Book Review - Borderland Blacks: Two Cities In The Niagara Region During The Final Decades Of Slavery, Susanna Ashton

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Thanksgiving / Giving Thanks, Jonathan Beecher Field

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Book Review: 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina, Maggie Albro

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Freedom Triumphant: Embracing Joyful Freedom But Facing An Uncertain, Perilous Future, Thomas L. Tacker

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The newly freed slaves had almost nothing—no money, no education, and no strong social institutions, including marriage which had often been prohibited, rarely supported by slaveholders. Discrimination was rampant and government was often the worst discriminator. Yet, somehow, they triumphed. They built marriages that were actually slightly more stable than those of white families. The newly free went from virtually zero literacy to at least 50% literacy in a generation. They worked incredibly hard and increased their income about one third faster than white workers. The newly free, anchored in their strong faith, were amazingly forgiving and optimistic. Economics Professor …

Us And The Cold War In Latin America, Thomas Field

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The Cold War in Latin America had marked consequences for the region’s political and economic evolution. From the origins of US fears of Latin American Communism in the early 20th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, regional actors played central roles in the drama. Seeking to maximize economic benefit while maintaining independence with regard to foreign policy, Latin Americans employed an eclectic combination of liberal and anti-imperialist discourses, balancing frequent calls for anti-Communist hemispheric unity with periodic diplomatic entreaties to the Soviet bloc and the nonaligned Third World. Meanwhile, US Cold War policies toward …

A Roundtable For Victoria M. Grieve, Little Cold Warriors: American Childhood In The 1950s, Thomas Field Jr., Julia L. Mickenberg, Lori Clune, Mary Brennan, Donna Alvah, Victoria M. Grieve

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Dr. Thomas Field introduces a roundtable discussion of Victoria M. Grieve's Little Cold Warriors: American Childhood in the 1950s, providing a synopsis of reviewer critiques before the reviewers expand on their views and the author responds.

The Wrecks Of Lake Champlain, Gary C. Kessler

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Despite the dozens of historically significant wrecks in the lake, only nine are open for diving as part of the Lake Champlain Underwater Historic Preserve. For visitors to the area, five of the wrecks are easily accessible from Burlington, with four being in the immediate vicinity of Burlington Bay. This article will focus on these five wrecks.

Jackson Unchained: Reclaiming A Fugitive Landscape, Susanna Ashton, Jonathan Hepworth

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Slaves were allowed three day's holiday at Christmas time, and so it was over Christmas that John Andrew Jackson decided to escape. The first day I devoted to bidding a sad, though silent farewell to my people; for I did not even dare to tell my father or mother that I was going, lest for joy they should tell some one else. Early next morning, I left them playing their "fandango" play. I wept as I looked at them enjoying their innocent pay, and thought it was the last time I should ever see them, for I was determined never …

Oral History, Working Class Culture, And Local, Pauleena M. Macdougall

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Stories of factory closings from many industries throughout the latter part of the twentieth century are common and numerous studies have documented the economic impact of these unfortunate events. In this case study of Brewer, Maine, oral histories with former workers at the primary source of local employment, Eastern Corporation, illuminate the nature of management-worker interactions at the mill. Eastern’s former employee narratives reveal a surprisingly unified perspective regarding the closing of the mill that does not reflect the public narrative put forward by management and business leaders.

Slavery, Imprinted: The Life And Narrative Of William Grimes, Susanna Ashton

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In 1824, in a fury over the injustices of slavery, racism in the North, and exploitation of the workingman, William Grimes wrote the story of his life. The Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (1825) ends with a visceral and violent image of literary sacrifice: Grimes offers to skin himself in order to authorize the national story of the United States:

If it were not for the stripes on my back which were made while I was a slave, I would in my will leave my skin as a legacy to the gover(n)ment, desiring that it might be taken …

Errands Into The Metropolis: New England Dissidents In Revolutionary London, Jonathan Beecher Field

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Errands into the Metropolis offers a dramatic new interpretation of the texts and contexts of early New England literature. Jonathan Beecher Field inverts the familiar paradigm of colonization as an errand into the wilderness to demonstrate, instead, that New England was shaped and re-shaped by a series of return trips to a metropolitan London convulsed with political turmoil. In London, dissidents and their more orthodox antagonists contended for colonial power through competing narratives of their experiences in the New World. Dissidents showed a greater willingness to construct their narratives in terms that were legible to a metropolitan reader than did …

Entitles: Booker T. Washington's Signs Of Play, Susanna Ashton

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Book Review: Considering Why We've Already Been There, Michael Wills

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This document is Dr. Wills review of ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. HUP; F Second Printing, 1997. 580 p ISBN 9780801857485, $28.81

Interview With Susie Marshall, 29 October 1991, Lisa K. Speer

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Struggling For Justice: Church Women United, Oxford, Mississippi 1962-1991, Lisa K. Speer

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circa 1991

Witnesses To A Creation, 27 June 1977, Time Magazine

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News Of Bygone Days, 17 February 1973, Author Unknown

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Race Relations Reporter, 7 February 1972, Race Relations Information Center

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Race Relations Reporter, 15 December 1971, Race Relations Information Center

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Race Relations Reporter, 15 November 1971, Race Relations Information Center

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Southern Journal, November 1971, L. Q. C. Lamar Society

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Race Relations Reporter, 18 October 1971, Race Relations Information Center

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Race Relations Reporter, 4 October 1971, Race Relations Information Center

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Activism And Law Students, 4 October 1971, Steve Bailey

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Race Relations Reporter, 20 September 1971, Race Relations Information Center

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Race Relations Reporter, 7 September 1971, Race Relations Information Center

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Race Relations Reporter, 16 August 1971, Race Relations Information Center

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Mississippi School Districts: Factors In The Disestablishment Of Dual Systems, August 1971, James M. Palmer

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Black Affairs Committee Report, 12 May 1971, Author Unknown

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Race Relations Reporter, 19 April 1971, Race Relations Information Center

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