By John F. Oyler,Bridgeville Area Historical Society
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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 old importance of and view the educational customers for the """"transnational turn"""" in American stories.
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