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John Jr., nicknamed "John-John" by the press as a child, was born in late November 1960, 17 days after his father was elected. John Jr. died in 1999 when the small plane he was piloting crashed. [417] In August 1963, Jackie gave birth to a son, Patrick. However, he died after two days due to complications from birth. [418]
A Nation of Immigrants (ISBN 978-0-06-144754-9) is a 1958 book on American immigration by then U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.. The name of the book is a reference to the fact that the United States is a country whose population is predominantly made up of immigrants and their recent descendants, who settled the country following the European colonization of the Americas and the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This ...
Federalist No. 2, titled "Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence", is a political essay written by John Jay.It was the second of The Federalist Papers, a series of 85 essays arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution.
The American frontier, also known as the "Old West", popularly known as the "Wild West", encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
The Social History of American Education. U. of Illinois Pr., 1988. 370 pp.; reprinted essays from History of Education Quarterly; Nasaw, David. Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States (1981) Rury, John L. Education and Social Change: Themes in the History of American Schooling. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ...
What Ifs? of American History, subtitled Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, is a collection of seventeen essays dealing with counterfactual history regarding the United States. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 2003, ISBN 0-399-15091-9 , and this book as well as its two predecessors, What If? and What If? 2 , were edited ...
The John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture resides at Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library and contains his personal and professional papers. [22] The archive is one of three academic units named after Franklin at Duke.