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Baker, Jean Harvey was born on February 9, 1933 in Baltimore. Daughter of F. Barton and Rose (Lindsay) Hopkins Harvey.
(Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feat...)
Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feature of public life in nineteenth-century America. In this book she explores the way in which the Northern Democrats of the mid-eighteen hundreds lived their public lives. She begins with a psychobiographical explanation of how people became Democrats, weighing the importance of such influences as education and family life. She then discusses two major elements that set Democrats apart from members of other political organizations: a modified Republican ideology tailored to the circumstances of the Civil War, and a mordant racism conveyed most strikingly through minstrelsy. Finally, Baker studies the neglected subject of partisan behavior, concentrating on the significance of parades, voting, and other rituals. In Affairs of Party Jean Baker brings together the three basic components of a political culture-education, thought, and behavior-and provides an understanding of the collective values of Northern Democrats and an insight into the elusive meaning of party experience. In her new preface, Professor Baker places her book in the context of both recent scholarship and recent political and cultural developments.
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( Long considered the standard text in the field, The Civ...)
Long considered the standard text in the field, The Civil War and Reconstruction―originally written by James G. Randall and revised by David Donald―is now available in a thoroughly revised new edition prepared by David Donald, Jean H. Baker, and Michael F. Holt.
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( A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the br...)
A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the brink of Civil War Almost no president was as well trained and well prepared for the office as James Buchanan. He had served in the Pennsylvania state legislature, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate; he was Secretary of State and was even offered a seat on the Supreme Court. And yet, by every measure except his own, James Buchanan was a miserable failure as president, leaving office in disgrace. Virtually all of his intentions were thwarted by his own inability to compromise: he had been unable to resolve issues of slavery, caused his party to split-thereby ensuring the election of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln-and made the Civil War all but inevitable. Historian Jean H. Baker explains that we have rightly placed Buchanan at the end of the presidential rankings, but his poor presidency should not be an excuse to forget him. To study Buchanan is to consider the implications of weak leadership in a time of national crisis. Elegantly written, Baker's volume offers a balanced look at a crucial moment in our nation's history and explores a man who, when given the opportunity, failed to rise to the challenge.
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(Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists by Baker, Jea...)
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists by Baker, Jean H. Hill and Wang, 2006 ( Paperback ) Paperback
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(The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family The Ste...)
The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family by Baker, Jean H. ( Author ) Paperback Jun- 1997 Paperback Jun- 17- 1997
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(Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents...)
Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents were slaves of John Ashmore, a prosperous Maryland mill owner who freed many of his slaves in the last years of his life. Ashmore never laid claim to Margaret, who eventually married a free black man and moved to Pennsylvania. Then, John Ashmore's widow sent Edward Prigg to Pennsylvania to claim Margaret as a runaway. Prigg seized Margaret and her children one of them born in Pennsylvania and forcibly removed them to Maryland in violation of Pennsylvania law. In the ensuing uproar, Prigg was indicted for kidnapping under Pennsylvania's personal liberty law. Maryland, however, blocked his extradition, setting the stage for a remarkable Supreme Court case in 1842. In Prigg v. Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court considered more than just the fate of a single slavecatcher. The Court's majority struck down the free states' personal liberty laws and reaffirmed federal supremacy in determining the procedures for fugitive slave rendition. H. Robert Baker has written the first and only book-length treatment of this landmark case that became a pivot point for antebellum politics and law some fifteen years before Dred Scott. Baker addresses the Constitution's ambivalence regarding slavery and freedom. At issue were the reach of slaveholders' property rights into the free states, the rights of free blacks, and the relative powers of the federal and state governments. By announcing federal supremacy in regulating fugitive slave rendition, Prigg v. Pennsylvania was meant to bolster what slaveholders claimed as a constitutional right. But the decision cast into doubt the ability of free states to define freedom and to protect their free black populations from kidnapping. Baker's eye-opening account raises crucial questions about the place of slavery in the Constitution and the role of the courts in protecting it in antebellum America. More than that, it demonstrates how judges fashion conflicting constitutional interpretations from the same sources of law. Ultimately, it offers an instructive look at how constitutional interpretation that claims to be faithful to neutral legal principles and a definitive original meaning is nonetheless freighted with contemporary politics and morality. Prigg v. Pennsylvania is a sobering lesson for those concerned with today's controversial issues, as states seek to supplement and preempt federal immigration law or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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( They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anth...)
They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to contract, to sue, to testify in court. Their struggle was confrontational (women were the first to picket the White House for a political cause) and violent (women were arrested, jailed, and force-fed in prisons). And like every revolutionary before them, their struggle was personal. For the first time, the eminent historian Jean H. Baker tellingly interweaves these women's private lives with their public achievements, presenting these revolutionary women in three dimensions, humanized, and marvelously approachable.
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Baker, Jean Harvey was born on February 9, 1933 in Baltimore. Daughter of F. Barton and Rose (Lindsay) Hopkins Harvey.
Bachelor of Arts, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland., 1961; Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1965; Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1971.
Lecturer, instructor history, Notre Dame College, Baltimore, 1967-1969; instructor history, Goucher College, Baltimore, 1969; assistant professor of history, Goucher College, Baltimore, 1969-1975; associate professor of history, Goucher College, Baltimore, 1975-1978; professor of history, Goucher College, Baltimore, 1979-1982; Elizabeth Todd professor of history, Goucher College, Baltimore, since 1981.
( A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the br...)
(The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family The Ste...)
( Long considered the standard text in the field, The Civ...)
(Affairs of party, Jean Baker asserts, were a central feat...)
(Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists by Baker, Jea...)
( They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anth...)
(Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents...)
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Member of American History Association, Organization American Historians, Berkshire Conference Women Historians, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married R. Robinson Baker, September 12, 1953. Children– Susan Dixon, Robinson Scott, Robert W., Jean Harvey.