In August 1835, in the midst of a particularly tumultuous year of nationwide unrest and upheaval, Baltimore suffered one of the most violent and destructive riots experienced by any antebellum America
Shalhope (history, University of Oklahoma) surveys the conflicts of the period, showing how colonists who thought they were building a culture comparable to England's found themselves caught up in rev
Shalhope (history, U. of Oklahoma) takes entries from Harwood's (1788- 1839) diaries as starting points to indicate the multiplicity of stories dealing with the social, political, economic, and religi
Whose right to bear arms did the Second Amendment protect? Today the Second Amendment has become one of the most controversial provisions of the American Bill of Rights, but what did the founding gene
