Product Description: 2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney AwardIn the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level, they wrote letters, explains David A...read more

Product Description: This collection addresses the recent rebirth of interest in immigrant letters. As these letters are increasingly seen as key, rather than incidental, documents in the interpretations of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity/nationality, the scholars gathered here demonstrate a diversity of new approaches to their interpretation...read more

Product Description: This work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combining and comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, and African immigrations in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries...read more

Product Description: Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology from the Ancient World to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Identity, Community, and Pluralism in American Life is an anthology of primary source readings which explores the cultural diversity and social pluralism in American life. The principal themes include the formation of group and communal identities, the position of various groups in the American social structure, and the interrelationships of the people of the United States within the framework of a common public life...read more

Product Description: Probing beneath the surface of Benjamin Rathburn's career to reveal the unsettling social and economic forces that the American commercial revolution unleashed, this work examines the collapse of Rathburn's empire, in 1837, amidst accusations of fraud.

Product Description: An analysis of the development of a pluralistic urban society. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Description: This is the first volume to address the new and richly diverse historical perspectives developed over the past two decades on anti-Semitism in America. Fourteen distinguished authors present studies that analyze the concept, nature, and sometimes tragic consequences of anti-Semitism during our nation's last one hundred and fifty years...read more