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Daniel Walker Howe is a fine
social historian
and historian of ideas. From the end of the War of 1812 through the first railroads and telegraphs, the Mexican-American War which shifted America's center of gravity to the slaveowning south. Meanwhile, evangelism, temperance (anti-alcohol) and anti-slavery movements stirred up the country. |
If you haven't read it yet, maybe now is a good time, and guess what, it's a best-seller which means Amazon is discounting it big. Accept no substitutes (esp. from anybody named Beck). |
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Established to promote the presidency of John Q. Adams in 1828; taken late in that year by William Lloyd Garrison, who used it to promote every kind of reform he could think of until he left it a few months later to join Benjamin Lundy in editing the Genius of Universal Emancipation. (Source: Stewart, Garrison, p39)
Copyright 1998 by Hal Morris, Secaucus, NJ