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  • Author: Indiana Historical Society

Date: 1954

Language: English

Find in a Library: Inconnu

Publication sur l'histoire de l'exploration et la colonisation française en Amérique du Nord, et les emplacements américaine dans laquelle les constructions et les noms de lieu françaises persistent dans le présent.

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  • Author: Williams, Robert S.
  • Author: Riley, Kathleen C.

Date: 2001

Book Title: Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement

Volume: 2: History, Theory, and Policy

Language: en

Find in a Library: 425299626, 44461946

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Third chapter in a collection of essays on language ideology as related to issues surrounding the political movement in favor of codifying English the official language of the United States. This essay presents a case-study in the processes and…

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  • Author: Guignard, Michael

Date: 1969

Language: en

Find in a Library: 16286903

An undergraduate honors essay written for the Department of Government at Bowdoin College. Observations into the "low assimilation rate among Franco-Americans" as determined by French Canadian migration patterns, and partly evidenced in what the…

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  • Author: LaFlamme, J.L.K.

Date: 1908 novembre

Publication: La Revue Franco-Américaine

Volume: 2

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 445763455, 564957447

Sur Aram J. Pothier, candidat républicain au poste de gouverneur du Rhode Island, comme il a été décrit par New England Magazine. Un dirigeant local - culturellement, politiquement, économiquement. Aussi quelques mots sur l'homme comme…

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  • Author: Kemner, Léon

Date: 1908 décembre

Publication: La Revue Franco-Américaine

Volume: 2

Language: fr

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1908 annonce de l'élection de M. Pothier au bureau du gouverneur de l'état de Rhode Island. Fournit quelques citations pertinentes d'un journal de Montréal, La Patrie.

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  • Author: Kemner, Léon

Date: 1908 décembre

Publication: La Revue Franco-Américaine

Volume: 2

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 445763455, 564957447

Piece sur "l'ancien inspectuer-général des mines dans la province de Québec" et un journaliste formidable du 19e siècle, à l'occasion de sa mort à Fall River. Des caractérisations de la patriotisme québécoise de son projet…

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  • Author: LaFlamme, J.L.K.

Date: 1909 février

Publication: La Revue Franco-Américaine

Volume: 2

Language: fr

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Certains critiques de l'avis de M. l'abbé Magnan sur les concepts d'assimilation et le nationalisme où ils concernent les catholiques franco-américaines dans une langue minoritaire. Arguments de Magnan en faveur de la préservation de la…

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  • Author: Kleinberg, S. J.

Date: 2005 spring

Publication: Social Science History

Volume: 29

Language: en

Find in a Library: 42413348, 2761258

Article on the dynamics of class and ethnicity as related to the labor of women and children in the northeastern United States around the turn of the century. Statistical relationship between family and economy in urban, industrialized America during…

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  • Author: Haebler, Peter

Date: 1976

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of New Hampshire

Language: en

Find in a Library: 3231008, 5519977

Descriptions of turn-of-the-century transitions among the Franco Americans in Holyoke, Massachusetts, from a lower-class immigrant enclave to a more largely socially integrated, participatory American community with greater public influence. Argues a…

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  • Author: Iutcovich, Mark

Date: 1970

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Sociology

Institution: Case Western Reserve University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 53732110, 612908973, 77321099

Dissertation analyzing the social dynamics of an Ontario "pulp and paper town" with significant French- and English-heritage populations. A comparative sociological study in how ethnicity impacts community structures and interrelations in Canada. How…

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  • Author: Bonier, Marie-Louise

Date: 1920

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 6206154

Un portrait riche et approfondie de la naissance d'un des plus grandes communautés franco-américaines du Rhode Island. Présenté en trois parties: "Histoire de l'ancien Woonsocket et de ses environs," "L'émigration des Canadiens…

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  • Author: Kistler, Ruth Barthold

Date: 1947

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Education

Institution: New York University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 53768425

Dissertation on the cultural life of French Canada, from the 16th century until the middle 20th, and the specific roles that religion, education, and language have played in its minority preservation in and outside of Quebec. Historical background of…

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  • Author: Massey, Lucy Alice

Date: 1961

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Education

Institution: New York University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6634706, 58668868

Historiography of Acadia up to 1755. Analysis of writings on the Acadian people as they were thought to have lived in Atlantic Canada before their 18th-century expulsion. Presentation of pre-expulsion Acadian customs, behaviors, and social life as…

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  • Author: Préfontaine, Marielle

Date: 1969

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Sociology

Institution: Cornell University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 63919394, 10602109

Find Online: OL13199193W

Qualitative analysis of self-concepts of college women and their varying attitudes toward gender roles. Based on data collected through questionnaires to women in different types of French Canadian schools - "classical colleges," "normal schools,"…

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  • Author: Muro, Mark

Date: 1987 February 3

Publication: Boston Daily Globe

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1536853

Article part 2 of 2 on the recent Lowell, Massachusetts, city council vote to commemorate author Jack Kerouac with a park bearing his name. Full article title includes the line: "After years of indifference, Lowell votes to build a park." Charts…

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  • Author: Conforti, Joseph A.

Date: 2001

Language: en

Find in a Library: 45909198

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The shape of regional identity in New England, from its Puritan origins, to its Yankee iterations, to its immigrant diversity. How popular conceptions of the New England region were created, established, and communicated, and how these conceptions…

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  • Author: Mount, Graeme S.
  • Author: Stevenson, Michael D.

Date: 1993-01 (winter, spring)

Publication: Maine Historical Society Quarterly

Volume: 32

Language: en

Find in a Library: 22663768, 607696548

Article discussing the impact of the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty on the remapping of Roman Catholic diocesan boundaries in the New Brunswick and northern Maine border region. How Maine and Canadian political geography figured into the organization…

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  • Author: Bender, Prosper

Date: 1888 November

Publication: Magazine of American History

Volume: 10

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1590082, 7676496

Some comments from an American critic at the time of a visible wave of French Canadian immigration to the United States - especially New England - in the 1880s. Provides a favorable social and political context from the French Canada of this period.…

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  • Author: Martin, Robert K.

Date: 1993 June

Publication: American Literature

Volume: 65

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1480320, 17450247

Brief piece arguing that the inclusion of Canadian and North American French cultures into the scope of consideration for the discipline of "American Studies" appears just an extension of the subject's methodological scope, and too little attentive…

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  • Author: Guy, Don

Date: 1976 July

Publication: Yankee

Language: English

Find in a Library: 34796734

Article on the plight of Franco American cultural activists in New England. The variety of the troubles confronting them, and their energy in relation to the seeming decline of the historically supportive Franco cultural establishments as seen in…

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  • Author: Schwartzwald, Robert

Date: 1994

Book Title: Langue, espace, société : les variétés du français en Amérique du Nord

Language: French

Find in a Library: 34478167

Des pensées sur les défis culturelles, politiques, et scolaires auxquels sont confrontés les études québécoises et les études franco-américaines dans les universités américaines. L'état actuel des cultures…

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  • Author: Polenberg, Richard

Date: 1980

Language: en

Find in a Library: 5448039

Find Online: OL4101285M

A history of the United States between 1938 and 1978 that explores the categories and convergences of class, race, and ethnicity. Measures how these three categories factored into World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Begins with the…

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  • Author: Busch, Niven

Date: 1970

Book Title: Twenty-One Americans : Being Profiles of Some People Famous in Our Time

Language: English

Find in a Library: 74922

A profile of Boston and New York social activist, Urbain Ledoux. Ledoux, known as "Mr. Zero," was an early advocate for the homeless and jobless of the United States. His parents emigrated from Quebec to work in Connecticut and Maine in the 19th…

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  • Author: McClymer, John

Date: 1992

Book Title: Immigration and Ethnicity : American Society--"Melting Pot" or "Salad Bowl"?

Language: English

Find in a Library: 23016079

Brief essay that examines the focus terms "ethnicity" and "assimilation" through a case study of the Franco American population of Worcester, Massachusetts, before 1914. McClymer tells how the French Canadian immigrant ethnic group negotiated the…

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  • Author: Duval, André
  • Author: Wade, Mason

Date: 1980

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 301288843

Find Online: OL12305301W

Un livre bilingue - un demi en anglais, un demi en français - qui célèbre la grande histoire de Boston et de Québec, de la Nouvelle Angleterre et de la Nouvelle France, et leurs intersections. Du dix-septième siècle jusqu'a 1980. La…

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  • Author: Jarmel, Marcia
  • Author: Schneider, Ken

Date: 2010

Language: English (Spanish and Chinese audio and subtitles)

Find in a Library: 435619912

Documentary film on multilingual and multicultural education in the United States. The personal, social, and political implications of teaching in languages other than English, and the complex realities of immigrant families' hopes for their…

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  • Author: Keyssar, Alexander

Date: 1986

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12555862

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A history of unemployment and the unemployed in Massachusetts during the hundred years previous to the stock market collapse of 1929. A study of the jobless - their backgrounds, conditions, and the social and political climate of their day - in…

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  • Author: Murray, John O'Kane

Date: 1876

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6910728

Find Online: OL5916517W

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A single volume on the history of the Catholic Church in North America: from Columbus' arrival in 1492 to the French Jesuits and Native Americans of the 16th and 17th centuries, to the Irish of the 18th and 19th, up to the America of the period of…

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  • Author: Levasseur, Raymond Luc

Date: 1992

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown

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Essay on political activist and Vietnam veteran Ray Luc Levasseur's working-class Franco background from around the mills of Sanford, Maine. The pride he has built out of the integrity of his family and his experiences of discrimination. The…

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  • Author: Wormwood, Rick

Date: 2004 December 17-23

Publication: The Portland Phoenix

Language: English

Find in a Library: 42450194

Feature article on Sanford native, Ray Luc Levasseur, and his return to southern Maine following decades spent imprisoned for convictions associated with political activism. Some historical background about Levasseur, his hometown, and the reputation…

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