Donald R. Kennon is the former chief historian and vice president of the United States Capitol Historical Society. He is editor of the Ohio University Press series Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1789–1801.
6 Ebooks by Donald R. Kennon
Paul Finkelman & Donald R. Kennon: In the Shadow of Freedom
Few images of early America were more striking, and jarring, than that of slaves in the capital city of the world’s most important free republic. Black slaves served and sustained the legislators, bu …
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Paul Finkelman & Donald R. Kennon: Congress and the Crisis of the 1850s
During the long decade from 1848 to 1861 America was like a train speeding down the track, without an engineer or brakes. The new territories acquired from Mexico had vastly increased the size of the …
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Paul Finkelman & Donald R. Kennon: Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation
“When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed. Lincoln understood this, and said as much in his first inaugural addres …
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Paul Finkelman & Donald R. Kennon: Congress and the People’s Contest
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developmen …
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Paul Finkelman & Donald R. Kennon: Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America
Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the hom …
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Paul Finkelman & Donald R. Kennon: Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress
The social changes and human and economic costs of the Civil War led to profound legal and constitutional developments after it ended, not least of which were the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments …
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