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Little Steel’S Labor War In Youngstown, Ben J. St. Angelo

Madison Historical Review

During the 1930s, in response to growing labor discontent, the United States Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Championed by President Franklin Roosevelt’s as an equalizing measure in the American workplace, the NLRA received vigorous opposition from powerful leaders in multiple industries. This article examines an outbreak of violence between workers and agents of management at Republic Steel in Youngstown, Ohio during the spring and summer of 1937 when workers attempted to organize—emboldened by new rights granted to them in the NLRA. It demonstrates the life and death consequences that marred labor relations in the United States. Disputes …

A Distinction Without A Difference: Vietnam, Sir Robert Thompson, And The Policing Failures Of Vietnam, Mark J. Rothermel

Madison Historical Review

The scholarship analyzing the failure of the American involvement in Vietnam began even before the war finished. Whether the Orthodox School which considered the war unwinnable or the revisionist which argued there was a path to victory for the Americans, there have been libraries of tomes arguing who or what was to blame for the American defeat. An increased amount of scholarship recently has been written regarding the influence of British officer Sir Robert Thompson and his attempt to advise both the South Vietnamese and American war efforts.

Thompson, who gained fame as one of the key leaders for the …

The Bourgeois Blues: Representations Of Race And Authenticity In The Songs Of Lead Belly, Jonathan Lower

Madison Historical Review

Abstract to come.

Explaining Reproductive Health Disparities: Violence In The “Colorblind” Institution Of Medicine, Chineze Osakwe

Honors Scholar Theses

Medical policies have resulted in violence that has a formal role in regulating the reproductive rights of women of African descent in the United States from the Jim Crow era (circa 1965) to present day (2021), resulting in significantly racialized reproductive health disparities regardless of social or economic influences. This thesis explores why reproductive violence against African-American women persists, regardless of women’s own class and educational background. I have focused on the potential impact of two structural components that I hypothesized contributed to the perpetuation of reproductive violence against Black women and persistent health disparities. The two factors explored in …

All About Flowers : James Vick's Nineteenth-Century Seed Company, Thomas J. Mickey

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

A nineteenth-century entrepreneur’s bold, innovative marketing helped transform flower gardens into one of America’s favorite hobbies.

“There is much that is hard and productive of sorrow in this sin-plagued world of ours; and, had we no flowers, I believe existence would be hard to be borne.” So states a customer’s 1881 letter—one of thousands James Vick regularly received. Vick’s business, selling flower seeds through the mail, wasn’t unique, but it was wildly successful because he understood better than his rivals how to engage customers’ emotions. He sold the love of flowers along with the flower seeds.

Vick was genuinely passionate …

Constructing The Panama Canal: A Brief History, Ian E. Phillips

The Downtown Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal Written and Peer-Reviewed by Mandel Honors College Students at Cleveland State University

Seeking to commemorate the construction of the Panama Canal, an engineering marvel widely considered a contender for the eighth wonder of the world, this article attempts to retell the story of the Canal's construction by synthesizing a narrative centered on the Canal under French and American leadership, worker segregation, and labor conditions at the Isthmus.

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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Director's Meeting, December 2, 1967, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the directors meeting

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the annual meeting; manuscript acquisitions; activities and events

Book Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Short notes about a variety of books

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Gregory and Strickland, Sam Houston With the Cherokees, 1829-1833, by Frank Laumer; Ringold, The Role of the State Legislatures in the Confederacy, by Daisy Parker; Sefton, The United States Army and Reconstruction, 1865-1877, by Phillip S. Paludan; Evans, Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear, by Daniel W. Hollis; Krueger, And Promises to Keep: The Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1938-1948, by Ralph F. de Bedts; Helm, Hurricanes: Weather at its Worst, by Wyatt Blassingame; Plowden, Those Amazing Ringlings and Their Circus, by Marian Murray; Tarrant, James Branch Cabell: The Dream and the Reality, by …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Patrick and Morris, Florida Under Five Flags, by Charlton W. Tebeau; Jahoda, The Other Florida, by Dena Snodgrass; Wickham, St. Augustine Florida, 1565-1965, by Michael V. Gannon; Damkohler, Estero, Florida, 1882: Memoirs of the First Settler, by Durward Long; Lawson, A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Anthony Caruso; Callahan, Flight From the Republic: The Tories of the American Revolution, by Charles L. Mowat; Bertelson, The Lazy South, by Thomas D. Clark

Cross-Florida Barge Canal, 1927-1968, J. Richard Sewell

Florida Historical Quarterly

The early and later history of the Cross-Florida Barge Canal is said to be divided by the enactment of the River and Harbor Act, signed into law January 21, 1927 by President Calvin Coolidge. This act authorized the secretary of war to make a preliminary examination and survey of the “Waterway from Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida, to the Mississippi River,” and it had had the full support of President Harding, Coolidge’s predecessor, who declared himself in favor of the broadest development of the country’s inland waterways. Henry Holland Buckman, who has been called the “father confessor” of the present …

Secession Of Florida From The Union - A Minority Decision?, John F. Reiger

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1860 the majority of white Floridians probably assumed that a victory for Republicanism would put in power those who would oppress the South. With the election of Lincoln, many Floridians believed secession the only alternative to northern domination. Others, however, refused to believe it.

Migration Into Florida Of The Seminoles, 1700-1820, James W. Covington

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Seminole Indians were relatively late arrivals to the Florida peninsula; the Apalachees, Calusas, Timucuans, and smaller tribes had settled the area much earlier. The Seminole migrations into Florida came in three distinct phases: in the period between 1702-1750, they made raids against the Spainards and their Indian allies, and although the Seminoles acquired much knowledge of the Florida terrain, no significant settlements were made. In the period 1750-1812, six or more villages were established in the northern part of Florida, and small parties explored the entire peninsula in search of deer, bear, and other game, and to make contact …

Encounter By The River, Frank Laumer

Florida Historical Quarterly

It was mid-winter 1835 in Florida and the United States Army was gathering its strength at Fort Drane. Until a month ago the place was called “Auld Lang Syne,” a plantation devoted to raising sugar-cane on some 3,000 acres in the center of the Territory. It had gained the status of “fort” by the expedient of erecting a twelve-foot pine-log wall in a rectangle 460 yards in circumference around the main building. For ten years the owner had tended his dual duties as planter and general, but now the hue and cry was raised again and Fort Drane was headquarters …

Rembert Wallace Patrick: A Bibliography, Edward K. Eckert

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following bibliography is an attempt to bring together all of Rembert W. Patrick’s published works in one place convenient to scholars. The list is complete through December 1, 1967. Little attempt has been made to note unpublished works, among which are comments and papers delivered at various historical meetings, including the paper, “The Florida Historical Quarterly,” given at the annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society in St. Augustine, April 13, 1956. It should be noted that Professor Patrick was general editor of the twenty-one volumes in the Floridiana Facsimile & Reprint Series, published by the University of Florida …

Rembert Wallace Patrick, Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the Fall of 1940 a young South Carolinian with a brandnew doctor’s degree in history from the University of North Carolina appeared among the new faculty members at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Rembert Wallace Patrick had begun his long and warm association with Florida, its people, and its history. In the small, north Florida college town the youthful historian energetically devoted himself to his work and soon won the devoted following of students and the affection and respect of his colleagues. Though he was a practical, down-to-earth man, he quickly revealed a dry, often irreverent sense of …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 46, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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