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Full-Text Articles in History
Reforging The White Republic: Race, Religion, And American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan
Reforging The White Republic: Race, Religion, And American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan
History Faculty Publications
Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.
Blum, Edward J. Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life And Trial Of An American Slave Trader, Julie Mujic
Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life And Trial Of An American Slave Trader, Julie Mujic
History Faculty Publications
Book review by Julie Mujic.
Soodalter, Ron. Hanging Captain Gordon: the life and trial of an American slave trader. New York: Atria Books, 2006.
ISBN 9780743267274
From ‘Sweet Mamas’ To ‘Bodacious’ Hillbillies: Billy Debeck’S Impact On American Culture, Anthony Harkins
From ‘Sweet Mamas’ To ‘Bodacious’ Hillbillies: Billy Debeck’S Impact On American Culture, Anthony Harkins
History Faculty Publications
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The American Civil War, Emancipation, And Reconstruction On The World Stage, Edward L. Ayers
The American Civil War, Emancipation, And Reconstruction On The World Stage, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
Americans demanded the world's attention during their Civil War and Reconstruction. Newspapers around the globe reported the latest news from the United States as one vast battle followed another, as the largest system of slavery in the world crashed into pieces, as American democracy expanded to include people who had been enslaved only a few years before.
"Monkeying With The Bible”: Edgar J. Goodspeed's American Translation, R. Bryan Bademan
"Monkeying With The Bible”: Edgar J. Goodspeed's American Translation, R. Bryan Bademan
History Faculty Publications
Devotion to the Bible remains an underappreciated aspect of American religious life partly because it fails to generate controversy. This essay opens a window onto America's relationship with the Bible by exploring a controversial moment in the history of the Bible in America: the public reception of University of Chicago professor Edgar J. Goodspeed's American Translation (1923). Initially, at least, most Americans flatly rejected Goodspeed's impeccably credentialed attempt to cast the language of the Bible in contemporary "American" English. Accusations of the professor's irreligion, bad taste, vulgarity, and crass modernity emerged from nearly every quarter of the Protestant establishment (with …
Lincoln's Defense Of Politics: The Public Man And His Opponents In The Crisis Over Slavery (Book Review), Julie Mujic
Lincoln's Defense Of Politics: The Public Man And His Opponents In The Crisis Over Slavery (Book Review), Julie Mujic
History Faculty Publications
Book review by Julie Mujic.
Schneider, Thomas E. Lincoln’s Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006.
ISBN 9780826216069