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From Brazil to Brattle street: the transnational history of emperor Dom Pedro II’s dinner with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Stefan Aguirre Quiroga
Through a transnational and microhistorical approach, this article seeks to interpret the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II’s 1876 visit to Boston, Massachusetts, with a focus on the June 10 dinner be...
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American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Chase H. McCarter
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Letter from the editors American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-05
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Anthony J. Cade II
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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The Papers of the Revolutionary era Pinckney Statesmen Digital Edition and the Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriot Pinckney Horry Digital Edition American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Tim Lockley
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico & Argentina 1860–1880 American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Alys D. Beverton
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Carol Faulkner
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Jared Asser
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Commemorating the old battleground: the celebrations of the Battle of Tippecanoe and 1850s politics American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Andrew Wiley
Through examining commemorations at Tippecanoe, this article contends that the politics of the 1850s overshadowed the political instability in earlier decades. Hoping to use the chaos to their adva...
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The Spartan mother in America: 1865–1900 American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Edward McInnis
This essay shows how newspapers in the postbellum United States invoked the memory of the ancient Spartan woman to express visions of women's place in the emergent American republic that deviated f...
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“The fires of liberty”: American abolitionist perspectives on the Haitian revolution, 1791–1806 American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Robert Swanson
This article explores how American abolitionists reacted to the Haitian Revolution between the start of the Revolution in 1791 till the passage of Congressional legislation banning trade with Haiti...
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Cyrena Stone’s Civil War: the “Miss Abby” diary and the Confederate home front American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Bennett Parten
Cyrena Stone was a Southern Unionist living in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Civil War. While she kept her Unionism hidden, she logged her thoughts in a diary written under the pseudonym “Miss Abby....
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Teaching nineteenth-century American history with music: leveraging the possibilities through technology and Universal Design for Learning American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Laura Lohman
This article explains the value of music for applying the UDL framework to university-level history instruction and highlights practical ways to integrate music in history teaching. It uses content...
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“If you kill him, you have got to kill me first”: examining individual and collective loyalties during the Memphis Massacre (1866) American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Lewis Kimberley
Traditionally, examinations of Civil War era loyalty have focused on higher-level loyalties to the Union or Confederacy, conflating loyalty with Unionism. This article takes the Memphis Massacre (1...
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Music in American nineteenth-century history American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Billy Coleman, J. M. Mancini
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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Letter from the editors American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Natalie Zacek
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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Afterword American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 James A. Davis
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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Le Judas Confedéré: James Longstreet’s surprising alliance with Black politicians in New Orleans American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Elizabeth R. Varon
In a remarkable political about-face, Confederate general James Longstreet embraced Congress’s Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and thereby became a pariah among unreconstructed white Southerners. Longs...
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“Has He Madeira of Fifty Years Standing?”: Gentility, medievalism, masculinity, and the allure of the Virginia Springs in the late antebellum South American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Callum Arthurs
This article begins a critical revision of a historiography that has overestimated themes of honor and race in understanding constructions of elite white masculinity in the antebellum South. Gentil...
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“The master whished to reproduce”: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808–1861 American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Aisha Djelid
This article examines the extent to which enslavers across the antebellum South forced enslaved men and women to reproduce. Using a spectrum of violence as a tool of coercion, enslavers coerced, ca...
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Singers and managers: women and the operatic stage in late nineteenth-century America American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Katherine K. Preston
Most scholars of American history are completely unaware that opera – in particular opera performed in English – was an extraordinarily successful style of popular entertainment in the United State...
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From obscurity to national icon: memorializing Stephen C. Foster in the 1890s American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Christopher Lynch
Although he would come to be seen as the “father of American music,” Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864) was mostly unknown until 1900, when a statue by Giuseppe Moretti was erected in Pittsburgh de...
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We have fed you all 1000 years: nineteenth-century radical song and the rise of North American labor American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Christopher J. Smith
Political song, especially that which fits new words to existing melodies’ semiotic associations, has been used by Americans as an oppositional tool throughout the history of the United States. Act...
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Black women and the cultural performance of music in mid-nineteenth century Natchez American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Candace L. Bailey
Anna and Kate Johnson’s experiences typify that of thousands of women who lived in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century. In this microhistory of Anna and Kate and performativity amon...
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Correction American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Letter from the editors American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Natalie Zacek
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Books Reviewed American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Duncan A. Campbell
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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The Liberty Party, 1840–1848: Antislavery Third-Party Politics in the United States American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 David A. Cowan
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900 by K. Stephen Prince American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Amy Louise Wood
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation After the Freedmen’s Bureau American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Rob Bates
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Lindsay Rae Privette
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Angela M. Riotto
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Katherine Burns
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Robert Cook
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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The Transcendentalists and Their World American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Jonathan Koefoed
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Rachel L. Miller
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Megan Neary
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Kimberly Stahler
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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“John Brown is immortal”: Charles Spurgeon, the American press, and the ordeal of slavery American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Thomas Kidd
The American popularity of the English evangelist Charles Spurgeon was short-circuited by the burgeoning crisis over slavery and secession. Some scholars have noted his antislavery views, but few h...
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“The Great Demoralization”: race, intimacy, and empire in the American West’s anti-Chinese movement, c. 1848–1892 American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Brianna Cheng
This study examines the entanglement of empire and intimacy in the anti-Chinese movement of the late nineteenth-century American West. Situating this particular manifestation of race-making against...
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From Mississippi and Memphis to Mozambique: American emancipation and the evangelical struggles of Benjamin and Henrietta Ousley and Nancy Jones, “ex-slave” missionaries in “Zulu East Africa,” 1850s–1900 American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Benedict Carton
Soon after Emancipation a trio of formerly enslaved preachers relocated to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. Supported by an American mission organization, their outpost named Kambini became a s...
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America’s black temperance movement, 1827–1894: charting a forgotten history American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Sophie Salway
Historians have characterized the nineteenth-century American temperance movement as one induced by white evangelicals eager to safeguard national prosperity. Often framed as a means through which ...
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The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Rebecca J. Fraser
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Manhattan Phoenix: The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Andrew Heath
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Jamie Fenton
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Barbara A. Gannon
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Black Suffrage: Lincoln’s Last Goal American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Xi Wang
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Brian Martin
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Paternalism to Partnership: The Administration of Indian Affairs, 1786–2021 American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Jessica C. Brodt
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Edward P. Green
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Mackenzie Tor
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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The Mambi-Land or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba: A Critical Edition American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Kari Boyd-Weisenberger
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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American Empire in Global History American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Andrew Priest
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Books Reviewed American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-04
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Correction American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-25
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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The Merry affair: etiquette, politics, and diplomacy in the early republic American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Morgan Maloney
ABSTRACT On 2 December 1803, President Thomas Jefferson threw a dinner party at the White House. In violation of diplomatic etiquette, when dinner was called Jefferson offered his hand to Dolley Madison, the wife of the Secretary of State, rather than to Elizabeth Merry, the wife of the newly appointed British minister. The incident sparked a social war. In response to the ensuing controversy, Jefferson
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“Anti-Slavery success to the Juniors!”: organizing juvenile abolitionists American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Michaël Roy
ABSTRACT Antebellum abolitionists saw children and youths as natural allies in the antislavery cause. While significant attention has been devoted to juvenile antislavery literature produced by adults for children, little is known about the juvenile antislavery societies that sprang up in the 1830s. In this essay, I shed light on their formation, membership, and activities. I argue that children and
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Feeling right about the Civil War: the Union’s battle for emotional health American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Susan-Mary Grant
ABSTRACT Civil War combat trauma remains a subject of interest to scholars studying the social and psychological changes that the war wrought upon American society. The focus has largely been on the South, but if we look northwards we find that combat trauma was too often masked by victory. But soldiers cannot singlehandedly delineate the contours of the emotional landscape of the wartime North. By
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Civilized into sleeplessness: a transatlantic study of insomnia at the fin de siècle American Nineteenth Century History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Lydia Baughen
ABSTRACT Determining who was an insomniac at the fin de siècle was more complex than detailing how many hours of sleep were lost. The label was a conduit through which gender, racial, and class-based biases were ratified and produced. This article proposes there are three primary discursive elements to insomnia: the medical, the mass-cultural, and the emblematic. The first two worked together to define