By Robert W. Sands Jr.,Barbara L. Turner
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This quantity is the end result of a transatlantic dialog at the subject """"Transnational America,"""" during which greater than sixty students from universities within the usa and Germany accumulated to evaluate the ancient importance of and look at the tutorial clients for the """"transnational turn"""" in American stories.
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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 cost got here because the coal mining flourished, through iron and metal foundries and accompanying railroads and river barge site visitors.
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