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Author:

Keith, LeeAnna, author.

Title:

When it was grand : the radical Republican history of the Civil War / LeeAnna Keith.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Hill and Wanga division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--19th century.
Political parties--United States--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
Radicalism--United States--History--19th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
United States--Politics and government--1849-1877.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue: Great Old Party -- Filibustering in Kansas -- The antislavery resistance -- Transcendental politics -- Free soil, free men, Fremont -- Dred Scott nullification -- John Brownism -- House divided -- Harper's Ferry -- Wide awake -- Military emancipation -- Wolf killers -- Arming African Americans -- Turning the Mississippi -- Revolution by confiscation -- Republican nation-building -- Never surrender the flag -- Wearing the brass letter -- Black Republicans -- Postscript: Age of transcendence.

Summary:

"A history of antiracist and abolitionist activism in the Civil War-era Republican Party"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0809080311
9780809080311

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1113415785

LCCN:

2019028465

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)