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Walter Rauschenbusch: Selected Writings (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book Walter Rauschenbusch: Selected Writings (edited by Winthrop S. Hudson).

The Gordon C. Eby Diaries, 1911-1913: Chronicle Of A Mennonite Farmer (Book Review), Charles T. Eby

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Book review by Charles T. Eby.

The Gordon C. Eby Diaries, 1911-1913: Chronicle of a Mennonite Farmer. Edited and annotated by James M. Nyce. Toronto: The Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1982. ISBN 9780919045125

The Southern Enigma: Essays On Race, Class, And Folk Culture (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers

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Review of the book, The Southern Enigma: Essays on Race, Class, and Folk Culture, edited by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., and Winfred B. Moore, Jr., Westport,Ct: Greenwood Press, 1983.

The General, The Secretary And The President: An Episode In The Presidential Campaign Of 1828, Michael J. Birkner

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The presidential campaign of 1828 has been widely and understandably characterized as the "dirtiest, coarsest, most vulgar" such contest in American History. Though president John Quincy Adams's strong commitment to active government as a means to national improvement in many spheres of life provided the basis for a serious if contentious exchange of views as he bid for reelection, most scholars agree that the campaign turned less on issues than on the Jacksonians' superior organization and propaganda. [excerpt]

Baptized In Blood: The Religion Of The Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers

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Review of the book, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 by Charles Reagan Wilson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

The Rural Ideal And Agrarian Realities: Arthur E. Holt, And The Vision Of A Decentralized America In The Interwar Years, Jacob H. Dorn

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Liudprand Von Cremona: Eine Studie Zum Ost-Westlichen Kulturgefälle Im Mittelalter By Michael Rentschler (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Liudprand von Cremona: Eine Studie zum Ost-Westlichen Kulturgefälle im Mittelalter by Michael Rentschler.

Review: 'The Rise Of The American Electrochemicals Industry, 1880-1910: Studies In The American Technological Environment', John Alfred Heitmann

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Historians of science and technology have recently recognized that the spectacular advances made during the 1920s in the manufacture of synthetic chemicals can best be understood within the context of industrial and educational developments prior to World War I. In The Rise of the American Electrochemicals Industry, 1880-1910, Martha Moore Trescott contends that the electrochemical industry provided the essential bridge between mechanical and metallurgical knowledge of the nineteenth century and chemical technology of the twentieth century.

Daniel Webster And The Crisis Of The Union, 1850, Michael J. Birkner

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The weather that January evening, 132 years ago, complicated the old man's plans, but failed to keep him at home. It was January 21, 1850, and snow was falling heavily in the nation's capital. This was not a night for casual travel, but Henry Clay, seventy-two years of age and in faltering health, was not venturing from his rooms in Washington for light exercise or socializing. He was heading, alone, several blocks away to the home of Daniel Webster on Louisiana Avenue, and his mission had the most portentous overtones. Clay meant to enlist Webster - his ally, rival, and …

Rum, Romanism, And Virginia Democrats: The Party Leaders And The Campaign Of 1928, James R. Sweeney

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The 1928 presidential election posed problems for Virginia Democrats, who were traditionally Protestant and prohibitionist. New Yorker Al Smith's nomination split Virginia's party, allowing Republican Herbert C. Hoover to win by a healthy majority. Led by a Methodist Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Virginians who opposed Smith, a Roman Catholic, cited his link with Tammany Hall and his views on prohibition legislations as justifications to vote against him. State party leaders Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Louis Joffe, and John Garland Pollard mounted a party loyalty campaign for Smith, but the election's central issue was whether or not a candidate's religion merited …

La Plata, 1890-1893: Boom, Bust And Controversy, Davis Rich Lewis

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La Plata was a small mining town nested in the south end of Cache County that flourished from 1891 until 1893, During its three-year heyday it caught and held the attention of all northern Utah. Today, the ghost town of La Plata reposes in relative obscurity, remembered by only a few, having little historical significance and even less historical evidence of its brief existence. But from the evidence that does exist, mainly in the form of contemporary newspaper accounts, a reconstruction of the town and the social, political, and economic controversies that surrounded its boom and bust is possible.

The Stetson Company And Benevolent Feudalism, Roman A. Cybriwski, Charles A. Hardy Iii

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A Troubled Transition: From President Morgan To President Waugh, Michael J. Birkner

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Dickinson College's twentieth-century journey has been marked primarily, though not entirely, by gains: increases in numbers of students and faculty, advances in the quality of the program offered, and a general broadening of opportunities for those enrolled in this program. Specific advances have been identified with particular presidential administrations, and have been gracefully limned by Charles Coleman Sellers's general history of the college.

For those interested in the academic policies of Dickinson College in this century, one administration stands out for the potential it embodied, but did not realize: the administration, in the early thirties, of Karl Tinsley Waugh. Waugh's …

Northern Business And The Shape Of Southern Progress: The Case Of Tennessee's "Model City", Edward L. Ayers

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State governments, understandably eager to entice needed capital to their region, no longer entertained the earlier progressive ideal of an autonomous South. The perennially-tempting vision of rapid economic growth funded by plentiful Northern capital arose in new, distinctly modern, attire.

Samuel L. Southard And The Origins Of Gibbons V. Ogden, Michael J. Birkner

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On January 12, 1815, the former Federalist governor of New Jersey, Aaron Ogden, wrote a brief letter to a young political antagonist, Samuel L. Southard, requesting Southard's "professional aid in a hearing before the Legislature, which I expect will take place on Tuesday next." Observing that he had the relevant documents organized so that Southard could get quickly acquainted with the facts of the matter at issue, Ogden added that "the cause will be entertaining and interesting, and as to compensation, you will please to name your own sum."

A good deal of history lay behind these remarks, and the …

Journalism And Politics In Jacksonian New Jersey: The Career Of Stacy G. Potts, Michael J. Birkner

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The year was 1831, and the President of the Bank of the United States, Nicholas Biddle, was preparing for a difficult campaign to win the re-charter of his institution. Facing the hostility of Andrew Jackson, and the partisan newspapers that supported him, Biddle was determined to put his own views before the American public. [excerpt]

Revolt In Virginia: Harry Byrd And The 1952 Presidential Election, James R. Sweeney

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When Senator Harry F. Byrd, longtime opponent of the policies of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, decided to support Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Presidency in 1952, he weakened the Democratic Party in Virginia and set off a political revolt in that state that lasted for a quarter century. Based on newspaper accounts and on primary material in the University of Virginia; 40 notes.

Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Gentle Radical By J. Wade Caruthers (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Gentle Radical by J. Wade Caruthers.

The Golden Silence: The Virginia Democratic Party And The Presidential Election Of 1948, James R. Sweeney

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Disturbed by President Harry S. Truman's stand on civil rights, the Democratic Party leadership in Virginia, headed by Senator Harry Flood Byrd, determined to fight Truman's election in 1948. The Byrd organization's strategy was to keep Truman from winning Virginia's electoral votes by releasing the state's electors from the obligation to vote for the national party nominee, but Byrd's opposition managed to mount a last minute pro-Truman movement which carried the state for the President.

Railroads And Urban Rivalries In Antebellum Eastern Virginia, Peter C. Stewart

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Railroad construction provided a focus for the acceleration of economic rivalry between Richmond, Petersburg, and Norfolk from the 1830's through the 1850's. Richmond's place as a political center provided legislative leverage and attracted able promoters and sufficient capital. Richmond outdistanced its rivals handily, with Petersburg gaining little more than Norfolk. The rivalry left an enduring legacy. Based on railroad archives, manuscripts, and newspapers; 60 notes.

Berlin Historians And German Politics, Charles E. Mcclelland

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By the dawn of the twentieth century, German historians, like "the German academic community as a whole, had fallen into the role of a vaguely conservative and decidedly official establishment." The last third of the nineteenth century had seen the triumph of Prussia over the academic world as well as the political communities of the German lands, with the cultural policy and impulses of Berlin deeply influencing the direction of German historiography and political thought. This influence took the form of an accommodation of power and idealism rather than a purge of the universities, which were the undisputed home of …

History In The Service Of Politics: A Reassessment Of G. G. Gervinus, Charles E. Mcclelland

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Gervinus's political and scholarly position in nineteenth-century Germany deserves re-examination. Gervinus was a more complicated figure than some of his recent East German champions allege and a much more interesting scholar than his dismissive contemporaries believed. He was a historian too radical to hold a teaching chair but too popular with his readership to be ignored, and a more and more vociferous Cassandra in an age of increasing accommodation to and optimism about Bismarckian power. Gervinus's life was a passion in the service of democratic liberalism; as a result, he suffered during his life, and his reputation has suffered ever …

Die Darstellung Und Wertung Des Deutschen Bauernkrieges 1525 In Zwei Jahrhunderten, Ernst Breisach

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This dissertation was submitted for the doctorate degree in the department of philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1946. The English translation of the title is: "The Depiction and Interpretation of the German Peasant War of 1525 During Two Centuries."