Michael Todd Landis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Todd Landis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Todd |
| FAMILY NAME | Landis |
| SIGNATURE | LANDIS M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York, Ulster, Stone Ridge, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson
Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South
We know the story of the Confederacy well: rush to secession, dysfunctional government, scarcity and suffering, military defeats, collapse, and failure. Yet we read on. And read on we must, as R. D
Old Buck's Lieutenant: Glancy Jones, James Buchanan, and the Antebellum Northern Democracy
Partisan relationships have always been fundamental to American politics. In antebellum Pennsylvania the personal and political partnership of Democrats James Buchanan and Jehu Glancy Jones was absolutely critical to state and national events. While much scholarship exists on Buchanan, few historians have examined the life of Jones, a man of undeniable importance to Buchanan's rise to the presidency, the passage of now-infamous antebellum legisla…
Northern Men with Southern Loyalties: The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis
Michael Todd Landis forcefully contends that a full understanding of the Civil War and its causes is impossible without a careful examination of Northern Democrats and their proslavery sentiments and activities.
Northern Men with Southern Loyalties: The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis
In the decade before the Civil War, Northern Democrats, although they ostensibly represented antislavery and free-state constituencies, made possible the passage of such proslavery legislation as the Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Law of the same year, the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, and the Lecompton Constitution of 1858. This book contends that a full understanding of the Civil War and its causes is impossible without a careful examinat…
A Champion Had Come”: William Pitt Fessenden and the Republican Party, 1854–60
Republican senator William Pitt Fessenden’s antebellum career has been largely misunderstood by scholars of nineteenth‐century United States history. Though labeled by historians as a moderate or conservative in his later years as chair of the Committee on Reconstruction, in the prewar years Fessenden was a fiery antislavery radical. As a young lawyer in Maine, he quickly became a leading antislavery Whig, fought the Slave Power alongside John Qu…
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A Champion Had Come”: William Pitt Fessenden and the Republican Party, 1854–60
Republican senator William Pitt Fessenden’s antebellum career has been largely misunderstood by scholars of nineteenth‐century United States history. Though labeled by historians as a moderate or conservative in his later years as chair of the Committee on Reconstruction, in the prewar years Fessenden was a fiery antislavery radical. As a young lawyer in Maine, he quickly became a leading antislavery Whig, fought the Slave Power alongside John Qu…
Northern Men with Southern Loyalties: The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis
In the decade before the Civil War, Northern Democrats, although they ostensibly represented antislavery and free-state constituencies, made possible the passage of such proslavery legislation as the Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Law of the same year, the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, and the Lecompton Constitution of 1858. This book contends that a full understanding of the Civil War and its causes is impossible without a careful examinat…
Northern Men with Southern Loyalties: The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis
Michael Todd Landis forcefully contends that a full understanding of the Civil War and its causes is impossible without a careful examination of Northern Democrats and their proslavery sentiments and activities.
Old Buck's Lieutenant: Glancy Jones, James Buchanan, and the Antebellum Northern Democracy
Partisan relationships have always been fundamental to American politics. In antebellum Pennsylvania the personal and political partnership of Democrats James Buchanan and Jehu Glancy Jones was absolutely critical to state and national events. While much scholarship exists on Buchanan, few historians have examined the life of Jones, a man of undeniable importance to Buchanan's rise to the presidency, the passage of now-infamous antebellum legisla…
Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South
We know the story of the Confederacy well: rush to secession, dysfunctional government, scarcity and suffering, military defeats, collapse, and failure. Yet we read on. And read on we must, as R. D
The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson
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