Kelli Janssen US History 2017/2018!

All three articles made very clear, great points on their views of how we should handle confederate monuments and the confederate flags placed in the US. J. Pepper Bryars seems to think that all the monuments should stay. He tells a story of a confederate soldier, Elijah Morrison, who had courage and " did his duty best he could", he left his family behind and died fighting. He then mentions that grandchildren and children that never knew where their loved ones were buried erected memorials across the south to remember them and their courage and now people are trying to tear them down, but "Elijah Morrison and those like him deserve to be remembered and honored."  - J. Pepper Bryars LeeAnna Keith believed that "monuments must be removed or effectively supplemented by new and more sensitive materials" to help end things such as arrests, defacements, and deadly confrontations. she talked a lot about republicans then and now and different perspectives they...

Crime in the Public Press...The Gilded Age: I chose to do my research on the topic of crime during the Gilded Age, and others interest in crime.  I am interested in the topic because I would like to know what type of crime was going on then and how urbanization caused are security to evolve, such as professional police forces. In addition I want to look at how what was going on during this time period prompted such people to commit these crimes. For example urbanization may have caused crime because there was so much change, and so much to adapt to. The first "serial killers of America" came about during this period, which interests me because it proves how much urbanization affected others. During the Gilded age others were so interested in true crime...they almost saw crimes as entertainment. Others were so interested in reading about crime because media, such as newspapers told these stories and spread them. During the gilded age newspapers would continue to play an ins...