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No Foreign Despots on Southern Soil: The American Party in Alabama and South Carolina, 1850-1857
<p>During the 1850s in the South, the American Party, also known as the Know Nothing Party, rallied southerners culturally and politically around nativism, an anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic ideology. This thesis studies nativism in the Deep South and challenges existing scholarship by Tyler …
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Thomas Swann: political acrobat and entrepreneur
… the B & O, Swann entered politics in 1856 as the Know-Nothing Mayor of Baltimore. From 1856 to 1860 he made numerous improvements, establishing the city's first public police department, fire department, streetcar system, and larger park. With the corning of the Civil War, Swann left the …
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David Gilmour Blythe's Street Urchins and American Nativism
David Gilmour Blythe's street urchin paintings created during the 1850s are disturbing and often grotesque. The image of childhood that he created was quite different from that of his American contemporaries who adapted the romantic notion of the child from eighteenth-century English painters. …
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Millard Fillmore, Anti-Mason to Know-Nothing: a moderate in New York politics, 1826-1856
… totally alienated from his superficially adopted party by the end of his term. So, in reality, Millard Fillmore was the only true and dedicated Whig ever to occupy the position of Chief Executive.</p> <p>Robert J. Rayback’s biography of Fillmore, published in 1959, took into account virtually all …