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Sam Perl: Mr. Friendship And Mr. Temple Beth-El Of Brownsville, Texas, Harriett Denise Joseph, Sondra Shands Apr 1993

Sam Perl: Mr. Friendship And Mr. Temple Beth-El Of Brownsville, Texas, Harriett Denise Joseph, Sondra Shands

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This article presents a detailed look at an individual Jew's contributions to Brownsville and the adjacent border area. It illustrates the need for more local studies of a biographical nature to add to our knowledge of Jewish Texans. Research into related topics, such as the role of lay rabbis in maintaining Jewish religious life in other small towns in the Southwest and the degree to which Jewish immigrants entered the mainstream of community life in America, is also needed.

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The Social Gospel And Socialism: A Comparison Of The Thought Of Francis Greenwood Peabody, Washington Gladden, And Walter Rauschenbusch, Jacob Dorn Mar 1993

The Social Gospel And Socialism: A Comparison Of The Thought Of Francis Greenwood Peabody, Washington Gladden, And Walter Rauschenbusch, Jacob Dorn

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Signa Mortifera: Death And Prognostication In Early Medieval Monastic Medicine, Frederick S. Paxton Jan 1993

Signa Mortifera: Death And Prognostication In Early Medieval Monastic Medicine, Frederick S. Paxton

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The Strange Career Of Thomas Jefferson: Race And Slavery In American Memory, Edward L. Ayers, Scot A. French Jan 1993

The Strange Career Of Thomas Jefferson: Race And Slavery In American Memory, Edward L. Ayers, Scot A. French

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Jefferson's life has come to symbolize America's struggle with racial inequality, his successes and failures mirroring those of his nation. The quest for a more honest and inclusive rendering of the American past has placed a heavy burden on Jefferson and his slaves. Generation after generation of Americans has sought some kind of moral symmetry at Monticello, some kind of reconciliation between slavery and freedom, black and white, past injustice and present compensation.

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Review Of The Changing Image Of The City: Planning For Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973, Harl A. Dalstrom Jan 1993

Review Of The Changing Image Of The City: Planning For Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973, Harl A. Dalstrom

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The title of this book is a fine indicator of its essential theme, for this is the story of how the prevailing images of Omaha determined the objectives of city planning. From 1945 to 1973, Omaha's economy changed fundamentally, and this reality eventually changed how local decision- makers perceived their community. These new perceptions finally brought a new orientation in planning for the heart of the city.

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Urban Identity And Transitional Politics: The Transformation Of Political Allegiance Inside Amiens Before And After The City's 1594 Capitulation To Henry Iv, Annette S. Finley-Croswhite Jan 1993

Urban Identity And Transitional Politics: The Transformation Of Political Allegiance Inside Amiens Before And After The City's 1594 Capitulation To Henry Iv, Annette S. Finley-Croswhite

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Examines the reasons for the rise and fall of the Catholic League in Amiens, France, between 1588 and 1594. The league was a powerful group of wealthy lawyers, merchants, and churchmen opposed to the king concerned over the loss of urban privileges, regional loyalties, and the presence of the king's clients within the city. In 1594 the city capitulated to Henry IV, marking the beginning of the league's decline.

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Review Of Eyewitness At Wounded Knee By Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul, And John E. Carter, Michael L. Tate Aug 1992

Review Of Eyewitness At Wounded Knee By Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul, And John E. Carter, Michael L. Tate

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In Native American history, no event is more pregnant with symbolism than the confrontation which occurred four days after Christmas in a remote part of western South Dakota. American Indians have since referred to it as the Massacre at Wounded Knee where more than 250 men, women and children were wantonly killed by vengeance-seeking troops of the 7th Cavalry. Other commentators, especially white observers of 1890, called it the Last Battle of the Indian Wars, implying that two armies met in one final conflict to decide the fate of the Northern Plains. Today, most scholars follow the interpretations of Robert …

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The New York-New Jersey Boundary Controversy: John Marshall And The Nullification Crisis, Michael J. Birkner Jul 1992

The New York-New Jersey Boundary Controversy: John Marshall And The Nullification Crisis, Michael J. Birkner

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In 1832 a long-standing boundary dispute between New York and New Jersey complicated the work of Chief Justice John Marshall and President Andrew Jackson. Long reviled by southern states' rights advocates, including the president, Marshall in 1832 faced the prospect of having the Court's decisions ignored by the state of Georgia. Federal authority was further challenged in the fall of 1832, when South Carolina nullified the tariff of 1828, thereby provoking a constitutional crisis. On December 10, 1832, to the amazement of many observers, Jackson issued a proclamation rejecting nullification and secession, and threatening military action if South Carolina did …

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Chicano Education In The Era Of Segregation By Gilbert G. Gonzalez (Review), Robert M. Salmon Jul 1992

Chicano Education In The Era Of Segregation By Gilbert G. Gonzalez (Review), Robert M. Salmon

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This study is a Marxist critique of public education in the the era of de jure segregation. The major focus is on educational adapted to the "special needs" of a linguistically and culturally community--policy that resulted in intelligence testing, tracking, differentiation, vocational education, and segregated schools. political economy, the public school processed the Mexican student of quality control. Gilbert Gonzales focuses on the theoretical methods of this control and holds it up for rigid analysis.

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W.J. Cash, The New South And The Rhetoric Of History, Edward L. Ayers Jan 1992

W.J. Cash, The New South And The Rhetoric Of History, Edward L. Ayers

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Despite the attention devoted to the fiery early chapters of The Mind of the South, where Cash's language and audacity take us by surprise, the heart of the book lies in the New South. Cash wrote above all, I think, to explain why the white Southerners he knew--those in the cotton mill country of the Carolina Piedmont--behaved the way they did. The years after Reconstruction consume two-thirds of Cash's book because those are the years that troubled him, that posed the problems he felt most acutely.

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Homicide And History, Edward L. Ayers Jan 1992

Homicide And History, Edward L. Ayers

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Violence seems more threatening today than in the relatively recent past. For centuries, crime was kept out of sight. The "criminal classes" were segregated from the rest of society. Newspapers, police, and courts paid relatively little attention to crimes among the poor. Today, things are different: television news thrives on scenes of flashing lights, distraught parents, and bloody sidewalks. Police continually patrol parts of town they used to ignore. Modern transportation permits members of the "dangerous classes" to range more widely than before. As a result, the general population is far more aware of violence now than in the past.

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Latins And Greeks In The Eastern Mediterranean After 1204 (Review), Martin Arbagi Jan 1992

Latins And Greeks In The Eastern Mediterranean After 1204 (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204 (edited by Benjamin Arbel, Bernard Hamilton, and David Jacoby).

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Many Voices, Similar Concerns: Traditional Methods Of African-American Political Activity In Norfolk, Virginia, 1865-1875, Michael Hucles Jan 1992

Many Voices, Similar Concerns: Traditional Methods Of African-American Political Activity In Norfolk, Virginia, 1865-1875, Michael Hucles

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African-Americans in postbellum Norfolk, Virginia, as elsewhere, knew that merely gaining freedom through government action--the Confiscation Acts, Emancipation Proclamation, and Thirteenth Amendment--did not guarantee that they would be fairly treated. They therefore attempted to gain control of their lives through a vigorous affirmation of their rights. They began to record their antebellum marriages and normalize family relations, obtain an education, establish a base for economic prosperity, and participate in the political process. Through these actions they hoped to give true meaning to their freedom. Unfortunately, they were not always successful in their attempts.

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Philadelphia All The Time: Sound Of The Quaker City, 1896-1947, Charles Hardy Jan 1992

Philadelphia All The Time: Sound Of The Quaker City, 1896-1947, Charles Hardy

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No abstract provided.

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Steeples And Stacks: Religion And Steel Crisis In Youngstown By Thomas G. Fuechtmann (Review), Jacob Dorn Dec 1991

Steeples And Stacks: Religion And Steel Crisis In Youngstown By Thomas G. Fuechtmann (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book Steeples and Stacks: Religion and Steel Crisis in Youngstown by Thomas G. Fuechtmann.

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"Stay At Home And Live With Integrity": Advice To German Emigrants To The United States From The Journeymen’S Father, Sarah C. Neitzel, Terry K. Cargill Dec 1991

"Stay At Home And Live With Integrity": Advice To German Emigrants To The United States From The Journeymen’S Father, Sarah C. Neitzel, Terry K. Cargill

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In recent decades, American historians have asserted that a broad chasm existed between the rhetoric of equality in Jacksonian America and the actual economic reality that existed. Several years ago, Edward Pessen observed that the so-called "Era of the Common Man" brought no startling social or economic improvements for the common sort of people. More recently, authors like Alan Dawley, Paul E. Johnson, and Sean Wilentz have argued that not only was there no improvement in the conditions for working men, but the universe of options for skilled journeymen was undergoing a radical contraction, which endangered their integrity as an …

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Legacy Of Violence, Edward L. Ayers Oct 1991

Legacy Of Violence, Edward L. Ayers

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Sociologists continue to be vexed by the pathology of urban violence: Why is it so random, so fierce, so easily triggered? One answer may be found in our Southern past.

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The Ohio Company And The Meaning Of Opportunity In The American West 1786-1795, Timothy J. Shannon Sep 1991

The Ohio Company And The Meaning Of Opportunity In The American West 1786-1795, Timothy J. Shannon

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Founded in 1786 by former officers of the Continental Army to promote an orderly expansion of American society westward, the Ohio Company soon succumbed to the desire of many of its investors to make money. The aims of settlement warred with the desire to make a profit through land speculation; eventually the company dissolved, a casualty of its inability to reconcile the varied interests of shareholders and to manage westward development.

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(Review) The Devil At Baptism: Ritual, Theology, And Drama, Frederick S. Paxton Jul 1991

(Review) The Devil At Baptism: Ritual, Theology, And Drama, Frederick S. Paxton

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Reviews the book 'The Devil at Baptism: Ritual, Theology, and Drama,' by Henry Kelly.

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The World The Liberal Capitalists Made (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers Jun 1991

The World The Liberal Capitalists Made (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers

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Review of the book, Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South by James Oakes. New York: Knopf, 1990.

Slavery and Freedom pursues its thesis with dogged energy. "Southerners took their definition of freedom from the liberal capitalist world which produced them and of which they remained a part," Oakes argues, "and this could only mean that southern slavery was defined as the denial of the assumptions of liberal capitalism."

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Review Of Red November, Black November: Culture And Community In The Industrial-Workers Of The World, By S. Salerno, David J. Goldberg Apr 1991

Review Of Red November, Black November: Culture And Community In The Industrial-Workers Of The World, By S. Salerno, David J. Goldberg

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No abstract provided.

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Intimate Colonialism: The Imperial Production Of Reproduction In Uganda, 1907-1925, Carol Summers Jan 1991

Intimate Colonialism: The Imperial Production Of Reproduction In Uganda, 1907-1925, Carol Summers

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British concern over the reproduction of the population and society of Uganda intensified from 1907 through 1924. Institutions and ideologies were developed to cope with an epidemic of STDs, to promote the family as a unit of reproduction, and to reform motherhood. The British colonizers and the African elite of Uganda built a population crisis from a collection of beliefs and data. The perceived severity of this crisis - and the response it evoked - changed over the years. That response began as a straightforward medical attempt to treat the ill. After the World War, though, "social hygiene" became an …

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(Review) Catholic Reform: From Cardinal Ximenes To The Council Of Trent, 1495-1563, Marc R. Forster Jan 1991

(Review) Catholic Reform: From Cardinal Ximenes To The Council Of Trent, 1495-1563, Marc R. Forster

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No abstract provided.

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Reservation Leadership And The Progressive-Traditional Dichotomy: William Wash And The Northern Utes, 1865-1928, Davis Rich Lewis Jan 1991

Reservation Leadership And The Progressive-Traditional Dichotomy: William Wash And The Northern Utes, 1865-1928, Davis Rich Lewis

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In the early twentieth century, Indian Bureau officials noted an increasing incidence of tribal factionalism parallel to changes in Indian reservation leadership. They described this factionalism in terms of a progressive-traditional dichotomy. Modern scholars have unintentionally fallen into this semantic trap. This article explores the complexity of individual motivations and factional politics among the Northern Utes through the life of William Wash and suggests that such cultural middlemen offer a more complete picture of reservation politics.

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Handbuch Der Byzantinistik By Otto Mazal (Review), Martin Arbagi Jan 1991

Handbuch Der Byzantinistik By Otto Mazal (Review), Martin Arbagi

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Review of the book Handbuch der Byzantinistik by Otto Mazal.

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The Struggle For America's Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, And Secularism By Robert Wuthnow (Review), Jacob Dorn Jan 1991

The Struggle For America's Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, And Secularism By Robert Wuthnow (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book The Struggle for America's Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, and Secularism by Robert Wuthnow.

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Whispers In The Golden Silence: Harry F. Byrd, Sr., John F. Kennedy, And Virginia Democrats In The 1960 Presidential Election, James R. Sweeney Jan 1991

Whispers In The Golden Silence: Harry F. Byrd, Sr., John F. Kennedy, And Virginia Democrats In The 1960 Presidential Election, James R. Sweeney

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In the election of 1960, Richard M. Nixon carried Virginia, the third consecutive victory for a Republican ticket in the strongly Democratic state. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr., the conservative Democratic power broker of Virginia, maintained what became known as a "golden silence," failing to endorse John F. Kennedy and privately working to ensure Nixon's victory. Byrd's stance angered many state Democrats, and by 1964 they broke the senator's power over the party, passing a resolution endorsing President Lyndon B. Johnson over Byrd's objections.

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Review Of The Yankton Sioux, Michael L. Tate Jan 1991

Review Of The Yankton Sioux, Michael L. Tate

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Although numerous nonfiction works about American Indians fill juvenile sections of public libraries, most are written by educators who know little about the subtleties of Indian life. The result is a myriad of books that reflect a "Great Chiefs" approach, or worse yet, a type of composite Native American hero distill tribes for the young adult and general reading audience, Frank W. Porter III, Director of Chelsea House Foundation for the Study of American Indians, has initiated a 53-volume series of tribally and topically organized books. The length of each volume is rigidly maintained at 111 pages, and the list …

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Lindbergh Makes The First Nonstop Solo Flight Across The Atlantic Ocean, John Alfred Heitmann Jan 1991

Lindbergh Makes The First Nonstop Solo Flight Across The Atlantic Ocean, John Alfred Heitmann

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In his high-wing monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh became the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, making the trip from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours.

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Burton Introduces Thermal Cracking For Refining Petroleum, John Alfred Heitmann Jan 1991

Burton Introduces Thermal Cracking For Refining Petroleum, John Alfred Heitmann

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Employing high temperatures and pressures, Burton developed a large-scale chemical cracking process, thus pioneering a method that met the need for more fuel.

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