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"You Feel So Out of Place": Germantown\u27s J. Gordon Baugh and the 1913 Commemoration of the Emancipation Proclamation
Get PDFA fragile album of photographs made in 1913 by an African American resident of the Germantown section of Philadelphia may seem an unlikely addition to a collection of essays on the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet, J. Gordon Baugh Jr.’s A Souvenir of Germantown Issued during the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation at Philadelphia, PA, September 1913 not only offers an illuminating glimpse of African American life in the half century after the Civil War—it explores the memories of emancipation. In ways both commemorative and journalistic, the 1913 souvenir album gives valuable insight into a sector of Germantown’s community frequently left out of its well-documented historical memory—and, one might fairly extrapolate, an indication of blacks’ thinking about the meaning of emancipation in the early twentieth century
"Free Trade and Hucksters\u27 Rights!" Envisioning Economic Democracy in the Early Republic
Get PDFAmid the clinking glasses of nationalist toasts and the smol-dering fireworks of independence celebrations, Americans began to sort through the most pressing political and economic issues facing a young republic. By the late 1780s, the men who held the reins of power in the nation’s new state and federal governments had already over-come steep differences to master seemingly impossible feats. They had crafted a declaration of their own independence so provocative and powerful that it would soon inspire revolutions throughout the Atlantic world. They had waged and won a war against a formidable empire by mustering and arming undisciplined men and corralling enough servants and slaves to support them through battle. And they had drafted and ratified a frame of government that toppled hereditary monarchies and stitched together the disparate elements of their population into a central nation-state. Yet for all their success in designing a new republic, the men who sat around the green-cloaked tables of the national and state legislatures had yet to reach a genuine consensus regarding the shape of their political and economic future. Instead, as the dust of the federal constitution debates settled, they would enter into equally intense intellectual disputes over how far to extend the tenets of democracy and whether to embrace an economic system governed more by trade regulations or the principles of laissez-faire. Out of these negotiations would arise wildly different political and economic visions that competed for supremacy in the era of the early republic
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Get PDFThe Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States; The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America; William and Sarah Biddle, 1633–1711: Planting a Seed of Democracy in America; Massacre of the Conestogas: On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County; John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire; Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire; Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History; Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors; 1812: War and the Passions of Politics; Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages; The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School; Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region, 1880-2000; Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered; The Life of Pennsylvania Governor George M. Leader: Challenging Complacency; Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Pas
Outside In and Inside Out: Civic Activism, Helen Oakes, and the Philadelphia Public Schools, 1960-1989
Get PDFIn January of 1952 the School Executive, a professional journal for school administrators, published a special issue on citizens and schools that called attention to a flurry of citizen involvement with public education in the United States since the end of World War II. Of course, citizen participation in public education was, by then, nothing new. In the nineteenth century, citizens had often concerned themselves with schools, forming school societies, organizing advocacy groups, and joining school boards. Such volunteers were usually educated men of means, but women became involved too. The Civic Club of Philadelphia, for example, brought together many prominent white women who aimed to promote “by education and active cooperation a higher public spirit and better public order.” The club’s agenda included the election of women to school boards and the beautification of public schools. But even as these men and women were reaching out, the professionalization of teaching and the centralization of policy making were gradually changing the relationship between citizens and schools, erecting barriers, both formal and informal, to citizens’ influence
