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Missouri lies at a regional crossroads where the Midwest meets the South and the West begins. The contemporary dialect picture of the state reflects this blend of influences. Depending on their back……続きを見る

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator. In fact, most cities claim to be compiled of neighborhoods, but this strays far from the term's original meani……続きを見る

Latin American countries have for a long time been importers of public policies and institutions from the Global North. The colonial legacy and resulting patterns of international relations during t……続きを見る

How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining majo……続きを見る

Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely for……続きを見る

Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital. This book brings together an inter……続きを見る

This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks. Manually analyzing text and images in United St……続きを見る

With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights. The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period, Abo……続きを見る

Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still pred……続きを見る

If the United States is really the 'Land of the Free' where anyone can become president, you would expect that the American presidents [George Washington to Joe Biden] would express that genetic div……続きを見る

'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post 'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' Guardian At the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and h……続きを見る

This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were ena……続きを見る

While researching family genealogy, I was surprised to learn that my wife is related to Major General George Armstrong Custer, Major General Galusha Pennypacker, Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, and ……続きを見る

This book explores the linkages between Southern Europe and South America in the post-World War II period, through organized migration and development policies. In the post-war period, regulated mig……続きを見る

From 1802 until 2017, there have been approximately 844 military schools in operation in the United States. Many well-known celebrities have attended such institutions as highlighted in the author's……続きを見る

A obra Aproximando universidade e escola: ensino de histórias e culturas indígenas, tendo como principal mote atividades desenvolvidas no projeto de extensão do curso de História da Universidade Fed……続きを見る

It is interesting to note that all 45 American presidents have carried European royal bloodlines into office. Every one of the 45 American presidents has been genetic descendants from just one perso……続きを見る

It might not be in your lifetime', said the Chief Justice of the United States when asked whether the files on the assassination of President Kennedy would be made public. If the President was kille……続きを見る

In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his……続きを見る

The 1970's might very well become a blank in history concerning everyday, ordinary people. Such a mundane, regressive, back-sliding era, at least that is how it can appear to those of us who lived t……続きを見る

It is widely known that Major General Benedict Arnold conspired to hand the American fortress at West Point over to the enemy for 20,000 British pounds and a brigadier general commission in the Brit……続きを見る

Did you know that Kentucky had the only American politician who was assassinated and then became governor? William Goebel, master of machine politics and even greater master of making enemies, was i……続きを見る

At the time Women’s Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley was published, little research had been done on the relationship between the wage labor and household labor o……続きを見る

1968: The Year That Rocked Washington” spotlights 19 Washingtonians whose lives reflected the unsettling problems and soaring ideals of the Sixties. Whether it was Ralph Munro fighting for the right……続きを見る

In a hovel, a mother needs to watch his sick son for love and fear... A cowboy decides to persecute one by one the killers who flayed his brother skin... In Africa, a boy realize that he was sold by……続きを見る

Bells have played a significant role in US history and, in many cases are seen as national symbols. This is especially true when it comes to the Liberty Bell, cast at a foundry in England in 1752 an……続きを見る

I was almost there at the beginning, and I was almost there at the end. By the most amazing coincidence, I was near to the shuttle orbiter Columbia both in triumph and tragedy. This is my story, wri……続きを見る

An American writer considers the historical forces that flowed into Dealey Plaza and those that flowed from it, and reaches a conclusion about the truth of the event and its enduring meaning. 続きを見る

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The History of the Women's Suffrage: The Flame Ignites". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards ……続きを見る

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The History of the Women's Suffrage: The Origin of the Movement (Illustrated Edition)". This ebook has been designed and formatted to……続きを見る