Claiming Union Widowhood
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Claiming Union Widowhood
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Author : Brandi Clay Brimmer
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-02
Claiming Union Widowhood written by Brandi Clay Brimmer and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-02 with History categories.
In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines how the mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers struggled to claim pensions in the face of evidentiary obstacles and personal scrutiny. Brimmer exposes and examines the numerous attempts by the federal government to exclude black women from receiving the federal pensions that they had been promised. Her analyses illustrate the complexities of social policy and law administration and the interconnectedness of race, gender, and class formation. Expanding on previous analyses of pension records, Brimmer offers an interpretive framework of emancipation and the freedom narrative that places black women at the forefront of demands for black citizenship.
Proof Of Widowhood In Claims For Pension January 12 1920 Committed To The Committee Of The Whole House On The State Of The Union And Ordered To Be Printed
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid Pensions
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
Proof Of Widowhood In Claims For Pension January 12 1920 Committed To The Committee Of The Whole House On The State Of The Union And Ordered To Be Printed written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid Pensions and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with categories.
Proof Of Widowhood In Pension Claims January 23 1917 Committed To The Committee Of The Whole House On The State Of The Union And Ordered To Be Printed
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid Pensions
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
Proof Of Widowhood In Pension Claims January 23 1917 Committed To The Committee Of The Whole House On The State Of The Union And Ordered To Be Printed written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid Pensions and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with categories.
Administering Freedom
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Author : Dale Kretz
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2022-09-07
Administering Freedom written by Dale Kretz and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-07 with Social Science categories.
This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal benefits from the Civil War to the New Deal and, in the process, transformed themselves from a stateless people into documented citizens. As claimants, Black southerners engaged an array of federal agencies. Their encounters with the more familiar Freedmen's Bureau and Pension Bureau are presented here in a striking new light, while their struggles with the long-forgotten Freedmen's Branch appear in this study for the very first time. Based on extensive archival research in rarely used collections, Dale Kretz uncovers surprising stories of political mobilization among tens of thousands of Black claimants for military bounties, back payments, and pensions, finding victories in an unlikely place: the federal bureaucracy. As newly freed, rights-bearing citizens, they negotiated issues of slavery, identity, family, loyalty, dependency, and disability, all within an increasingly complex and rapidly expanding federal administrative state—at once a lifeline to countless Black families and a mainline to a new liberal order.
Southern Black Women And Their Struggle For Freedom During The Civil War And Reconstruction
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Author : Karen Cook Bell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-31
Southern Black Women And Their Struggle For Freedom During The Civil War And Reconstruction written by Karen Cook Bell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-31 with History categories.
An insightful exploration of the complexity of Black women's wartime and postwar experiences across the American South.
The Families Civil War
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Author : Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2022-06-15
The Families Civil War written by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-15 with History categories.
This book tells the stories of freeborn northern African Americans in Philadelphia struggling to maintain families while fighting against racial discrimination. Taking a long view, from 1850 to the 1920s, Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. shows how Civil War military service worsened already difficult circumstances due to its negative effects on family finances, living situations, minds, and bodies. At least seventy-nine thousand African Americans served in northern USCT regiments. Many, including most of the USCT veterans examined here, remained in the North and constituted a sizable population of racial minorities living outside the former Confederacy. In The Families’ Civil War, Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. provides a compelling account of the lives of USCT soldiers and their entire families but also argues that the Civil War was but one engagement in a longer war for racial justice. By 1863 the Civil War provided African American Philadelphians with the ability to expand the theater of war beyond their metropolitan and racially oppressive city into the South to defeat Confederates and end slavery as armed combatants. But the war at home waged by white northerners never ended. Civil War soldiers are sometimes described together as men who experienced roughly the same thing during the war. However, this book acknowledges how race and class differentiated men’s experiences too. Pinheiro examines the intersections of gender, race, class, and region to fully illuminate the experiences of northern USCT soldiers and their families.
Journal Of The Civil War Era
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Author : William A. Blair
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Journal Of The Civil War Era written by William A. Blair and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with History categories.
The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor. Table of Contents for this issue, Volume One, Number Two: volume 1, number 2 June 2011 Table of Contents Articles a. kristen foster "We Are Men!": Frederick Douglass and the Fault Lines of Gendered Citizenship kathryn s. meier "No Place for the Sick": Nature's War on Civil War Soldier Mental and Physical Health in the 1862 Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns brandi c. brimmer "Her Claim for Pension Is Lawful and Just": Representing Black Union Widows in Late-Nineteenth Century North Carolina Review Essay frank towers Partisans, New History, and Modernization: The Historiography of the Civil War's Causes, 1861–2011 Book Reviews Books Received Professional Notes daniel e. sutherland The Seven O'Clock Lecture Notes on Contributors The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.
Final Resting Places
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Author : Brian Matthew Jordan
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2023-09
Final Resting Places written by Brian Matthew Jordan and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09 with History categories.
Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation-and how those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite-including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows of military headstones, university graveyards, tombs without bodies, and small family plots. Each burial place tells a unique story of how someone lived and died; how they were mourned and remembered. Together, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of American history. CONTRUBUTORS: Terry Alford, Melodie Andrews, Edward L. Ayers, DeAnne Blanton, Michael Burlingame, Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, John M. Coski, William C. Davis, Douglas R. Egerton, Stephen D. Engle, Barbara Gannon, Michael P. Gray, Hilary Green, Allen C. Guelzo, Anna Gibson Holloway, Vitor Izecksohn, Caroline E. Janney, Michelle A. Krowl, Glenn W. LaFantasie, Jennifer M. Murray, Barton A. Myers, Timothy J. Orr, Christopher Phillips, Mark S. Schantz, Dana B. Shoaf, Walter Stahr, Michael Vorenberg, and Ronald C. White
Love Of Freedom
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Author : Catherine Adams
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2010-02-11
Love Of Freedom written by Catherine Adams and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-11 with Social Science categories.
Love of Freedom explores how black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions.
The Rise And Fall Of The Second American Republic Reconstruction 1860 1920
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Author : Manisha Sinha
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2024-03-26
The Rise And Fall Of The Second American Republic Reconstruction 1860 1920 written by Manisha Sinha and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-26 with History categories.
"Sinha not only has taken on this vast subject, but has greatly expanded its definition, both temporally and spatially. . . . She covers these difficult issues with remarkable skill and clarity." —S. C. Gwynne, New York Times Book Review We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant South. That effort failed—and that failure serves as a warning today about violent backlash to the mere idea of black equality. In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun in 1865 with the end of the war, and to have come to a close when the "corrupt bargain" of 1877 put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House in exchange for the fall of the last southern Reconstruction state governments. Sinha’s startlingly original account opens in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln that triggered the secession of the Deep South states, and take us all the way to 1920 and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote—and which Sinha calls the "last Reconstruction amendment." Within this grand frame, Sinha narrates the rise and fall of what she calls the "Second American Republic." The Reconstruction of the South, a process driven by the alliance between the formerly enslaved at the grassroots and Radical Republicans in Congress, is central to her story, but only part of it. As she demonstrates, the US Army’s conquest of Indigenous nations in the West, labor conflict in the North, Chinese exclusion, women’s suffrage, and the establishment of an overseas American empire were all part of the same struggle between the forces of democracy and those of reaction. The main concern of Reconstruction was the plight of the formerly enslaved, but its fall affected other groups as well: women, workers, immigrants, and Native Americans. From the election of black legislators across the South in the late 1860s to the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 to the colonial war in the Philippines in the 1890s, Sinha narrates the major episodes of the era and introduces us to key individuals, famous and otherwise, who helped remake American democracy, or whose actions spelled its doom. A sweeping narrative that remakes our understanding of perhaps the most consequential period in American history, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic shows how the great contest of that age is also the great contest of our age—and serves as a necessary reminder of how young and fragile our democracy truly is.