In the years following the Russian Revolution, a bitter civil war was waged between the Bolsheviks, with their Red Army of Workers and Peasants on the one side, and the various groups that constituted the anti-Bolshevik movement on the other. The major anti-Bolshevik force was the White Army, whose leadership consisted of the former officers of the... continued
Houghton County: 1870-1920 (MI) (Images of America)
October 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“Go West, young man . . .” When Horace Greeley made his famous statement in the pages of Harper’s Weekly, he was not referring to the goldfields of the late-1840s California, he was speaking of Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula. In the mid- to late 1840s, Michigan’s copper resources were rediscovered by... continued
Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from
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Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s (Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century) ... continued
The Most Segregated City in America”: City Planning and Civil
October 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“But for Birmingham,” Fred Shuttleworth recalled President John F. Kennedy saying in June 1963 when he invited black leaders to meet with him, “we would not be here today.” Birmingham is well known for its civil rights history, particularly for the violent white-on-black ... continued
Heroes & Ballyhoo: How the Golden Age of the 1920s Transformed
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A handful of star athletes, along with their promoters and journalists, created America’s sports entertainment industry during the 1920s, the Golden Age of American sports. The period had an extraordinary impact, profoundly changing individual sports, establishing the secular religion of sports and sports heroes, and helping bond disparate social... continued
Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor,
October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In Cultivating California, David Vaught shows how fruit and nut growers were neither industrialists nor agrarians. From the very outset, he explains, these “horticulturists” saw themselves as guardians of California’s unique culture–raising crops for market while self-consciously building healthy and prosperous communities. Eve... continued
George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation, 1843-1920
October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A confederate soldier, pioneer merchant, rancher, newspaper publisher, and town builder, George Washington Grayson also served for six decades as a leader of the Creek Nation. His life paralleled the most tumultuous events in Creek Indian and Oklahoma history, from the aftermath of the Trail of Tears through World War I. As a diplomat representing... continued
