...The prologue uses Abraham Lincoln’s 1838 address to the Springfield, Illinois Young Men’s Lyceum to establish the context of nineteenth-century American exceptionalist anxiety. Lincoln feared that the early republic’s growing distance from the founding generation had caused a public crisis...

...This chapter surveys the principal political events that contributed to the crisis of Union. Rather than portraying a sectional South vs. a nationalist North (an old historiographical trope long displaced by current scholarship), the chapter features slaveholders, antislavery activists...

...This final chapter explores the politics of medical practice and the medical market from the perspective of Cuban physicians. It explores the radicalization of the Cuban medical class in the context of the political and economic crisis of the early 1930s. Rodríguez argues that a small group...

... in 1844. Caught and panoramarized, the image of Smith and the church’s past could help consolidate power during a crisis of succession and provide a network of visual collective memories to be consumed in collective viewing. Panorama also provided a means to conceptualize and describe visionary experience...

... Visions Technology Cultural techniques Digital age Faith crisis History Technological bias May the Latter-day Saints be haunted, if it need be, by the memory of those who pioneered the work of gathering in this dispensation, and be haunted by the memory of the teachings and work of Adam and Moses...

... are of special importance: the blame game; mixed messages that emphasize both dangers and opportunities; the power of ideologies; and controversies about race and discrimination. Also of interest were the contributions of women who early on wrote about the possibility of a financial crisis. Among them...

...If most journalists who were meeting daily, weekly, or monthly deadlines could not figure out how to devise stories that presciently or even somewhat accurately captured the unfolding global crisis, journalists who wrote books, anthropologists who carried out ethnographic investigations, and movie...

...This chapter argues that the US Army attempted to define the racial crisis it called “the problem of race” based on its own institutional logic and concerns. Army studies and investigations produced a set of claims and principles that shaped army responses to the racial crisis, including concerns...

...Institutional logic dictated that the US Army would see education and training as a key solution to its racial crisis. The Army chief of staff made race relations training mandatory, shifting training hours to focus on race even as leaders worried that new inductees were insufficiently trained...

... invoked the extension of the American influence, inspired by democratic ideals and the promise of prosperity, amid the shock of economic crisis at home and the threat of World War II. He formulated a definition of national purpose that demonstrated the wider struggle to celebrate the nation's virtues...

... faced in their attempts to advocate for improved living conditions, Tainted Tap offers a rich analysis of conditions and constraints that created the Flint water crisis. Katrinell Davis contextualizes the crisis in Flint’s long and troubled history of delivering essential services...

...This chapter assesses the impact of the lingering economic crisis and the U.S. embargo on contemporary Cuban migration to the United States. During the Special Period the Cuban exodus increased substantially and diversified its destinations. In the short and medium term emigration will probably...

...This chapter examines the impact of the global economic depression in the 1930s on Puerto Rican society, paying particular attention to the political crisis that gripped the island during the period from the crash of 1929 to the founding of the Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) in 1938. It begins...

...This chapter describes how the Trent crisis had caused war talk on both sides of the Atlantic, further driving British interest in ending the American conflict before another problem developed that could lead to a third Anglo-American war. The two Atlantic nations had narrowly...

.... The Missouri Crisis of 1819, which arose when Missouri's application for admission to the Union as a slave state was rejected by Northerners in the House, bridged the early national and antebellum politics of slavery. In this politics of slavery, there were several important players, from partisans...

...This chapter examines the Missouri debates of 1819–1821 and their impact on American politics. It shows how the Missouri Crisis, which pitted the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in Congress, exposed and exacerbated sectional tensions between North and South and prompted moderates to revive...

...The chapter opens with a discussion on the election of Abraham Lincoln and his impact on the secession crisis. This development resulted in several slave states from the upper South seceding from the Union. The Southern clergy and churches made a major contribution toward this secession crisis...

... controversy over slavery intensified the process of disrupting of the Union. Constitutional crisis is viewed as the cause behind the coming of the Civil War. The chapter explains the concept of honor in the secession crisis. It discusses how Jefferson Davis helped in accelerating the drive towards Southern...

... sectionalism. This book examines the various ways in which religion adapted to and influenced the development of a distinctive Southern culture and politics before the Civil War, adding depth and form to the movement that culminated in secession. From the abolitionist crisis of 1835 through the formation...

... United Negro Improvement Association UNIA Washington Booker T Black citizenship Black diaspora Crisis Delany Martin DuBois W E B Black internationalism Black radicalism Color line Marxism Memmi Albert Segregation White supremacy Wilson Woodrow Atlanta University Black educational life...