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Struggle and Suffrage in Southend-on-Sea by Dee Gordon Dee Gordon
epub |eng | 2019-06-27 | Author:Dee Gordon, Dee Gordon [Dee Gordon, Dee Gordon]

Thus, although better housing, a new hospital and more leisure facilities were all projects completed between the wars, not everyone had access to such improvements. However, in times of depression, ...
( Category: Women March 3,2023 )
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood by Corinne T. Field
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Corinne T. Field [Field, Corinne T.]

CHAPTER FIVE: COMPETING MEASURES OF MATURE CITIZENSHIP During Reconstruction, Radical Republicans forever altered the political significance of age twenty-one by pushing for the enfranchisement of all men without regard to ...
( Category: Abolition March 3,2023 )
The Strange History of the American Quadroon by Emily Clark
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Emily Clark [Clark, Emily]

Ingraham followed his quadroon short story with a full-length novel in 1841, The Quadroone; or, St. Michael’s Day. Set in the late 1760s, when the Spanish took control of New ...
( Category: Black & African American March 3,2023 )
South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras by Michael Brem Bonner Fritz Hamer
epub |eng | 2016-09-01 | Author:Michael Brem Bonner, Fritz Hamer [Michael Brem Bonner, Fritz Hamer]

1. McKitrick’s general conclusion has been sustained by a number of later studies, notably Michael Les Benedict’s A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863–1869 (New York: W. W. ...
( Category: Confederacy March 3,2023 )
Troubled Bride by Cynthia Woolf
epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Woolf [Woolf, Cynthia]

Saturdays were supply days. Two of the men could have done it, but Tyler and Olivia always took the buckboard into Golden and picked up supplies. All of their suppliers ...
( Category: Old West March 3,2023 )
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army by S. Emma E. Edmonds
epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:S. Emma E. Edmonds [Edmonds, S. Emma E.]

When the last hours of life are closing around And death’s summons cometh to me; Will God send an angel messenger down? Shall I know the bright spirit as thee? ...
( Category: Civil War March 2,2023 )
The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry by Leigh David Benin
epub |eng | 2019-02-21 | Author:Leigh David Benin [Benin, Leigh David]

COMMUNIST IN NAME AND DEED Progressive Labor students were able to use the Figure Flattery strike as ammunition in the civil war that raged in SDS. Figure Flattery workers may ...
( Category: 1960s March 2,2023 )
Newest Born of Nations by Ann L. Tucker
epub |eng | 2020-06-29 | Author:Ann L. Tucker [Tucker, Ann L.]

For conservative southerners, an international perspective confirmed their broader belief that southern conservatism was superior to the liberalism found among European nationalists and northern abolitionists. While the South was more ...
( Category: Confederacy March 2,2023 )
North Carolina's Revolutionary Founders by Jeff Broadwater Troy L. Kickler
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Jeff Broadwater, Troy L. Kickler [Jeff Broadwater, Troy L. Kickler]

7. The Political Views of Richard Caswell and the Founding of the New Nation Lloyd Johnson Richard Caswell was the first and fifth governor of North Carolina, and he played ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 2,2023 )
The Northern Railroads In The Civil War, 1861-1865 by Thomas Weber
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Thomas Weber [Weber, Thomas]

CHAPTER XI—THE UNITED STATES MILITARY RAILROADS: THE EASTERN THEATER, 1864-1865 “[The railroads’] undulations were so striking that a train moving along it looked in the distance like a fly crawling ...
( Category: Confederacy March 2,2023 )
The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901 by Helen G. Edmonds
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Helen G. Edmonds [Edmonds, Helen G.]

We get the Sheriff, Treasurer and two Commissioners, which will be satisfactory, but we could not under any circumstances agree to support any Negro for the Legislature. I suggest that ...
( Category: South March 2,2023 )
Cocaine by Marc Olden
epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Marc Olden [Olden, Marc]

Chapter VII TODAY WHEN A PIMP shows up at a party in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, or D.C., one thing is certain. The coke will be out in the ...
( Category: 20th Century March 2,2023 )
Slaves for Hire by John J. Zaborney
epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:John J. Zaborney [Zaborney, John J.]

CHAPTER 6 SLAVE HIRING, HIRED SLAVES, AND URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY Because occupations in Virginia’s cities and industries differed from those in agricultural and other settings, slave hiring was often ...
( Category: Antebellum March 2,2023 )
Nothing but the Night by Greg King
epub |eng | | Author:Greg King

* * * IN JUNE 1924 THE ARRESTS of Leopold and Loeb were on the front page of every Chicago newspaper. “When I read that the Franks boy was missing, ...
( Category: 20th Century March 2,2023 )
Sin City North by Holly M. Karibo
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Holly M. Karibo [Karibo, Holly M.]

Hastings Street, the central corridor of Paradise Valley, before and during the urban renewal process. (Courtesy of the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University) Across the river, Canadian municipal ...
( Category: Immigration March 2,2023 )

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