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Ethnicity

 

Henrichsen, Lynn, et al., “Building Community by Respecting Linguistic Diversity: Scandinavian Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 78 (Winter 2010), 4–22. Heavily illustrated.

Johnson, Tyler V., “Punishing the Lies on the Rio Grande: Catholic and Immigrant Volunteers in Zachary Taylor’s Army and the Fight against Nativism,” Journal of the Early Republic, 30 (Spring 2010), 63–84.

Luconi, Stefano, “Oral Histories of Italian Americans in the Great Depression: The Politics and Economics of the Crisis,” in Oral Histories, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans, ed. Luisa Del Giudice, 31–40. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 288 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-0-230-62003-2.)

Praszalowicz, Dorota, “Polish American Sisterhood: The Americanization Process,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Summer 2009), 45–57.

Quinn, John F., “Expecting the Impossible? Abolitionist Appeals to the Irish in Antebellum America,” New England Quarterly, 82 (Dec. 2009), 667–710.

Radzilowski, John, “A Social History of Polish American Catholicism,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Summer 2009), 21–43.

Schultz, April, “How Did Women Shape the Presentation of Norwegian American Ethnicity at the 1925 Norse-American Centennial?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 12 (Dec. 2008), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1001234510.

Troitskaia, L. M., “Fratsuzskie pervoprokhodtsy severoamerikanskogo kontinenta (po materialam periodicheskikh zhurnalov SShA kontsa 1830-kh gg.)” (The French trailblazers in North America in late 1830s American periodicals), Kanadaskii ezhegodnik, Trudy roik (Moscow), 13 (2009), 107–15. In Russian.

 

Knaar, Mary L., “Faith, Frauen, and the Formation of an Ethnic Identity: German Lutheran Women in South And Central Texas, 1831-1890” (Texas Christian University, 2009). Order No. DA3344867.

Mezzano, Michael John, Jr, “‘Not the Race of Dante’: Southern Italians as Undesirable Americans” (Boston College, 2009). Order No. DA3349902.

 

Biskupski, M. B. B., Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939–1945. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. xii, 362 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2559-6.)

Caulfield, Norman, nafta and Labor in North America. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xii, 246 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03492-3. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07670-1.)

Del Giudice, Luisa, ed., Oral Histories, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 288 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-0-230-62003-2.)

Stanger-Ross, Jordan, Staying Italian: Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 190 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-226-77074-1.)

 

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., A Yankee in Mexican California, 1834–1836. (Berkeley: Heyday, 2010. x, 82 pp. Paper, $9.95, isbn 978-1-59714-119-2.)

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