The 1901 Fort Wayne, Indiana City Election: A Political Dialogue of Ethnic Tension
dc.contributor.advisor | Wokeck, Marianne Sophia | |
dc.contributor.author | Brown, Nancy Eileen | |
dc.contributor.other | Snodgrass, Michael | |
dc.contributor.other | Monroe, Elizabeth Brand, 1947- | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-06T15:29:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-06T15:29:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.degree.date | 2013 | en_US |
dc.degree.discipline | Department of History | en |
dc.degree.grantor | Indiana University | en_US |
dc.degree.level | M.A. | en_US |
dc.description | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In 1901, three German American candidates ran for the office of mayor in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The winner, Henry Berghoff, had emigrated from Germany as a teenager. This thesis examines the election discourse in the partisan press for signs of ethnic tension. The first chapter places Fort Wayne in historical context of German immigration and Indiana history. The second and third chapters investigate the editorial pages for evidence of ethnic tension. I also reference a few articles of an editorial nature outside of the editorial pages. The second chapter provides background information about the election and examines indications of the candidates’ ethnicity and references to the German language papers. The third chapter considers the editorial comment about Germany, the intertwining of ethnicity and the issues, and ethnic name-calling. In order to identify underlying bias for or against Germany and to better understand the context of the references to German ethnicity, the fourth chapter explores the portrayal of Germany in the Fort Wayne papers. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1805/3658 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/173 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Indiana | en_US |
dc.subject | Fort Wayne | en_US |
dc.subject | Immigration | en_US |
dc.subject | Politics | en_US |
dc.subject | Germany | en_US |
dc.subject | China | en_US |
dc.subject | Newspapers | en_US |
dc.subject | German American | en_US |
dc.subject | 1901 | en_US |
dc.subject | Election | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Local elections -- Indiana -- Fort Wayne -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | German Americans -- Indiana -- Fort Wayne -- History -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Fort Wayne (Ind.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Fort Wayne (Ind.) -- Politics and government -- History -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | German American newspapers -- Indiana -- Fort Wayne -- History -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Germans -- Indiana -- Fort Wayne -- Newspapers -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Prejudices in the press -- Indiana -- Fort Wayne -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Political candidates -- Indiana -- Fort Wayne -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Fort Wayne (Ind.) -- Ethnic relations -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Invective -- Ethnic relations -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Campaign debates -- Indiana -- Fort Wayne -- 20th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Journal-gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.) | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | News and sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.) | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Indiana Staatszeitung (Fort Wayne, Ind. : Weekly) | en_US |
dc.title | The 1901 Fort Wayne, Indiana City Election: A Political Dialogue of Ethnic Tension | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en |