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 Eng
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
This book explores the response to a new scientific advance in medicine three hundred years ago to understand how this discourse revealed religious, racial, ant
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, America
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