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American Inheritance: Liberty And Slavery In The Birth Of A Nation, 1765-1795, Edward J. Larson
American Inheritance: Liberty And Slavery In The Birth Of A Nation, 1765-1795, Edward J. Larson
Faculty Books
New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? Leaders of the founding who called for American liberty are scrutinized for enslaving Black people themselves: George Washington consistently refused to recognize the freedom of those who escaped his Mount Vernon plantation. And we have long needed a history of the founding that fully includes Black Americans in the Revolutionary protests, the war, and the debates over slavery and freedom that followed. We …
An Expensive Imitation: How The Vanderbilt Family Became The House Of Vanderbilt, Hugh Long
An Expensive Imitation: How The Vanderbilt Family Became The House Of Vanderbilt, Hugh Long
Global Tides
By examining a range of sources from Gilded Age newspaper articles to architectural photographs to historical commentaries, this paper attempts to prove that the esteemed Vanderbilt family was imitating European Aristocracy. By examining first hand accounts of parties that family members threw, houses that they built, and places they traveled to, the paper develops its thesis. The use of primary sources is abundant and attempts to integrate the family’s story of progression from a small clan to one of the most powerful American “houses” into the concrete evidence. Pictures and visual evidence are key in showing material examples of how …