Sunday, November 19, 2017

Dennett, The South As It Is: 1865-1866 (2010)

John Richard Dennett.
The South As It Is: 1865-1866.
Edited and with a New Introduction by Caroline E. Janney.
Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2010.

Book Information: Publisher, 2010; Google Books, 2010; Amazon.com, 2010.

Previously published as:
John Richard Dennett.
The South as It Is: 1865-1866.
Edited, and with an Introduction, by Henry M. Christman.
New York: Viking Press, 1965.
Reprinted: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.

The book is a collection of 36 articles published in the Nation magazine from 08 July 1865 through 11 April 1866.

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Author Information:
  • John Richard Dennett (1838-1874).
  • Obituary of John Richard Dennett, The New York Times, 29 November 1874.
    (Subscription required to view obituary online.)
  • "The Class Poets," The Harvard Register: An Illustrated Monthly, Volume 3, Number 7, Pages 426-428, July 1881.
    [Google Books, Michigan copy; Google Books, California copy.]
  • "John Richard Dennett," The Fifth Report of the Secretary of the Class of 1862 of Harvard College, Pages 136-138, December 1882.
    [Google Books.]
  • The only information I found for the author is in the editor's introduction by Caroline Janney. I obtained the above references from her introduction.
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Saturday, November 04, 2017

Gilmore & Sugrue, These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present (2015)

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue.
These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Video: Gilmore & Sugrue
  • Glenda Gilmore and Thomas Sugrue, "These United States," Labyrinth Books, Princeton, New Jersey, BookTV, C-SPAN, 20 November 2015.
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Author Information: Glenda Gilmore
  • Glenda Gilmore, Department of History, Yale University.
  • Glenda Gilmore, Wikipedia.
  • Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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Instead of, or in addition to, These United States, I recommend seeking other more detailed (and probably less overtly leftist than Gilmore and Sugrue) books on twentieth century U.S. history. This is not to say that These United States is devoid of details; the 1960s era receives a disproportionate three chapters plus part of a fourth. Meanwhile Gilmore and Sugrue treat the politics and/or events of some other decades with great brevity. Hence the compulsion I feel to name other histories.

Oxford History of the United States [Publisher; Wikipedia]:
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Monday, October 16, 2017

White, American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (2016)

Ronald C. White.
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant.
New York: Random House, 2016.

Book Information: Publisher; Author's Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Sunday, October 08, 2017

Morris, Fraud of the Century: ... the Stolen Election of 1876 (2003)

Roy Morris, Jr.
Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Other Video:
  • Michael F. Holt, "By One Vote," Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, American History TV, C-SPAN, 04 March 2011.Book Discussed:
    • Michael F. Holt. By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
      [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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Finding Precedent: Hayes vs. Tilden, The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877, HarpWeek.

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Thursday, October 05, 2017

Woodward, The Future of the Past (1989)

C. Vann Woodward.
The Future of the Past.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Friday, September 29, 2017

Woodward, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (1991)

C. Vann Woodward.
Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Finding Precedent: Hayes vs. Tilden, The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877, HarpWeek.

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