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Vor 4 Tagen · W.W. Norton, 534 pp., $39.99. IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, across a swath of North America, a new nation cracked apart, unleashing waves of bloodshed that left no state untouched. Guerrillas strafed the countryside, while competing armies circled one another, clashing over a country’s destiny. Rattled by the burst of bloodshed, some ...
Vor einem Tag · Geography and demographics By the mid-19th century the United States had become a nation of two distinct regions. The free states in New England, the Northeast, and the Midwest had a rapidly growing economy based on family farms, industry, mining, commerce, and transportation, with a large and rapidly growing urban population. Their growth was fed by a high birth rate and large numbers of ...
Vor 4 Stunden · That's the question raised by a new book by journalist and historian Nick Bryant, "The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict with Itself." The book maps a path from the founding of the United ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Reconstruction under Abraham Lincoln. United States after 1861. The United States after 1861. The original Northern objective in the Civil War was the preservation of the Union—a war aim with which virtually everybody in the free states agreed.
Vor 3 Tagen · Der Sezessionskrieg oder Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg [2] war der von 1861 bis 1865 währende militärische Konflikt zwischen den aus den Vereinigten Staaten ausgetretenen, in der Konföderation vereinigten Südstaaten und den in der Union verbliebenen Nordstaaten (Unionsstaaten).
Vor 4 Tagen · Extending from the ratification of the Constitution to the present day, W. Elliot Brownlee describes the five principal stages of federal taxation in relation to the crises that led to their adoption—the formation of the republic, the Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.
Vor einem Tag · The Civil War. Prelude to war, 1850–60. Sectionalism and slavery; A decade of political crises. Popular sovereignty; Polarization over slavery; Secession and the politics of the Civil War, 1860–65. The coming of the war; The political course of the war. Moves toward emancipation; Sectional dissatisfaction; Fighting the Civil War. Foreign ...
