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Precedents And Influences Affecting The Treaty Of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Ralph A. Rowley

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On February 2, 1848, representatives of the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War and also provided for the cession of a vast portion of the northern Mexican frontier to the United States. The treaty gradually sank into relative obscurity and has only recently re-emerged to a position of prominence, due primarily to court suits over old Mexican land grants presently being considered in those areas which were formerly a part of Mexico. The two most prominent aspects of the treaty pertain to questions of its legality and the guarantees of citizenship and …

United States Military Government In New Mexico, 1846-1851, Donald E. Metzler

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From August 18, 1846, when New Mexico was Invaded by the United States Army during the Mexican War, until March 3, 1851, when the first territorial governor was Inaugurated, the conquered province was administered by a military government. To complicate matters, the American military commander established a "civil government" In New Mexico on September 22, 1846, although he had no authority to do so. During the entire period, the military and "civil" governments continued to exist either side by side, or with one superimposed on the other. The purpose of this paper Is to determine the true nature of the …

Anglo-Russian Trade - 1919 - 1927, Judith Ann Adkison

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In the decade following World War I, British politicians continually debated the issue of trade with Soviet Russia. The Conservatives opposed trade with a revolutionary government which refused to acknowledge the debts of its predecessors. Members of the Labour Party favored resumption of trade as a means of alleviating British unemployment through the expansion of exports. Historians who have treated the subject of Anglo Russian trade have supported Labour's view that the development of this trade would have benefited Britain's economy and relieved unemployment.

French Expeditions To The Northwest Coast Of America, 1786-1820, Katherine Rotherham Polich

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Three times between the years 1786 and 1820 the French tried to enter the maritime fur trade of the Northwest Coast. Each time events interfered and the French were unable to follow up their efforts. Also conditions on the coast were different each time and found the French unprepared for them. In 1786 Jean François Galaup de La Pérouse arrived on the Northwest Coast during the course of a four year scientific expedition around the world. During his stay on the Northwest Coast he was to investigate the potentials of the trade in sea otter skins and to seek a …

Soldiers At Play: A History Of Social Life At Fort Union, New Mexico,1851-1891, Dale Frederick Giese

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Although much has been written about the United States Army and its participation in the Indian Wars, relatively little attention has been devoted to the soldier's recreational life at some of the isolated army posts at which they served. Fort Union, New Mexico, one of the largest military posts in the Southwest, had hundreds of soldiers and civilians living together in this garrison. During Fort Union's forty-year period of existence, the soldiers and civilians employed numerous recreational activities to keep themselves occupied during their leisure hours on New Mexico's frontier.

Arthur Seligman And Bronson Cutting: Coalition Government In New Mexico, 1930-1933, Andrea Ammann Parker

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Between 1930 and 1933 the Republican party in New Mexico was rapidly declining, while the Democrats were assuming leadership of the legislative and executive branches of government. During these years of transition the Democratic leader, Governor Arthur Seligman, and United States Senator Bronson Cutting, the most powerful Republican figure in the state, effected an alliance that allowed governmental power to be shared by the two major parties. In Seligman’s two campaigns for the governorship, he had the support of Senator Cutting’s Progressive Republican faction, although the Senator himself never personally endorsed Seligman’s Democratic ticket. During the tenth legislature of 1931, …

Evolution And The Ultimate Concern., Lowell Randall Rogers

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In the twentieth century the evolutionary perspective, which became popular during the nineteenth century larger due to the work of Charles Darwin, has become the only view acceptable to science and the only sound basis for a philosophy of nature acceptable in the modern world. The acceptance of the evolutionary perspective in science has led to a search for the implications of this fact in other areas of life and has opened up a new dimension of thought concerning the destiny of man, his duty in his present existence, and the meaning of his life and the universe. The thought …

The Crisis Of Harry Emerson Fosdick:His Confrontation With Neo-Orthodoxy, Lynn Birleffi Darr

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Every Sunday afternoon from 1928 to 1946, millions of radios in America were tuned to Harry Emerson Fosdick's popular "National Vespers." Through the medium of radio, the written work, and "live" sermons, Harry Emerson Fosdick was considered to be the most influential clergyman in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Eloquent, communicative and prolific, Fosdick inspired several generations of Americans. His published sermons outsold those of any other contemporary American preacher.

Fosdick never pretended to be a theological innovator or a seminal thinker. For that reason, among others, he was willing to acknowledge and consider …