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Franco-Russian Relations, 1856-1863
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1863 Virginia: A short story
The question that motivates “1863 Virginia: A short story” is rooted in interracial solidarity and whether it exists outside of a common enemy. During this time in U.S. history, free and enslaved black people; slave-owning and poor white people; and assimilated and resistant native people …
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The Rio Grande Expedition, 1863-1865
In October 1863 the United States Army's Rio Grande Expedition left New Orleans, bound for the Texas coast. Reacting to the recent French occupation of Mexico, President Abraham Lincoln believed that the presence of U.S. troops in Texas would dissuade the French from intervening in the American …
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Danville's Civil War prisons, 1863-1865
… Confederacy's major prison compounds. From late 1863 to 1865, the Danville Prisons held over 7,000 captured Federals. The compound was used as both a permanent place of confinement and a transitory depot. The earliest captives found the prisons ill-prepared. Inadequate food, heat, and medical …
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The Legacy of the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1965
… the legacy of the Gettysburg Address from 1863 to 1965. After an introduction and a chapter setting the stage, each succeeding chapter surveys the meaning of the Gettysburg Address at key moments: the initial reception of the speech in 1863; its status during the semi-centennial in 1913 and …
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The Political Career of Cornelius Cole 1863-1873
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the political endeavors of Cornelius Cole, Representative and Senator for California during the Civil War and the Reconstruction Period. Since Cole's political career was short-lived, a special effort was made to uncover the reasons why he lost the …
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Indian Uprisings in Humboldt County, Nevada 1861-1863
… the first issue of The Humboldt Register, May 2, 1863. The Sacramento Union of Sacramento, California, from 1861 on, occasionally ran letters from correspondents, small articles, and quotations from other newspapers concerning this region. This writer has pieced together for the first time much of …
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Development of School Bands in Illinois: 1863--1930
Newspaper articles, school yearbooks, music periodicals, personal communications, and other documents found in schools, pubic libraries, and other archives throughout Illinois were used as source material for this study. Information includes the histories of individual school bands, the origin and …
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Virginians' Responses to the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1963
By examining Virginia newspapers from the fall of 1863 this paper will bring to light what Civil War-era Southerners thought of the Gettysburg Address. This work is confined to Virginia not because that state is representative of the Confederacy, but because Southern reporting on the Address was …
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Campaigns and Elections in Confederate Texas 1861 and 1863
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The establishment of the national banking system, 1863-1864
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
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Confederate Brig. Gen. B.H. Robertson and the 1863 Gettysburg campaign
Beverly Holcombe Robertson was a military commander around whose Civil War career controversy always seemed to swirl. Robertson was born June 5, 1827, to Dr. William H. and Martha (Holcombe) Robertson at the family plantation, "The Oaks," in Amelia County, Virginia. With the exception of the fact …
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The Politics of Free Banking in the Old Northwest, 1837-1863
<p>There is a great gap in the history of American monetary politics between the years of Jackson’s “Bank War” and the lengthy debate over bonds, Greenbacks, and silver that occupied the energies of the nation after the Civil War. While these years w ere chaotic and produced little constructive …
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La actividad musical en el Teatro del Príncipe Alfonso (1863-1898)
En el Teatro del Príncipe Alfonso de Madrid, de 1863 a 1868 actuaron compañías circenses que representaron funciones gimnásticas y ecuestres. En 1865 J.-B. Arban ofreció por primera vez conciertos sinfónicos en el teatro. A partir de entonces, cada primavera actuó la orquesta la Sociedad de …
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Sowing the Seed: Oberlin Female Missionary Teachers of Southern Blacks, 1863-1875
<p>The American Missionary Association (AMA) proved to be the largest and most enduring of the benevolent societies which sponsored teachers in the South. Local affiliates of the society were organized throughout the East and Midwest to raise funds, gather donations, and enlist teachers. Many of …
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Black Abolitionists and Masculinity in the Age of American Emancipation, 1833-1863
In an effort to fill a lacuna in the historiography of black abolitionists and gender studies, this dissertation examines black abolitionists’ conceptions of masculinity and their efforts to grapple with manhood in a time of great change and transition. The focus of this work are three escaped …
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Freedom and authority in Church and society: Maude Dominica Petre 1863-1942
Maude Petre is a somewhat neglected figure mentioned today chiefly in regard to her association with the Catholic Modernist, George Tyrrell. The aim of the thesis will be to strive to retrieve her from this neglect by showing that she was a significant figure in her own right with a substantial …
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The Cruel Consequences of War: Life in Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1863
… county’s black and white residents from 1861 – 1863. Scholars have been writing community studies since the 1960s, but few have examined the region of northern Virginia. While the “traditional” war in Virginia has been studied extensively, the home front has not received as much focus. “The …
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Elementary School Attendance in Bradford 1863-1903: A Study Using School Log Books.
This thesis examines the issue of elementary school attendance in later nineteenth century Bradford. It seeks to do this by means of a little used source: the school log book. The focus of the study is on the experiences of head teachers who faced a constant struggle to achieve and maintain an …
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Production of D(1863) mesons in 217 Gev/c pi-minus proton interactions
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