Immigration History Research Center
The Immigration History Research Center promotes interdisciplinary research on international migration, develops archives documenting immigrant and refugee life, especially in the U.S., and makes specialized scholarship accessible to students, teachers, and the public.
Perspectives
Immigration. It's a hot topic. And a focus of scholarship, teaching and debate at the University of Minnesota since the 1920s. Thoughtful and provocative perspectives are offered by University faculty and graduate students on migration news. We challenge you to read and to think. This week's topic:
Collections
IHRC has created a vast archive of newspapers, oral histories, and personal papers, along with the organizational records of immigrants and refugees and the agencies created to serve them. Holdings are particularly rich on the labor migrants who came to the U.S. between 1880 and 1930s, on the displaced persons who arrived in the U.S. after World War II, and on the refugees resettled in the United States after 1975. Holdings include archives, books, periodicals and digital sources.
Scholar Events
IHRC seminars, lectures and workshops bring a highly specialized and multi-disciplinary group of University of Minnesota researchers into dialogue with their national and international peers, with university and high school students and their teachers, with journalists, photographers and filmmakers, and with communities of immigrants and ethnic Americans. The IHRC collaborates with the Institute for Global Studies to offer a special series of events called Global REM (Race, Ethnicity, and Migration). Videotapes of the seminars are available on the Global REM Website.
Community
The IHRC engages with many communities in the Twin Cities, and in Minnesota and beyond. It is especially qualified to bring into dialogue the many scholar-specialists from the University of Minnesota with high school students and their teachers, with print and non-print media workers, and with individuals from local immigrant and ethnic communities. The IHRC also works with a community support group, the Friends of the IHRC, to offer special lectures and events. These provide an opportunity for conversation and socializing as well as a way to highlight the place of the IHRC collections in preserving the heritage and promoting the study of immigrant history.
Notices
Recently Published
The Wartime Experiences of a Cleveland Czechoslovak Legionnaire: the World War I Diary of Ladislav Krizek by Stephen Sebesta
Rússia - Ascensão e Queda de Um Império - Uma História Geopolítica e Militar da Rússia, dos Czares ao Século XXI by João Fábio Bertonha
Written by the local author Stephen Sebesta, The Wartime Experiences of a Cleveland Czechoslovak Legionnaire: the World War I Diary of Ladislav Krizek is a new book consisting of a translated diary along with relevant newspaper articles, photographs, and other historical material.
Most of the material was collected from Ladislav's sons and daughters, who heard of Sebesta's work on the history of the Czech community and wanted to bring to light the important role their father played in that history. Much research was done here at the IHRC on the important roles he played in the Czech Cleveland Community, his wartime service, and his dedication to the citizenship and assistance of his fellow veterans and disabled members of the Czechoslovak Legionnaire.
The book is available in hardback and paperback editions.
FFI: http://www2.xlibris.com/BOOKSTORE/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=59645
Rússia - Ascensão e Queda de Um Império - Uma História Geopolítica e Militar da Rússia, dos Czares ao Século XXI (Russia - Rise and Fall of an Empire - a Geopolitical and Military History of Russia, the Czars to the 21st Century) was written by João Fábio Bertonha.
Although Russia has been a great power and an important player in the international system for centuries, its history was particularly symptomatic of major movements of the 20th century, such as socialism, industrialization and modern alternatives. Political and social history perspectives have dominated Brazilian analyses especially of the Revolution of 1917 and USSR, but Bertonha's current work helpfully addresses diplomatic and military history, as well. Starting at the time of the czars, passing through the Soviet age and to the present, he traces the main quandaries of Russian presence since the 16th century as Moscow worked through eras of war and peace that defined the identity of the country.
João Fábio Bertonha is Doctor in History for the Unicamp; Professor of History in the State University of Maringá and Researcher of the CNPq. He has been a visiting researcher at universities in Brazil, North America, Europe and Latin America, and has conducted research at the Immigration History Research Center, among other repositories. He is author of innumerable books and articles on international relations, Italian immigration and fascist movements.
FFI and order form: http://www.jurua.com.br/shop_item.asp?id=21323
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