Episodes Around: 18530101 to 18541231

  1. Marriage & Morality
    date 1851 to 1854map HAMILTON, Ohiotags Marriage, Reciprocity

    What does it mean for a man or a woman to be with their soul mate?  Over the centuries, marriage has separated into different types of relationships between man and wife.  Marriage has strayed from the original idea of matrimony into various forms of devotion.  Historians have noted specific trends in the history of marriage and how people relate to each other, such as Thomas and Mary Gove Nichols...

  2. Primitive Baptist Association Makes Policies to Maintain Purity
    date October 24, 1851 to August 17, 1855map SCOTT, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    In October of 1851, nine Baptist churches in Appalachia came together to form an association. The Stony Creek Primitive Baptist Association began with nine churches: Stony Creek, Copper Creek, Three Forks Powells River, Moccasin Creek, Blue Spring, Red Hill, Tom's Creek, Big Glade and Crane's Nest. By 1854, the association had grown to 11 churches, with Little Stonegap and MC Cluse as the...

  3. Frederick Law Olmsted Journeys Through Texas
    date 1853 to 1854map SABINE, Texastags African-Americans, Slavery

    As the Northern journalist and famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted began his journal through Texas, he wrote, “In entering new precincts, the mind instinctively looks for salient incidents to fix its whereabouts and reduce of define its vague anticipations.' Olmsted's research journey through Texas commissioned by the New York Daily Times (now the New York Times) culminated...