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History, Am.: 20th C.



link to catalog page WYGODA, In the Shadow of the Swastika Author: Hermann Wygoda
Pub Date: August 2003

The memoir of a defiant Polish Jew who commanded Italian resistance fighters during the Holocaust   learn more...

link to catalog page PECKHAM, Indiana

Indiana

A History

Author: Howard H. Peckham
Pub Date: 2003

A comprehensive history of Indiana   learn more...

link to catalog page HIGBIE, Indispensable Outcasts

Indispensable Outcasts

Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930

Author: Frank Tobias Higbie
Pub Date: 2003

A study of seasonal workers in the midwest during the Progressive Era   learn more...

link to catalog page CEPLAIR, The Inquisition in Hollywood

The Inquisition in Hollywood

Politics in the Film Community, 1930-60

Author: Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund
Pub Date: 2003

The definitive work on the Hollywood blacklist era   learn more...

link to catalog page BATES, Lost Legacy

Lost Legacy

The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch

Author: Irene Bates and E. Gary Smith
Pub Date: 2003

New in paper. The history of the inherited office of Presiding Patriarch in the Mormon Church from its creation by Joseph Smith in 1833 to its demise in 1979.   learn more...

The Samuel Gompers Papers, Volume 9

The American Federation of Labor at the Height of Progressivism, 1913-17

Author: Edited by Peter J. Albert and Grace Palladino
Pub Date: May 2003

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link to catalog page ADDAMS, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams

vol. 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-81

Author: Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury
Pub Date: December 2003

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link to catalog page COSTIN, Two Sisters for Social Justice

Two Sisters for Social Justice

A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott

Author: Lela B. Costin
Pub Date: 2003

Contemporaries of Jane Addams, tackled issues of suffrage, workers rights, child labor laws, juvenial deliquency, prostitution, and immigration. Grace worked with the U.S. Children’s Bureau and Edith helped found the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.   learn more...

link to catalog page DAVIS, Waterfront Revolts

Waterfront Revolts

New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61

Author: Colin J. Davis
Pub Date: November 2003

Comparative examination of NYC and London’s dockworkers rank-and-file union members movements that successfully challenged union hierarchy and nation-states.   learn more...

link to catalog page ADDAMS, Women at The Hague

Women at The Hague

The International Congress of Women and Its Results

Author: Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton
Pub Date: 2003

Examination of women’s involvement and influence during the World War I pacifist movement resulting from the 1915 Hague International Congress of Women.   learn more...

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