The murder of the innocents: Foundlings in 19th-century New York City
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There were a large number of destitute women and children following the Civil War, and in 1857 a committee was set up to study the possibility of building a public foundling asylum, and soon there were four foundling asylums in New York, a city that previously had not had a single one. This was largely due to dismantling of the beliefs that equated infant abandonment with illegitimacy and as New York grew, and its dangers both physical and moral increased, the people came to feel that to ignore the wholesale deaths of foundlings was to deserve the title of murderer.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2005
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Lost and found: The imagined geographies of American studies
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There exists a connection between geography and power and the twin projects of exposing geographical fictions and producing new imagined geographies open fresh ways of organizing this power in American Studies and well beyond. As the United States scrambles to secure its spatial supremacy, it becomes necessary to remember that just as geography is integral to power, any reframing of power is an inherently geographic project.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2005
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Celebrating empire on the home front: New York City's welcome-home party for Admiral Dewey
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An analysis is presented on the return of Admiral George Dewey from the Philippines to the US at the turn of the 20th century, after his destruction of the Spanish fleet in the Philippine-American War. Dewey's return symbolized the beginning of an American imperialism, supported by social and political sentiment.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2000
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