LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jonathan w white

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  • House Built by Slaves
    Jonathan W. White
    Rediscover the forgotten story of how President Lincoln welcomed African Americans to his White House during America’s most divided and war-torn era.Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln’s welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States, using the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in America's...
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  • Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln
    Jonathan W. White / Jonathan WWhite
    The Union army's overwhelming vote for Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election has led many Civil War scholars to conclude that the soldiers supported the Republican Party and its effort to abolish slavery. In Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln, Jonathan W. White challenges this reigning paradigm in Civil War historiography, argui...
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  • Midnight in America
    Jonathan W. White
    The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night. Sleeplessness plagued the Union and Confederate armies, and dreams of war glided through the minds of Americans in both the North and South. Sometimes their nightly visions brought the horrors of the conflict vividly to life. But for others, nighttime was an escape f...
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  • Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War
    Jonathan W. White / Jonathan WWhite
    In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman petitioned Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney for release through ...
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