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Report covers fiscal year. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Vols. for 1965-1972 compiled by the Historical Unit, U.S. Army Medical Dept.; 1973-1974 by the Medical History Division, U.S. Army Center of Military History; 1975 by Medical History Branch, U.S. Army Center of Military History.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Paleo-Indians, Europeans, and the settlement of America; 2. Colonization and settlement of North America; 3. The Early Republic to 1860; 4. The creation of an industrial and urban society, 1860-1914; 5. The evolution of a modern population, 1914-1945; 6. Transitions: the baby boom and bust and the new new immigrants, 1945-1970; 7. A modern industrial society, 1970-2010

If the frontier, in all its boundless possibility, was a central organizing metaphor for much of U.S. history, today it is arguably the border that best encapsulates the American experience, as xenophobia, economic inequality, and resurgent nationalism continue to fuel conditions of division and limitation. This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders-whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. Together, these essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as social and political forces continue to try to draw lines around and between people

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- A Note on Language and Terminology -- Introduction: "If We Build Them, Wars Will Come" -- 1. Conquest -- 2. Occupied -- 3. Why Are So Many Places Named Fort? -- 4. Invading Your Neighbors -- 5. The Permanent Indian Frontier -- 6. Going Global -- 7. The Military Opens Doors -- 8. Reopening the Frontier -- 9. Empire of Bases -- 10. The Spoils of War -- 11. Normalizing Occupation -- 12. Islands of Imperialism -- 13. The Colonial Present -- 14. Building Blowback -- 15. Did the "Cold War" End? -- 16. Out-of-Control War -- 17. War Is the Mission -- Conclusion: Ending "Endless Wars" -- Gratitude and Thanks -- Appendix: U.S. Wars, Combat, and Other Combat Actions Abroad -- Notes -- Suggested Resources -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction Toward a Genealogy of the U.S. Colonial Present -- PART I. HISTORIES IN CONTENTION -- Chapter 1 The Specters of Recognition -- Chapter 2 Colonizing Chaco Canyon -- Chapter 3 The Prose of Counter-Sovereignty -- Chapter 4 A Sorry State -- PART II. COLONIAL ENTANGLEMENTS -- Chapter 5 Missionaries, Slaves, and Indians -- Chapter 6 American Empire, Hispanism, and the Nationalist Visions of Albizu, Recto, and Grau -- Chapter 7 Becoming Indo-Hispano -- Chapter 8 Seeking New Fields of Labor -- Chapter 9 The Kēpaniwai (Damming of the Water) Heritage Gardens -- PART III. POLITICS OF TRANSPOSITION -- Chapter 10 Our Stories Are Maps Larger Than Can Be Held -- Chapter 11 Governmentality and Cartographies of Colonial Spaces -- Chapter 12 "I'm Not Running on My Gender" -- Chapter 13 Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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Index, with special title page precedes the General orders, has imprint: Nashville, Tenn., John T.S. Fall, 1864. ; Volume title pages, issued separately, have title: General orders, Department of the Cumberland. ; Imprint varies. ; Printer varies: Government Printing House, . ; Mode of access: Internet. ; will digitize ; Latest issue consulted: No. 169 (Dec. 29, 1864). ; Description based on: No. 1 (Oct. 30th, 1862); title from caption. ; Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library copy has autograph: Jas E. Negus Jr., 15th Penna. Cavalry U.S.A., Hd. Qrs. Dept. Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn., June 1865 ; The online edition of this book in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Libraries

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) processes for investigating military enlistees' criminal history, focusing on: (1) the extent to which relevant criminal history information on potential enlistees is available to the military services; and (2) federal government initiatives that could improve the process of obtaining criminal history information."

A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present "A masterly historical synthesis, full of wonderful detail and beautifully written, that brings fresh insights to the story of how immigrants were drawn to and settled in America over the centuries."—Nancy Foner, author of One Quarter of the Nation The history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the nation. Drawn from stories spanning the colonial period to the present, Bon Tempo and Diner detail the experiences of people from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. They explore the many themes of American immigration scholarship, including the contexts and motivations for migration, settlement patterns, work, family, racism, and nativism, against the background of immigration law and policy. Taking a global approach that considers economic and personal factors in both the sending and receiving societies, the authors pay close attention to how immigration has been shaped by the state response to its promises and challenges

Citation: Smith, A.C. United States tariff history. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1897. ; Morse Department of Special Collections ; Introduction: In all countries it has been found a necessity to raise money for government expenses by means of a tax on imports. It is found that this indirect tax is by far the most practical method. The duties are collected by the revenue officers hired by the government. All countries are chiefly dependent on such a tax for means to run their national affairs. This tariff question has proved itself as great a problem as ever any able body of men have cared to solve. In our country it has been amply proved so. We employ the best legislators of our country that we can procure and give their all the support we can. These men have studied diligently the needs of the country. Indeed they have been doing this for over a century but there is still this problem unsolved. We have had numerous tariff bills framed but not one which has ever proved itself satisfactory to the people for any length of time.

Description based on: 1861, no. 1 (Jan. 18, 1861); title from caption. ; Some vols. include Orders, Bulletins, Circulars, General court-martial orders, General orders of the Army, New York, etc. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Issued by the Adjutant General's Off.; by the Military Secretary's Dept.

An accessible course book on U.S.-Latin American relations"Our Hemisphere"? uncovers the range, depth, and veracity of the United States' relationship with the Americas. Using short historical vignettes, Britta and Russell Crandall chart the course of inter‑American relations from 1776 to the present, highlighting the roles that individuals and groups of soldiers, intellectuals, private citizens, and politicians have had in shaping U.S. policy toward Latin America in the postcolonial, Cold War, and post–Cold War eras. The United States is usually and correctly seen as pursuing a monolithic, hegemonic agenda in Latin America, wielding political, economic, and military muscle to force Latin American countries to do its bidding, but the Crandalls reveal unexpected yet salient regional interactions where Latin Americans have exercised their own power with their northern and very powerful neighbor. Moreover, they show that Washington's relationship with the region has relied, in addition to the usual heavy‑handedness, on cooperation and mutual respect since the beginning of the relationship

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain and Europe, A. G. Hopkins takes readers from the colonial era to today to show how, far from diverging, the United States and Western Europe followed similar trajectories throughout this long period, and how America's dependency on Britain and Europe extended much later into the nineteenth century than previously understood.In a sweeping narrative spanning three centuries, Hopkins describes how the revolt of the mainland colonies was the product of a crisis that afflicted the imperial states of Europe generally, and how the history of the American republic between 1783 and 1865 was a response not to the termination of British influence but to its continued expansion. He traces how the creation of a U.S. industrial nation-state after the Civil War paralleled developments in Western Europe, fostered similar destabilizing influences, and found an outlet in imperialism through the acquisition of an insular empire in the Caribbean and Pacific. The period of colonial rule that followed reflected the history of the European empires in its ideological justifications, economic relations, and administrative principles. After 1945, a profound shift in the character of globalization brought the age of the great territorial empires to an end.American Empire goes beyond the myth of American exceptionalism to place the United States within the wider context of the global historical forces that shaped the Western empires and the world