For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African A
During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem “The White Man’s Burden.” While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for i
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In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined for democ
When Winold Reiss won the commission to design and install the immense mosaic murals in the Cincinnati Union Terminal in 1931, he was already a noted artist. An immigrant from Germany, Reiss began his
By 1933, after an initial brush with integration in the late 1920s, all black players had either left or been forced out of the National Football League. The influence of powerful owners and the collu
Juxtaposes male- and female-authored poetry in order to explore the reciprocal influences of dominant and marginal poetic traditions. The author argues that 19th-century critics and poets rebuffed wom
Enlisted to help in dangerous cases of demonic possession, a teenaged exorcist discovers a race of part-demons intent on raising their forefathers to the earth in human form.
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