Dialogue In American History

By Lorman Ratner

James Kirke Paulding: The Last Republican

By Lorman Ratner, Lorman A. Ratner

for Many Decades After The American Revolution, The Image Of The Republic Shaped People's Thinking And Influenced Events. Yet The Simple Republic And A Growing, Increasingly Complex, Capitalist Ame...

Andrew Jackson And His Tennessee Lieutenants

By Lormen A. Ratner, Lorman Ratner

Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with him, were a major force in Tennessee and American political life can best be understood by examining the political culture they all shared. The...

Antimasonry; The Crusade And The Party

By Lorman Ratner

Antimasonry : The Crusade And The Party -- The Danger Of Conspiracy / Jedediah Morse -- Adams Responds To The Antimasonic Attacks / John Adams -- The Morgan Case And The Proof Of An Internal Conspi...

The Development Of An American Culture

By Stanley Coben, Lorman Ratner, Stanley; Ratner, Lorman Coben

Pre-Civil War Reform

By Lorman Ratner

Fanatics And Fire-Eaters: Newspapers And The Coming Of The Civil War

By Dwight L. Teeter, Lorman Ratner, Lorman A. Ratner, Dwight L. Teeter Jr.

During The Years Just Before The Civil War, Key Newspapers In The United States Became True Mass Media For The First Time, Reaching American Society, North And South, As Never Before. In Fanatics A...

Fanatics And Fire-Eaters: Newspapers And The Coming Of The Civil War

By Dwight L. Teeter, Lorman Ratner, Lorman A. Ratner, Dwight L. Teeter Jr.

"In the troubled years leading up to the Civil War, newspapers in the North and South presented the arguments for and against slavery, denouncing opposing viewpoints with imagination and vigor." "A...

Fanatics And Fire-Eaters

By Dwight L. Teeter, Lorman Ratner, Lorman A. Ratner, Dwight L. Teeter Jr., Lorman A. Ratner; Dwight L. Teeter Jr.

During the years just before the Civil War, key newspapers in the United States became true mass media for the first time, reaching American society as never before. In "Fanatics and Fire-eaters",...

Paradoxes Of Prosperity

By Lorman Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, Lorman A. Ratner, Dwight L. Teeter Jr., Lorman A. Ratner; Paula T. Kaufman; Dwight L. Teeter Jr.

In the midst of the United States' immense economic growth in the 1850s, Americans worried about whether the booming agricultural, industrial, and commercial expansion came at the price of cherishe...