Author: dpredmore
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Great Miami Hurricane
Florida’s sandy shores and sunny skies, aptly nicknamed the “Sunshine State” in the Southeastern United States, has attracted dreamers, vacationers, and fortune seekers for generations. With over 1,300 miles of…
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Historiography of the 1920’s
The two historiographical articles that will be discussed are “Nationalism, Immigration Control, and the Ethno-racial Remapping of America in the 1920s” by Mae M. Ngai, published in 2007, and “Shifting…
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Chapters 4-6 of the Modern Temper compared to the Great Miami Hurricane
After reading chapters four through six as well as the epilogue of The Modern Temper by Lynn Duminel and gaining more knowledge after reading the first half of the book,…
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Themes from Modern Temper compared to Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight
After reading the first three chapters of The Modern Temper by Lynn Duminel and gaining some insight into this time period, it was interesting to see what themes in the…
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Charles Lindbergh and the first solo, non-stop Trans Atlantic flight
In the entire record of aviation history, few feats capture the imagination quite like Charles Lindbergh’s solo transatlantic flight. On May 20th, 1927, a young airmail pilot who had dropped…
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What the 1920s mean to me
My first thought regarding the era of the 1920’s is mainly The Great Depression. Although it happened at the end of the decade, it still created an insurmountable amount of…
