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Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. LauseâEUR(TM)s biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing trailblazer and master of dirty tricks, Carsey fit perfectly into a Democratic Party that based...

Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. LauseâEUR(TM)s biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing trailblazer and master of dirty tricks, Carsey fit perfectly into a Democratic Party that based...

How War Gave Birth to Revolution in the 19th century

This is the first comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals and militant abolitionists on the long road to the failed slave revolt of Harpers Ferry in 1859. This book contains new and fascinating insights into the cast of characters who created a homegrown American socialist movement through the nineteenth century - from Thomas Paine's revolution to Robert Owen's...

A history of home-grown American radicalism in the 19th century.

Mark A. Lause is a professor of American history at the University of Cincinnati and the author of Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community and other books.

When cowboys were workers and battled their bosses

In the fall of 1864, during the last brutal months of the Civil War, the Confederates made one final, desperate attempt to rampage through the Shenandoah Valley, Tennessee, and Missouri. Mark A. Lause investigates the problems during the campaign and the myths propagated about it. He offers new insight into the two distinct phases of the campaign and shows that both sides used self-serving fictions to provide a rationale for their politically ...

Unraveling the influence and power of antebellum secret societies

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Mark A. Lause is a professor of American history at the University of Cincinnati and the author of numerous books, including Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class, A Secret Society History of the Civil War, Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri , and Race and Radicalism in the Union Army .

This unique history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, Mark A. Lause analyzes how the Old World's traditions influenced various underground groups and movements in America, particularly George Lippard's Brotherhood of the Union, an America...

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The National Reform Association (NRA) was an antebellum land reform movement inspired by the shared dream of a western frontier settled by egalitarian homesteads. Mark A. Lause's "young America argues that it was these working people's interest in equitable access to the country's most obvious asses-land-that led them to advocate a federal homestead act granting land to the landless, state legislation to prohibit the foreclosure of family farm...

As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home state for the Confederacy, part of a broader effort to tilt the upcoming 1864 Union elections against Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans. In The Collapse of Price's Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri, Mark A. Lause examines the complex political and social context of what became know...

The Civil War's Last Campaign is a narrative history of General James B. Weaver's 1880 Presidential campaign as the Greenback-Labor party candidate. In the course of its narrative of the campaign, this study describes a complex coalition with interdependent conservative, radical and pragmatic currents essential to a mass insurgency. This account of his active campaigning offers a new look at America's society, values and politics in the postwa...

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Mark A. Lause is a professor of American history at the University of Cincinnati and the author of Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community and other books.

Earlier historians have generally believed that this period in American history lacked significant trade union activity, but Lause demonstrates that post-Revolutionary printers not only formed their own local trade associations, but were part of a larger network that connected printers, cobblers, tailors, and other skilled workers into associations