In Trials and Triumphs; Marilyn Mayer Culpepper provides incomparable insights into women's lives during America's Civil War era. Her respect for these nineteenth-century women and their experiences; as well as her engaging and intimate style; enable Culpepper to transport readers into a tumultuous time of death; destruction; and privation—into a world turned upside down; an environment that seemed as strange to contemporaries as it does in our own time.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Two StarsBy Don PeckOut of date.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. "Give me your tired; your poor" was neither policy nor public opinion...By Paige BucherschrankThis book argues that presidents McKinley; Roosevelt; Taft; Wilson; Harding; Coolidge and Hoover did what they could to oppose popular opinion and racist immigration laws that favored northern European immigrants. These presidents' speeches; letters; and administrative records reveal consistent support for the "melting pot" model as an alternative to racial quotas. While Harding; Coolidge; and Hoover opposed racism; they were also convinced of the economic and political necessity of drastically reducing immigration. They did this by turning away immigrants who were too young; too old; mentally or physically ill or otherwise unable to support themselves. When the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 was passed during the isolationism following World War I the quotas least affected the rich and college educated.This book will be of interest primarily to students of history but also to second-generation Americans like me who are trying to understand the national issues that were the cause of such personal hardship to southern European immigrants.This book is a revised version of the author's Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Connecticut. The book would have been a lot easier to read and it would have helped the flow of the narrative if references had pointed to works cited pages at the end of the book. I found the extensive footnotes at the bottom of the pages distracting.
