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Maturation of US Culture
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The Maturation of
American Culture
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WEB Secession Era Editorials Project [At Furman]
Many online texts, with a a special emphasis on the Civil War and Southern History. Many
texts are taken from newspaper editorials.
- WEB Making
of America [At Michigan]
5000 imprints from 1850-75 on line, but as image files rather than text.
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The Legal Framework of
American Life
- WEB US
Supreme Court Decisions [At Yahoo]
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Ex parte Milligan,
1866 [At USInfo]
The Supreme court insists on the rights of individuals, even during war.
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Morrill Act, 1862
[At USInfo]
Allowed western states to establish land grant college.
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Bradwell v. Illinois,
1873 [At USInfo]
The supreme court agreed that women could be banned from the bar.
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Pendleton Act,
1883 [At USInfo]
Regulated the neutrality of the civil service.
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Muller v. Oregon,
1908 [At USInfo]
Allowed states to create worker protection laws
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Plessy v. Ferguson,
1896 [At USInfo]
Established the legal basis for American apartheid in the South.
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Yick Wo v. Hopkins,
1886 [At USInfo]
Yick Wo v. Hopkins is the first instance of the Court inferring the existence of
discrimination from data about a law's application, a technique that would be used again
in the 1960s to strike down statutes discriminating against African Americans.
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The Gilded Age
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The Emergence of Modern
Politics
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Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887): Memorial to the
Massachusetts Legislature, 1843 [At USInfo]
On social reform of prisons and facilities for the mentally ill.
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Horace Mann (1796-1859): Report No. 12 of the
Massachusetts School Board, 1848 [At USInfo]
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People's Party
Platform, 1896 [At USInfo]
Radical rural/farmers' party. The roots of American "populism"..
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, Pres., 1901-1909): The New Nationalism,
1910 [At USInfo]
The famous speech at Ossowatomie, Kansas, on August 31, 1910, which contains the kernel of
the "Progressive" ideas which would lead to the modern American welfare state.
So a speech outlining modern Aamerican "liberalism" by a Republican.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924, pres. 1913-1921): First Inaugural, 1913
[At USInfo]
Wilson's vision, in contrast to Roosevelt's, is of a small-unit economy presided over by a
government of limited powers. In other words, a speech echoing major themese in modern
American conservatism by a Democratic president.
- Theodore Roosevelt: Political
Assessments in the Coming Campaign, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1892 [At The
Atlantic, subscription required]
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American Thought
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Concord
Hymn, July 4, 1837 [At U Oklahoma]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Self-Reliance, 1841 [At
USInfo]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) The
Transcendentalist, 1842 [At Emerson Central]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): The
Young American, 1844 [At Emerson Central]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Nature;
adresses, and lectures [At Emerson Central]
- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842): On The Elevation
of The Laboring Classes, 1840 [At this Site]
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): Civil Disobedience,
1846 [At USInfo] Very long selections.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): Slavery
in Massachusetts, 1854 [At eserver][Full Text]
- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): On Democracy,
1868 [At this Site]
- Mark Twain: An American's View of Europe from Innocents
Abroad,1869, [At this Site]
- William Graham Sumner (1840-1910): The Challenge of Facts,
pub. 1914 [At this Site]
A prominent American social Darwinist mixes social Darwinism with aspects of a Calvinistic
work ethic, provides Darwinist explantion of the family, and attacks Socialism.
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American Literature
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NOTES: Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the New Additions page.. The date of inception
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overview.
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