Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Is This America? -- Chapter 1 Tents, Trailers, and Shack Towns: Mobilizing the Southern Home Front, 1939-1942 -- Chapter 2 "Empty Sermons": Race and Economic Mobility on the Southern Home Front, 1940-1942 -- Chapter 3 "On the Train and...

This working paper concerns the local origins of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States, circa 1900. New evidence is drawn from a large random sample of Russian-Jewish immigrant arrivals in the United States. It provides information on origins not merely by large regions, or even by the...

Free labor -- From Reconstruction to Jim Crow, 1877-1895 -- Blacks and labor in the progressive era, 1900-1920 -- From progressivism to the New Deal, 1920-1935 -- The New Deal and World War -- The civil rights era, 1950-1965 -- The affirmative action dilemma, 1965-present