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Indian Boarding School History: An Analysis Of Two Letters From The Perris Indian School, Erica Maien Ward

History in the Making

This paper is not meant to be the traditional research paper. It is a brief look into the documents researchers find and analysis while researching on a topic. The documents provide a view into the people and policies of that time period. The two letters that will be analyzed later in this paper are examples of Indian boarding schools’ policies that had direct effect on the lives of the students and their families.1 In the turn of the twentieth century, Indian boarding schools were still operating on the premise of assimilation of the American Indian into the "white culture." Hopefully, …

Memorializing Conflict And Controversy: A Look Into The Kent State Memorials, Heather Johnson

History in the Making

May 4, 1970, marks a day in American history when the protests of the Vietnam War and the government of the United States erupted in violence. It was on this date that Ohio State National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of unarmed student protestors on the campus of Kent State University. In the span of thirteen seconds, nine students were wounded and four lay dead. The shootings sent waves of emotion throughout the country. In the decades following the May 4th shootings, a series of memorials have been created in remembrance of the tragedy. Through the use of oral histories, …

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TRISTAN DE LUNA AND OCHUSE (P ENSACOLA BAY), 1559 Charles W. Arnade
THE FOUNDING OF PENSACOLA - REASONS AND REALITY Albert C. Manucy
SPANISH PENSACOLA, 1700-1763 William B. Griffen
PENSACOLA IN THE BRITISH PERIOD: SUMMARY AND SIGNIFICANCE Cecil Johnson
PENSACOLA DURING THE SECOND SPANISH PERIOD L. N. McAlister
PANTON, LESLIE, AND COMPANY J. A. Brown
ANTE-BELLUM PENSACOLA: 1821-1860 Herbert J. Doherty
PENSACOLA IN THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE Julien C. Yonge
BATTLE OF SANTA ROSA ISLAND J. L. Larkin
PENSACOLA IN RETROSPECT : 1870-1890 Occie Clubbs
RAILROADS OUT OF PENSACOLA, 1833-1883 Charles W. Hildreth
NEWSPAPERS OF PENSACOLA, 1821-1900 H. G. …

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ZANGARA'S ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Nathan D. Shappee
FLORIDA PIONEER Adelaide H. Reed
THE DEMOCRAT Arthur Kennedy
FLORIDA BIBLIOGRAPHY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

• I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE REGARDING THE FLORIDA INDIANS Hale G. Smith
• II. WRITINGS IN FLORIDA HISTORY ON THE PERIOD 1821-1860 Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.
• III. H ISTORICAL WRITING ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Charlton W. Tebeau

BOOK REVIEWS

• KENTUCKY CAVALIERS IN DIXIE James W. Covington
• PARSON CLAPP OF THE STRANGER'S CHURCH OF NEW ORLEANS Charles T. Thrift, Jr.
• THE BAPTIST CHURCH IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, 1776-1845 Weymouth T . Jordan
• LEE'S DISPATCHES T. R. Parker

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POPULATION CHANGE As AN ELEMENT IN THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ST. AUGUSTINE John R. Dunkle
WHAT BECAME OF THE MAN WHO CUT OFF JENKINS’ EAR? Edward W. Lawson
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF FLORIDA GOVERNORS, 1700-1763 John J. TePaske
MARION COUNTY NEWSPAPERS R. N. Dosh
REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR James M. Dancy
BOOK REVIEWS

• Experiencia misionera en la Florida Charles W. Arnade
• The Story of Southwestern Florida J. E. Dovell
• Ante Bellum Alabama Town and Country James D. Glunt
• Lee Chronicle; Studies of the Early Generations of the Lees of Virginia Ryan Beiser
• The South in Northern Eyes, 1831-1861 Clarke Olney

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FLORIDA RECONSTRUCTION IMPEACHMENTS Cortez A. M. Ewing
LIFE AT FORT BROOKE, 1824-1836 James W. Covington
LETTERS FROM THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR John K. Mahon
SOME LETTERS TO HIS PARENTS BY A FLORIDIAN IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY Gilbert Wright
THE FLORIDA SECESSION CONVENTION Ralph A. Wooster
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• Le Conte, WHEN THE WORLD ENDED George R. Bentley
• Tebeau, FLORIDA'S LAST FRONTIER Charles M. Brookfield
• Singletary, NEGRO MILITIA AND RECONSTRUCTION Adam G. Adams
• Rainwater and Hanna, OUR JOURNEY THROUGH FLORIDA; Copeland and Dovell, LA FLORIDA; Patrick, Patrick and Fisackerly, STORY OF FLORIDA Occie Clubbs

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM MARVIN Kevin E. Kearney
THE CESSION OF FLORIDA AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, SECRETARY OF STATE Lester Harris
LETTERS OF A CARPETBAGGER IN FLORIDA, 1866-1869 George E. Osborn
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• DENSMORE, SEMINOLE MUSIC Mary Helm Clarke
• PRICE, THE NEGRO AND SOUTHERN POLITICS George R. Bentley
• COCKRELL, GUNNER WITH STONEWALL T. R. Parker

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BLOCKADE RUNNERS Alice Strickland
THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF AUGUST HENRY MATHERS Franklin A. Doty
CIVIL WAR OPERATIONS IN AND AROUND PENSACOLA Edwin C. Bearrs
BOOK REVIEWS

• Carter, The Territorial Papers of Florida, 1821-1824 Dorothy Dodd
• Maclachlan and Floyd, The Changing South C. W. Tebeau
• Peithmann, The Unconquered Seminole Indians James W. Covington

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