Krabbendam (Roosevelt Academy) offers a social history of Dutch immigration to America from 1840 to 1940, emphasizing the settlement process and the formation of the Dutch-American identity. With a fo
This collection puts the topic of Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies in a new American Studies perspective. This perspective compares the similarities and differences in responses and their transatl
The central argument of this collection of essays is that Theodore Roosevelt's unique combination of personal, cultural, intellectual and diplomatic links to Europe, along with his goal of establishin
Traditionally, migration has been studied at either the beginning or the end of the journey. Surprisingly little research has been devoted to what actually happens to people in between. The contributo
The 14 biographical essays on Dutch-American Reformed Church clergy in this book are not intended as a strictly biographical history of Colonial America, but to bring together the narrative of a relig
