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U.S. Era of Free Banking

when the bankers there allegedly established free banks in hard-to-reach locations - locations "where the wildcats roamed" (Dwyer,...

Colonial Projects and the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling

such things as "To veil the threat of terror/ And check the show of pride" and "The blame of those ye better/ The hate of those ye...

1834 Bermuda

Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...

Women's Rights Movement and Contributions of the Antislavery Movement

In response to this exclusion, the first ever convention was held to discuss womens rights, and this took place in Seneca Falls, N...

Nineteenth Century Surveyor and Contemporary Map Inventor William Smith

rocks carefully and diligently (University of California/Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology). While examining the rocks, Smith had ...

Nineteenth Century Inventions

Inc., 2003). As an example we note that such inventors of the Middle Ages "could not generalize from a water wheel to the theory o...

Nationalism, Conservatism, and Liberalism During the 19th Century

laws, economic structure and political processes all supported maintaining this hierarchy. During the early part of the 19th cen...

19th Century Developments and the Relevance of Social Darwinism

Darwinism. Old ways were questioned but there was a caveat. Suddenly the mainstream had an excuse for their past and present bruta...

An Article Summary of 'An Old New Immigration Policy'

a history of the country inviting low-paid workers into the country in times of need. During World War I, for instance, workers wh...

Labor and Public Activism of Women

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...

Technological Advancement and Janet Abbate's 'Inventing the Internet

much stayed on one plot of land for much of their lives, passing the land to the children when they died. Then the children grew u...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Society

artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...

Lessons From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Awakening

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

19th Century Trends, Consumerism, and Women's Fashions

worth a great deal of cash and even on the hip hop scene, gold teeth are something to envy. In some way, this is as true today as ...

Science and the Concept of Race

might consider such a statement ludicrous. After all, everyone has grown up with affirmative action, learning about the horrors of...

Nineteenth Century Social Relationships

century - this from a man who actually lived it. In fact, his account puts to rest any romantic notions one might harbor about su...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History of American Public Education

to assure prosperity was to have an informed society (Tyack, 1967). Mann was expressing his dismay at the treatment of children wh...

History and Evolution of Mass Tourism

eliminate tourism in regions but as soon as that is resolved, the travelers return. Mass tourism is far more organized today tha...

Nineteenth Century America and Being White

be. 2. Agricultural economic base and need for labor. 3. Slavery introduced with indentured servants. Taken to the next level in ...

War in the Nineteenth Century

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

America in the Gilded Age by Cashman Reviewed

Cashman (1994) describes the unfolding of the industrial landscape in the years following the end of the Civil War. There were se...

1980s to 1990s Australia Immigration Patterns

it can be said. At first many were being detained, but the question soon became one of finding enough facilities to handle the she...

Social Principles Revealed in Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...

Department Store and its History

other retail considerations. This revolution was not limited to retailing considerations alone, however, but extended all the way...

Historical Accuracy of Hard Times by Charles Dickens

inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...

How the British Empire Justified Colonization

(NZ History Net, 2003). After 1840 five new Zealand company settlements were established, Wellington, Nelson and New Plymouth w...

Analysis of Symbolism in the Short Story 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

Nineteenth Century America's Rapid Urbanization Causes and Effects

a new class of wealthy industrialists (The Library of Congress, nd). A more prosperous middle class also emerged during these deca...