William seward new biography of ben

  • Historian Richard Immerman paints nuanced portraits of six exceptional public figures who manifestly influenced the course of American empire: Benjamin Franklin.
  • ""Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons"" is a book written by William Seward and published in 1804.
  • "Empire for Liberty" tells the story of men who used the rhetoric of liberty to further their imperial ambitions, and reveals that the quest for empire has.

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    Have Seward, Will Travel

    Editor's Note

    Today’s guest post is by Jeffrey Ludwig, who earned his PhD in history from the University of Rochester in 2015. His dissertation was an intellectual biography of late social critic, Christopher Lasch. He now works at the Seward House Museum as Director of Education. This is the second in a series of two posts relating to William Seward for USIH.

    Twice previously for this blog (here and here), I have submitted posts asking whether William Henry Seward (1801-1872) has anything to offer intellectual history. In both, I explored how the former Secretary of State adopted intellectual trappings and deployed intellectuals for foreign policy gains. Another way to consider Seward is an early globalist figure. An apostle of expansion, Seward was also well-travelled, completing four lengthy international journeys during his lifetime including a full circumnavigation of the globe in his retirement.  Out of that trip came Seward’s last intellectual ac

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    No binding. Condition: Very Good. Manuscript Letter Signed, to Benjamin G. Humphreys, November 18, 1865, Washington, DC. 3 pp., 7 3/4 x 10 in. Seward did not receive the hoped-for answer. It took Mississippi another 130 years to ratify, symbolically, in 1995."Congress in February gods, by the requisite vote of two-thirds of both houses, passed a resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which declares that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States. I have to request that Your Excellency will be pleased, to give to this Department as soon as convenient, the official notice contemplated, whenever the Legislature of the State of Mississippi shall have duly ratified the amendment in question."Twenty-seven states had to ratify the amendment for it to become part of the Constitution. Secretary of State William H. Seward asks G

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    Chapter 3. William Henry Seward Reimagines the American Empire

    Immerman, Richard H.. "Chapter 3. William Henry Seward Reimagines the American Empire". Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, pp. 98-127. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400834280-005

    Immerman, R. (2010). Chapter 3. William Henry Seward Reimagines the American Empire. In Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz (pp. 98-127). Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400834280-005

    Immerman, R. 2010. Chapter 3. William Henry Seward Reimagines the American Empire. Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 98-127. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400834280-005

    Immerman, Richard H.. "Chapter 3. William Henry Seward Reimagines the American Empire" In