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Author: Rebecca Davis

Reading Historical Objects

October 5, 2015Rebecca Davis

Each student in this class has chosen a particular object as a way of illustrating the history of American ethnicity. One way of describing these objects is that they constitute the “material culture” (the “stuff”) that we can study to… Continue Reading →

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Rebecca L. Davis

October 5, 2015Rebecca Davis

Rebecca L. Davis is an associate professor of history at UD and the instructor for this course. She is the author of More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss and is writing a new book on the history… Continue Reading →

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The History of American Ethnicity

September 21, 2015Rebecca Davis 1 Comment

This website is a class project for HIST268-030, “American Ethnic Identity,” at the University of Delaware, Fall 2015.      

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What is ethnicity?

And what are the material culture
objects that describe its development?

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