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How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr (A Book Review)

open access: yesReview of International American Studies, 2020
Immerwahr, Daniel. How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Elena Furlanetto
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THE HISTORY OF THE ORGAN IN THE UNITED STATES

open access: yes, 2021
From the Spanish mission days of the seventeenth century to the present, the organ mirrors to a remarkable degree its social, economic, and cultural setting. It has unique characteristics that bind it more closely than any other instrument to its location, to social and economic changes, and to fluctuations in musical taste.
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Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution

open access: yeseLife, 2021
Teeth are present in most clades of vertebrates but have been lost completely several times in actinopterygian fishes and amniotes. Using phenotypic data collected from over 500 genera via micro-computed tomography, we provide the first rigorous ...
Daniel J Paluh   +10 more
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Replacing mechanical protection with colorful faces–twice: parallel evolution of the non-operculate marine worm-snail genera Thylacodes (Guettard, 1770) and Cayo n. gen. (Gastropoda: Vermetidae) [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2023
Vermetid worm-snails are sessile and irregularly coiled marine mollusks common in warmer nearshore and coral reef environments that are subject to high predation pressures by fish. Often cryptic, some have evolved sturdy shells or long columellar muscles
Rüdiger Bieler   +6 more
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Long-Term Shifts in Faunal Composition of Freshwater Mollusks in Spring-Fed Rivers of Florida

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Florida’s freshwater spring and river ecosystems have been deteriorating due to direct and indirect human impacts. However, while the conservation and restoration strategies employed to mitigate these effects often rely on faunal surveys that go back ...
Kristopher M. Kusnerik   +6 more
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Literary History of the United States.

open access: yesAmerican Literature, 1949
Vol. [3] Bibliography. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Ludwig, Richard M., 1920-   +4 more
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Terror, Aesthetics, and the Humanities in the Public Sphere

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
In the early days of the Iraq War, the United States used the power of images, such as those of the “mother of all bombs” and a wide array of weapons, as well as aesthetic techniques to influence and shape the consciousness of millions and to generate ...
Emory Elliott
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A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history.
Greg Robinson
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A history of the United States

open access: yesThe Virginia Law Register, 1905
Includes bibliographical references and index. ; v. 1. The planting of a nation in the new world, 1000-1660 -- v. 2. A century of colonial history, 1660-1760 -- v. 3. The American revolution, 1761-1789 -- v. 4. Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815 -- v. 5. The period of transition, 1815-1848 -- v. 6. The war for southern independence, 1849-1865.--[v.
Edward Channing, Eva G Moore
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The History of Psychogeriatrics in the United States

open access: yesInternational Psychogeriatrics, 1999
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, elderly individuals with severe mental illness living in the United States were cared for in state-run facilities that went by various names (asylums, psychopathic hospitals, state hospitals, state mental hospitals, and medical centers).
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