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A Tale of Two Ships: A Microhistory of Empire, Trade, and U.S.-Spanish Relations in the Nineteenth Century
(2016-07-26)
In 1873, the capture of a private American vessel, the Virginius, by a Cuban warship almost brought the United States and Spain to war. The Spanish warship the Tornado seized the Virginius as it ran arms and ammunition to ...
Memorializing “The Last Great Cause”: Spanish Civil War Refugees and the Re-Alignment of the American Left in the 1950s
(2016-07-26)
The 1930s were the heyday for left-wing politics in the United States. Soon to be lost in the increasingly ideologically rigid world of Cold War America, socialist politics flourished in labor halls and urban ballrooms in ...
Moving People: Refugee Politics, Foreign Aid, and the Emergence of American Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century
(2020-06-16)
This dissertation analyzes how U.S. institutions, policymakers, and foreign aid workers confronted global refugee crises between the two World Wars. Drawing from over a dozen domestic and international archives with sources ...