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Origins of social history which included how history was presented in ancient Greece (Homer and Thucydides), professional history (from defending consensus to celebrating diversity in history and included people like Marquis de Condorcet, von Ranke, Hofstadter, EP Thompson, and Gerda Lerner)The People's Revolution (revolutionary women--war rage, economic boycotts, on the front lines, raising money, demanding rights and African Americans at war--banned from battle, joining the loyalists, supporting the patriots, black women) and people like Mary Ludwig Hayes, Deborah Sampson, Robert Shurtlett, Sarah Franklin Bache, Abigail Adams and Lord Dumore. Demanding Democracy which included rise of the common man, (limiting voting rights, impact of the west, opposing special privilege) adn tranforming American politics (Andrew Jackson, Election of 1824, mobilizing voters, and common men in office) and also people like the Masons, William Morgan, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Democratic Republicans and National Republicans. Reform which includes the origins of an era (role of religion, war on liquor, abolishing slavery, women's rights, utopian communities) and discusses people like Finney, Lyman Beecher, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Grimke sisters, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, American Temperance Society, "The Liberator", Seneca Falls, and New HarmonyCivil Warriors (Promises of Emancipation--volunteers turned away, freedom as a military strategy, celebrating emancipation, Women at War--tending the wounded, mantaining the home and farms) and people like Jacob Dodson, Simon Cameron, Frederick Douglass, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, Belle Boyd, Women's National Loyal League, and the Emancipation Proclamation. Union Builders including the Antebellum labor protests (factory concerns, trade societies, strikes and political parties) and National unions post-war (Knights of Labor, AFL, and labor radicals) and National Trades Union, Working Man's Party, Terence Powderly, Haymarket Square, Samuel Gompers and Industrial Workers of the World.
PhidippidesKeymasterJessica – yes, that's one of the problems we have here; history isn't always neatly packaged into one time period or region, so sometimes we just use the General History board to put things that span many eras. Otherwise, it's fine to make posts on boards even if it doesn't totally fit….for example, I made a post comparing the economic situation today with the Great Depression on the Great Depression board….it's just an approximation. Otherwise, we do have a space for the topic you brought up about how historians write history – it's the “Historical Theory and Book Reviews” board. I'm sure a number of us would be interested in hearing what you have learned about that.
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