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John Higham is Professor of History Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University and the editor of Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black—White Relations Since World War II, which has just been published. (November 1997)
The Pot that Didn’t Melt
The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History
by Arthur Hertzberg
April 12, 1990 issue
The Old Frontier
America's Frontier Heritage
by Ray Allen Billington
Turner and the Sociology of the Frontier
edited by Richard Hofstadter, edited by Seymour Martin Lipset
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
by William H. Goetzmann
America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West
by John A. Hawgood
April 25, 1968 issue
Provincial History
The Americans: The National Experience
by Daniel J. Boorstin
November 11, 1965 issue
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