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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Reconstruction Era"”.
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A comparative analysis of the experiences of African American students at Eastern Michigan University during the Civil Rights Era and in the 21st century: A historical case study
… qualitative dissertation examined links between Reconstruction and Civil Rights Era educational policies and practices and the impact of Eastern Michigan University’s (EMU) institutional policies and practices on black students. This historical case study delineated the experiences of black EMU …
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Frederick Douglass and the Rochester Community
… with an examination of research done on both the Reconstruction Era and Frederick Douglass, this study examines how Douglass played a crucial role in creating equality in the United States. Choosing to focus on elements other than slavery, there is an extensive look at the impact Douglass had in …
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Policing the boundaries of whiteness : monsters made in the USA
… in American culture that signifies through the Reconstruction era Klansman, the folklore of the Night Doctor, and what I've dubbed the White Monstrous Feminine. My analyses of these monsters depends upon contextual explorations wherein the monster serves as a starting point to understanding the …
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Citizen or Laborer? The Social Purposes of Black Schooling in Reconstruction Mississippi, 1862--1875
… the period commonly referred to as the Reconstruction era. It has a twofold purpose. First and foremost it highlights Mississippi blacks' educational progression within the state's turbulent postbellum political economy. This is inclusive of Mississippi blacks' independent educational …
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The Sand Creek Massacre and the History of Greater Reconstruction in the American West
… U.S. historical narrative, the Civil War & Reconstruction era is a North vs. South story. Nevertheless, the era of western expansion, a central theme throughout the nineteenth century, has no contingent place within this traditional narrative. Meanwhile, the history of the American West and …
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Set A Light In A Dark Place: Teachers Of Freedmen In Florida, 1863-18
As the Civil War closed and Reconstruction began, a small army of teachers arrived in Florida. Under the auspices of northern aid societies, churches, and educational associations, they proposed to educate the newly emancipated slaves, believing that education would prepare African Americans for …
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The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865--1920
… spaces of the New Jersey shore during the Reconstruction era. Moving beyond issues of identity, racial violence, and labor disputes, I show how Jim Crow unfolded and operated in the post-Civil War North by emphasizing the importance of political economy and ideas about public health and …
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Cuerpo, mujer y nación: el Bildungsroman posrevolucionario mexicano
… the masculinizing discourse in post war literature. On the other hand, they are an important tool to observe the circumstances around marginal groups, as well as excluded and ignored communities by the official discourse during the reconstructive post-revolutionary era. Chapter 1 analyzes …
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An Analysis of the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
… tensions present in the South during the post-Reconstruction era. He addressed a culture dominated by the myth of white superiority and black inferiority. Chesnutt's purpose in his fiction is to present a perspective of racial tensions and social issues confronting Southern whites and blacks …
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Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study in Race & Politics in Reconstruction Louisiana
<p>The study of African American Reconstruction leadership has presented a variety of unique challenges for modern historians who struggle to piece together the lives of men, who prior to the Civil War, had little political identity. The scant amounts of primary source data in regard to these …
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An Art of Translation: French Prints and American Art (1848-1876)
… visual culture of the antebellum and Civil War eras: the transatlantic expansion of the nineteenth-century French art publishing industry, and the conceptual shift in the period's literature on reproductive prints from the notion of imitation to that of translation. The production, circulation, …
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From slavery to equal protection: the misinterpretation of the fourteenth amendment and its lasting effects on American society
Written by the Reconstruction Congress, the Fourteenth Amendment was created with the attempts, in some historical interpretations, of providing humane and equal protection rights to newly freed persons. However, other interpretations of the context in the Fourteenth Amendment oppose the goal of …
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Making their own faith : Lutheranism and American culture in the Civil War era.
From 1830 to 1900, the American Lutheran church grew from less than 50,000 members to more than 1,600,000—five times the growth rate of the U.S. population—and became the nation's fourth largest religious denomination. Along with this tremendous growth came dramatic changes in theological and …