Theme: American History
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Yet if you look at Johnson’s many statements in both the black American press and foreign newspapers, a much different picture emerges – one of a very self-aware fighter who understood that others saw his actions in and out of the ring as political (even subversive) in the midst of Jim Crow, Western imperialism, and global white supremacy.Read more
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Jack “Legs” Diamond is little remembered today, but for the last eighteen months of his life he rivaled Al Capone as the most famous gangster in Prohibition Era America. Whereas Capone was famous for being the CEO of the largest criminal enterprise in the U.S., Jack was famous for getting shot, beating the rap and carrying on a highly publicized extra-marital affair with his Ziegfeld showgirl mistress.Read more
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Do strong nations have an interest in writing accurate historical accounts? Read more
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The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary transformation in the writing of early American history. Where historians once assumed the exceptionalism of the new United States kept it hermetically sealed from the outside world, they now believe the early republic existed on the periphery of an Atlantic world. Read more
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When enslaved Americans confronted the intensifying market economy of the nineteenth-century United States, they faced ominous changes and serious challenges. Read more
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“Type of the modern! emblem of motion and power! pulse of the continent!” Walt Whitman sang in praise of the railroad. Read more
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