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History, Am.: 19th C.



link to catalog page QUINN, Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans Author: D. Michael Quinn
Pub Date: July 2001

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link to catalog page SCHWENINGER, The Southern Debate over Slavery

The Southern Debate over Slavery

Volume 1: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1778-1864

Author: Edited by Loren Schweninger
Pub Date: May 2001

A sampling of the petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to their state legislatures between the American Revolution and the Civil War, this volume provides the first general access to a body of primary documents key to an understanding of blacks’ and whites’ experience of the slave society of the Old South.   learn more...

link to catalog page WIGGER, Taking Heaven by Storm

Taking Heaven by Storm

Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America

Author: John H. Wigger
Pub Date: 2001

Thorough, readable, and comprehensive, this is the best history of Methodism from the founding of the country into the 1820s   learn more...

link to catalog page SMITH, The Tomato in America

The Tomato in America

Early History, Culture, and Cookery

Author: Andrew F. Smith
Pub Date: 2001

A tasty and entertaining history of one of America’s favorite foodstuffs   learn more...

link to catalog page MCPHERSON,

"We Cannot Escape History"

Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth

Author: Edited by James M. McPherson
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2001

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link to catalog page ATKINS, We Grew Up Together

We Grew Up Together

Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America

Author: Annette Atkins
Pub Date: December 2001

The first book on 19th century siblings--as informative for today’s families as it is accurate about those in the 19th century, Atkins shows how brothers and sisters provide vital familial links with each other that last. This book also tells good stories, and engages the reader in the lives of real people in the past.   learn more...

link to catalog page CURRENT, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

A History

Author: Richard Nelson Current
Pub Date: 2001

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link to catalog page FIRMAGE, Zion in the Courts

Zion in the Courts

A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900

Author: Edwin Brown Firmage and Richard Collin Mangrum
Pub Date: 2001

Explores the conflict between the Mormons' efforts to establish their own court system--one appropriate to the distinctive political, social, and economic practices they envisioned as Zion--and the pressures applied by the federal legal system to bring them to heel.   learn more...

link to catalog page BURDETTE, The Drums of the 47th Author: Robert J. Burdette
Pub Date: 2000

An extraordinarily vivid, thoughtful, and literary memoir of the common soldier’s experience during the Civil War by a professional writer.   learn more...

link to catalog page FOLEY, The First Chouteaus

The First Chouteaus

River Barons of Early St. Louis

Author: William E. Foley and C. David Rice
Pub Date: 2000

The true story of a fascinating pair of entrepenuerial brothers who built a huge trade empire along the Mississippi River   learn more...

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