1/8: American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873 Hardcover – May 21, 2024 by Alan Taylor (Author)

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1/8: American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873 Hardcover – May 21, 2024
by Alan Taylor (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/American-Civil-Wars-Continental-1850-1873/dp/1324035285

In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America’s three largest countries―the United States, Mexico, and Canada―all transformed themselves into nations. The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.

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0:00.0	This is CBS I on the world. Here's John Bachelor.
0:10.0	1850 to approximately 1874, 1876, those 25 years, Alan Taylor's new book, American Civil Wars, A Continental History. We're looking at a period
0:26.8	of time when not just the United States but also our neighbors in North America, Canada, the Dominion of Canada, and Mexico, the Republic of
0:38.4	Mexico, were not only watching each other, but also engaged in conflict, constant conflict and
0:45.2	violence, extreme violence, rampages, homicides, all of that inside the ambition for a better government.
0:56.0	I welcome Professor Taylor to speak of these matters.
1:00.0	He's written a comprehensive story and we can only touch on some of the
1:04.7	anecdotes. The professor is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation
1:08.8	Professor of History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia founded by Thomas Jefferson.
1:15.5	So I've been noting to the professor, how come famous people are always available at the scenes that are famous in history.
1:23.0	Economy and scene, well, there were professors at Thomas Jefferson's
1:26.7	University.
1:27.7	Professor Allen, a very good evening to you, I begin with your storytelling of a young woman born in 1807, Jane
1:37.1	Maria Eliza McMahonus. She is one part of the transformation that America is going to go through in the middle
1:46.6	of the century.
1:47.8	What do we need to know about her upbringing and her preparation for her editorial boldness.
1:54.0	Good evening to you.
1:55.0	Good evening to you and thank you for having me on John.
1:58.0	Well, Jane McManus grew up in a wealthy family in upstate New York and she received the top of the line education available for a young
2:08.7	woman.
2:09.7	She went to Emma Willard School.
2:11.3	There were no colleges or universities open to women at that time.
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