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4) The South returns to Congress: men, economic measures, and intersectional relationships, 1868-1879
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[1983]
Physical Desc
xii, 322 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
7) The Congress
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In this elegant, penetrating and moving portrait of the United States Congress, filmmaker Ken Burns profiles an American institution whose ideals and actions affect us all. Narrated by David McCullough, the program employs historic film footage and interviews with insiders" including David Broker, Alistair Cooke and Cokie Roberts to detail the personalities, events and issues that have animated Congress' first 200 years."--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 560 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A United States Circuit Judge describes the historical struggles that took place between sitting presidents and Congress over who has the power to start wars, including the American Revolution, the War of 1812 and the Civil War, all the way up through the fight against ISIS.
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Malavasic argues that some Southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery ... focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, and Robert M. T. Hunter and James Murray Mason of Virginia, known by their contemporaries as the "F Street Mess" for the location of the house they shared. ......
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 315 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States now has three political parties, though only two of them are elected.The newest was founded a century ago, but just came to power in the last decade: It's the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the political party of the new American oligarchy. In this groundbreaking investigation of the big business takeover of the American political process, Alyssa Katz draws upon years of research to chronicle the rise to power of the organization and...
Publisher
Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vi, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The social changes and human and economic costs of the Civil War led to profound legal and constitutional developments after it ended, not least of which were the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the many laws devised to protect the civil rights of newly freed African Americans. These amendments and laws worked for a while, but they were ineffective or ineffectively enforced for more than a century. In Ending the Civil War and the Consequences...
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