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...many skeptics clung to the beliefs expressed by Episcopal Reverend John Williams, who wrote that “God meant for women to reign over home, and most good women reject politics because woman suffrage will destroy society.” Eighty-five years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, our society seems to have escaped the ravages once associated with the female vote, and in modern America the suggestion that only men should be allowed to vote would be deemed contrary to the spirit of precious freedom and democracy. Perhaps one hundred years from now, citizens will look...
...what’s more important: the safety of the city’s school children or whether school bus drivers feel ‘spied upon?’” The ensuing two-hundred-word editorial could have been penned by a nineteenth-century robber baron. Also, in case you were wondering: “Guess what happens when courts, not legislators, make laws? There’s a backlash. Duh.” Don’t have...
...complete collection. Tatar’s book includes 46, arranged in the order of the original volume. “I’m trying to capture a historical document,” Tatar says, “to let it unfold as it would for a nineteenth century reader...
...both American history and literature, interracial friendships seem to “occur in some sort of a frontier space, whether in the wilderness, a whaling ship or a river raft in the nineteenth century”—an area outside of mainstream society that allows people to “live subversively,” Stauffer said...
...theses are de rigeur, my tutor and I have been discussing potential thesis topics. Although many of my classmates have submitted thesis-research grant applications in which they use the word “agency” a lot, I have only gotten as far as free-associating about nineteenth-century machine breakers...