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The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces Of An American Icon, Gabor Boritt
The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces Of An American Icon, Gabor Boritt
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
Nearly a century and a half after his death, Abraham Lincoln remains an intrinsic part of the American consciousness, yet his intentions as president and his personal character continue to stir debate.
Now, in The Lincoln Enigma, Gabor Boritt invites renowned Lincoln scholars, and rising new voices, to take a look at much-debated aspects of Lincoln's life, including his possible gay relationships, his plan to send blacks back to Africa, and his high-handed treatment of the Constitution. Boritt explores Lincoln's proposals that looked to a lily-white America. Jean Baker marvels at Lincoln's loves and marriage. David Herbert Donald highlights …
Steele, Ira (Sc 1352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steele, Ira (Sc 1352), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan, and typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1352. Letter, 16 February 1862, written by Union soldier Ira Steele, stationed at Camp Glenbrook, Kentucky, to his brother Oliver Steele. He mentions the Green River; bridge burning; Bowling Green; the sending of some items to New Haven, Nelson County, Kentucky; and describes camp life.
The Devil In Confederate New Orleans: Baron Ludwig Von Reizenstein's Second Novel With A Translation Of Wie Der Teufel In New Orleans Ist (1861), Steven Rowan
History Faculty Works
A paper presented at the 26th Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Amana, Iowa, 19 April 2002, "The Devil in Confederate New Orleans: Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein's Second Novel."
Wie der Teufel in New Orleans ist (1861)
Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein's Second Novel with a Translation of Wie der Teufel in New Orleans ist (1861)
Ms-043: George Washington Beidelman Collection, Kevin D. Luy
Ms-043: George Washington Beidelman Collection, Kevin D. Luy
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The George W. Beidelman Collection holds its most significant information in letters written by George to his father, Jacob. In these letters, George shares his political opinions, religious beliefs, and camp-life descriptions. The core of the collection is the correspondence from August 1, 1862 until November 18, 1862, in which George writes diary-like entries to his father, recounting each day’s activities. Accounts of the fighting at Ball’s Bluff and Fredericksburg are the most detailed battle descriptions. However, the collection’s strength is in George’s astute observations regarding camp life and the political aspects of the war.
In addition to letters written …
A U.S. History Model For Enhancing Essential Academic Learning Requirements In Reading, Christopher Matthew Jorgensen
A U.S. History Model For Enhancing Essential Academic Learning Requirements In Reading, Christopher Matthew Jorgensen
All Graduate Projects
The relationship between reading strategies that enhance essential learning in both · reading and history was studied. A U.S. History model has been developed to make connections between the teaching of history content and reading comprehension. Research has been obtained that indicates a direct correlation between student learning in a content area classroom and the integration ofreading strategies within daily lesson plans. Secondary teachers must be taught by teacher preparation programs and coached by administrators on how to develop lesson plans based on their students' need to use effective reading strategies. Secondary teachers must align their daily lessons and assessments …
0715: Zophar Dean Ramsdell Papers, 1861-1865, Marshall University Special Collections
0715: Zophar Dean Ramsdell Papers, 1861-1865, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection consists of copies of quartermaster reports for the 5th Regiment, West Virginia Infantry, including monthly property accounts, clothing, stationery, hospital supplies, ordnance materials, animal return and acquisitions, food and fuel receipts, issued supply registers, and correspondence. Due to the nature of copied materials, the legibility and completeness of materials can vary, but is overall high.
Holland's Informants: The Construction Of Josiah Holland's 'Life Of Abraham Lincoln', Allen C. Guelzo
Holland's Informants: The Construction Of Josiah Holland's 'Life Of Abraham Lincoln', Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
Abraham Lincoln's coffin had lain in the receiving vault in Springfield's Oak Ridge Cemetery for less than three weeks when a dapper, walrus-mustachioed New Englander stepped off the train and checked into Springfield's St. Nicholas Hotel. He was Josiah Gilbert Holland, one-time editor (and still part owner) of the Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, a nationally popular writer of advice books, and (what would turn out to be most memorably) part of a small circle of admirers and encouragers of an unknown Amherst poet named Emily Dickinson. None of those attributes, however, provided the slightest qualification for the task that brought …
Ms-034: Henry Louis Baugher Family Papers, Christine M. Ameduri
Ms-034: Henry Louis Baugher Family Papers, Christine M. Ameduri
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This collection is a compilation of miscellaneous papers of the family of Henry Louis Baugher, 2nd President of Gettysburg College, consisting of photocopies of a few letters to and from President Baugher, military service records of his son, Nesbit, and memorium books of another son, Henry Louis. It is not an extensive or in-depth collection.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on …
Slavery, Economics And Constitutional Ideals, Edward L. Ayers
Slavery, Economics And Constitutional Ideals, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
As we think about endings, however, it is also useful to think about beginnings. That is what President Abraham Lincoln did in his Second Inaugural Address, delivered just five weeks before the surrender at Appomattox and his own assassination soon thereafter. All knew, he said reflecting sadly and thoughtfully on how the Civil War came about, that slavery was, "somehow," the cause. In fact, "somehow," however, lay puzzles, contradictions, and questions. The connections between slavery and the Civil War have concerned Americans ever since the events at Appomattox.
Echoes Of The Lost Cause : Civil War Reverberations In Mississippi From 1865 To 2001, Sally Leigh Mcwhite
Echoes Of The Lost Cause : Civil War Reverberations In Mississippi From 1865 To 2001, Sally Leigh Mcwhite
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scholars of the Lost Cause have tended to end their examinations of the Confederate commemorative movement before the 1920s. Citing a variety of indicators that range from veterans' mortality rates to national reconciliation, these historians have assumed that the Lost Cause became increasingly irrelevant in southern society. Yet, veterans organizations and their auxiliaries put a great deal of energy into constructing an historical interpretation that would vindicate their actions to future generations. This dissertation therefore extends the examination of the Lost Cause movement throughout the twentieth century. Limiting the geographical scope of the research to a state study of Mississippi …
Kentucky - Cavalry - 5th Regiment (Sc 1361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky - Cavalry - 5th Regiment (Sc 1361), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1361. Record of the 5th Kentucky Cavalry, including its itinerary and officers. Includes a letter (first page only) pertaining to the document.
Ellsworth, Oliver Carnell, 1842-1864 (Sc 1359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ellsworth, Oliver Carnell, 1842-1864 (Sc 1359), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1359. Correspondence of Civil War soldier Oliver C. Ellsworth, Marion, Michigan, with family and friends. He served with the 22nd Michigan Infantry in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Also includes a tintype of Ellsworth.