Search Results - "American Civil War

New Bedford's Civil War by Mulderink, Earl F.

Table of Contents: “…"A burning and shining light": prosperity and enlightened governance in antebellum New Bedford -- "The nearest approach to freedom and equality": African Americans in antebellum New Bedford -- "Suppression of an unholy rebellion": wartime mobilization on the home front -- "Citizen-soldiers of Massachusetts": New Bedford's volunteers in the Civil War -- "Boys, I only did my duty": New Bedford's black soldiers in the fifty-fourth Massachusetts -- "Worthy recipients": New Bedford's black veterans and the web of social welfare -- "Business is extremely dull": whaling and manufacturing in wartime New Bedford -- "The position of our city has materially changed": public costs and municipal governance during the Civil War -- "The great hope for the future": New Bedford in the postbellum era -- "On the altar of our common country": contested commemorations of the Civil War.…”
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Blue-eyed child of fortune the Civil War letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw / by Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863

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First fruits of freedom the migration of former slaves and their search for equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900 / by Greenwood, Janette Thomas

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Contested commonwealths essays in American history / by Pencak, William, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…s An astronomical diary -- The beginning of a beautiful friendship : Benjamin Franklin, George Whitefield, the dancing school, and a defense of the "meaner sort" -- John Adams and his contemporaries -- The extended presidency of George Washington (1775-1797) -- Peter Oliver (1713-1791), chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court -- From racket to natural law : the permutation of smuggling into free trade -- "The great war for the empire" reconsidered as a cause of the American Revolution -- The Civil War did not take place.…”
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Broken glass Caleb Cushing & the shattering of the Union / by Belohlavek, John M.

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Boston's Histories : Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor /

Table of Contents: “…Horton and James Oliver Horton -- The secret world of radical publishers : the case of Thayer and Eldridge of Boston / Albert J. von Frank -- "Lawless and unprincipled" : women in Boston's Civil War draft riot / Judith Ann Giesberg -- Portrait of a parish : race, ethnicity, and class in Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1865-1880 / James M. …”
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