Category: Music
“Raise High the White Man’s Banner” Democratic Campaign Song August 1868
The great Democratic Ratification meeting in New Orleans was one of many state or city gatherings organized by local Democrats to ratify Horatio Seymour as…
Noticing Diversity in Reconstruction NYC “…it’s Ireland and Italy, Jerusalem and Germany, Chinese and Africans and a paradise for rats”
McNally’s Row of Flats was a popular song of 1882 describing the emerging diversity of the Five Points in New York City. Set in a…
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