... Davis Jefferson Sydnor Charles S Black Code Guyton Pearl V Freedmen’s Bureau McLemore Richard Aubrey and Nannie Pitts McLemore Communism and anti communism Tubb J M Bettersworth John K Mississippi State University Burger Nash K New York Times Book Review Welty Eudora Donald David H Eaton...

...This chapter focuses on the growth of the black communities of New York City and Chicago within fifteen years of the outbreak of World War I. Although New York's Afro-American population actually declined throughout much of the nineteenth century, it set out on a path of steady growth just after...

...Chapter 1 investigates the socioeconomic factors that drew Susan Nye to leave her parents' farm in rural New York and teach in the South. This chapter establishes her personal and ideological connections with the Litchfield Female Academy in Connecticut and the revival movements of the Second Great...

... the significance of performance routines and fashion and the impact of the New York City blackout of 1977. Further, it discuss how the term “hip hop” itself became adopted as the name for the scene, something that, surprisingly, previous historians of hip hop have ignored. Caz & Competition Conventions about...

...As Americans created a new political republic in the years after the Revolution, they questioned whether women could be trusted to bear republican responsibilities or whether they were too duplicitous. A set of elaborate dressing tables and dressing chests produced for elite women’s use in New York...

... U S Hughes John O’Reilly John J Sante Luc Tweed William Marcy Alcohol use American Indians Black Joke Engine Company Crockett Davy Ignatiev Noel Jacksonian era Native Americans “Old Mose” cartoon Saxton Alexander Draft Riots during Civil War Metropolitan Fire Department New York City...

... Lee James Lockheed Martin Corporation Republic Aviation Anderson Charles W Democratic Club New York City Police Department NYPD Postal workers Reape Eric Washington Booker T Moses Donald Police brutality Ruffins John Travis Al Turner Bob Cavanagh Edward Julius Reginald Masculinity...

...This chapter chronicles the remergence of the Vulcan Society during the late 1990s and early 2000s and charts how the landmark case, U.S. v. City of New York, came to fruition. In particular, the chapter focuses then Vulcan President Paul Washington and the Vulcan Society’s various...

... around Philadelphia and Canada and New York. In 1850 she returned to Maryland. During the Civil War she worked as a nurse and spy for the Union army in South Carolina and became known as General Tubman. After the war she returned to New York and became involved in the women's suffrage movement. Sarah...

... of the secession vortex. But hard-line Republicans from the Upper North faced intense constituent pressures to “not give an inch.” Democratic Party District of Columbia Electoral College Free Soil Party Fugitive Slave Act Maine New England New Hampshire New York state Other thirteenth amendment Portland...

..., Carnegie Corporation of New York, and its author, Gunnar Myrdal, and a project whose author largely delivered on the funder’s intentions. In the 1920s and 1930s, Carnegie Corporation—both as an institution rooted in Andrew Carnegie’s vision for international peace and under the leadership of President...

... newspapers New York City New York Herald New York Times New York Tribune Press Association of the Confederate States Storey Wilbur F telegraph telegraph lines Adams Henry Cause the Crimean War desertion deserters economy hospitals London England Manassas Va prisoner of war POW camps...

...Chapter 4 describes Headen’s experiences as an early aviator. It probes his decision to seek flying lessons in 1911 at the Aeronautical Society of New York; his relationship with his instructor (François Raiche); and the reception he received as an exhibition pilot in 1912. The chapter notes...

... battle initiated after the newspapers publicized the marriage of a New York “aristocrat” and a maid. The book argues that Leonard Rhinelander's case against his wife made its way through New York's judicial system and became a cause célèbre because the assumptions underlying his lawsuit dovetailed...

...This chapter describes Langdell's legal knowledge and diligence, which led attorneys to recruit him to work on prominent cases in the higher courts of New York State. Langdell also gained a reputation as a shrewd and effective attorney. By 1860 he had already built a flourishing practice...

..., and argumentation as core elements of the secular and religious traditions of Jews in postwar New York City. It discusses four general developments that help explain the notion that dissent and activism were fundamental elements of Judaism and Jewish civilization. It also considers the Jews' child-centered approach...

...In November 1966, New York City voters approved a referendum that defeated the Civilian Complaint Review Board, created by Mayor John Lindsay to hear official charges of police misconduct. Three years before, President John F. Kennedy began receiving reports from Democratic Party operatives...

...The 1960s saw Jews and Catholics in New York City converge in their position on race relations. Both groups began the decade as strong supporters of integration but eventually turned into skeptics of its social value. There was a possibility that the city's Irish, Italian, and Jewish voters might...

... away as Puerto Rico and Germany. Many people sent her copies of a version that appeared as a “Special” to the New York Times. Written by reporter Roy Parker, Jr., the News and Observer article gave the impression that the quote was from an interview he conducted with the newly...

.... Maybe he didn't, but whatever the case, she told Nina, “we gonna get this straight.” When she arrived in New York, Lisa didn't tell Andy she had no return ticket to Switzerland. He thought she was staying three days. On the fifth, she told him she wasn't leaving. Lisa's separation from Nina...