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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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Letter from the editors American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Natalie Zacek, Matthew Mason
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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The sense of the margin American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Susan-Mary Grant
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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Warfare and Logistics along the US-Canadian Border during the War of 1812 American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Timothy Compeau
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early U.S. Republic American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Mike Williams
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Kelly Houston Jones
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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Fugitive Movements: Commemorating the Denmark Vesey Affair and Black Radical Antislavery in the Atlantic World American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Kelly L. Schmidt
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Evan Turiano
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Natalie Yeo
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Rachael L. Pasierowska
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870 American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Alison Clark Efford
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Jared K. Asser
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Jennifer Lynn Gross
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Kathryn B. Mckee
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Michael A. Hill
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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Books Reviewed American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-16
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)
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“Poor, deluded, ignorant masses”: revisiting the poor non-slaveholding whites of the antebellum south American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Harriet Coombs
ABSTRACT The notion of racial unity among poor whites conceals as much as it reveals about white society in the antebellum period. This article examines the extent to which the notion of “whiteness” united white Southern men across racial lines and muted class divisions in this period. Central to the discussion is a reconsideration of poor whites’ connection to slavery as a group of society positioned
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Beyond antislavery and proslavery: a new term, eventualism, and a refined interpretive approach American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Andrew F. Hammann
ABSTRACT For decades, historians of slavery have grappled with an interpretive constraint. Despite a conviction that the past is as complex as the present, we have operated, to a significant degree, on the simplifying premise that historical attitudes toward enslavement were either antislavery or proslavery—in modified form, immediatist/gradualist or perpetualist. These binary frames have undermined
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“They are not surpassed … by an equal number of citizens of any equal country in the world”: squatter society in the American West American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Matthew Hill
ABSTRACT Prior to the passage in 1862 of the Homestead Act, much of the West was settled by squatters—settlers with no legal claim to the land they lived and worked on but who claimed it as their own. They often used democratically elected claims associations to facilitate their expansion into the West, and while they were not directly connected to the U.S. state, also cannot be thought of as completely
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Counselor not savior: Hamilton Fish and foreign policy decision-making during the Grant administration American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Ryan P. Semmes
ABSTRACT This article examines significant diplomatic moments during the Grant administration – the Cuban neutrality proclamation and the Treaty of Washington – and the methods employed by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish to manage diplomacy and to keep the United States out of war with Europe. It argues that Fish was a pragmatic adviser to the President, not a manipulator pushing Grant towards his
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Letter from the editors American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-11-20
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2022)
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Calhoun: American Heretic American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Patrick J. Doyle
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2022)
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America’s Religious Crossroads: Faith and Community in the Emerging Midwest American Nineteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-11-20 K. Elise Leal
Published in American Nineteenth Century History (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2022)