Delaware: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Efforts by Spain in the sixteenth century to establish, and later maintain, a foothold along the Atlantic coast between Florida and Chesapeake Bay a region considered vital to the …
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Puerto Rico: BIBLIOGRAPHY
Archive of the State Library of Connecticut. RG 12: War Records Department. World War I Veterans. Box 31. Archive of the State Library of Connecticut. RG 12: War Records …
American Chesapeake Bay and the Middle Colonies
Initial voyages to the New World were generally unsuccessful. The first colonists were a mix of a few enthusiastic middle-class adventurers, looking for the vast wealth promised by the …
Prostitution
Commercialized vice appeared early in colonial America. Prostitution was most often connected to urban, maritime, and, especially, wartime societies. Prostitutes plied their trade individually in nearly every community, ranging …
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Famous for such pithy sayings as Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise, Poor Richard’s Almanack was published annually by Benjamin Franklin …
Colorado Guide for Tourist
Colorado Latinos and Racism In response to the racial prejudice that they encountered, Colorado’s Latino communities maintained grassroots efforts to strengthen their communities. Though Colorado’s Latino community did not …
California Chicano Social Movements
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Latino youth of Mexican descent reclaimed their ethnic identity and mobilized around it. Referring to themselves as Chicanos (a derivative of Mexicano and members …
Holiday in Arkansas
Latinos in Today’s Arkansas Although the Latino population remains concentrated in Little Rock, northwest Arkansas, and poultry-producing areas in Arkansas, by the early 2000s, the Latino presence was felt …