Glorious Contentment

Author : Stuart McConnell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807846285
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glorious Contentment written by Stuart McConnell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Army of the Republic, the largest of all Union Army veterans' organizations, was the most powerful single-issue political lobby of the late nineteenth century, securing massive pensions for veterans and helping to elect five postwar presidents f

Author : Stuart McConnell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863300
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glorious Contentment written by Stuart McConnell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Army of the Republic, the largest of all Union Army veterans' organizations, was the most powerful single-issue political lobby of the late nineteenth century, securing massive pensions for veterans and helping to elect five postwar presidents from its own membership. To its members, it was also a secret fraternal order, a source of local charity, a provider of entertainment in small municipalities, and a patriotic organization. Using GAR convention proceedings, newspapers, songs, rule books, and local post records, Stuart McConnell examines this influential veterans' association during the years of its greatest strength. Beginning with a close look at the men who joined the GAR in three localities -- Philadelphia; Brockton, Massachusetts; and Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin - McConnell goes on to examine the Union veterans' attitudes towards their former Confederate enemies and toward a whole range of noncombatants whom the verterans called "civilians": stay-at-home townsfolk, Mugwump penion reformers, freedmen, women, and their own sons and daughters. In the GAR, McConnell sees a group of veterans trying to cope with questions concerning the extent of society's obligation to the poor and injured, the place of war memories in peacetime, and the meaning of the "nation" and the individual's relation to it. McConnell aruges that, by the 1890s, the GAR was clinging to a preservationist version of American nationalism that many white, middle-class Northerners found congenial in the face of the social upheavals of that decade. In effect, he concludes, the nineteenth-century career of the GAR is a study in the microcosm of a nation trying to hold fast to an older image of itself in the face of massive social change.

Author : Melinda Lawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patriot Fires written by Melinda Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is often credited with giving birth to the modern American state. The demands of warfare led to the centralization of business and industry and to an unprecedented expansion of federal power. But the Civil War did more than that: as Melinda Lawson shows, it brought about a change in American national identity, redefining the relationship between the individual and the government. Though much has been written about the Civil War and the making of the political and economic American nation, this is the first comprehensive study of the role that the war played in the shaping of the cultural and ideological nation-state. In Patriot Fires, Lawson explains how, when threatened by the rebellious South, the North came together as a nation and mobilized its populace for war. With no formal government office to rally citizens, the job of defining the war in patriotic terms fell largely to private individuals or associations, each with their own motives and methods. Lawson explores how these "interpreters" of the war helped instill in Americans a new understanding of loyalty to country. Through efforts such as sanitary fairs to promote the welfare of soldiers, the war bond drives of Jay Cooke, and the establishment of Union Leagues, Northerners cultivated a new sense of patriotism rooted not just in the subjective American idea, but in existing religious, political, and cultural values. Moreover, Democrats and Republicans, Abolitionists, and Abraham Lincoln created their own understandings of American patriotism and national identity, raising debates over the meaning of the American "idea" to new heights. Examining speeches, pamphlets, pageants, sermons, and assemblies, Lawson shows how citizens and organizations constructed a new kind of nationalism based on a nation of Americans rather than a union of states—a European-styled nationalism grounded in history and tradition and celebrating the preeminence of the nation-state. Original in its insights and innovative in its approach, Patriot Fires is an impressive work of cultural and intellectual history. As America engages in new conflicts around the globe, Lawson shows us that issues addressed by nation builders of the nineteenth century are relevant once again as the meaning of patriotism continues to be explored.

Author : Steve Soper
Publisher : Steve Soper
ISBN 13 : 0978786106
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The”Glorious Old Third” A History of the Third Michigan Infantry 1855 to 1927 written by Steve Soper and published by Steve Soper. This book was released on 2011 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691188505
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Die For written by Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July Fourth, "The Star-Spangled Banner," Memorial Day, and the pledge of allegiance are typically thought of as timeless and consensual representations of a national, American culture. In fact, as Cecilia O'Leary shows, most trappings of the nation's icons were modern inventions that were deeply and bitterly contested. While the Civil War determined the survival of the Union, what it meant to be a loyal American remained an open question as the struggle to make a nation moved off of the battlefields and into cultural and political terrain. Drawing upon a wide variety of original sources, O'Leary's interdisciplinary study explores the conflict over what events and icons would be inscribed into national memory, what traditions would be invented to establish continuity with a "suitable past," who would be exemplified as national heroes, and whether ethnic, regional, and other identities could coexist with loyalty to the nation. This book traces the origins, development, and consolidation of patriotic cultures in the United States from the latter half of the nineteenth century up to World War I, a period in which the country emerged as a modern nation-state. Until patriotism became a government-dominated affair in the twentieth century, culture wars raged throughout civil society over who had the authority to speak for the nation: Black Americans, women's organizations, workers, immigrants, and activists all spoke out and deeply influenced America's public life. Not until World War I, when the government joined forces with right-wing organizations and vigilante groups, did a racially exclusive, culturally conformist, militaristic patriotism finally triumph, albeit temporarily, over more progressive, egalitarian visions. As O'Leary suggests, the paradox of American patriotism remains with us. Are nationalism and democratic forms of citizenship compatible? What binds a nation so divided by regions, languages, ethnicity, racism, gender, and class? The most thought-provoking question of this complex book is, Who gets to claim the American flag and determine the meanings of the republic for which it stands?

Author : Jeremiah Burroughs (Puritan Divine.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: [Eleven Sermons written by Jeremiah Burroughs (Puritan Divine.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeremiah BURROUGHS (Puritan Divine.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The rare jewel of Christian contentment, etc. The preface signed: Thomas Goodwin and others written by Jeremiah BURROUGHS (Puritan Divine.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas GOODWIN (D.D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of T. G. [With Preface to Vol. 1. by T. Owen and J. Barron.] written by Thomas GOODWIN (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1683 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeremiah Burroughs
Publisher : Sovereign Grace Publishers,
ISBN 13 : 1878442287
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment written by Jeremiah Burroughs and published by Sovereign Grace Publishers,. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who lacks true contentment may find it in this book. If not, it will be because that one would not follow the very clear and simple instructions given. The teaching is from the Bible, yet it must be described as unique. Nowhere else will you find such unusual, but Biblically authenticated thoughts: He will teach you that contentment lies in subtraction, not in addition; that the ABC's of Christianity are nothing like what you thought them to be; that there is a mystery of contentment, but that once you have learned the way from Christ's word, you will be able to attain such a depth of contentment as you never before dreamed existed. Book jacket.

Author : Richard J. Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Flag written by Richard J. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saluting the flag in public schools began as part of a national effort to Americanize immigrants. Here, Richard Ellis unfurls the history of the Pledge of Allegiance and of the debates and controversies that have sometimes surrounded it.