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The Meaning of Freedom Eric Foner
Excerpt from A Short History of Reconstruction by Eric Foner. 1990.
For newly freed slaves, freedom meant more than the absence of slavery. The freedmen’s efforts to order their lives, to determine their own religious practices, family life, and work regimes and their efforts to enter politics all reflected their “desire for independence from white control, for autonomy both as individuals and as members of a community being transformed by by emancipation
From: Davis, Allan F., editor, CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS In American History. Volume 2. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1997.
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Rutherford B. Hayes and Reform Tradition in the Gilded Age David P. Thelen
American quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2
Summer, 1970
The Political Life of the Gilded Age Vincent P. De Santis
The History Teacher
Vol. 1, No. 1
Summer, 1975 pp. 73-106
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The Origins of the First Jim Crow Law
Stanley J. Talmsbee
The Journal of Southern History
Vol. 15, No. 2
May, 1949 pp. 235-247
Plessey v. Ferguson: A Reinterpretation David Bishop
The Journal of Negro History
Vol. 62, April, 1977 pp. 125-133 |
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The Robber Baron Concept in American History
Hal Bridges
The Business History Review
Vol. 32, no. 1
Spring, 1958 pp. 1-13
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Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, 1815-1919 Herbert G. Gutman
American Historical Review June 1973.;
Gutman find bitter conflict as working men and women, rural and artisan backgrounds were forced to modernized–adapt to the new industrial society. Workers resisted, but ensuing conflict was not revolutionary or socialistic. Workers resisted changes forced on them by the demands of expanding industrialism. . .
From: Davis, Allan F., editor, CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS In American History. Volume 2. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1997. |
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Social Darwinism and the Businessman Irvin G. Wyllie
The American Philosophical Society,
Vol. 103, No. 5, Oct. 15, 1959, pp.29-35 |
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