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New York Revisited (1992), Shaun O’Connell Nov 2015

New York Revisited (1992), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

The works discussed in this article include: City of the World: New York and Its People, by Bernie Bookbinder; New York, New York, by Oliver E. Allen; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time, by Thomas Bender; The Heart of the World, by Nik Cohn; The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York, by Peter Conrad; After Henry, by Joan Didion; Literary New York: A History and Guide, by Susan Edmiston and Linda D. Cirino; Our …


Good-Bye To All That: The Rise And Demise Of Irish America (1993), Shaun O’Connell Nov 2015

Good-Bye To All That: The Rise And Demise Of Irish America (1993), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

The works discussed in this article include: The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley 1874-1958, by Jack Beatty; JFK: Reckless Youth, by Nigel Hamilton; Textures of Irish America, by Lawrence J. McCaffrey; and Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, by James M. O'Toole.

Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 9, no. 1 (1993), article 9.


Tip O’Neill: Irish-American Representative Man (2003), Shaun O’Connell Nov 2015

Tip O’Neill: Irish-American Representative Man (2003), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Man of the House as he aptly called himself in his 1987 memoir, stood as the quintessential Irish-American representative man for half of the twentieth century. O’Neill, often misunderstood as a parochial, Irish Catholic party pol, was a shrewd, sensitive, and idealistic man who came to stand for a more inclusive and expansive sense of his region, his party, and his church. O’Neill’s impressive presence both embodied the clichés of the Irish-American character and transcended its stereotypes by articulating a noble vision of inspired duty, determined responsibility, and joy in living. There was more to Tip …


Fall/Winter 2015, Full Issue Nov 2015

Fall/Winter 2015, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


“In Defense Of The Faith: The Catholic Response To Anti-Catholicism In Early Nineteenth-Century St. Louis”, Sarah Hinds Nov 2015

“In Defense Of The Faith: The Catholic Response To Anti-Catholicism In Early Nineteenth-Century St. Louis”, Sarah Hinds

The Confluence (2009-2020)

One side effect of the Second Great Awakening was a rise in anti- Catholic sentiment, especially as new Catholic immigrants arrived in the 1840s. While much is written on this nativism, little examines the Church’s response. Sarah Hinds uses St. Louis as a case study for understanding the nature of antebellum nativism and the Church’s responses.


Miss Bremer Travels Down The Mississippi, Fredrika Bremer, Mary Howitt Sep 2015

Miss Bremer Travels Down The Mississippi, Fredrika Bremer, Mary Howitt

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Vol. 35 No. 3 Sep 2015

Full Issue Vol. 35 No. 3

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


The Barrier And The Damage Done Converting The Canadian Mounted Rifles To Infantry, December 1915, William Stewart Jul 2015

The Barrier And The Damage Done Converting The Canadian Mounted Rifles To Infantry, December 1915, William Stewart

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.


Book Review Supplement Autumn 2003 May 2015

Book Review Supplement Autumn 2003

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.


Book Review Supplement Autumn 1998 May 2015

Book Review Supplement Autumn 1998

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.


“I Will Meet The World With A Smile And A Joke” Canadian Soldiers’ Humour In The Great War, Tim Cook Apr 2015

“I Will Meet The World With A Smile And A Joke” Canadian Soldiers’ Humour In The Great War, Tim Cook

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.


Culinary Imagination As A Survival Tool Ethel Mulvany And The Changi Jail Prisoners Of War Cookbook, Singapore, 1942-1945, Suzanne Evans Apr 2015

Culinary Imagination As A Survival Tool Ethel Mulvany And The Changi Jail Prisoners Of War Cookbook, Singapore, 1942-1945, Suzanne Evans

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.


The British Garrison And Montreal Society, 1830-1850, Robert Vineberg Apr 2015

The British Garrison And Montreal Society, 1830-1850, Robert Vineberg

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.


History Of The Silver Cross Medal, Suzanne Evans Mar 2015

History Of The Silver Cross Medal, Suzanne Evans

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.


A Road Less Traveled: Or, Some Antebellum Arrivals To Texas Out Of Illinois, Rick L. Sherrod Mar 2015

A Road Less Traveled: Or, Some Antebellum Arrivals To Texas Out Of Illinois, Rick L. Sherrod

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.


Race, Power, And Education In Early America, John Frederick Bell Feb 2015

Race, Power, And Education In Early America, John Frederick Bell

Education's Histories

Craig Steven Wilder. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 423 pp. $30.00.


Waging War On Education: American Indian Versions, Donald Warren Jan 2015

Waging War On Education: American Indian Versions, Donald Warren

Education's Histories

Article excerpt: "America Indian histories as analytical levers...case studies of what happens methodologically when education historians attempt to cleanse their methods of ethnocentrism and similar predispositions."


Making It In Maine: Stories Of Jewish Life In Small-Town America, David M. Freidenreich Jan 2015

Making It In Maine: Stories Of Jewish Life In Small-Town America, David M. Freidenreich

Maine History

A fundamental part of the experience of immigrants to the United States has been the tension between incorporating into a new country while maintaining one’s cultural roots. In this article, the author describes the experience of Jewish Americans in Maine, where climate, culture, and remoteness from larger Jewish populations contributed to a unique process of Americanization compared with Jewish populations in more urban areas of the country. After successfully “making it” over the course of two centuries, Jewish Mainers face a new set of challenges and opportunities. The author is the director of the Jewish studies program at Colby College …


A City Divided: Lewiston’S Acceptance And Resistance To The Somali Refugees In Lewiston, Maine From 2000 To 2011, Anna Chase Hogeland Jan 2015

A City Divided: Lewiston’S Acceptance And Resistance To The Somali Refugees In Lewiston, Maine From 2000 To 2011, Anna Chase Hogeland

Maine History

This article depicts the nature of the resettlement, acculturation, and reception of the Somali refugees in the city of Lewiston, Maine from their arrival in 2000 until 2011. As refugees from their war-torn country, Somalis faced a mixed welcome in their new home. Racial and religious tensions rose as the black, Muslim Somalis moved into the predominately white and Christian Lewiston community. In opposition to the cold reception, as this article argues, the vast majority of the Lewiston community greeted the Somalis with tolerance, adaptability, and embracement. This article chronicles the historical contexts of Lewiston and Somalis before and during …