not as an economic matter, but wrong as a matter of morality. So, take that old man's word for it, nothing could make slavery more than a wrong to be endured. The institution came with a huge price, the largest part of which certainly was paid by the enslaved, but in reality it exacted a price from virtually every human in the antebellum South, no matter how important or powerful they were. Consider the relationship between the greatest of all Texas leaders--Sam Houston--and the institution of slavery.
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Texas That Might Have Been
Although Sam Houston would eventually emerge as the dominant shaper of the developing Texas Republic’s destiny, many visions competed for preeminence. One of Houston’s sharpest critics, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, is the subject of this fascinating edition of letters from the period.
Donald E. Willett offers new annotation and analysis to these letters from Johnston’s colleagues, friends, and supporters—first collected and edited by contrarian scholar Margaret Swett Henson, but never before published.
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Houston, Sam
Sam Houston \"played a leading part in Texas's fight for independence from Mexico. He later served as president of the Republic of Texas and, after Texas joined the Union, as United States senator and governor of the state.\" (World Book Student) Read more about Sam Houston.
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Sam Houston Returns? Two Letters from Texas Secessionists in 1863
Although removed from the governor's chair in March 1861 for refusing to take a loyalty oath to the new Confederate States of America, Sam Houston nevertheless remained a force to be reckoned with in Texas politics. After two years of fighting and mounting odds against an ultimate Confederate victory, Texas secessionist leaders were apprehensive that Unionism was reviving as war-weary citizens were becoming increasingly nervous about American Indian threats on the frontier. Suspicions grew that a reconstruction movement was underway that would coalesce around the former governor if he decided to raise his banner and reenter the political arena. Should Houston regain the governorship, his opponents feared, he would mobilize the state's latent Unionism to effect an immediate break with the Confederacy and throw Texas open to Federal occupation forces. Houston therefore had to be marginalized, and in the spring of 1863 several Confederate leaders privately floated ideas how to undermine his enduring public esteem. Here, Gerleman examines two letters from Texas secessionists that provide insight as to how a possible Houston return to the governorship might be undercut.
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