Bøger om År 1800 til 1850

';Widmer brings off his panoramic, almost mystical interpretation with riveting panache. His book is not only a historical achievement but a literary one.' The Wall Street Journal ';A Lincoln classic...superb....So much has been written about Abraham Lincoln that it's rare when a historian discovers an episode in his life that, if fully developed and interpreted, yields important new insights. Ted Widmer has done just that...' The Washington Post As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Washington and his inaugurationan inauguration Southerners have vowed to prevent by any means necessary. Drawing on new research, this account reveals the President-Elect as a work in progress, showing him on the verge of greatness, foiling an assassination attempt, and forging an unbreakable bond with the American people. On the eve of his 52nd birthday, February 11, 1861, the President-Elect of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, walked onto a train, the first step of his journey to the White House, and his rendezvous with destiny. But as the train began to carry Lincoln toward Washington, it was far from certain what he would find there. Bankrupt and rudderless, the government was on the verge of collapse. To make matters worse, reliable intelligence confirmed a conspiracy to assassinate him as he passed through Baltimore. It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the Republic hung in the balance. How did Lincoln survive this grueling odyssey, to become the president we know from the history books? Lincoln on the Verge tells the story of a leader discovering his own strength, improvising brilliantly, and seeing his country up close during these pivotal thirteen days. From the moment the Presidential Special left the station, a new Lincoln was on display, speaking constantly, from a moving train, to save the Republic. The journey would draw on all of Lincoln's mental and physical reserves. But the President-Elect discovered an inner strength, which deepened with the exhausting ordeal of meeting millions of Americans. Lincoln on the Verge tells the story of America's greatest president and the obstacles he overcame, well before he could take the oath of office and deliver his inaugural address.

"We all know how the Civil War was won: by courageous Yankees who triumphed over the South. But as veteran journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from Northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground, but also an unsung regiment of 2,066 Alabamian yeoman farmers--including at least one member of Raines's own family. Called the First Alabama Cavalry, USA, these 'Mountain Unionists' were the point of the spear that Sherman drove through the heart of the Confederacy. The famed general hailed their skills and courage. So why don't we know anything about them? Silent Cavalry is one part epic American history, one part family saga, and one part scholarly detective story"--

Musiklærerinden Kate Taylor er vokset op på et børnehjem, og selvom hun har nære venner i Spindle Cove, længes hun efter kærlighed. Den fåmælte korporal Thorne slår bogstavelig talt skørterne væk under hende, men han gør det samtidig klart, at han ikke er interesseret i romantik.Samuel Thorne har altid undgået Kate, fordi han vogter en mørk hemmelighed om hendes fortid. Men da nogle suspekte fremmede dukker op og påstår, at de er Kates familie, vælger Thorne at spille hendes forlovede for at beskytte hende.Men at være så tæt på Kate, og samtidig holde afstand, er den hårdeste kamp i den hærdede soldats liv ... Og den første han synes bestemt til at tabe.En lady inden midnat er tredje, selvstændige bog i den romantiske serie om den lille by Spindle Cove i 1800-tallets England.

What is Coming?, a classic book first published in 1916, contains the futuristic theories and conceptions of H. G. Wells about the signs of things to come following the World War (1914-1918). The release of this book coincides with the Allied Forces' impending conflict with alleged cruel Germany. These forces consisted of Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and Japan. The author believes that in order to prevent further wars, there will need to be a shared World Peace upheld by a common state with a common peace agenda for all nations. The author makes it extremely obvious how the British people as a whole and people in other warring nations have suffered and will continue to suffer for decades even after the war, which will cause a significant shift in how all social strata think about and live. To know such predictions about time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering before these subjects were common in the genre.

In 1864, an ambitious young painter named Francis Bicknell Carpenter approached Abraham Lincoln with a proposal: he wanted to paint a grand portrait of the President and his entire Cabinet to commemorate the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. What followed was a six-month project in the White House, where the artist had the opportunity to observe Lincoln in his day-to-day activities. Carpenter later wrote down his recollections from this period and published them as "The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln" in 1866. It went on to become one of the most popular books about Lincoln in the immediate aftermath of his assasination.The original book is republished here in its entirety, with a contextual Introduction from historian S. C. Straley.

After the Peace of Amiens was broken in 1803, Great Britain found herself at war with an old enemy (France) but also with a new competitor (Napoleon): the latter was the greatest military commander of his times, a man who was able to transform the French Army into the most lethal fighting machine of the early 19th century. The war experiences of 1793-1803 had not been very positive ones for the British Army; the latter was still recovering from the crushing defeats suffered during the American War of Independence and badly needed to be reformed in order to become more efficient and modern. At the turn of the new century, Great Britain was still the greatest colonial power of the world and could count on the most formidable navy of the world; on land, however, her army was too weak to confront the French one on almost equal terms. The British land forces did not have a great leader comparable to Napoleon and were still influenced by tactical models that had been outclassed by the events. During the Napoleonic Wars the British military apparatus did of its best to improve, especially thanks to the guidance of intelligent officers who belonged to a "new generation". These innovative and capable men reformed the British Army, by improving its standards of service and by creating a new relationship (based on mutual trust) with the men under their command. Wellington was the greatest of these officers and one of the few European generals who had the personal capabilities to contrast Napoleon in an effective way: it was him who "forged" the new British Army, by fighting against the French in the Iberian Peninsula during 1808-1814. After learning from experience, the British soldiers were finally able to face Napoleon on the Belgian fields of Waterloo and thus they wrote the last page of a glorious military epic. Waterloo, however, was just the final result of a long process.

American Civil War Era 1861-1865, African American Diaspora 1619-1865. Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1861 so the slaves could fight in the Civil War. One hundred eighty thousand black soldiers joined the Union Army; forty thousand were killed. General Grant was very pleased with the black soldier. He said, "In battle, the dead black soldiers would cover the length of a football field." He further stated, "He could walk the length of a football field on dead bodies, and his feet would never touch the ground." African Americans fought in the Revolutionary War. The first man killed in the Revolutionary War was a black man named Crispus Attucks. He was killed during the 1770 Boston Massacre. He was one of the five thousand slaves who fought in the Revolutionary War. Harriet Tubman was a spy for the Union Army. She was nicknamed General Tubman and received a pension from the Union Army. Bass Reeves, born in 1838, was a celebrated hero, the first black US marshal in the United States; he was a legend as a US marshal. The Gettysburg Address, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863. Africa, nearly ten million miles wide, is the second largest continent; Asia is the largest continent. Some African tribes sold Africans to the white man to be taken to America and enslaved. The Dred Scott Decision: Chief Supreme Court Justice Taney ruled in the Dred Scott decision that a slave is a slave no matter where he is, he is the property of his master, and he has no rights that the white man has to respect. The fifty battles in the Civil War, including the bloodiest battles, had fifty-six thousand casualties in one day.

This anthology focuses on six aspects of the political and military processes through which slavery was abolished: the rise of abolitionism in the North, the recruitment of black troops, their performance in battle, race as a factor in combat, women and the war effort, and black soldiers fighting for the Confederacy.

Over more than a year, John Banks crisscrossed the country, exploring battlefields, historic houses, forts, and more. He rode on the back of an ATV with his "psychotic connection" in Mississippi, went under the spell of an amateur hypnotist at a U.S.

Carin Idman er en autentisk, spændende og underholdende biografi. Bogens personer med sted- og tidsangivelser såvel som handlingen i Finland, Danmark og Sverige er således virkelige, og som de fremtræder gennem en 125-års tidsperiode skildret af min farmor, ”Fimi”. Slægtskrøniken er opdelt i tre dele: ”Skyggebilleder” (1856-1923) Historien tager sin begyndelse med zar Alexander den II’s besøg i Tammerfors. Familien Idmans nære venskab med zaren, herregårdslivet, hungersnøden, svensk-finske relationer, tiden fra den begyndende industrialisering over Første Verdenskrig og den finske Frihedskrig frem til promotionsfestlighederne i Helsingfors 1923. ”Lysglimt” (1923-1948) Første ægteskab, der blandt andet tager læseren til Italien og Danmark. Dansk–finske relationer og Fimis andet ægteskab gennem Vinterkrigen og Fortsættelseskrigen, med evakueringen til Sverige under Anden Verdenskrig. ”En plads i solen” (1948-1981) Efterkrigstiden, der igen knytter forbindelse til Danmark og Sverige og Fimis tredje og fjerde ægteskab. Venskabet med forfatterinde Brigitta Gadolin og deres rejser til blandt andet Ibiza. Sidst den tiltagende alderdom, hvor fortid og nutidens historier forenes. Carin Idman var en finlandssvensk personlighed. Hun havde et lyst sind og en ufattelig god hukommelse. Hendes livshistorie, som hun selv fortæller den, er under de mest dramatiske begivenheder beskrevet med en lethed og underfundig humor, der var så kendetegnende for hendes person. Fimis væremåde og optimisme skinner igennem som en lille sol, netop fordi hun bestræbte sig på at gøre sin livshistorie så spændende, levende og frem for alt så underholdende som muligt. Formen er som en samtale mellem fortæller og læser, og bogen findes oversat til svensk og finsk.Uddrag af bogen Både inde og udenfor kupeerne var der en råben og larm uden sidestykke. Børn med blot en navneseddel omkring halsen som eneste identifikation blev hjulpet ombord, mens ulykkelige forældre og andre familiemedlemmer stod hjælpeløst tilbage som fortvivlede tilskuere. De frivillige lotter var helt enestående i denne sammenhæng, og kvinderne tog sig både kærligt og venligt af de stakkels børn, som skulle ud på deres måske livs største og mest omvæltende rejse. Med utallige stop undervejs foregik turen som fortalt nordpå til Torneå. Derfra skulle børnene gå over broen til fods og fortsætte ind i det frie, neutrale Sverige – nøjagtig som vi selv havde gjort under vinterkrigen. En del af disse børn skulle aldrig vende tilbage og andre skulle ikke gense sine familier. Marita Wallgren (Jvf. del 1 side 161-163) var en af de mange lotter som fulgte børnene til Sverige, og hun kunne senere fortælle hvor frygteligt og sørgeligt det hele havde været. Men det var ikke desto mindre en bydende nødvendighed for at redde de arme småbørn og sikre deres overlevelse. Om forfatteren Carl-Bernhard von Christierson er født i Finland 1954 og har siden barndommen været tilknyttet forskellige teatre i Danmark og England som skuespiller, scenograf og instruktør. Oprindelig elev ved kgl. skuespiller Erik Mørk og Olaf Ussing og har sidenhen medvirket i et utal af skuespil og musicals. Han arbejder fortsat som dramaturg, tekstforfatter og librettist. Som rejsekonsulent med national- og marineparker som speciale har opgaverne inkluderet bl.a. Ægypten, Kenya, Sydafrika, Brasilien og Venezuelas regnskove, USA’s og Canadas vestlige nationalparker, Grønland, Mongoliet, Fjernøsten, Kina, Australien og New Zealand. Arbejder i dag udelukkende som freelanceskribent med rekognoscering af destinationer for sportsdykkere i Stillehavsområdet.

Abraham Lincoln recognized that the US Civil War would be a "hard war". Secession and slavery represented abiding beliefs central to Southern life. Overcoming them would require a war of attrition resulting in much death and destruction, but Lincoln knew that the populous industrial North would prevail in a war of "grim mathematics". He hoped that in George McClellan he had found the general to wage this war.McClellan, though young and bright, was not up to the task. Early in his tenure, he showed that he could organize a large army, but month upon month of inaction followed. McClellan politically favored preserving the Union for mercantile reasons, but slavery was a matter for the states to decide and therefore, negotiable. Reunion, he felt, did not require abolition. McClellan had talents as an organizer but could not bring himself "pull the trigger" on a decisive battle. Lincoln was finally able to coerce McClellan into proposing the Peninsular Campaign in the spring of 1862. The plan called for a massive amphibious operation which would deposit an army on the doorstep of Richmond and force a Confederate surrender. Lincoln did not like a plan as risky and costly as this, but reluctantly agreed.McClellan endangered the success of his plan by avoiding direct engagement with the enemy and working his way up the peninsula at a snail's pace. He lost the confidence and support of many of his subordinate generals. Phil Kearny was particularly aggrieved as he espoused a hard war and continuing contact with the enemy. After months of battles and squandered opportunities, McClellan ordered a retreat. His generals administered a final defeat to the Confederates at Malvern Hill but still were forced to withdraw to Harrison's Landing where they were unable to generate further offensive operations.McClellan had misused and betrayed the Army of the Potomac and failed to capitalize on their bravery and competence. His betrayal had only begun...

The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental political issue at stake in the conflict was the future of slavery. Most Confederate soldiers were not slaveholders themselves, but they were products of the largest and most prosperous slaveholding civilization the world had ever seen, and they sought to maintain clear divisions between black and white, master and servant, free and slave. In Marching Masters Colin Woodward explores not only the importance of slavery in the minds of Confederate soldiers but also its effects on military policy and decision making. Beyond showing how essential the defense of slavery was in motivating Confederate troops to fight, Woodward examines the Rebels' persistent belief in the need to defend slavery and deploy it militarily as the war raged on. Slavery proved essential to the Confederate war machine, and Rebels strove to protect it just as they did Southern cities, towns, and railroads. Slaves served by the tens of thousands in the Southern armies-never as soldiers, but as menial laborers who cooked meals, washed horses, and dug ditches. By following Rebel troops' continued adherence to notions of white supremacy into the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, the book carries the story beyond the Confederacy's surrender. Drawing upon hundreds of soldiers' letters, diaries, and memoirs, Marching Masters combines the latest social and military history in its compelling examination of the last bloody years of slavery in the United States.

Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Volume 2), has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

The Lincoln Story Book: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Volume 4), has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

The Lincoln Country in Pictures, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Lincoln's Love Story, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

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Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons; A Personal Experience, 1864-5, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Volume 1), has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

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Lincolniana; Or, The Humors of Uncle Abe, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

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