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Congress and the people's contest : the conduct of the Civil War
- Title
- Congress and the people's contest : the conduct of the Civil War / edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon.
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vi, 249 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877
- Uniform Title
- Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, Athens".
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Freedom and democracy in "the people's contest": a complicated role for Congress in a complicated war / Paul Finkelman -- A martyr, a speaker, and impending crisis: a prologue to the election of 1860 / Jonathan Earle -- "Shatter this accursed union": the fire-eaters in Congress in 1860 / Eric Walther -- "These Zouaves will never support us": cowardice, Congress and the First Battle of Bull Run / Lesley J. Gordon -- The summer of '62: Congress, slavery, and a revolution in Federal law / Paul Finkelman -- The radicals' war: how the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War tried to shape the course of the Civil War / Fergus M. Bordewich -- We are coming, Father Abraham, but how will you pay for us? / Jenny Bourne -- Why we fight: German American revolutionists confront slavery and secession / Mischa Honeck -- Make mine an abolition war: George Luther Stearns, Frederick Douglass, and the Black soldier / L. Diane Barnes -- Military emancipation before the Emancipation Proclamation: overcoming structural obstacles / Chandra Manning -- Negotiating Black manhood citizenship through Civil War volunteerism and patriotism: Cincinnati's Black Brigade / Nikki M. Taylor.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-3397
- ISBN
- 9780821423042
- 0821423045
- 9780821423059
- 0821423053
- LCCN
- 2017043708
- OCLC
- 1019838157
- Title
- Congress and the people's contest : the conduct of the Civil War / edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon.
- Publisher
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Added Author
- Finkelman, Paul, 1949- editor.Kennon, Donald R., 1948- editor.United States Capitol Historical Society.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-3397