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

This quantity is the result of a transatlantic dialog at the subject """"Transnational America,"""" during which greater than sixty students from universities within the usa and Germany collected to evaluate the old importance of and consider the educational customers for the """"transnational turn"""" in American stories.

Around St. Clair (Images of America)

St. Clair lies in a slim valley wealthy with anthracite assets. the city was once born round 1831, in the course of the nice tough coal growth in northeast Pennsylvania. through the years the city accelerated to surrounding parts or patches referred to as Arnouts Addition, Wadesville, darkish Water, New fort, 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 top Ohio River Valley, has a wealthy mixture of ethnicities and races with a historical past going again to the Mingo Indians, together with visits from George Washington within the 1770s. Early payment got here because the coal mining flourished, by way of 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 this sort of 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 hard, overland trip during which he and the 3 different last survivors of the unique day trip walked a few 1,500 miles from the significant Texas coast to the Gulf of California, then one other 1,300 miles to Mexico urban.