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Chapter 12

Roger G. Kennedy

in Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character

As soon as it became known on the streets of New York that Alexander Hamilton had been killed by Aaron Burr in their duel, the latter's political enemies raised a great clamor. Leading the pious pack ... More

As soon as it became known on the streets of New York that Alexander Hamilton had been killed by Aaron Burr in their duel, the latter's political enemies raised a great clamor. Leading the pious pack were the Clintons, with some of the Livingstons close behind, professing to be appalled at dueling and suddenly full of admiration for the fallen hero. Though there was much noise from preachers and the minions of the Clintons, Thomas Jefferson did not quickly show his hand, and the dueling gentry south and west of New England were slow to execrate Burr for dueling. The Federalists among them felt the loss of Hamilton, but they did not blame Burr for the manner of his death. Depressed, Burr decided to retreat southward. Along the way, he met Commodore and Mrs. Thomas Truxton, US Attorney (later Secretary of the Treasury) Alexander Dallas, perhaps General Victor Marie Moreau, and finally Clement Biddle and Nicholas Biddle.Less

Epilogue: Hodge’s Legacy

Paul C. Gutjahr

in Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy

The Epilogue examines Hodge’s theological legacy after his death. Hodge may be a largely forgotten figure, but his thinking has had a wide influence on American Protestantism over the past century. ... More

The Epilogue examines Hodge’s theological legacy after his death. Hodge may be a largely forgotten figure, but his thinking has had a wide influence on American Protestantism over the past century. His thinking on the inspiration of Scripture, as well as his commitment to Augustinian Calvinism and Scottish Common Sense Realism has had a profound impact on American Fundamentalism and American Evangelicalism.Less

Introduction

Sean P. Cunningham

in Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right

This book is all about political change as it evolved in one of the nation's largest and most important states during the tumultuous seventeen-year period between John F. Kennedy's assassination in ... More

This book is all about political change as it evolved in one of the nation's largest and most important states during the tumultuous seventeen-year period between John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas and Ronald Reagan's ascension to the presidency in 1980. A simplistic analysis of this transformation, based in large part on the perception that Texas has always been a conservative place, might suggest that—as Ronald Reagan, the preeminent icon of modern conservatism, once similarly quipped—Texas did not leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left Texas. Yet the political changes that gripped Texas during the last decades of the twentieth century resulted from a far more complex mélange.Less

A Question Of Definition: Traditional and Popular Music

Britta Sweers

in Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music

A hybrid revival genre like electric folk illustrates the difficulty of a strict separation of art, folk, and popular music. This is also corroborated by a deeper analysis of the relationship between ... More

A hybrid revival genre like electric folk illustrates the difficulty of a strict separation of art, folk, and popular music. This is also corroborated by a deeper analysis of the relationship between electric folk and traditional English music. This chapter starts out with a picture of traditional music as depicted by the collectors of the First Revival, Cecil Sharp in particular, whose definition was also adapted by the International Folk Music Council in 1954. Issues discussed here include: the ideal of a “pure” English folk music tradition, the separation of traditional music from popular/commercial music, the disappearance of the tradition, exclusiveness of oral transmission, the ideal of unaccompanied singing, editorial changes and notational aspects. Discussing several modern controversial perspectives on the relationship of traditional and popular music, including Dave Harker, Karl Dallas, Alan Lomax, and Simon Frith, the chapter argues for more a flexible application of the various concepts.Less

Islam

Corinna Nicolaou

in A None's Story: "Searching for Meaning Inside Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam"

The author visits her childhood hometown of Dallas, stays with her grandmother at a "retirement community" and sets out to worship in a handful of the city's burgeoning number of Mosques. She ... More

The author visits her childhood hometown of Dallas, stays with her grandmother at a "retirement community" and sets out to worship in a handful of the city's burgeoning number of Mosques. She struggles with the simple core message of Islam against the backdrop of ostentatious displays of wealth common in Dallas as she explores versions of the faith including Sunni, Shiite, Sufi and even Nation of Islam. Finally, she returns for the first time in 10 years to DC, where she worships jummah prayers at the Pentagon and comes to terms with the impulse that initiated this journey.Less

Chicano Labor and Multiracial Politics in Post-World War II Texas: Two Case Studies

Max Krochmal

in Life and Labor in the New New South

Focusing on two ordinary Chicano workers who became prominent labor, civil rights, and political organizers, this chapter demonstrates that workplace struggles and multiracial alliances with whites ... More

Focusing on two ordinary Chicano workers who became prominent labor, civil rights, and political organizers, this chapter demonstrates that workplace struggles and multiracial alliances with whites and African Americans stood at the center of the broader Mexican American and Chicano movements. The two union organizers, Francisco F. “Pancho” Medrano of Dallas and Arnold Flores of San Antonio, fought discrimination at work and in their unions as well as in the cities in which they lived. They joined and transformed local chapters of well-known ethnic Mexican civil rights organizations, actively supported the African American freedom struggle, and became driving forces in building powerful multiracial coalitions. Their life stories transcend the whiteness arguments and generational framework that have dominated Chicano historiography.Less

Home Sweet Tent Home

Dale Maharidge

in Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression

This chapter introduces Bonnie Alexander. When Bonnie got an office job near the house her husband James was building, they began living there full time. Their son Matthew was a senior in high school ... More

This chapter introduces Bonnie Alexander. When Bonnie got an office job near the house her husband James was building, they began living there full time. Their son Matthew was a senior in high school by then, and he went on to graduate with a degree in theology from Christ for the Nations Bible Institute in Dallas, Texas. To pay his way through school, Matthew Alexander worked as a doorman at the Hyatt Regency. After graduation, he came back to Michigan and got a job at a church. Other companies use the pellets to make tire additives, roller blade wheels, and plastic windows in mailing envelopes. It had been a long journey from that tent in Texas to this wall on which the Alexanders could attach a nameplate that signifies what a home is supposed to be—not an investment, not something to use like a cash machine, not something to be chopped up and “securitized” on Wall Street.Less

I Can Learn Any Kind of Work: Indian Initiative in Urban America

Douglas K. Miller

in Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century

Beginning with the introduction of the federal urban relocation program in 1952, thousands of Native American people hoped to use the program on their own terms, with their own goals in mind. Many ... More

Beginning with the introduction of the federal urban relocation program in 1952, thousands of Native American people hoped to use the program on their own terms, with their own goals in mind. Many Native participants proved to be much more than passive subjects or victims--especially those who personally wrote federal officials to make specific requests and explain their particular needs within the program. This chapter provides an expansive view of Native American urban relocation program participants and their complicated and sometimes surprising experiences in cities during the 1950s-60s.Less

Television and the Neo-Baroque

Angela Ndalianis

in The Contemporary Television Series

The Colbys (1985–1987) was a television series whose narrative premise centred on the exploits, loves, hates and intrigues of the wealthy Colby family and other characters that entered their story ... More

The Colbys (1985–1987) was a television series whose narrative premise centred on the exploits, loves, hates and intrigues of the wealthy Colby family and other characters that entered their story space. The show was a spin-off of the other popular ABC series Dynasty (1981–1989), which had itself copied the successful CBS series Dallas (1978–1991). If anything, the narrative scenarios of these shows reveal the extent to which television series since the 1950s have increasingly favoured an open narrative form that not only weaves into and between multiple story formations that traverse episode and series time, but that also cross over distinct television series into other spin-off shows. The television series and the television serial have increasingly collapsed into one another, so much so that, in more recent times, it has become difficult to distinguish one form from another. This chapter examines the neo-baroque aesthetics inherent within the television series as serial.Less

New Hope Church, Pickett’s Mill, and Dallas

Earl J. Hess

in Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War

When Sherman crossed the Etowah River on May 23 the character of the Atlanta campaign changed. He had used long and high ridges north of the river to conduct flanking movements. Now he entered a ... More

When Sherman crossed the Etowah River on May 23 the character of the Atlanta campaign changed. He had used long and high ridges north of the river to conduct flanking movements. Now he entered a piedmont zone of generally level land choked by thick forests which offered many defensive advantages to Johnston. Union progress slowed as the Federals groped along ill-mapped roads while engaged in a wide flanking movement. Johnston effectively stymied their efforts by careful placement of his units to block Union advances. For the first time in the campaign, both sides dug deep and extensive fieldwork systems to hold their positions. One sees the onset of intense skirmishing, sniping, and close range artillery fire. Constant firing from static positions caused a great deal of damage to the environment. Soldier life in the trenches became more stressful and uncomfortable as the campaign bogged down in the wilds of Georgia. This two week phase of the campaign was punctuated by battles at New Hope Church on May 25, Pickett’s Mill on May 27, and Dallas on May 28, until Sherman moved to his left and regained contact with his railroad by the end of the first week in June.Less

Global Meanings and Trans-cultural Understandings of Dallas

Kristyn Gorton

in Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion

This chapter considers how the mediation of meaning occurs on a global scale. More specifically, it considers how the global exchange of televisual texts affects citizenship, notions of individualism ... More

This chapter considers how the mediation of meaning occurs on a global scale. More specifically, it considers how the global exchange of televisual texts affects citizenship, notions of individualism and choice and the concept of emotion. This chapter refers to debates on cultural imperialism and media imperialism and makes reference to the extensive research that has been done on the popular US television series Dallas. This chapter also discusses convergence in order to consider how new media technologies will influence/change viewer's engagements with television.Less

Silicon Prairie

Carrie M. Lane

in A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment

This chapter provides a history of high-technology industries in Dallas, from their postwar origins in manufacturing, through the boom and bust of the computing, telecommunications, and dot-com ... More

This chapter provides a history of high-technology industries in Dallas, from their postwar origins in manufacturing, through the boom and bust of the computing, telecommunications, and dot-com industries, and into the post-9/11 recession and jobless recovery. It focuses on Infomart, a $97 million, 1.6 million-square-foot facility that was built to showcase the technological innovations of a new information age. Opened in January 1985, Infomart was designed as a trade mart for computers, a “high-tech bazaar” with seven floors of showrooms, exhibition space, lecture halls, and meeting rooms, all equipped with cutting-edge computing and telecommunications equipment. Over the next two decades, Infomart's prospects, and public perception thereof, waxed and waned. Although the space never achieved its intended goal—the computer mart concept was scrapped after only a few years—the story of how (and how much of) Infomart's space was in use at a given time intertwines with the broader history of Dallas' high-tech industries and the region's efforts to establish itself as a high-tech region on par with California's famed Silicon Valley.Less

A Company of One

Carrie M. Lane

in A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment

This chapter follows Dallas-area job seekers through their layoffs and into the early stages of their job search, examining what appeared to be a surprising lack of anger and anxiety about their new ... More

This chapter follows Dallas-area job seekers through their layoffs and into the early stages of their job search, examining what appeared to be a surprising lack of anger and anxiety about their new predicament. It outlines the ideology of career management, which represents a historic cultural shift in the mindset of white-collar U.S. workers toward employment, dependency, and security. Perhaps best described as neoliberalism for the organization man set, career management builds on a long history of management theory and American mythologies of meritocratic individualism and masculine agency. It naturalizes the absence of secure, long-term employment, casts the resulting insecurity as an empowering alternative to dependence on a single employer, and prescribes explicitly individualistic, apolitical, pro-market means by which one can best position oneself to succeed in an increasingly global and competitive world.Less

The Role of Demographic and Cost-Related Factors in Determining Where Plants Locate: A Tale of Two Texas Cities

Ann Wolverton

in The Political Economy of Environmental Justice

This chapter presents a significant methodological advance on earlier environmental justice literature, looking at census tracts or other geographic entities as units of analysis for explaining the ... More

This chapter presents a significant methodological advance on earlier environmental justice literature, looking at census tracts or other geographic entities as units of analysis for explaining the locational decision-making process. It compares results from two of the largest cities in Texas–Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston-Galveston. In particular, it directly models the behavior of firms, looking at their choice of where site a polluting facility. Given a firm's decision to establish a facility somewhere, it models the firm's choice of location among all the possible locations. The analysis choice patterns as a function of demographics, prices, transportation options, and so forth. It offers evidence that these choices are driven more by profits than by pure discrimination.Less

Atlanta

Earl J. Hess

in The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi

The Confederates fortified the high ground north and west of Resaca to protect Albert S. Johnston's supply line, the place where the first major battle of the Atlanta campaign occurred. This chapter ... More

The Confederates fortified the high ground north and west of Resaca to protect Albert S. Johnston's supply line, the place where the first major battle of the Atlanta campaign occurred. This chapter describes three hard battles in New Hope Church, Pickett's Mill, and Dallas.Less

Separate Suburbanization in the South, 1940–1960

in Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century

As part of African American history, separate suburbanization illustrates the growing assertiveness of black communities on the eve of the civil rights movement, as well as the persistence of ... More

As part of African American history, separate suburbanization illustrates the growing assertiveness of black communities on the eve of the civil rights movement, as well as the persistence of traditional strategies of “home sphere” politics and community building throughout the era. The struggle over “Negro expansion” in Dallas had its roots in the social and economic transformation wrought by World War II. With the coming of war, aeronautics firms such as Lockheed, North American Aviation, and Southern Aircraft built giant airplane factories on the periphery of the city, creating thousands of well-paying defense jobs and sparking a surge of regional migration to the city. In the first two years of the war, as many as 25,000 families migrated to Dallas. Struggle to achieve desegregation and to improve black communities, rather than being contradictory impulses, were complementary aspects of the same regional movement for black equality and empowerment.Less

The Opera House as Urban Exhibition Space

Klaus van den Berg

in Operatic Geographies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House

The early twentieth-century critical theorist, Walter Benjamin, developed a pioneering analysis of buildings as constellations of historical forces and contemporary perceptions unfolded in space. ... More

The early twentieth-century critical theorist, Walter Benjamin, developed a pioneering analysis of buildings as constellations of historical forces and contemporary perceptions unfolded in space. Although Benjamin did not address opera directly, his ideas help us understand how opera has reshaped its cultural identity over the past half century. New opera-house projects need to create a visual scenography in order to establish opera’s urban cultural significance. This chapter addresses the site dramaturgy of three paradigmatic buildings and opera-house locations: New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Paris’ Bastille Opera, and Dallas’ Winspear Opera. Focusing on the insertion of opera buildings into these cities’ block structures, I argue that the buildings have become scenographic models of cultural identity. Unable to find a location in the existing block system, the Met (completed in 1966) became an exemplary urban renewal project, replacing an entire neighborhood. In contrast, the Bastille opera emerged in 1989 as one element of Francois Mitterand’s Grands Travaux. Finally, the Dallas Opera (2009) is located in the Dallas Arts District, one of the densest accumulations of architectural projects in the world, in which the opera is constructed as part of both an art exhibition and a movie set that travellers or audience members traverse.Less

Advancing the Cause of Democracy: The Origins of Protest in the Long Civil Rights Movement

Brian D. Behnken

in Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas

This chapter describes how the black citizens of South Dallas suffered more than fifteen racially motivated bombings in 1950. Like bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, and other southern cities, the ... More

This chapter describes how the black citizens of South Dallas suffered more than fifteen racially motivated bombings in 1950. Like bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, and other southern cities, the terrorist acts in Dallas stemmed from the migration of blacks out of overcrowded segregated neighborhoods and into areas zoned for white use. In South Dallas, however, two of the main suspects were Mexican American men who felt threatened by the encroachment of African American families into white neighborhoods. One of these individuals, Pete Garcia, later admitted that he had painted “For Whites Only” signs in the neighborhood, threatened black home buyers with a knife, and chased two African American real estate agents out of the area.Less

Stockades and Musket Balls

Robert S. Carr

in Digging Miami

This chapter examines the history of the Seminole Wars (1836-1858) in southeast Florida. After the attack on the Cape Florida lighthouse in 1836 and Indian Key in 1840, most of South Florida became ... More

This chapter examines the history of the Seminole Wars (1836-1858) in southeast Florida. After the attack on the Cape Florida lighthouse in 1836 and Indian Key in 1840, most of South Florida became depopulated of settlers. The arrival of the military, including the army, navy, and cutter marines, led to the establishment of two principal forts: Fort Dallas on the Miami River and Fort Bankhead on Key Biscayne. At least four temporary forts or camps also were established: Fort Miami, Fort Kemble, Fort Henry, and “Fort Desolation.” Archaeological evidence of military life in South Florida is examined from fort sites and from military camps into the Everglades. Associated artifacts and documentation of soldiers’ graves are discussed. The most enduring evidence of the area's military presence, the military road built between Fort Dallas and Fort Lauderdale, is discussed and surviving segments of the road are identified.Less