In this day and age, newspapers rarely print fiction. Of course, there is the occasional magical story written by a third grade class that appears every once a week in the Arts and Entertainment section of the paper, but for the most part, fictional stories of real substance are not published in newspapers anymore. This was not the case in the 1800's. Appearing in The Valley Star each week was...
Many in the South could still taste the bitterness of defeat from the Civil War. The structure of society was changing around them, and many had trouble with the rising stature of blacks in society, even when it came to matters of national security. Raleigh Green, in a June 10, 1898 editorial, expressed his particular aggravation that white southern men were expected to salute African American officers....
In his Baccalaureate address give on June 15, 1898 at South Carolina College in Columbia, George Herbert Sass gave a speech to his fellow graduating classmates early in the morning as the sun rose over the ceremony, which began early to avoid the humid, southern heat. Sass addressed the changing times as he discussed how a person is unable to choose whether an act reflects character or was the result...
1897 was an important year for the educational system of Maryland, and subsequently, the South as a whole. Mayor Hooper of Baltimore, Maryland was becoming upset with the members of the school board. He strongly felt that the board of school commissioners were becoming too political in their decisions and straying from the board's intent to deliver the best quality of education to all public...
The desire to awaken the noble impulses of humanity and to reform society along socioeconomic lines was something that the founders of Fairhope had as specific goals, outlined by the single tax principle. Just like other progressive movements at the time in the South though, the ideals blueprinted by the intellectuals could not be . In January of 1897 nearly all the members of the Fairhope community...
The movement to reform child labor laws identified a new difficulty in the late part of the 1890's. In the year of 1897 citizens of Mobile and their representative Thomas H. Smith presented a series of bills to the Alabama Senate regarding child labor reform. These bills were purported to have come from the Mobile Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. All were shot down in committees....
The woman from Ireland looked around the chaos on Ellis Island visibly upset, as the immigration officials accused her of giving them the wrong name of the person picking her up. Migrations to the United States “did not always occur without problems or disruptions and occasionally the colleen arrived with no one to greet her.”[1] On April 30, 1897, The New York Times published an article...
Bertha Bülow-Wendhausen was pleasantly surprised when she arrived in America in 1897. The women she observed here in America were a welcome change compared to what she was used to in Europe. While in her homeland, women were "mannish" in appearance and unfeminine; the women she found in America were content to be women. She found no discontent in the way they behaved, in the way they dressed, or...
Bertha admired the small children in America. They were very well behaved, but they were too mature for their age. Children this young must not be too reflective or solemn, but playful and carefree. Kindergarten would remedy this and mold children into what they were supposed to be. The children were also very polite and respectful to their elders, a trait, Bertha noted, that was lacking in many...
On May 17, 1898, Teddy's Terrors were preparing for battle. On that day, the Chicago Daily Tribune ran an article detailing the preparations of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's First Volunteer Regiment of Cavalry, formerly known as Teddy's Terrors, which would move out to Cuba later that week. There had been a delay in the organization of a third squadron as two hundred Indian Territory...