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April 26 – Mexican–American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas' boundaries. May 8 – Mexican–American War – Battle of Palo Alto: Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande at Palo Alto, Texas in the first major battle of the war. May 14 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war ...
The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society was a local chapter of the American Anti-Slavery Society, a nationwide abolitionist organization. The society and its chapters produced a variety of anti-slavery literature for both adults and children. PFASS first released The Anti-Slavery Alphabet at their annual Anti-Slavery Fair in December 1846. [2]
Online editions The Anti-Slavery Bugle [1] 1845–1861: Lisbon, Ohio: James Barnaby, Oliver Johnson: LOC, Newspapers.com: The Colored American: 1837-1842 New York, New York Samuel Cornish, Phillip Alexander Bell, Charles Bennett Ray: Genius of Universal Emancipation [2] 1829–1839: Various: Benjamin Lundy: HathiTrust * Google Books: Herald of ...
Charles Grier Sellers Jr. (September 9, 1923 – September 23, 2021) was an American historian. Sellers was best known for his book The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846, [1] which offered a new interpretation of the economic, social, and political events taking place during the United States' Market Revolution.
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: Massacres in the American West: 1846–1890 is a 2006 book by Larry McMurtry. [1] He later wrote "I became interested in hundred-victim massacres in the Old West and produced a study of them." [ 2 ]
The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 is a 1987 nonfiction book by American historian Robert V. Bruce, published by Knopf. [1] The book is a social history chronicling a three-decade period in American science. It won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History. [2]
By August 1846 American military officers had fully occupied the northern half of the state, and by December all of modern California was under American control. John C. Frémont became Military Governor of California in January 1847, but was forced to give up the position less than two months later under disputed circumstances.