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2016

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Passeth The Cran’Brry Sauce: The Medieval Origins Of Thanksgiving, Ken Albala Dec 2016

Passeth The Cran’Brry Sauce: The Medieval Origins Of Thanksgiving, Ken Albala

Ken Albala

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The Barber Who Read History And Was Overwhelmed, Rowan Cahill Jul 2016

The Barber Who Read History And Was Overwhelmed, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

Beginning with a chance encounter in a Barber's shop whilst travelling, the author ruminates on history, and the proposition that each and everyone of us is an historian, and that in a sense we are all time travellers. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is invoked, and the role of radical historians from below discussed before the author returns to his Barber shop encounter, and to Brecht. The title of the piece references Brecht's poem A Worker Reads History (1936).

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Anti-Immigration In The United States: A Historical Encyclopedia [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf Apr 2016

Anti-Immigration In The United States: A Historical Encyclopedia [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf

Anne Jumonville Graf

Consider Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia a newer, narrower, more explicitly academic take on a well-covered topic among reference resources. Since James Ciment’s seminal, four-volume Encyclopedia of American Immigration published in 2001, there has been a variety of encyclopedias published focusing on the United States and immigration. Most recently, 2010 brought another Encyclopedia of American Immigration (unrelated to the previously mentioned work of the same name) edited by Carl L. Bankston and intended for use by the general public and high school/college undergraduates.

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Not Just Mexico’S Problem: Labor Migration From Mexico To The United States (1900 – 2000), Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz Feb 2016

Not Just Mexico’S Problem: Labor Migration From Mexico To The United States (1900 – 2000), Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz

Ruth Gomberg-Munoz

U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed to “help countries like Mexico… do a better job of creating jobs for their people” as part of his plan to curtail undocumented immigration to the United States (Organizing for America). This idea – that the root cause of undocumented migration from Mexico to the U.S. is economic underdevelopment in Mexico – has currency in both popular and political discourse. But is it accurate? In this article, I synthesize historical, theoretical, and ethnographic scholarship to provide a transnational perspective on twentieth century labor migration from Mexico to the United States. These data show that …

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125 Years: Serving The Government Information Needs Of South Dakota, Vickie L. Mix Dec 2015

125 Years: Serving The Government Information Needs Of South Dakota, Vickie L. Mix

Vickie Mix

The article focuses on the completion of 125 years of service in government information to South Dakota in September 2014. Topics discussed include official membership to the South Dakota State University of the Federal Depository Library program (FDLP) on November 2, 1889; distribution of House Journals to the historical societies and state executives; importance of land grant heritage to the University; and procurement of buildings and machinery under the U.S. Government Printing Office

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