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Oil in Texas
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Diana Davids Olien,Diana Davids Hinton,Roger M. Olien |
"As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but of little commercial value. Oil and natural gas bubbled up in many a water well, but in quantities too small to attract industrial … |
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Tales from the left coast
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James Hirsen,NewsMax,James L. Hirsen |
"It's common knowledge that Hollywood leans left. This peculiar phenomenon would not be all that important if it weren't for the fact that celebrity status has come to mean power. We're not talking a… |
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Queering the Color Line
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Siobhan B. Somerville |
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a ran… |
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Taking Haiti
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Mary A. Renda |
"The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years - and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring t… |
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