Probing the Past

Wendy Everham earned her MA in history. She is the editor of Letters Written from America, 1849–1853. She is also the author of «The Recovery of the Feminine in an American Pietist Community: The Interpretive Challenge of the Theology of Conrad Beissel» featured in Pennsylvania Folklife.

Contents: David R. M. Beck: Reinterpreting Historical Evidence: The Existence of Numerous Menominee Villages at the Time of Earliest European Contact – Eva Becsei-Kilborn: Finding a New Home: Hungarian Emigrés in Scotland – Adrian Capehart: African Newcomers in Chicago: The Struggle for Permanence Versus the Desire to Return 41 – Hasia Diner: Wandering Jews: Peddlers, Immigrants, and the Discovery of «New Worlds» – Michael Doorley: The Gaelic American and the Shaping of Irish-American Opinion, 1903-1914 – Sean Harris/Becca Sanders: Justice in Mental Health: A Better Foundation for the Expansion of Peer Support – Manuel Menrath: Pioneers and Native Peoples: The Discrepancy between Historical Scholarship and Its Popular Presentation in the United States and Switzerland – Marion S. Miller:«Pane et Lavoro»: Agrarian Strikes of Women Straw Workers in Tuscan Contado, 1896-1897 – Dominic A. Pacyga: Losing Clout: Nancy Kaszak Versus Rahm Emanuel and the Decline of Polish American Politics in Chicago – Gary K. Pranger: Philip Schaff, Marginal Men and Academic Freedom – Leo Schelbert: Different but Equally Ingenious: Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941), a Pioneer in Understanding the Equivalence of the Western and the North American Indian Mind – Marianne Burkhard: History Seen Through Multiple Lenses: Leo Schelbert and the Swiss American Historical Society – Susann Bosshard-Kälin: The Battle against Forgetting – Wendy Everham: A Scholar’s Journey to the Open: An Appreciation.