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Mark A Lause
As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home state for the Confederacy…
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Mark A. Lause
Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the…
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Often dismissed as a nineteenth-century curiosity, spiritualism influenced the radical social and political movements of its time. Believers filled the ranks of the Free Democrats, agitated for land and monetary…
A history of home-grown American radicalism in the 19th century.
Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War. Mark A. Lause describes how the working…
Unraveling the influence and power of antebellum secret societies
Argues that it was the working people’s interest in equitable access to the country’s most obvious asset - land - that led them to advocate a federal Homestead Act granting…
The untold story of the common efforts of whites, blacks, and Indians on the Civil War’s western front
Presents the history of the Civil War that considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war.
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Focusing on the overlapping nature of culture and politics, this title delves into the world of antebellum bohemians and the newspapermen who surrounded them, including Ada Clare, Henry Clapp, and…
In the fall of 1864, during the last brutal months of the Civil War, the Confederates made one final, desperate attempt to rampage through the Shenandoah Valley, Tennessee, and Missouri…
Mark Lause
When cowboys were workers and battled their bosses
How War Gave Birth to Revolution in the 19th century
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Earlier historians have generally believed that this period in American history lacked significant trade union activity, but Lause demonstrates that post-Revolutionary printers not only formed their own local trade associations…
