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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Louisiana Purchase"”.
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Blarney in St. Louie: Performing Irishness at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904
… to them was glaringly apparent at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. While natives from many countries were displayed in ethnographic villages, the Irish were represented in the Irish Industrial Exposition concession on the Pike. A group of ninety performers came from …
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Remolding Mexican Identity: The Wax Art of Francisco Vargas in 19th Century New Orleans
… French Quarter. Francisco's artworks represented Louisiana's agriculture at two World's Fairs in New Orleans and Buffalo. Francisco received a contract from Mississippi Commissioner R. H. Henry to produce the 30-foot King Cotton for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase International Exposition in St. …
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"An Ardent Military Spirit": William C. C. Claiborne and the Creation of the Orleans Territorial Militia, 1803-1805
In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase doubled the territory of the fledgling United States. Taking control of and defending the new territory, especially the culturally heterogeneous city of New Orleans occupied much of the administration's time. Most of the burden for establishing the defense policy …
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Investing in Citizenship: Free Men of Color of Color and the case against Citizens Bank ~ Antebellum Louisiana
… in New Orleans history, three decades after the Louisiana Purchase during the American transformation of New Orleans, their case epitomizes the era in which it occurs. In bringing suit, Boisdoré and Goulé attempted to thwart some of those forth coming changes.</p>
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Literary expressions of Creole identity in Alfred Mercier's L'Habitation Saint-Ybars and Johnelle
This dissertation examines nineteenth-century Louisianan author Alfred Mercier’s novels and their roles as emblems of Francophone Creole cultural identity. During the nineteenth century following the Louisiana Purchase and subsequent anglophone influx, the French-speaking Creole population faced a …
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Minor Courts And Communities At The Frontier: The Justice Of The Peace In Early Missouri
… by Missouri's justices of the peace between the Louisiana Purchase and roughly 1875. Its purpose was to investigate the role of township justices’ courts and county courts of commissioners in terms of interactions with local residents; effects of rulings and other court actions on everyday …
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Popular sovereignty, slavery in the territories, and the South, 1785-1860
… of the nineteenth century when settlers in the Louisiana Purchase and the Old Northwest demanded the right to govern their own domestic institutions. This work charts its development beginning with the earliest debates over the extension of slavery in the territories and traces its place in …
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The paths of glory : structure, selection, and leaders
… President, made decisions with regards to the Louisiana Purchase very similar to those that alternative Presidents would have made. Lincoln and Wilson, by contrast, both Unfiltered Presidents, made decisions that were radically different from those that would have been made by alternative …
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Reading the map: geographic space, reading publics, and the shaping of nineteenth-century American identity, 1803-1898
… production of the space “America” between the Louisiana Purchase and the Spanish-American War. At the center of my discussion of these different kinds of texts lies the act of reading itself, which I claim was intimately tied to the more abstract ideological work of imagining different kinds of …