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The “Good War” in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bod...
A History of Immigrants in Urban America
This book makes something of a summary statement regarding the more than 40 million people who left their homelands in Asia, North America, Europe and...
Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century
In a compelling inquiry into public events ranging from the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through ethnic community fairs to pioneer celebr...
Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywoo...
Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960
Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the ...
Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940
Originally published 1982. Bodnar's central concern in Workers' World is with the working people of Pennsylvania prior to World War II. He examines ho...
Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870-1940
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Families, Unions, and Work, 1900-1940
Remembering Community in Indiana
"Our Towns: Remembering Community in Indiana is based upon a series of interviews conducted for more than twenty years by the Oral History Research Ce...
Immigration and Industrialization, 1870–1940
In the closing decades of the 19th century, tens of thousands of European immigrants and Southern blacks flocked to the steel towns of Pennsylvania, l...