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The Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 is undeniably the most important major event of Andrew Jackson's two presidential terms. Attempting to declare null and void the high tariffs enacted by Congress in the late 1820s, the state of South Carolina declared that it had the...
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Oxford University Press
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1989-12-28
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Drawing from workers' applications, testimonies, and other primary documents, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service recreates the white-collar world of middle-class workers from the Civil War to 1900. It reveals how men who worked in federal agencies moved from...
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Oxford University Press
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1987-04-09
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The years between 1865 and 1920 were eventful ones for the sake of Missouri. It was not only the time of Jesse James, Scott Joplin, and Mark Twain, of progressive governors Joseph Folk and Herbert Hadley, of the first general strike in St. Louis and some especially...
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Oxford University Press
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1986-01-23
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The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the significance of role...
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Oxford University Press
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1985-11-21
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Volume V of Edward Channing’s monumental series, A History of the United States, explores the critical Period of Transition between 1815 and 1848—a transformative era in which the United States evolved from a fledgling republic into an ambitious continental...
Editeur :
Asimis Books
Parution :
2025-11-13
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Metis and the Medicine Line tells the remarkable story of the PlainsMetis and the birth of the Canada/U.S. Border, brought vividly to life by history writing at its best. Exploring the borderland world of the prairies, Michel Hogue reveals how notions of race were...
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U of R Press
Parution :
2015-04-11
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