On December 30, 1961 The Globe and Mail printed an article about a newspaper article printed by the University of Toronto Varsity regarding criticism of Québec separatism. The co-editor who wrote the piece was accused of French-Canadian nationalism for not growing academically in Quebec, infringing civil liberties, and accusing French-Canadian culture is not with modern times but of the last century....
Following the stock market crash of October and the resulting American economic collapse, Maryland families were left haphazardly arrayed on a financial spectrum starting with “making do” and ending with scrounging. Wives and mothers often managed the day to day expenditures within families and those in the newly reduced middle class adapted and reframed the economic decisions that they made. Women...
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The body of a lynched man, George Armwood of Princess Anne, MD, hung limp and tortured late on October 17th, 1933. An African American man, Armwood, had had some encounter with an elderly, white woman the previous day. Mary Denston had been walking down the road from the post office. She claimed to have been attacked. Such accusations...
The American Temperance Society was founded in 1826, and the movement gained momentum after the Civil War. During the late 19th century, women's organizations took on temperance as a domestic issue, using it as one of the many reform efforts that justified their activism outside the home. When Progressives took up the cause in the early 20th century, partly out of anit-immigrant sentiment and partly...
In New England at the turn of the twentieth century women took pen to paper to address the struggles among women in the fight for equality. The Beverly Beacon was the first all women published newspaper. Emerging in the early 1900s, it expressed women's opinions about social, economic, and political aspects of life in the rural New England town of Beverly Massachusetts. The women writers of...