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President in the gray flannel suit: Dwight D. Eisenhower and postwar American manhood
(2016-05)
In recent years presidential historians and men studies specialists have combined their fields of study to examine how conceptions of male identity have informed, shaped, and altered the American presidency. Dwight Eisenhower ...
South's visible hand: Textile mills and the control of white labor in the antebellum southern Piedmont, 1830-1860
(2016-05)
Throughout the antebellum period, the concept of control was a fundamental cornerstone of white southern society. Plantations exhibited the most lucid example of this control where the master dominated not only slaves but ...
King Hussein and the presidents: Jordan and American relations since 1967
(2016-07)
The following examines the relationship between the United States and Jordan after 1967. It focuses on the leadership of the US starting with the Nixon administration and ending with King Hussein of Jordan's death during ...
Meaning of the right of petition: Northern opinion and the antislavery Gag Rule, 1836-1844
(2016-07)
In the 1830s, a national movement against slavery organized in the United States. One of the actions taken by slavery opponents was to petition Congress, most commonly for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. ...