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Abortion Rates in the USA 1992
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Abortion Rates in the USA 1992
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Until the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision (1973) overturned laws against abortion, it was illegal in 30 states, and only permissible in special circumstances in 16 others. It remains a hotly contested issue; public opinion overall tends to be roughly evenly divided, with passionate ‘pro-life’ and ‘pro-choice’ camps.... More
Black Voter Registration 1958 and 1965
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Black Voter Registration 1958 and 1965
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In 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1,000 paratroops from the ‘Screaming Eagles’ 101st Airborne Division and 10,000 National Guard were deployed to enable nine black schoolchildren to attend a previously all-white school. Captured on television, the episode provoked a shocked President Eisenhower – no natural reformer – to promulgate the... More
Canada 1885
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Canada 1885
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It has been said of Canada in the 1880s that ‘Never before or since has Canada reached such a low state. Never has there been so little evidence in its people of national spirit’. The four founding provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick had formed the nucleus... More
Dublin City Centre Late 19th Century
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Dublin City Centre Late 19th Century
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By 1880 Dublin, so long Ireland’s dominant city, was threatened with eclipse by the industrial dynamism of Belfast. The degeneration of its housing stock had been accelerated by the vast influx of the destitute during the Great Famine, who remained in decaying inner city tenements, while the middle classes fled... More
Dublin Civic Survey 1925
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Dublin Civic Survey 1925
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The 1925 Dublin Civic Survey was no ersatz municipal document. It avers ‘Housing in Dublin today… is more than a problem – it is a tragedy. Its conditions cause either a rapid or a slow death. Rapid when the houses fall on their tenants… slow, when they remain standing dens... More
Free Blacks c. 1860
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Free Blacks c. 1860
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By 1860, the American black population was nearing 4 million of which c. 12 per cent were free. The proportion varied widely in those states where slavery was permitted. Delaware, largely through the activities of Quaker and Moravian preachers, had freed 92 per cent of its black population, while the... More
Life Expectancy at Age 60 1996
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Life Expectancy at Age 60 1996
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Before the 19th century, life was overwhelmingly ‘nasty, mean, brutish and short’; life expectancy was rarely above 30 at birth anywhere, and often significantly less through the impact of pestilence, famine and war. The Industrial Revolution, which began in western Europe, ushered in an age of rapidly increasing life expectancy... More
Meadow Lakes Retirement Community 1998
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Meadow Lakes Retirement Community 1998
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The antecedents of the USA’s Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC) can be traced to the mutual aid societies developed by 19th-century immigrants. Many states began to introduce old-age assistance legislation as a response to indigence in the Great Depression, while early forms of CCRCs were pioneered by professional or religious... More
Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831
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Nat Turner was literate, charismatic and highly devout, holding Baptist services for his fellow slaves who dubbed him the ‘Prophet’. Infected by the febrile religiosity, and expectation of the apocalypse, that was sweeping America (both white and black) during the Great Awakening, he began to experience visions. Interpreting a solar... More
Negro League Baseball Teams 1920–50
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Negro League Baseball Teams 1920–50
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Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was the Commissioner of Major League Baseball (1920–44): ‘a wasted man with untidy white hair, an emaciated face in which two burning eyes are set like jewels, parchment-like skin split by a crack for a mouth, the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead’. The judge’s... More
Percentage of Women in Total Workforce 1900
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Percentage of Women in Total Workforce 1900
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According to the Department of Labor, in 1900 women over the age of 16 constituted 18.3 per cent of the US labour force. 1900 was the early industrial era and there was a gradual movement away from agricultural trades into manufacturing. Domestic and personal services were still the dominant employment... More
Significant Plantations in the Antebellum South
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Significant Plantations in the Antebellum South
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The ways in which slave labour was organized were dictated by the requirements of the crop. In the Deep South cotton, which required few specialized skills, was typically cultivated via the gang system, where synchronized tasks were performed under close supervision. The crops of the east coast lowlands, coffee, pimento,... More