Books written by Scott Reynolds Nelson
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A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War
On April 12, 1862, Union General David Hunter, the commander of the Department of the South, freed all slaves in the vicinity of Fort Pulaski, Georgia; the following month, on May 9, he ordered slavery abolished in three Southern ...
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A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
On attempts to correct these estimates, see Annemarie Steidl, Englebert Stockhammer, and Hermann Zeitlhofer, “Relations Among Internal, Continental, and Transatlantic Migration in Late Imperial Austria,” Social Science History 31 ...
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A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War
Andrew Evans to Sam Evans, 18 May 1863, in Robert F. Engs and Corey M. Brooks, eds., Their Patriotic Duty: The Civil War Letters of the Evans Family of Brown County, Ohio, original transcriptions by Joseph Evans (New York: Fordham ...
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend
One man, an African American roundhouse cook named Cal Evans, traveled from the Lewis Tunnel to the Big Bend Tunnel in 1875. As he cooked for workers at the Big Bend, he told many stories of the exploits of John Henry.
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A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
By 1860 plans to create the Confederacy imagined its capital at Montgomery, Alabama. ... CERES AMERICANA IN THE UNl'l'I£l) S'l“A'l'l'IS, the railroads that started the conflict had been built to meet what the railroad director John ...
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Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction
This company , so closely tied to the Confederacy , would become a familiar institution in the South through the war and after.72 Formed from the southern wing of the Adams Express Company , the express was a northern company that had ...
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
On the continued use of convicts for high-tech labor, see Alex Lichtenstein, Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South, Haymarket Series (London and New York: Verso, 1996).
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Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction
Lichtenstein, Twice the Work of Free Labor; Dictionary of Georgia Biography, 1:362–64; A. Elizabeth Taylor, “Convict Lease in Georgia”: Duncan, Rufus Bullock, 104–5; James Russell, Atlanta, 133. 38. “Grand Finale of the Railroad War—The ...
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend
In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time, the ...
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Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts how he came to discover the real John Henry, an African-American railroad worker who became a legend in the famous song.
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
"Equally important, Nelson captures the life of the ballad of John Henry, tracing the song's evolution from the first printed score by blues legend W.C. Handy, to Carl Sandburg's use of the ballad to become the first "folk singer," to the ...
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A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War
This book shows how average Americans coped with despair as well as hope during this vast upheaval.
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power.
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power.