The loss of untouched and pristine nature began in nineteenth century America in the age growing urbanization and industrialization, yet a few places remained, allowing Americans to discover themselves in nature. An 1854 illustration in Richards’ American Scenery: Illustrated called “Lake in the Adirondacks, New York” revealed that these places did still exist in the nineteenth century. ...
During the nineteenth century, one female author stood out as a voice for women during a time when many were not acknowledged. Margaret Fuller wrote “Woman in the Nineteenth Century” and spoke with a voice for every woman who lived during the nineteenth century. In particular, Fuller had an especially critical view toward marriage. She explained that the idea of marriage “has been inculcated...
The Great Depression provided a hotbed of motivation that led to a dramatic change in the status quo of gender roles. With unemployment at an all-time high, the duties of a housewife were suddenly multiplying both in importance and quantity. This forced women to become more creative and tenacious, bearing the responsibility of relieving the pressures of joblessness and hunger. Housewives were intensely...
Tags: Gender, Education, Integration Co-Ed Dormitories’ in the 1980’s With the interactions with the student body within the college life and the importance it brings to success with programs and events, and organizations. With the separation of the dormitories and the strict expectations it makes the interaction with the student life much harder to succeed and gain other insight. Adding a Co-Ed...
On the night of May 10, 1849 a riot erupted at the Astor Place Theater in New York City. Leading up to the riot, there had been a rivalry between the English actor Edward Macready and the American actor Edwin Forrest. Baker wrote that this rivalry began when Forrest believed that Macready sabotaged his recent tour of England. The nativist trend in the United States at the time did not help Macready's...
"Where Mulberry Street crooks like an elbow within hail of the old depravity of the Five Points, is "the Bend," foul core of New York's slums." These words, written by Jacob A. Riis in his groundbreaking 1890 work, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, describe a desolate corner of the urban decay that characterized New York's Lower East Side in the late 1800s. Riis, a...
In the evening hours of Wednesday, December 16, 1835, smoke billowed above the downtown Manhattan skyline. At the time, no one knew exactly where the sparks had ignited and the fire begun, but by Thursday afternoon, the flames had engulfed approximately seventeen square blocks on and surrounding Wall Street. An article in the magazine The Albion indicated that by Thursday evening between 700 and 1000...
On December 4, 1919, hundreds of New Orleans's high society watched as their social gathering spot was engulfed in flames. A writer at the time, Andre Lafargue, recounted the deep emotion embedded within the French Opera House, and the mourning that took place upon its historic loss to flames. The French Opera House, located on the corner of Bourbon and Toulouse Streets in the French Quarter, served...
All the earth stood silent on December 20, 1803, as the Mississippi territorial governor rode in on the streets of New Orleans. Beautiful women adorned the balconies that hung over the Place d' Armes. Each country, represented by its own amount of officials and military, watched as the France flag descended and the American flag ascended succinctly down the pole, meeting halfway to acknowledge...
Urban infants in the 1840s had only a 50 percent chance of living to the age of five. Progressive reformers believed that high infant mortality was linked to adulterated and infectious milk, a concern that remained even after New York passed regulation laws. On March 25, 1913, the Committee of Women's Organizations of the New York Milk Committee held a meeting to educate mothers living in the tenements...