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A Nation Rising
Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America’s Hidden History
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A Nation Rising
Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America’s Hidden History
About this book
“History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
Following on his New York Times bestsellers America’s Hidden History and Don’t Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country’s hidden history: the gritty first half of the 19th century, among the most tumultuous in the nation’s short life.
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Abolitionism, 111, 113, 124, 195–96. See also Douglass, Frederick
Amistad slave mutiny and, 126
censorship laws against, 166
Congressional “gag rule,” 140–41
Frémont and, 212, 252
John Brown’s insurrection, 166
Liberty Party, 182
newspapers, 140, 181, 194–95
pro-slavery violence, 181, 195, 196
Abraham (Black Seminole), 168–69
Adams, Henry, 59
Adams, John, 3, 16, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 50, 52, 55, 58, 86, 111, 134, 200
Adams, John Quincy, 110, 126
African Americans, xv, 95. See also Slavery
alliances with Native Americans, 102, 142, 166–69
in Florida, 101–3, 105, 166–69
in Fort Mims massacre, 71
homes burned in Philadelphia, 195
population in U.S., 1810, 65
prohibition on literacy, 134, 136
repatriation to Africa and, 109, 110
Second Seminole War and, 167
Alabama, 69, 81, 91, 109
Alaska, 217, 234
Alexander Hamilton (Chernow), 44
Alien Act of 1798, 200
Allen, Ethan, 169
Alston, Joseph, 15, 15n, 50, 57
Alston, Theodosia Burr, 9, 15n, 34–35, 58, 61
Ambrister, Robert, 102–3
American Anti-Slavery Society, 195–96, 249
American Colonization Society, 109, 110, 120
American Lion (Meacham), xx, 78, 159, 175
American West, xx–xxi, 65, 156. See also California
annexation of New Mexico, 218
calls for expansion into, 208
exploration of, 218 221, 239–40
fight for California, 177, 182, 218, 244, 245
trails to, 177
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 218
Amistad mutiny, 112, 122, 125–27
Anderson, Fred, 100
Anti-Masonic Party, 111
Anti-Slavery Society, 166
Arbuthnot, Alexander, 102–3
Arkansas, 111
Arnold, Benedict, xix, 23n, 26–27, 30, 32
Arnold, Peggy Shippen, 23n
Ashley, Robert, 9
Astor, John Jacob, 47
Aurora newspaper, 38
Austin, Moses, 217
Austin, Stephen, 217
Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (Monk), 183, 205
Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 38
Bahamas, 120, 139
Bailey, Dixon, 74, 75
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 224–25
Bank of New York, 40
Bank of the Manhattan Co., 39–40
Bank of the United States, 156
Baptist Church, 181
Baton Rouge, 65
Battle of Bunker Hill, 31, 245
Battle of Burnt Corn Creek, 71, 85
Battle of Harlem Heights, 31
Battle of Horseshoe Bend, 66, 96–97, 104
Battle of New Orleans, 66, 77
Battle of Quebec, 26–29, 48
Battle of Stono Ferry, 79
Battle of Thames, 85
Battle of Tippecanoe, 66, 84
Bayard, James A., 42
Beasley, David,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Searchable Terms
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Books by Kenneth C. Davis
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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