Donna Gabaccia’s “Immigrant Women: No Where at Home” focuses on the creation of immigrant women studies and its similarities to women’s studies, ethnic studies, sociology, history, and literature in which […]
Month: September 2015
Reflecting On “Hyphen Nation”
Matthew Frye Jacobson’s “Hyphen Nation” focuses on America’s ethnic revival and the evolution of race and culture in America. Jacobson claims that the ethnic revival changed political and social culture, […]
Reflecting on Uprootedness and Transplantation
The three pieces we read this week were Oscar Handlin’s “Immigration Portrayed As an Experience of Uprootedness”, John Bodnar’s “Immigration Portrayed As an Experience of Transplantation”, and Rudolph J. Vecoli’s […]
Reflecting on “Military Histories”
Military Histories Old and New: A Reintroduction by Robert M. Citino is a dense explanation of the depth of the field that is military history. Citino explains that despite being […]
Reflecting on “Mapping History” & “Historical Consciousness”
Historical Consciousness in the Modern Age paints a very important evolution of the importance of history over time and how it has changed in the opinions of great thinkers over […]
Reflecting on “Historical Awareness” and “Uses of History”
Historical Awareness really took a bite out of what people perceive as history and where there is potential for error. Really, the whole idea of being historically aware seems to […]