Origin of the Pegram Family in the United States and History of the Same during the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 2 presents a history of Rosewood beginning with a brief overview of previous research into the town’s past. Most of the research takes place in response to a statewide conversation in the early and mid-1990s. Growing media attention encouraged Floridians to grapple with the meaning of Rosewood’s destruction in the past and present. The attention encouraged the state legislature to compensate the survivors and descendants of the massacre; that compensation represents the primary example of reparations granted to African Americans in the United States. To better understand the events of 1923, Florida’s state legislature commissioned a group of historians to investigate and write a concise history of the town and its destruction. The resulting report, based on four months of research, remains the authoritative treatment of the 1923 riot. The report, a few articles, a popular book, and a Hollywood movie all contribute to public knowledge and representations of Rosewood. González-Tennant’s overview of Rosewood’s history adds to previous research by offering a comprehensive look at similar events in American history. González-Tennant contextualizes Rosewood within broader social trends beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing until today.

Is Globalisation Yesterday’s News?

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115317000122 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 109-128

Author(s):

A. G. Hopkins

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

United States ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

The United States ◽

Historical Research ◽

Full Potential ◽

The West ◽

History Of ◽

Lively Debate ◽

The Subject

Globalisation is now a fashionable topic of historical research. Books and articles routinely use the term, though often in a loose manner that has yet to realise the full potential of the subject. The question arises as to whether globalisation, as currently applied by historians, is sufficiently robust to resist inevitable changes in historiographical fashion. The fact that globalisation is a process and not a single theory opens the way, not only to over-general applications of the term, but also to rich research possibilities derived in particular from other social sciences. One such prospect, which ought to be at the centre of all historians’ interests, is how to categorise the evolution of the process. This question, which has yet to stimulate the lively debate it needs, is explored here by identifying three successive phases or sequences between the eighteenth century and the present, and joining them to the history of the empires that were their principal agents. These phases, termed proto-globalisation, modern globalisation, and postcolonial globalisation provide the context for reviewing the history of the West, including the United States, and in principle of the wider world too.

Book Review: Vaccines: History, Science, and Issues

Reference & User Services Quarterly ◽

10.5860/rusq.57.4.6723 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 307

Author(s):

Amanda Sprochi

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Side Effects ◽

Action Potential ◽

Mechanism Of Action ◽

The United States ◽

High Profile ◽

History Of ◽

Autism Disorder

Vaccines and vaccination in the United States have become topics of dispute in some circles in the last two decades, since Andrew Wakefield published a high-profile and now thoroughly discredited study in Lancet linking vaccines to autism disorder. Tish Davidson’s book, Vaccines: History, Science, and Issues, takes a look at the history of vaccines and vaccinations, their mechanism of action, potential side effects, and development and use. She also documents the anti-vaccine (anti-vaxxer) movement, which began in the eighteenth century and has found renewed adherents in the present day. Davidson’s research is scientific, meticulous, and dispassionate in its coverage of both vaccine proponents and detractors.

Since the Beginning

Migration for Mission ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190933098.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 13-26

Author(s):

Mary Johnson ◽

Mary L. Gautier ◽

Patricia Wittberg ◽

Thu T. Do

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Latin American ◽

The United States ◽

European Origin ◽

United States Today ◽

Religious Institutes ◽

History Of ◽

The Many ◽

Frequent Accompaniment

This chapter traces Catholic international sisters in the history of the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present time. The chapter discusses the primarily European origin of many sisters and religious institutes in the first three centuries of sisters’ immigration, and the Asian, African, and Latin American origin of international sisters’ migration to the United States today. It describes the invitations from some bishops and priests in the United States to some religious institutes, and the sisters’ frequent accompaniment of co-ethnics in this country. It discusses the many educational and healthcare institutions the sisters built in this country, and the ministries they also conducted.

Reforms Under Czar Alexander I: French and American Influences

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670500037943 ◽

1947 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 47-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

George Vernadsky

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

American Revolution ◽

Separation Of Powers ◽

The United States ◽

Common Source ◽

Philosophical Literature ◽

Profound Influence ◽

History Of ◽

The Revolution

The two great revolutions of the eighteenth century—the American and the French had each in turn and in its own way a profound influence not only on the history of the United States and of France, but directly or indirectly on the history of the whole world.These two powerful currents had a common source in the French ideological movement before the Revolution. The development of American revolutionary thought was of course more closely linked to the English ideology, but there was much contact and cross influence between the English and the French philosophers. Further, the French political and philosophical literature was directly accessible to Americans without intermediary English works. We have only to mention Montesquieu and his principle of the separation of powers which serves as the basis of the Constitution of the United States. Also, the American Revolution influenced in turn political developments in France. One finds the roots of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen not only in France but in America as well.

Collectors and Museums

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858897.013.32 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Scott Manning Stevens

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Material Culture ◽

American Indians ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

The United States ◽

Indigenous Culture ◽

Cultural Centers ◽

The Past ◽

History Of

This chapter examines the history of museums as it relates to American Indians in the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present. The chapter takes into account the often troubling use of the museum to depict indigenous societies as exotic relics of the past, while at the same time alienating artifacts of their material culture from them. In order to better understand the rise of museums and cultural centers created and run by Native peoples in recent decades, it is first necessary to understand both the histories and the practices of non-Indian run museums that demanded this necessary corrective from within indigenous communities. The chapter concludes with three examples of contemporary indigenous culture centers.

Detectives and Forensic Science

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352333.013.25 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Haia Shpayer-Makov

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Forensic Science ◽

The United States ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Second World

This exploratory essay outlines various pivotal trends in the professionalization of police detection in England, France, and the United States from the mid-eighteenth century to the Second World War. Key landmarks in the evolution of the role of the detective from criminal turned paid informant, or from nonspecialist law enforcer, to a professional member of a detective unit are traced. The essay draws upon the history of forensic science to highlight the interface between detection and forensic science and to point toward forensic science methodologies that made significant inroads in the world of police detection, thereby enhancing its professionalization.

E Pluribus Unum

Journal of Applied History ◽

10.1163/25895893-bja10014 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1-2) ◽

pp. 121-133

Author(s):

Matthijs Tieleman

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Political Culture ◽

American Politics ◽

The United States ◽

Critical Problem ◽

History Of ◽

Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽

Society Today

Abstract Polarization is a critical problem confronting American politics and society today. The history of the Netherlands serves as both a warning and an opportunity for the United States in its quest to solve pernicious partisanship. The eighteenth-century Dutch Republic demonstrates how continued division without compromise can easily lead to revolution and civil war. In contrast, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of the Netherlands show how a pluralist political culture created a society of compromise and tolerance. This article suggests several ways in which the United States can start to create a similar society of E pluribus unum and mitigate some of the effects of polarization in contemporary American politics.

Histories of the Modern Prison

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352333.013.35 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Meranze

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

The United States ◽

Local Response ◽

Global Expansion ◽

History Of ◽

Racial Domination ◽

Multiple Uses

This essay examines the history of the prison since late the eighteenth century. Following a discussion of the origins of the reformative prison, the essay analyzes its global expansion as a tool for disciplining populations, expanding imperial control, and establishing national legitimacy. In particular, it emphasizes the dialectic between colonial and national projects and the multiple uses that the prison has come to play in states around the globe. From its origins as a local response to particular issues of crime and disruption, during the nineteenth century the prison became a sign of modernity itself. Its twentieth-century history, in the United States and across the globe, only tightened its relationship with systems of racial domination and the continuing legacy of colonial violence. The prison now marks the collapse of Enlightenment hopes for a more humane system of punishment.

Benjamin Banneker, Pioneer Negro Mathematician

Mathematics Teacher ◽

10.5951/mt.69.2.0155 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 69 (2) ◽

pp. 155-160

Author(s):

T. F. Mulcrone

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Social History ◽

The United States ◽

Scientific Activity ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Scientific Life

In almost every history of the Negro in the United States one can find an account of the incidental contributions of Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) to the social history of Ms race. But no chronicle is readily available of the scientific life of Banneker as a student of mathematics, almanac compiler, surveyor, and astronomer. The object of this article is to provide such an account of the scientific activity of Benjamin Banneker, whom W. Douglas Brown called “the first American Negro to challenge the world by the independent power of his intellect,” and to indicate how close Banneker comes to approximating the composite picture of the mathematician in the United States at the end of the eighteenth century.