Episodes Around: 18860222 to 18860223

  1. Queen City Chautauqua Circle
    date 1885 to 1887map PULASKI, Missouritags Arts/Leisure, Education, Politics, Women

    The Queen City Chautauqua Circle was first formed in 1883 for intellectual discussion and learning in Springfield, Missouri. Its female members, like Mrs. O. A. Parish, directed and managed the self-proclaimed C.L.S.C. diligently and passionately until 1887, only to be replaced thereafter by another intellectual group with many of the same members, The Society of Friends Council. Mrs. O. A. Parish,...

  2. Ulysses S. Grant Pens His Memoirs
    date 1885 to 1886map ALLEGANY, New Yorktags Civil War, historical memory

    An inquirer once asked Grant about meeting General Lee at Appomattox: "What were your thoughts, General, in that sublime moment when you knew that at least Lee would surrender, and the heavens of your glory where about to open?" Grant's only answer to that was: "My dirty boots and wearing no sword." General Lee was dressed in a new uniform and sword by his side for the occasion, and Grant was...

  3. The Education of African Americans After the Civil War
    date 1886map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Economy, Education, Health/Death, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    "Our crops are poor on account of too much wet in the summer which prevented us from working with them," John McClure, a resident of Albemarle County, wrote to his aunt and uncle. He went on to explain that "with what little (crops) we have to sell won't bring enough to pay for the expense of raising it." Other such maladies that McClure noted were that the livestock was not selling for a...

  4. Labor Disputes and Modernization in Newberry County, South Carolina
    date February 22, 1886 to February 23, 1886map NEWBERRY, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy

    On the 22 of February, 1886, the Newberry County Club of Farmers met to debate the issue of labor. President R.T.C. Hunter oversaw the meeting as Mr. J.C. S. Brown discussed the necessary control of labor; he laid stress on the fact that no matter the situation, whether it was the tenant, the cropper, or the hiring system, the farmer was conned out of the most profit. As the President called for...