288 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 20 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables
History / United States - Civil War Period
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political worlds they inhabited and informed. Building upon previous scholarship on James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens, the contributors track their personal connections across lines of gender and geography and underline the importance of elementary facts of political association—such as with whom one ate and conversed on a regular basis, the complex social milieu of Washington, and the role of rumor—in determining relationships and political allegiances. The essays in this volume collectively invite further consideration of how parties, personality, place, and private lives influenced the political interests and actions of an age affected by race, religion, region, and civil war.
Michael J. Birkner is professor of history at Gettysburg College and the author of Samuel L. Southard: Jeffersonian Whig, A Country Place No More: The Transformation of Bergenfield, New Jersey, 1894-1994 , McCormick of Rutgers: Scholar, Teacher, Public Intellectual, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Randall M. Miller is professor of history at St. Joseph's University and the author, co-author, or co-editor of The Northern Home Front during the Civil War, Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making, The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America’s Continuing Civil War, Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments, The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans’ First Generation, An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front, The Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations, and “Dear Master”: Letters of a Slave Family.
John W. Quist is professor of history at Shippensburg University and the author of Michigan's War: The Civil War in Documents, co-editor of James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War, editor of Richard H. Abbott, For Free Press and Equal Rights: Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South, and author of Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan.
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