Commemorating the old battleground: the celebrations of the Battle of Tippecanoe and 1850s politics.
Through examining commemorations at Tippecanoe, this article contends that the politics of the 1850s overshadowed the political instability in earlier decades. Hoping to use the chaos to their advantage and win over Whig voters for the 1856 presidential election, Democrats pitched a new account of t...
| Publicado en: | American Nineteenth Century History Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 131 - 150 |
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