Class and Race in the Frontier Army Patricia Irwin Johnston audiences' opinions drive the content

audiences' opinions drive the content that so often passes off as "the news

With contributions from Melissa Deckman

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and failings of ordinary people

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Class and Race in the Frontier Army Patricia Irwin Johnston audiences' opinions drive the contentHistorians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post Civil War America were reflected in the U. S. Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were foreign born. Now Kevin Adams shows that the frontier army was characterized by a "Victorian class divide" that overshadowed ethnic prejudices. Class and Race in the Frontier Army marks the first application of recent research on class, race, and ethnicity to the social and cultural history of