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Date Created2009-05-14
DescriptionAfrican-American sisters Aurora and Doris Alexander of Long Branch, New Jersey were born in 1920 and 1922 respectively. Their family encouraged their daughters to attain educations and pursue...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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AuthorWilmot, Anita
Date Created1985
DescriptionSynopsis of various women in medicine: Edith Blackwell (first woman graduate of US medical school), Clarissa Barton (founder of American Red Cross), Anna Fisher (physician and woman astronaut), Susan...
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AuthorCampbell, Margaret
Date Created1954
DescriptionPeg Campbell attempts to explain the reason behind the lack of American sculpture and sculptors in the nation's earliest days. The Centennial Exposition of 1876 brought about an artistic quickening...
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Date Created2013-11-13
DescriptionJosephine Milano Hahula, granddaughter of Italian immigrants, was born on the farm of her uncle (Milano family) in Somerville, NJ on November 29, 1922. In May of 1923, her immediate family moved to a...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930), 2013-11-13
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AuthorProudfit, John
Date Created1861
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AuthorMcGrath, Patrick T.
Date Created2017
Degree Date2017-10
DescriptionThis project takes as its subject the integration of Catholicism into nineteenth-century American society, politics, and culture. Adopting a cross-regional approach, the dissertation argues that by...
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Date Created
DescriptionPeg Campbell presents an overview of Chinese and Japanese immigration into the United States from a 1930 point of view. She highlights America's need for both of these pools of labor but notes that...
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AuthorWierda, Meagan
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionThis dissertation, which spans the period between the 1820s and the Civil War, uses debates about slavery and citizenship to explore how and to what end African Americans incorporated quantification...
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AuthorWilliams, Harrison A.
Date Issued1968
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Date Created2012-09-19
DescriptionTo celebrate the Civil War's sesquicentennial anniversary and the opening of an exhibit hosted by the Special Collections and University Archives of Rutgers University Libraries, James M. McPherson...