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African Americans and the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970 ‘Black America Cares’

African Americans and the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970: ‘Black America Cares’

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By James A. Farquharson
August 01, 2024

This book is the first to recover and analyse at length the extent, complexity, and character of African American responses to the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970). Far from having only marginal significance, the Nigerian Civil War collided at full velocity with the conflicting discourses and ideas ...

The Friendships of John Adams, 1774-1801 The Art of Politics

The Friendships of John Adams, 1774-1801: The Art of Politics

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By Jamie Macpherson
June 12, 2024

This book presents the first extended analysis of the friendship network of John Adams, forged during his lengthy public career from 1774-1801.   While scholars have considered historic friendships, this monograph examines Adams’s friendship network within a generation of revolutionaries. The six ...

Polish American History after 1939 Polish American History from 1854 to 2004, Volume 2

Polish American History after 1939: Polish American History from 1854 to 2004, Volume 2

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By Joanna Wojdon
June 03, 2024

This book is the second in a three-part, multi-authored study of Polish American history which aims to present the history of Polish Americans in the United States from the beginning of Polish presence on the continent to the current times, shown against a broad historical background of ...

James Monroe, John Marshall and ‘The Excellence of Our Institutions’, 1817–1825 How Monroe’s Presidency Became 'An Important Epoch in the History of the Civilized World'

James Monroe, John Marshall and ‘The Excellence of Our Institutions’, 1817–1825: How Monroe’s Presidency Became 'An Important Epoch in the History of the Civilized World'

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By Peter J. Aschenbrenner
May 27, 2024

When James Monroe became president in 1817, the United States urgently needed a national transportation system to connect new states and territories in the west with older states facing the Atlantic Ocean. In 1824, the Supreme Court declared that Congress had the power to regulate traffic on ...

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920–1933

Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition: Gotham and the Age of Recklessness, 1920–1933

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By Francesco Landolfi
May 27, 2024

This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition ...

Testing the Elite Yale College in the Revolutionary Era, 1740–1815

Testing the Elite: Yale College in the Revolutionary Era, 1740–1815

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By David Wilock
April 23, 2024

This volume explores the extent to which the Revolutionary period (1740–1815) impacted the faculty, students and institutional life of Yale College and how those changes shed insight into the nature of the American Revolution itself as a conservative or radical event.Throughout the eighteenth ...

Polish American Voices A Documentary History, 1608–2020

Polish American Voices: A Documentary History, 1608–2020

1st Edition

Edited By Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, James S. Pula
November 29, 2023

This volume presents 145 primary source documents of Polish immigrants from different waves and backgrounds speaking about their lives, concerns, and viewpoints in their own voices, while they grapple with issues of identity and strive to make sense of their lives in the context of migration. Poles...

Polish American History before 1939 Polish-American History from 1854 to 2004, Volume 1

Polish American History before 1939: Polish-American History from 1854 to 2004, Volume 1

1st Edition

By Adam Walaszek
September 20, 2023

The history of private lives of the first and second generations of Polish immigrants in the United States is viewed from the perspective of migrants themselves. What did the migrants do? How did they behave? How protagonists (men, women, children) with their own words presented their experience? ...

Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870 Bridget’s Belfast

Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget’s Belfast

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By Kay Retzlaff
May 31, 2023

Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a rural New England community. Forty percent of Irish immigrants to the United States settled in rural areas. Achieving success beyond large urban centers ...

America’s First Vaccination The Controversy of 1721-22

America’s First Vaccination: The Controversy of 1721-22

1st Edition

By Barbara Heifferon
February 28, 2023

This book explores the response to a new scientific advance in medicine three hundred years ago to understand how this discourse revealed religious, racial, anti-intellectual, and other ideologies the first time documented vaccinations were introduced in America. This text serves as a case study ...

George W Bush Administration Propaganda for an Invasion of Iraq The Absence of Evidence

George W Bush Administration Propaganda for an Invasion of Iraq: The Absence of Evidence

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By Larry Hartenian
January 09, 2023

Hartenian’s history of George W Bush propaganda for an invasion of Iraq returns the administration’s approach to its conceptual origins. Hartenian places "evidence" in the center of his analysis, showing that Rumsfeld’s "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" meant that no evidence was...

An Unfamiliar America Essays in American Studies

An Unfamiliar America: Essays in American Studies

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Edited By Ari Helo, Mikko Saikku
August 01, 2022

This collection focuses on conceptions of the unfamiliar from the viewpoint of mainstream American history: aliens, immigrants, ethnic groups, and previously unencountered ideas and ideologies in Trumpian America. The book suggests bringing historical thinking back to the center of American Studies...

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