each group, ultimately disrupting three tenets of contemporary scholarship: that the heyday of typing--reducing a particular kind of person to caricature--had passed before the Civil War; that modernity had destroyed notions of fixed character; and that only the uneducated persisted in the p...
The Jungle Cruise makeover comes only months after Disney said it would revamp its Splash Mountain ride. The log flume ride is based off Disney's 1946 musical film Song of the South, which is widely viewed as having racist portrayals of former slaves after the Civil War. The re-worked Sp...
While the Know-Nothings vociferously denounced Catholic immigrants within the public sphere as a collective threat to Americans both culturally and politically, they were not averse to the use of physical intimidation as a means to achieve their goals. In the decades before the Civil War, the ...