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Female seminaries in nineteenth-century America offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in particular provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women.
Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female seminaries, ......
At last available in a Spanish-language edition, Ilegal is the acclaimed memoir of José Ángel N., an undocumented immigrant who built a new life in the United States. Arriving in the US having only finished the ninth grade, N. embraced education, rising from ESL classes to graduate school before becoming a professional translator. Despite a ......
Female seminaries in nineteenth-century America offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in particular provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women.
Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female seminaries, ......
Essential music-theoretical writings from a giant of avant-garde composing
One of the twentieth century's most important musical thinkers, James Tenney did pioneering work in multiple fields, including computer music, tuning theory, and algorithmic and computer-assisted composition. From Scratch arranges, edits, and ......
New perspectives on Latin American migration to the interior United States
This collection examines Latina/o immigrants and the movement of the Latin American labor force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa. Contributors look at outside factors affecting migration, ......
Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America's sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. ......
How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Working poor women, feminist activism, and the birth of a new era of grassroots empowerment
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen ......
Europe's working women in film fantasy and sobering reality
From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first-century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. ......
Shedding light on a decades-long drama of immigration reform
Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore ......
