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The Attitude Of Indiana's Congressional Delegation During The Civil War Toward Slavery And The Negro: 1861-1865, Emma T. Randall
The Attitude Of Indiana's Congressional Delegation During The Civil War Toward Slavery And The Negro: 1861-1865, Emma T. Randall
Graduate Thesis Collection
In this thesis I have examined the attitudes on the Negro question of the members if the Indiana delegation to the Congress of the United States during the period 1861-1865. Two Congresses were is session during this period--the Thirty-seventh and the Thirty-eighth. The Globe and newspapers of the period have been my two primary sources of information. Every shade of opinion was expressed ranging from the utterances of so-called Abolitionist Republican George W. Julian, to the ultra-conservative sentiments voiced by Daniel Voorhees, Democrat.
The Kingdom Of God In Mormon Thought And Practice, 1830-1896, Klaus J. Hansen
The Kingdom Of God In Mormon Thought And Practice, 1830-1896, Klaus J. Hansen
Wayne State University Dissertations
In the spring of 1844 the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith organized a secret organization called the Council of Fifty as the governing body of a political kingdom of God which ultimately was to rule the world. The idea of the political kingdom of God and attempts of the Council of Fifty to transform this idea into reality through the creation of a temporal Mormon state provide the central theme of Mormon history during the major part of the nineteenth century. It is therefore one of the more puzzling phenomena of historiography that these aspects of Mormon history have escaped almost …
Why John C. Calhoun Switched From Nationalism To Sectionalism, Matharee J. Boles
Why John C. Calhoun Switched From Nationalism To Sectionalism, Matharee J. Boles
Theses
This thesis presents the several aspects of John Caldwell Calhoun's life that could have caused him to change, if he did change, from his intensely patriotic attitude of nationalism to an equally zealous sectionalist who was accused of leading his state and later the entire South in open rebellion against the union.
The Sepoy Rebellion, Dan M. Hockman