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Lincoln, Seward, and US Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era
The Civil War marked a significant turning point in American
history-not only for the United States itself but also for its
relations with foreign powers both during and after the conflict.
The friendship and foreign policy partnership between President
Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William Henry Seward shaped
those US foreign policies. These unlikely allies, who began as
rivals during the 1860 presidential nomination, helped ensure that
America remained united and prospered in the aftermath of the
nation's consuming war.
In Lincoln, Seward, and US Foreign Relations in the Civil
War Era , Joseph A. Fry examines the foreign policy decisions
that resulted from this partnership and the legacy of those
decisions. Lincoln and Seward, despite differences in upbringing,
personality, and social status, both adamantly believed in the
preservation of the union and the need to stymie slavery. They made
that conviction the cornerstone of their policies abroad, and
through those policies, such as Seward threatening war with any
nation that intervened in the Civil War, they prevented European
intervention that could have led to Northern defeat. The Union
victory allowed America to resume imperial expansion, a dynamic
that Seward sustained beyond Lincoln's death during his tenure as
President Andrew Johnson's Secretary of State.
Fry's analysis of the Civil War from an international
perspective and the legacy of US policy decisions provides a more
complete view of the war and a deeper understanding of this crucial
juncture in American history.
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Politics
\"In an alphabetical almanac format, describes the issues, speeches, movements, and political events that helped spur on and end the U.S. Civil War\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Cacophony of Politics
The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the
Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the
Civil War. A comprehensive overview, this book reveals the myriad
complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern
states and explains the objectives of the nearly half of eligible
Northern voters who cast a ballot against Abraham Lincoln in
1864.
The party's famous slogan \"The Union as it was, the Constitution
as it is\" was meant to have broad appeal and promote solidarity
among Northern Democrats by invoking their core ideological
commitments to nationalism, law and order, tradition, and strict
construction. But, as J. Matthew Gallman shows, the slogan was a
poor reflection of the volatile, fluid, messy, and improvisational
reality of political life for men and women, across the public and
private spheres. Democrats experienced the war as a cascading
series of dilemmas, for which their slogan did not always offer
guidance or resolution. Offering a definitive account of the
Democratic Party in the North, The Cacophony of Politics
shows the limits of ideology and the ways the Civil War-and the
nature of nineteenth-century political culture-confounded the
Democrats' self-image and exacerbated their divisions, especially
over the central issue of slavery.
A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
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Abe Lincoln's secret war against the North
\"Abraham Lincoln is an American icon. As 'Honest Abe' and the 'Great Emancipator,' today he is viewed as a demigod whose grand virtues far outweigh his miniscule human failings. Yet he wasn't always viewed this way. During his presidency, he was feared and hated, not only by Southerners, but also by his political rivals, the Democrats, and to a surprising degree, by the rank and file of his own Republican Party. They recognized that he had become a brutal dictator and was turning the USA into a permanently militarized nation. Today, much of this has been swept under the rug, but through this investigation of three Northern states that opposed Abraham Lincoln's policies, and one state that fervently supported him, the true reality will be kept alive\"--Provided by publisher.
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Becoming American under Fire
InBecoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and Irish Americans exhibited their loyalty to the United States and their capacity to act as citizens; they strengthened their American identity in the process. Members of both groups also helped to redefine the legal meaning and political practices of American citizenship.
For African American soldiers, proving manhood in combat was only one aspect to their quest for acceptance as citizens. As Samito reveals, by participating in courts-martial and protesting against unequal treatment, African Americans gained access to legal and political processes from which they had previously been excluded. The experience of African Americans in the military helped shape a postwar political movement that successfully called for rights and protections regardless of race.
For Irish Americans, soldiering in the Civil War was part of a larger affirmation of republican government and it forged a bond between their American citizenship and their Irish nationalism. The wartime experiences of Irish Americans helped bring about recognition of their full citizenship through naturalization and also caused the United States to pressure Britain to abandon its centuries-old policy of refusing to recognize the naturalization of British subjects abroad.
As Samito makes clear, the experiences of African Americans and Irish Americans differed substantially-and at times both groups even found themselves violently opposed-but they had in common that they aspired to full citizenship and inclusion in the American polity. Both communities were key participants in the fight to expand the definition of citizenship that became enshrined in constitutional amendments and legislation that changed the nation.
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This Distracted and Anarchical People
While most of the fighting took place in the South, the Civil War profoundly affected the North. As farm boys became soldiers and marched off to battle, social, economic, and political changes transformed northern society. In the generations following the conflict, historians tried to understand and explain the North's Civil War experience. Many historical explanations became taken for granted, such as that the Union Army was ideologically Republican, northern Democrats were disloyal, and German Americans were lousy soldiers. Now in this eye-opening collection of eleven stimulating essays, new and important information is unearthed that solidly challenges the old historical arguments. The essays in This Distracted and Anarchical People range widely throughout the history of the Civil War North, using new methods and sources to reexamine old theories and discover new aspects of the nation's greatest conflict. Many of these issues are just as important today as they were a century and a half ago. What were the extent and limits of wartime dissent in the North? How could a president most effectively present himself to the public? Can the savagery of war ever be tamed? How did African Americans create and maintain their families? This Distracted and Anarchical People highlights the newest scholarship on a diverse array of topics, bringing fresh insight to bear on some of the most important topics in history today--such as the democratic press in the antebellum North, peace movements, the Union Army and the elections of 1864, Liberia and the U.S. Civil War, and African American veterans and marriage practices after Emancipation.
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