PastTimes is a publication that reports the stories of American history.

In Volume II Issue 5

  • The Tallest Trick in the Book
    Chrysler’s spire tops all
  • Brits Kick Priests Out of New England
    Jesuit missionaries too friendly with the natives, says England
  • Strike!
    “Mill Girls” protest wage decrease
  • The Roving Reporter
    Word on the Street – Texas Wants In
  • Report from Roanoke
    Who are these people?
  • Election Contention
    Congress says “No!” to a Louisiana vote
  • Marvelous Marbles
    A Colonial Game


save today when you subscribe
click here for more information

sources

from Volume II issue 5

Line
  • The Tallest Trick in the Book
  • Breeze, Carla. American Art Deco: Architecture and Regionalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.
  • “ Chrysler Building.” The Great Building Collections. 2006. Artifice Inc., http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Chrysler_Building.html (accessed May 26, 2006).
  • DuPree, Judith. Skyscrapers. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2001.
  • Gray, Christopher. New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan’s Significant Buildings and Landmarks. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
  • Stravitz, David. The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon, Day By Day. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
  • topPriests Forced to Leave New England
  • American Legal History. The Book of the General Lawes and Libertyes Concerning the Inhabitants of the Massachusets (1648; facsimile edition, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929). Professor Thomas D. Russell. Updated March 24, 2006. Denver University, American Legal History Website. http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/alh/docs/lawslibertyes.html (accessed May 30, 2006).
  • Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  • O’Connor, Thomas H. Boston Catholics: A History of the Church and Its People. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.
  • Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settling of North America. New York and London: Viking Penguin, 2001.
  • topStrike!
  • “A Description of Factory Life by an Associationist in 1846.” The Illinois Labor History Society. http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/lowell.html (accessed May 2, 2006).
  • Almira. “The Spirit of Discontent.” From the Lowell Offering, c. 1840. West Chester University. http://courses.wcupa.edu/johnson/Low-offr2.html (accessed May 2, 2006).
  • Avery, John. “Boarding House Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848.” The Illinois Labor History Society. http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/lowell.html (accessed May 2, 2006)
  • Avery, John. “Factory Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848.” The Illinois Labor History Society. http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/lowell.html (accessed May 2, 2006).
  • Dublin, Thomas. Transforming Women’s Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 1994.
  • Dublin, Thomas. “Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills: ‘The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us.’” http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/
    whole_cloth/u2ei/u2materials/dublin.html
    (accessed May 2, 2006).
  • Eisler, Benita, ed. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977.
  • “Letters from Susan, Letter Second [fiction].” From the Lowell Offering, 1844. West Chester University. http://courses.wcupa.edu/johnson/Low-offr4.html (accessed May 2, 2006).
  • “ Massachusetts Investigation into Labor Conditions.” From Massachusetts House Document, March 1845. The Illinois Labor History Society. http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/lowell.html (accessed May 2, 2006).
  • Robinson, Harriet Hanson. Loom and Spindle or Life Among the Early Mill Girls. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1898.
  • “Tales of Factory Life, No. 1.” From the Lowell Offering, 1841. West Chester University. http://courses.wcupa.edu/johnson/Low-offr1.html (accessed May 2, 2006).
  • topTexas wants in; but should Texas become a state?
  • Fehrenbach, T.R.. Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. New York: American Legacy  Press, 1983.   
  • Campbell, Randolph R.. Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Haley, James A.. Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas. New York: Free Press, 2006.
  • topReport from Roanoke: Who are these people?
  • Hariot, Thomas. A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. Monroe: Nocalore Press, 1952.
  • Miller, Lee. Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2000.
  • Porter, Charles W. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Historical Handbook. Washington DC: National Park Service, 1965.
  • Stick, David. Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
  • topFlames! Temperatures rise at the White House
  • Pitch, Anthony S. The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
  • Morris, Richard B. The War of 1812: American History Topic Books. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, 1985.
  • Nardo, Don. The War of 1812: America’s Wars. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1947.
  • topCongress says “no!” to a Louisiana vote
  • Foner, Eric. Freedom’s Lawmaker’s: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.
  • Jenkins, Wilbert L. Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002.
  • “John W. Menard, Publisher and Politician.” The African American Registry. 2005.
    http://aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1606/
    John_W_Menard_publisher_and_politician
    (accessed May 22, 2006).
  • “John Willis Menard.” French Creoles of America. http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleCulture/famouscreoles/johnwillismenard/
    johnwillismenard.htm
    (accessed May 27, 2006).
  • Stone, Spessard. “John Willis Menard.” RootsWeb. 2006. Myfamily.com. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ ~crackerbarrel/Menard.html
    (accessed May 27, 2006).
  • Taylor, Joe Gray. Louisiana Reconstructed, 1863-1877. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974.
Top