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Encyclopedia of American Studies

Rather than a single black intellectual tradition, there are more properly black intellectual traditions. These are intellectual movements that have developed in the modern world out of the formation of black people, who in turn were formed from a diverse set of ethnic groups. Some emerged from the many African ethnicities brought under the rubric of "black." Others are from varieties of black-...

The American Historical Association

The 101 annual meeting of the American Historical Association offered a number of good panels in labor history. Several sessions featured papers on working people in the early modern and modern eras, in the Third World as well as in Europe and the United States. Nearly all presentations bore the influence of the New Labor History, which suggests that the genre no longer confines itself to the f...

Historical Biogeography of American Beech

American beech (Fagus grandifolia), now a centerpiece species of the eastern deciduous forest, has had a continually changing historical biogeography. This paper reviews the paleoecology, the presettlement occurrence, the modern range, and the current abundance pattern of beech. It synthesizes these four databases into maps representing the distribution and abundance of beech at specific period...

The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia

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