Hoffer, The Caning Of Charles Sumner - Honor, Idealism And The Origins Of The Civil War

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  • Mary Ellen Pethel The Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, TN

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https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.36.1.54-55

Abstract

     Historical monographs are rarely considered "page turners" despite the work's importance to academia. Williamjames Hull Hoffer has placed a crucial moment in history- the caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks- within the broader significance of the decades preceding the Civil War. Hoffer magnifies the causality and meaning of this cultural and political menagerie. The introduction is written in a way that both lures the reader and shows the subject's importance in big picture terms. He urges the audience to "recapture some of the drama of the past while standing far enough removed.... to examine [it]."

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Published

2011-04-01

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Pethel, Mary Ellen. 2011. “Hoffer, The Caning Of Charles Sumner - Honor, Idealism And The Origins Of The Civil War”. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 36 (1):54-55. https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.36.1.54-55.

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Vol. 36 No. 1 (2011)

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Copyright (c) 2011 Mary Ellen Pethel

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