By Margaret C. Peck
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This quantity is the end result of a transatlantic dialog at the subject """"Transnational America,"""" within which greater than sixty students from universities within the usa and Germany accumulated to evaluate the historic value of and think about the educational clients for the """"transnational turn"""" in American experiences.
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Mingo Junction, a working-class city within the higher Ohio River Valley, has a wealthy mixture of ethnicities and races with a background going again to the Mingo Indians, together with visits from George Washington within the 1770s. Early payment got here because the coal mining flourished, through iron and metal foundries and accompanying railroads and river barge site visitors.
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