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Racial Expulsion and a Myth of Whiteness: Why Reinhardt Normal College Abandoned the New South and Became a Mountain School
Reinhardt Normal College was founded at the edge of Southern Appalachia in 1883 by New South promoters from the area who saw the school as part of a larger vision of urban, transportation, and industrial development. By 1900, a second generation identified the school as the antidote to cultural backwardness and mountain isolation. Both groups advocated colonization of blacks or presented the school as though it existed in an all-white setting. This emphasis on the “purity” of mountain whiteness affected the structure and intellectual output of the school and contributed to an environment in which racial expulsion actually occurred.
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Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Ohio
This study of nineteenth-century infanticide in Holmes and Ross counties, Ohio, uses criminal proceedings, newspaper accounts, and coroner's inquests to show that rates of infanticide varied across both time and space. In Holmes County, religious, linguistic, and geographical factors combined to make infanticide a relatively uncommon occurrence. Infanticide was more common in Ross County, a county with relatively higher rates of general homicidal violence. Prior to 1830, Ross County residents prosecuted suspected infanticides; but after the Ohio Canal passed through the county in 1830 authorities rarely punished infanticide. In both counties rates of homicide in general and infanticide in particular were influenced by national events such as the Civil War.
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Local Autonomy and Civil War Draft Resistance: Holmes County, Ohio
Many draft resisters during the Civil War acted out of loyalty to their community and hostility to the forces of modernization. The Holmes County, OH, draft rebellion of 1863, known as the Fort Fizzle rebellion, reflects an ideology of localism underlying resistance to Federal authority. Through armed opposition to the national government culminating in violent conflict, residents of Holmes County defied conscription into the Union army.
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Prep School Cowboys: Ranch Schools in the American West
Wheeler reviews Prep School Cowboys: Ranch Schools in the American West by Melissa Bingmann.
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