Under the Starry Flag
Title | Under the Starry Flag PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy E. Salyer |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2018-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674989228 |
Winner of the Myrna F. Bernath Book Award “A stunning accomplishment...As the Trump administration works to expatriate naturalized U.S. citizens, understanding the history of individual rights and state power at the heart of Under the Starry Flag could not be more important.” —Passport “A brilliant piece of historical writing as well as a real page-turner. Salyer seamlessly integrates analysis of big, complicated historical questions—allegiance, naturalization, citizenship, politics, diplomacy, race, and gender—into a gripping narrative.” —Kevin Kenny, author of The American Irish In 1867 forty Irish American freedom fighters, outfitted with guns and ammunition, sailed to Ireland to join the effort to end British rule. They were arrested for treason as soon as they landed. The Fenians, as they were called, claimed to be American citizens, but British authorities insisted that they remained British subjects. Following the Civil War, the Fenian crisis dramatized the question of whether citizenship should be considered an inalienable right. This gripping legal saga, a prelude to today’s immigration battles, raises important questions about immigration, citizenship, and who deserves to be protected by the law.
Beneath the Starry Flag
Title | Beneath the Starry Flag PDF eBook |
Author | Kitter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 7 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
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Beneath the Starry Flag
Title | Beneath the Starry Flag PDF eBook |
Author | Alan A. Siegel |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813529431 |
"Beneath the starry flag is a collection of eyewitness accounts by New Jerseyans who lived through the Civil War. The book depicts the war years chronologically, from the days when one state, then another seceded from the Union, to the victory at Appomattox and Lincoln's funeral procession across New Jersey"--Page 4 of cover.
Beneath the Starry Flag
Title | Beneath the Starry Flag PDF eBook |
Author | Jeannine W. Wilkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2001-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781401017309 |
Historians estimate some 400 women disguised themselves as soldiers and fought during the Civil War. 18-year-old Charlotte Menefee joins the Union Army to be with her brother. At the battle of Gettysburg, Confederates threaten to break the Union line and Charlotte must prove herself as brave a soldier as any man.
The Starry Flag, Or, The Young Fisherman of Cape Ann
Title | The Starry Flag, Or, The Young Fisherman of Cape Ann PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Optic |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Boats and boating |
ISBN |
The Starry Flag
Title | The Starry Flag PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon V. May |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1908 |
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I Remain Yours
Title | I Remain Yours PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Hager |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2018-01-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674981812 |
When North and South went to war, millions of American families endured their first long separation. For men in the armies—and their wives, children, parents, and siblings at home—letter writing was the sole means to communicate. Yet for many of these Union and Confederate families, taking pen to paper was a new and daunting task. I Remain Yours narrates the Civil War from the perspective of ordinary people who had to figure out how to salve the emotional strain of war and sustain their closest relationships using only the written word. Christopher Hager presents an intimate history of the Civil War through the interlaced stories of common soldiers and their families. The previously overlooked words of a carpenter from Indiana, an illiterate teenager from Connecticut, a grieving mother in the mountains of North Carolina, and a blacksmith’s daughter on the Iowa prairie reveal through their awkward script and expression the personal toll of war. Is my son alive or dead? Returning soon or never? Can I find words for the horrors I’ve seen or the loneliness I feel? Fear, loss, and upheaval stalked the lives of Americans straining to connect the battlefront to those they left behind. Hager shows how relatively uneducated men and women made this new means of communication their own, turning writing into an essential medium for sustaining relationships and a sense of belonging. Letter writing changed them and they in turn transformed the culture of letters into a popular, democratic mode of communication.