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    Justice lies in the district: A history of the United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1902-1960 

    Zelden, Charles Louis (1991)
    Created in 1902, the United States District Court, Southern District of Texas quickly grew into one of the nation's largest and busiest federal trial courts. Serving the rapidly maturing region of southeast Texas, the Court ...
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    The rise of evangelical religion in South Carolina during the eighteenth century 

    Little, Thomas James (1995)
    Using a developmental model as a heuristic tool for understanding the main contours of socioeconomic and cultural development in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century South Carolina, and following Samuel S. Hill's advice ...
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    The diary of Private Alexander Hobbs, 42nd Massachusetts Regiment: The life of a Union soldier in Texas 

    Murphy, James Vernon (1996)
    Alexander Hobbs's diary records, from a Union perspective, the excitement of enlistment, impressions of southerners--both black and white--the confusion of combat, and the depression and helplessness of a prisoner of war. ...
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    Women in the Texas Populist movement: Their letters to the "Southern Mercury" 

    Barthelme, Marion Knox (1994)
    Many rural Texas women joined the Farmers' Alliance and Populist Party, components of the agrarian reform movement in America in the 1880's and 1890's. Some expressed their interest in the movement by writing letters to ...
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    The world history textbook in secondary education: Religious content and the ideology of progress, 1800-1900 

    Chilton, David L. (1990)
    Recent textbook studies find the human religious heritage curiously absent from public school history textbooks, an absence perhaps explainable through the development of an ideology of progress, lying at the heart of the ...
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    Exploded graces: Providence and the Confederate Israel in evangelical southern sermons, 1861-1865 

    Lee, Ronald Glenn (1990)
    The confidence of Confederate evangelicals in the support of providence inspired southern clergymen to demand the transformation of the independent South into a nineteenth-century covenant nation--a "Confederate Israel." ...
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    Elder John Leland: Evangelical minister and republican rhetorician (Virginia) 

    Kugler, Rosemary (1992)
    Contributing to the movement to separate church and state in revolutionary Virginia, John Leland formed a unique discourse that utiltized the similarities inherent in evangelical religion and republican ideology. Building ...
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    Persistence and irony in the incarceration of women in the Texas Penitentiary, 1907-1910 

    Gregory, Jane Howe (1994)
    Between 1907 and 1910, Progressive reformers' attacks on the convict lease system of the Texas Penitentiary brought sexual misconduct of guards with female prisoners into public view and prompted officials to transfer women ...
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    The Jaybird-Woodpecker War: Reconstruction and redemption in Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869-1889 

    Lovett, Leslie Anne (1994)
    Beginning with the emergence of Fort Bend County, Texas, as an antebellum plantation society, this thesis examines the effects of emancipation and reconstruction within this community. The Jaybird-Woodpecker War, which ...
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    "Right and Ready": The law practice of Nathaniel Hart Davis, 1850--1883 (Texas) 

    Dirck, Brian Richard (1991)
    Historians are unfamiliar with the frontier attorney. We know little of who he represented, what types of cases he litigated and his day-to-day labors. Nathaniel Hart Davis practiced law in Montgomery, Texas from 1850 to ...
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