Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies (Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies)

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 collected to evaluate the ancient importance of and view the educational clients for the """"transnational turn"""" in American stories.

Around St. Clair (Images of America)

St. Clair lies in a slender valley wealthy with anthracite assets. town used to be born round 1831, in the course of the nice challenging coal growth in northeast Pennsylvania. through the years the city increased to surrounding parts or patches often called Arnouts Addition, Wadesville, darkish Water, New citadel, Mount Laffee, Crow hole, Ravensdale, Lorraine, Diener's Hill, East Mines, and Mill Creek.

Mingo Junction (Images of America)

Mingo Junction, a working-class city within the higher Ohio River Valley, has a wealthy mixture of ethnicities and races with a heritage going again to the Mingo Indians, together with visits from George Washington within the 1770s. Early cost got here because the coal mining flourished, via iron and metal foundries and accompanying railroads and river barge site visitors.

We Came Naked and Barefoot: The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America (Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory)

Probably nobody has ever been one of these survivor as álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man excursion despatched out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck at the Texas coast, six years of captivity between local peoples, and an exhausting, overland trip within which he and the 3 different final survivors of the unique excursion walked a few 1,500 miles from the crucial Texas coast to the Gulf of California, then one other 1,300 miles to Mexico urban.