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The Atlantic Conference At Argentia (9-12 August 1941) The Anglo-American Agreement On The Defeat Of Nazi Germany, John Michael Sweeney
The Atlantic Conference At Argentia (9-12 August 1941) The Anglo-American Agreement On The Defeat Of Nazi Germany, John Michael Sweeney
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
The meeting at Argentina, Newfoundland, between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in August 1941 was the first "summit" conference of the Second World War. It set the stage for the United States' entry into the war on the side of Great Britain and produced the Atlantic Charter, the noble statement of Western war aims. This study describes how the Nazi threat to England and the Atlantic brought the two democracies together into a de facto alliance before the United States formally entered the war. Its central theme is the "strategy of provocation" whereby President Roosevelt, certain …
From Italy To Boston's North End: Italian Immigration And Settlement, 1890-1910, Stephen Puleo
From Italy To Boston's North End: Italian Immigration And Settlement, 1890-1910, Stephen Puleo
Graduate Masters Theses
More than four million Italian immigrants entered the United States between 1880 and 1920, a number greater than any other ethnic group during America's peak immigration years. From 1900 to 1910 alone, more than two million Italians flowed through American ports. This thesis examines the great Italian migration to and settlement in the United States, focusing on one of America's strongest and most vibrant ethnic communities, Boston’s Italian North End.
The vast majority of Italian immigrants were peasants from agrarian Southern Italy, seeking refuge in America from nearly unbearable conditions in their homeland. They were mostly young, usually poor and …
Justification: How The Elizabethans Explained Their Invasions Of Ireland And Virginia, Christopher Ludden Mcdaid
Justification: How The Elizabethans Explained Their Invasions Of Ireland And Virginia, Christopher Ludden Mcdaid
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Goemaere, Mary Of The Cross, M. Patricia Dougherty
Goemaere, Mary Of The Cross, M. Patricia Dougherty
Faculty Authored Books and Book Contributions
Catherine Adelaide Goemaere, born to artisan parents (cooper and "tricoteuse") on 20 March 1809, in Warneton, a small Belgian town on the modern French-Belgian border, was the foundress of the first group of women religious in the newly created state of California.
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