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...
George Washington was an important figure in the South in the 1900s, as he himself was a southerner from Virginia. After the Confederacy seceded from the Union and created the Constitution of the confederacy they turned to Washington as a symbol of their patriotism. An image of Washington was put on the seal of the Confederacy and on a postage stamp suggesting that the Confederacy, not the Union,...
The United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded in 1895 in Atlanta, Georgia. Southern women integrated religion with the promotion of the Lost Cause. They often closed letters with, “Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. Lest we forget. Lest we forget'. Monuments constructed under their supervision were mostly of armed Confederate soldiers facing the north, and were placed in public...
People in the United States and around the world began to utilize the newly developed railroad system during the nineteenth century. People shipped numerous items by means of the railroad. Southern natives such as Phoebe Yates-Levy Pember, a native of Savannah, Georgia also utilized the new system. Pember spent the years 1895-1899 traveling around Europe. In 1899 she sent home to Savannah a package...
Was the California fruit market ripe for expansion? Horticulturist, W. G. Fraser spent four weeks in the South during the winter of 1900 testing a new market for Californian oranges. Upon returning to California he reported to the Los Angeles Daily Times, The result of my trip was most satisfactory. I found a very active demand for California fruit... Fraser attributed this demand to the...
The prevalence of homicide in the south increased greatly in the second half of the nineteenth century. Manslaughter, murder, and mutilation took the place of duels in the old south. Violence in Virginia became increasingly commonplace, especially in rural areas. Descriptions of black men on wanted posters reflected racial prejudice in the south.<br /><br />Harrison Thompson was a...
The South was a region characterized by extreme violence following the civil war, much of which resulted from racial tensions. The flagrant racism found throughout the south explains why the majority of murders were committed by white men against black victims. However, many killings of blacks remained unreported as they often went unpunished. All murder cases in which the victim was white were...
The French Canadian fishermen of Belle Isle pull in their catch. The seine net, hauled in by canoes, horsepower, and manpower, is 1,600 feet long and twelve feet deep, full of black bass, muskallonge, whitefish, and other species. All these men care about, however, are the whitefish. Their bounty greatly varies each seine haul; some hold four whitefish, some hold two hundred. They used to not care...
Water is a necessity; however, white southerners knew that indoor plumbing was only a nicety. As the white administrators of the Paris Mountain Water Company drafted new rules of their newly acquired waterworks, they established regulations to prevent or oppress most African Americans in their struggle for survival in the post-Reconstruction era southern United States. For example, as a newly reunited...
In 1861, the Boston Temperance Alliance exclaimed that "alcohol in the living body [was] not a servant or a friend, but a disturber, a foe; in a single word,...a narcotic poison." The idea of prohibition has been around since colonial times, spear-headed by a man named Dr. Benjamin Rush who argued in 1784 that excessive alcohol consumption was harmful to both the human body and mind. These ideas...