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Lola Montez as a “Western Woman”?
Note: this is the introduction to a short series on Lola Montez. Read the next two articles, “The Showgirl ‘Full of Sin’ or ‘Respectable Theatre’?” and “Lola Montez Denies Conventions in Her Image”....
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Note: this is the second piece in a short series on Lola Montez. The first article, ” Lola Montez as a ‘Western Woman’?” provides an introduction to Lola Montez, and the third article, “Lola Montez...
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Lola Montez Denies Conventions in Her Image
Note: this is the third piece in a short series on Lola Montez. The first article, “Lola Montez as a ‘Western Woman’?” provides an introduction to Lola Montez, and the second article, “The Showgirl...
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“War is Cruelty”
1862 was the Union’s most troublesome year during the Civil War. Putting an end to any remaining anticipation that the War Between the States would resolve quickly, the spring battle at Shiloh was the...
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Baseball and the Civil War
“Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.”2 No sport...
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History 457: Week 6: Indian Reservations to Ghost Dance
February 14, 2017. Plains Warfare, Indian Reservations, and Boarding Schools *Turner, Frederick Jackson, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893) Dawes Act (1887) Luther Standing...
View ArticleHistory 380: Week 6: Baseball & Days of Rest
Required Reading: February 14, 2017. Baseball Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball. 1989; Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. [Note: We will discuss the book during our Thursday class...
View ArticleHistory 457: Week 7: Labor, Landscapes, Preservation, and Destruction
February 21, 2017. Labor, Landscapes, Preservation, and Destruction *Jacoby, Karl, “Ken Burns Gone Wild: Naturalizing the Nation in The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” The Public Historian2...
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History 457: Week 8: Women’s Rights & the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
February 28, 2017. Women’s Rights in the West from Polygamy to The Vote Continue reading Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism,...
View ArticleThe Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: A Digital Primary Source Guide
Far too often, United States history curricula race through the fifty years between the Civil War and Reconstruction on the one end, and the Great Depression and World War II on the other—but the...
View ArticleSynopsis Of The Illinois Black Code Of 1829
Sec. 1. Prohibits any black or mulatto person, not being a citizen of the United States, from coming and residing in this State, until such person shall produce to the County Commissioners’ Court where...
View ArticleOhio Black Code of 1804
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio , That from and after the first day of June next. no black or mulatto person shall be permitted to settle or reside in this state,...
View ArticleExcerpts from Florida State Constitution [Florida’s “Black Codes”] (1865)
ARTICLE I. Declaration of Rights. That the greatest and essential liberty and free government may be recognized and established, we declare: That all freemen when they form a government, have certain...
View ArticleExcerpts From Virginia Black Codes (1866)
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That every person having one-fourth or more of negro blood, shall be deemed a colored person, and every person, not a colored person, having one-fourth or more...
View ArticleExcerpts From Maryland’s Black Codes (1865)
If any free negro intermarry with any white woman, or if any white man shall intermarry with any negro woman, on conviction thereof such negro shall become a slave during life, and such white man or...
View ArticleExcerpts From Tennessee Black Codes (1865)
WHEREAS, The first Article and the first Section of the Declaration of Rights in the Constitution of the State of Tennessee declares: “That all power is inherent in the people, and all free Governments...
View ArticleArkansas Black Codes (February 1867)
Be it ordained, That on and after the ratification of the constitution, no person, save under authority of the military arm of the federal government, shall be permitted to bring within the limits of...
View ArticleConstitution of the United States (1787)
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the...
View ArticleDeclaration of Independence (1776)
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands...
View ArticleArticles of Confederation (1777)
To all to whom these Presents shall come, we, the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did...
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