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A Good Prince: King John And Early Tudor Propaganda, Carole Levin
A Good Prince: King John And Early Tudor Propaganda, Carole Levin
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Except for a certain period during the English Reformation--an exception that supplies the topic for the following paragraphs--King John has been despised with near unanimity for centuries. His poor reputation began early: soon after his death the chroniclers recalled him as a young prince habitually plotting against his brother Richard (who forgave him each time with suave contempt), and as an arbitrary king who vexed his own nobles into civil war. They remembered his stamping rages and appalling cruelties, his sloth, his gluttony; and they accused him of lechery so befuddling that once he lay in bed all morning with …
Ethnicity On The Great Plains: Preface & Introduction, Frederick C. Luebke
Ethnicity On The Great Plains: Preface & Introduction, Frederick C. Luebke
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Immigrants from Europe formed a major element in the population that settled the Great Plains in the nineteenth century; their descendants constitute the majority of persons in many parts of the region today. A century ago, as the agricultural frontier moved across central Nebraska onto what is considered the Great Plains, foreignborn persons consistently formed a much larger proportion of the inhabitants on the western edge of settlement than they did in the state as a whole. Some years later the census of 1890 revealed that in North Dakota, for example, 42.7 percent of the population of that newly admitted …
Legal Restrictions On Foreign Languages In The Great Plains States, 1917-1923, Frederick C. Luebke
Legal Restrictions On Foreign Languages In The Great Plains States, 1917-1923, Frederick C. Luebke
Department of History: Faculty Publications
A major effect of World War I on American social history was that it focused attention on the nation's apparent difficulty in assimilating the millions of immigrants and their children who had streamed to the United States during the preceding two decades. The national mood, darkened by fears and resentments of long standing and deepened by systematic wartime propaganda, favored the adoption of stringent laws limiting the use of foreign languages, especially in the schools. During the war itself, restrictions were usually extralegal and often the consequences of intense social pressure recklessly applied. After the war, however, many state legislatures …