Era of the Oath : : Northern Loyalty Tests during the Civil War and Reconstruction / / Harold Melvin Hyman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Hyman, Harold Melvin,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©1954
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction: Loyalty on Demand --; 1. Congress, Cabinet, and Civil Servants --; 2. The First Year: Loyalty Tests Spread --; 3. Loyalty Defined: The Ironclad Test Oath --; 4. The Key to Freedom --; 5. A Problem of Peace: Postwar Administration and the Test Oath --; 6. Congress, the Executive, and the Test Oath --; 7. The Personal Factor in Loyalty Oaths --; 8. Vacant Chairs in Congress --; 9. Bench, Bar, and Oath --; 10. The Supreme Court Decides --; 11. First Breach --; 12. Final Repeal --; Conclusion --; Appendix --; Table of Cases Cited --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512817096; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512817096
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Harold Melvin Hyman.