[Review of] John Anthony Scott. Hard Trials on My Way: Slavery and the Struggle Against It, 1800-1860

In the beginning the history of slavery was written in political and institutional terms, and very little attention was paid to what the day-to-day participants in this odious adventure had to say. With time, historians realized they had to take into account personal views, feelings, and reminiscences of the participants, but this realization brought about predominantly the recollections and opinions of white people. This was so because it was generally accepted that most black people were illiterate and had little to say for themselves. It was understood also that when they said anything, it would be exaggerated and self-serving and, consequently, would be of little historical value. Exceptions, of course, were made for people like Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northrup because, clearly, they were extraordinary

[Review of] Cary D. Wintz. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance

In 1925 Professor Alain Locke argued in The New Negro that the Negro was moving forward under the control largely of his own objectives ... which were none other than the ideals of American institutions and democracy. This allowed for blacks everywhere to be called New Negroes but nowhere were there as many New Negroes as in Harlem. The activities of these people in politics, arts, literature, music and the like between World War I and the Depression Era came to be called the Harlem Renaissance

Constructive waterfalls

The excavation of valleys by waterfalls is one of the best known and most effective processes by which rivers cut down the surface of the earth. The influence of waterfalls is usually regarded as solely destructive, and as always helping to lower the land. They undermine and cut backward the rock faces over which they fall : by this recession they excavate deep gorges ; and the existence of these gorges enables the adjacent country to be lowered to the level of the valIey floors. The waterfalls, moreover, empty any lakes they rnay reach in their retreat, while the ravines below the falls may drain the springs and thus desiccate the neighbouring hihlands. Observations in various countries had suggested to me that waterfalls may sometimes be constructive in stead of destructive, and that they may reserse their usual procedure, advancing instead of retreating, filling valleys instead of excavating them, and forrning alluvial plains and lakes instead of destroying them. The best illustrations I have seen of such advancing, constructive waterfalls are on some rivers of Dalmatia and Bosnia, where they occur in various stages of development. ..

FDIC policy toward bank failures

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LIFO inventory accounting : effects on corporate profits, inventory-sales ratios, and inventory investment

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A valuation approach to bank holding company acquisitions

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Nonbank activities of Fifth District bank holding companies

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The competition for transaction accounts

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Policy update: Federal terrorism insurance program renewed

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