Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

The knowledge that they traded their lives for a job generated an overarching fear of losing their income."--BOOK JACKET.

By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming Valley around the cities of Wilkes-Bar

While much has been written about immigrant traditions, music, food culture, folklore, and other aspects of ethnic identity, little attention has been given to

"Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environm

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, an