Master and Slave: Typical White Southerner, a Modest Farmer, The
The typical white Southerner is not a great planter and slaveholder but a modest farmer. No doubt some non-slaveowning whites resent the planter elite, but overt opposition is rare because of the financial assistance the..
Meeting Ground, The: Anti-Chinese Sentiments
When the Transcontinental Railroad is completed, Chinese laborers settle in cities like San Francisco to work in such industries as shoe- or cigar-making. This causes such deep resentment among white laborers that Chines..
Meeting Ground, The: Chinese Migration, The
Like generations of immigrants before them, the Chinese cross the Pacific looking for a better life than they could hope to find in their homeland. Relatively few arrive in California before the Gold Rush, but after 1848..
Meeting Ground, The: Homestead Act of 1862 Encourages Western Settlement
After the Civil War millions of new settlers crowd into the West from eastern parts of the United States. Most of the new settlers are native born, but over two million are European-born immigrants. The federal governmen..
Meeting Ground, The: Mexican-American Experience, The
Spanish-speaking communities scattered throughout the Southwest are also transformed by the arrival of Anglo-American immigrants. Despite the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo's guarantee of equal citizenship, there is widespr..
Meeting Ground, The: Violence Against Chinese Grows
In order to survive in an unfriendly atmosphere, Chinese immigrants bond together, often living in enclaves referred to as Chinatowns. This protective gesture creates a new round of stereotypes about who they are and wha..
Meeting Ground, The: West's Long History as a Meeting Ground, The
To many 19h century Americans the West is a vast untamed frontier, a place were rugged pioneers are carving out a new social order. In reality the Great Plains of the United States has been a meeting ground for thousands..
Meeting Ground, The: Western Tribes, The
Indian tribes inhabited Western lands long before other groups begin to venture into the territory, some since their ancestors crossed the Bering Straits 12.000-14.000 B.C. Others like the Cherokees and Creeks are forcib..
Meeting at Annapolis
Historian Peter Onuf talks about the meeting at Annapolis, convened to amend the Articles of Confederation. While those efforts failed, because not enough states attended and the agenda was too limited, the eventual resu..
Men, Women and the Union Movement
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris traces the history of the labor movement in the United States, beginning with the collectives of the early 19th century, through the huge unionizing drives of the 1930's.