A Legal History Of The Civil War And Reconstruction
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Author | : Laura F. Edwards |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2015-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107008794 |
Download A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book provides a succinct and accessible account of the critical role of legal and constitutional issues of the American Civil War.
Author | : Christian G. Samito |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809328895 |
Download Changes in Law and Society during the Civil War and Reconstruction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first comprehensive collection of legal history documents from the Civil War and Reconstruction, this volume shows the profound legal changes that occurred during the Civil War era and highlights how law, society, and politics inextricably mixed and set American legal development on particular paths that were not predetermined. Editor Christian G. Samito has carefully selected excerpts from legislation, public and legislative debates, court cases, investigations of white supremacist violence in the South, and rare court-martial records, added his expert analysis, and illustrated the selections with telling period artwork to create an outstanding resource that demonstrates the rich and important legal history of the era.
Author | : Christian G. Samito |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809328895 |
Download Changes in Law and Society during the Civil War and Reconstruction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first comprehensive collection of legal history documents from the Civil War and Reconstruction, this volume shows the profound legal changes that occurred during the Civil War era and highlights how law, society, and politics inextricably mixed and set American legal development on particular paths that were not predetermined. Editor Christian G. Samito has carefully selected excerpts from legislation, public and legislative debates, court cases, investigations of white supremacist violence in the South, and rare court-martial records, added his expert analysis, and illustrated the selections with telling period artwork to create an outstanding resource that demonstrates the rich and important legal history of the era.
Author | : Pamela Brandwein |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822323167 |
Download Reconstructing Reconstruction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Looks at the contest to construct history, focusing on competing versions of Reconstruction history supported by different factions after the Civil War. The author analyzes how the ultimately dominant version of the history won credence and how that in
Author | : Michael Perman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
ISBN | : 9780495908951 |
Download Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Designed to be either the primary anthology or textbook for the course, this best-selling title covers the Civil War's entire chronological span with a series of documents and essays.
Author | : Eric Foner |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393652580 |
Download The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. They established the principle of birthright citizenship and guaranteed the privileges and immunities of all citizens. The federal government, not the states, was charged with enforcement, reversing the priority of the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner’s compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre–Civil War mass meetings of African-American “colored citizens” and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. A series of momentous decisions by the Supreme Court narrowed the rights guaranteed in the amendments, while the states actively undermined them. The Jim Crow system was the result. Again today there are serious political challenges to birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection of the law. Like all great works of history, this one informs our understanding of the present as well as the past: knowledge and vigilance are always necessary to secure our basic rights.
Author | : Elizabeth Lee Thompson |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780820326245 |
Download The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Based on a careful empirical study of nearly four thousand cases filed in three southern federal districts, this book focuses on how the Bankruptcy Act of 1867 helped shape the course and outcome of Reconstruction. Although passed by a Republican-dominated Congress that was commonly viewed as punitive toward the post-Civil War South, the Bankruptcy Act was a great benefit to southerners. In this first study of the operation of the 1867 Act, Elizabeth Lee Thompson challenges previous works, which maintain that nineteenth-century southerners uniformly opposed federal bankruptcy laws as threatening extensions of federal power. To the contrary, Thompson finds that southerners, faced with the war’s devastation, were more likely to file for bankruptcy than debtors in other parts of the country. The Act thus was the major piece of federal economic legislation that benefited southerners during Reconstruction. Thompson determines that because the vast majority of the Bankruptcy Act’s southern beneficiaries were propertied white men, the legislation served to stabilize and entrench the postwar economic--and thus social and political--power of the sector that included those who were recently leading secessionists and Confederates. Their participation in a federal process, through federal tribunals, during an era of intense white southern opposition to policies emanating from Washington reveals the complex interaction of states' rights ideology and self-interest. However, Thompson shows, white southerners ultimately sacrificed neither in relation to the Bankruptcy Act. After thousands had received economic relief through the statute and the number of filings had slowed to a trickle, southern congressmen supported the Act’s repeal in 1878.
Author | : Stanley Harrold |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2007-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405156643 |
Download The Civil War and Reconstruction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This new volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history —the American Civil War and Reconstruction—and offers students a collection of essential documentary sources for these periods. Provides students with over 60 documents on the American Civil War and Reconstruction Includes presidential addresses, official reports, songs, poems, and a variety of eyewitness testimony concerning significant events ranging from 1833-1879 Contains an informative introduction focused on the kinds of materials available and how historians use them Each chapter ends with questions designed to help students engage with the material and to highlight key issues of historical debate
Author | : Bradley R. Clampitt |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2015-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080327887X |
Download The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In Indian Territory the Civil War is a story best told through shades of gray rather than black and white or heroes and villains. Since neutrality appeared virtually impossible, the vast majority of territory residents chose a side, doing so for myriad reasons and not necessarily out of affection for either the Union or the Confederacy. Indigenous residents found themselves fighting to protect their unusual dual status as communities distinct from the American citizenry yet legal wards of the federal government. The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory is a nuanced and authoritative examination of the layers of conflicts both on and off the Civil War battlefield. It examines the military front and the home front; the experiences of the Five Nations and those of the agency tribes in the western portion of the territory; the severe conflicts between Native Americans and the federal government and between Indian nations and their former slaves during and beyond the Reconstruction years; and the concept of memory as viewed through the lenses of Native American oral traditions and the modern evolution of public history. These carefully crafted essays by leading scholars such as Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Clarissa Confer, Richard B. McCaslin, Linda W. Reese, and F. Todd Smith will help teachers and students better understand the Civil War, Native American history, and Oklahoma history.
Author | : William L. Richter |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 1033 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081087959X |
Download Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated. Many historians regard the Civil War as the defining event in American history. At stake was not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves but also survival of the relatively new American experiment in self-government. A very real possibility existed that the union could have been severed, but a collection of determined leaders and soldiers proved their willingness to fight for the survival of what Abraham Lincoln called "the last best hope on earth." The second edition of this highly readable, one-volume Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction looks to place the war in its historical context. The more than 800 entries, encompassing the years 1844-1877, cover the significant events, persons, politics, and economic and social themes of the Civil War and Reconstruction. An extensive chronology, introductory essay, and comprehensive bibliography supplement the cross-referenced dictionary entries to guide the reader through the military and non-military actions of one of the most pivotal events in American history. The dictionary concludes with a selection of primary documents. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Civil War and Reconstruction.