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Many Excellent People: Power And Privilege In North Carolina 1850-1900 (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers

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Review of the book, Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina 1850-1900 by Paul D. Escott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Religion And Reform In The City: The Re-Thinking Chicago Movement Of The 1930s, Jacob Dorn

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Ministers Of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement In American Civilization, 1889-1920 By Robert M. Crunden (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920 by Robert M. Crunden.

Review Of Phil Sheridan And His Army By Paul Andrew Hutton, Michael L. Tate

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Drawing upon extensive manuscript collections, government documents, and other published materials, Hutton has provided us with the definitive treatment of Sheridan's western command. Going well beyond Carl Coke Rister's outdated and narrowly-focused Border Command: General Phil Sheridan in the West (1944), he has artfully synthesized the course of American Indian and military policies from the 1867-1868 winter campaign along the Washita through the 1874 Red River War and the 1876-1877 Little Big Horn and Yellowstone expeditions, to the conclusion of the 1885-1886 Apache War. Never content to merely rehash familiar materials about narrow battlefield tactics, the author has kept the …

German Intellectual History, Charles E. Mcclelland

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Reflections on the status of the subfield of German intellectual history in the American historical profession and how that status was created over the century of the existence of the American Historical Association.

The Birth Of Jim Crow (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers

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Review of the book, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation by Joel Williamson. New York: Oxford University Press,1984.

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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).

Saving The Waifs: Reformers And Dependent Children, 1890-1917 By Leroy Ashby (Review), Jacob Dorn

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Review of the book Saving the Waifs: Reformers and Dependent Children, 1890-1917 by Leroy Ashby.

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 …

A Countryside Remembrance, Carl C. Wright

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Families in the South Central Texas community known as Adalia, where I grew up before and after the 192os, raised cotton for a livelihood. And with few exceptions they dreamed day when they might escape a hard prairie life in brand Failure to practice crop rotation and other scientific farming drained the soil's fertility. Growing poorer with disheartened tenant farmers in secondhand cars abandoned the country for town or city. Landowners, too, moved away and rented their farms to destitute peasants from Mexico. Before the Great Depression, Adalia's school, once the neighborhood center, disappeared through consolidation. Johnson grass and broomweed …

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.

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 …

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]

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.

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.

Integration Of Mexican-American Heritage Into United States History, Hubert J. Miller

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During the past decade, it has been made clear that educational structures and curricula must become responsive to student needs and aspirations. Many minority groups are calling for development of an educational system which includes the study of ethnic heritages and aspirations. The response has been the inauguration of black, Chicano, and American Indian studies. The growing acceptability of ethnic courses offers hope for future educational innovations in which the study of history will play an integral role. The content of U.S. history should include the many ethnic cultures which have become part of the democratic experience. In this paper, …

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.

Antonio De Mendoza: First Viceroy Of Mexico, Hubert J. Miller

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As Mexico's first viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza's most noteworthy achievement was his laying the basis of colonial government in New Spain which continued, with modifications, for 300 years. Although he was lenient in dealing with the shortcomings of his Indian and Spanish subjects, he took a firm stand in dealing with the rebellious Indians in the Mixton War and the Cortes faction which threatened the Viceregal rule. His primary concern was to keep New Spain for the crown while protecting the Indians from want and inhumanity. Focusing on the institutions he founded and developed, this booklet provides a study of …