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Since the 1920's the issues of immigration and ethnicity have become central to discussions of American society and identity. This work addresses this contemporary debate, bringing together essays by college students exploring their ethnic roots from the experiences of their forbears to the place of ethnicity in their lives.

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Letters by five 19th-century New England women, among the tens of thousands who formed the first generation of American women employed for wages outside their own homes.

The Second Edition of Women and Power in American History includes fourteen new articles (six in volume one, eight in volume two) that reflect changing perspectives on women and gender in American history, providing expanded coverage of race, ethnicity, and public policy. A new Worldwide Web section in each volume lists annotated electronic resources relevant to the themes presented in Women and Power. New articles in volume two: "Race and Wom...

Until the nineteenth century, women were largely confined to work in the home. But in the years between 1820 and 1860 the rise of the cotton textile industry in New England radically altered women's working and living patterns. Thousands of single, young women left the homes of their parents to work in the growing mill towns and to live together in the company boardinghouses. This was the first generation of American women to face the demands ...

This book explores the work and family lives of rural and urban New Englanders across the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century.

The authors examine the impact of enduring economic decline across a wide region but focus especially on a small group of mining communities in the region's Panther Valley, from Jim Thorpe through Lansford to Tamaqua. The authors also place the anthracite region within a broader conceptual framework, comparing anthracite's decline to parallel developments in European coal basins and Appalachia and to deindustrialization in the United States mo...

Thomas Dublin is a Bartle Distinguished Professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton and codirector of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender. He is coeditor of the websites Women and Social Movements in the United States and Women and Social Movements, International.

More than at any time since the 1920's the issues of immigration and ethnicity have become central to discussions of American society and identity. This book addresses this debate, bringing together essays written by college students, exploring their ethnic roots from the experiences of their forbears to the place of ethnicity in their lives.

The anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania, five hundred square miles of rugged hills stretching between Tower City and Carbondale, harbored coal deposits that once heated virtually all the homes and businesses in Eastern cities. At its peak during World War I, the coal industry here employed 170, 000 miners, and supported almost 1, 000, 000 people. Today, with coal workers numbering 1, 500, only 5, 000 people depend on the industry fo...

Includes chapters that offer a selection of letters from Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s, writings from an immigrant who escaped the civil war in Liberia during the 1980s, and letters that crossed the US - Mexico border during the late 1980s and early '90s.