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History, Am.: 20th C.



link to catalog page LOEWEN, Diaspora in the Countryside

Diaspora in the Countryside

Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture

Author: Royden Loewen
Pub Date: November 2006

Rural families’ strategies for coping with a world in transition.   learn more...

link to catalog page LOVE, Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 Author: Edited by Barbara J. Love
Pub Date: October 2006

Documenting key feminists who ignited the second wave women’s movement   learn more...

link to catalog page HAMILL, Going Indian Author: James Hamill
Pub Date: April 2006

Learning from the Oklahoma Indians' own stories about the forces shaping their ethnic identity   learn more...

link to catalog page HOY, Good Hearts

Good Hearts

Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past

Author: Suellen Hoy
Pub Date: May 2006

The critical roles of Catholic nuns in Chicago's development   learn more...

link to catalog page FITZGERALD, Habits of Compassion

Habits of Compassion

Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920

Author: Maureen Fitzgerald
Pub Date: February 2006

The Sisters' critical contributions to charitable care in America   learn more...

link to catalog page BAO, Holding Up More Than Half the Sky

Holding Up More Than Half the Sky

Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92

Author: Xiaolan Bao
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2006

Bao looks at the dramatic 1982 strike of 20,000 Chinese-American garment workers (most of them women) and explores the profound transformation of family culture that enabled this uncharacteristic militancy and organized protest.   learn more...

link to catalog page ISHIZUKA, Lost and Found

Lost and Found

Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration

Author: Karen L. Ishizuka
Pub Date: 2006

Recovering--and recovering from--a dark chapter in American history   learn more...

link to catalog page ALAMILLO, Making Lemonade out of Lemons

Making Lemonade out of Lemons

Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1880-1960

Author: José M. Alamillo
Pub Date: June 2006

How Mexican American workers challenged, transformed and politicized leisure   learn more...

link to catalog page CARRIGAN, The Making of a Lynching Culture

The Making of a Lynching Culture

Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916

Author: William D. Carrigan
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2006

How a culture of violence legitimized lynching among ordinary people   learn more...

link to catalog page VECCHIO, Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women

Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women

Italian Migrants in Urban America

Author: Diane C. Vecchio
Pub Date: January 2006

Challenging long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women's work in the United States   learn more...

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