Midcentury America: Life in the 1850s by Carl Bode

Midcentury America: Life in the 1850s

Carl Bode

236 pages first pub 1972 (editions)

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Americans in the 1850s, the documents show, were worse off physi­cally and better off mentally than they are today. They felt more secure because they had more absolutes than we do today. Men in the earlier era trusted in God and in the great soci...

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