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[Clipping: And Bacon, Too!!!]

Newspaper clipping discussing how an 1849 advertisement printed in another clipping shows what the culture was like in that time period.

Date: 1945~

Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Clipping of d'Arusamont Case from the Cincinnati Gazette]

Article over the alimony case between Mr. d'Arusamont and his ex-wife Fanny Wright. It covers a small history of Fanny Wright: large inheritance from a maternal uncle and then she moved to the United States to promote her views. She was against slavery and she she couldn't eradicate it bought thirty slaves and set them up in St. Domingo. She then subscribed to the school of Socialist and set up a press but this project failed. In one of Fanny's visits to Paris she met Mr. d'Arusamont.

Date: unknown

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: They Called It Reconstruction]

Clipping from the Reader's Digest discussing the period of Reconstruction after the American Civil War and its impact on race relations. The author describes the discrimination against black citizens by state governments that prompted Reconstruction. The author takes the position that Reconstruction was an unnecessary and harmful process that empowered black citizens at the cost of disempowering white citizens. The author develops this idea through a combination of historical facts and anecdot… more

Date: October 1944

Creator: Muller, Edwin

Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran