he was referring to the part of the American West that wasn’t yet settled.The point Turner made in his lecture was that the 1890 U.S. census had provided new data about settlement, and those data showed, showed that, well, there was no longer a frontier.This disappearance of the front...
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During the United States' first 100 years as a newly minted country, any able-bodied immigrant was allowed in. They just had to physically get here (though that was often problematic). Today, there are many rules about who can and cannot enter the country. Most immigrants enter by obtaining...
Since there was later an unstable transi-tion from the tsarist to the Soviet regime, we reflect on the need to revise the81Turkestan certainly had some minor industrial enterprises (mainly cotton-cleaning factories,oil-crushing mills and some hydroelectric plants), and these were no doubt over-...
A post office was built in 1869 and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad were laid through the town in 1890, the same year they incorporated. The town briefly got above 1,000 for the 1920 census but dropped below 1,000 for the 1930 count and has stayed there ever since. Talco --...
Alternatively, historical records show us there was a vibrant and vast German-speaking sphere in Midwestern America before World War I. Because Germans took pride in their literature, language, and culture, they put plenty of effort into trying to preserve their language. Also, a lot of them ...
In the census of 1880, the whole Jura contained 24% German-speakers while in some of the southern districts it was over 30%. The first world war revived separatism, but as the Protestant Synod noted with deep suspicion in 1917: 'All members of the separatist committee are Catholic; not a...
‘nature’ prospers. We also know the opposite holds for times when it was colder. There is literally nothing to worry about that anyone can find. I feel the speculation that an increased average global temperature will create additional discomfort for people living in the tropics has no basis...
and manufacturing land in the city. It’s not surprising, really, since the city did give itself over to the industrial gods. Detroit was not only the home of the auto industry, but all the suppliers that made assembly there viable — producing everything from windshields to exhaust pipes....
What is truly impressive is that in 1990—within a decade of the TGV's introduction—there were more people riding trains (of all kinds) in France than there had been in 1930, when the country was much poorer and had no other mass transport to speak of. And while the popu- lation ...