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The Great Crusade: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Campaign of 1912
The year 1912 was an exciting one, and the Taft- Roosevelt feud that it symbolizes is complex and confusing. Allan Nevins, in his Gateway to History, has stated the problem succinctly: "We decide by preliminary survey ...
Indians on the Eastern Shore of Virginia: Evolving Relationships with the English and Powhatan Indians
My work parallels that of historian Helen C. Rountree who closely examined the Eastern Shore Indians in Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500 - 1722; Pocahontas's People; The Powhatan Indians of Virginia; and Eastern Shore ...
What Happens to a Dream Deferred: The School Desegregation Crisis in Cleveland, Ohio and the Rise of Carl Stokes
School desegregation in the North was not as successful as the effort in the South. Civil rights activists in cities like Cleveland, Ohio, attempted to integrate the schools by applying the tactics of the Southern civil ...
Great Britain and the Bagdad Railroad (1888-1914)
In a study such as this, it is quite easy to over-estimate the importance of the Bagdad Railroad. Here the major events of the pre-war era have been mentioned only in the light of the railroad project. Yet when the subject ...
The Frescoes of Fra Angelico in the Chapel of Pope Nicholas V: Visual Persuasion in the Program of Nicholas' Pontificate
Nicholas' words, recorded, document his penchant for proclaiming the eminence of Rome and the primacy of the papacy through visual persuasion. His unprecedented declaration of religious authority on such a grand scale ...
The Military Campaigns of the Russian Civil War of 1917-1925
Throughout the chaos of war and the turmoil of life in Russia during the Civil War the visionaries of the party had kept their goals clear and baserd their plans on their ultimate victory. Now that this military victory ...
Justice John Marshall Harlan and the "Color-Blind Constitution"
Mr. Justice Harlan was the "Great Dissenter" to the complacent attitudes of The Gilded Age. His opinions ran against the attitudes held by his contemporaries: laissez-fair in economics; imperialism in international ...
An Inheritance of Slavery: The Tale of "Jockey" John Robinson, His Slaves, and Washington College
Much of the Washington College slaves' inner lives remain a mystery. The evidence does, of course, illuminate a great deal about the general course of their lives. John Robinson acquired and later bequeathed them to ...
John M. Brooke & the Confederate States Navy
Since the summer of 1861 Brooke had been serving in the Bureau of Ordnance. Finally on March 30, 1863 Brooke was ordered to report to Commander George Minor and relieve him as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrograpby. ...