South Carolina Vacations
Latinos live in every county in South Carolina, but the largest Latino populations have settled in urban areas in the upstate (northwestern region), midlands, and low country (or coastal …
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Tennessee Map
Changing Social Relations in Tennessee Although Latinos have much in common with generations of rural Tennesseans who migrated to midwestern and northeastern cities, Latinos are often perceived as …
Oregon Map
Immigration, Reform Act, and the Settling of the Third and Fourth Generations of Latinos in Oregon By the 1980s the Latino population in Oregon included a significant number of …
Texas Vacations
The Depression, the New Deal, and World War II Texas’s economic expansion continued in the 1920s. Cotton prices fluctuated, but other industries particularly oil experienced a boom. Although oil …
Oregon Travel Destinations
Oregon bibliography Baragli de Bevington, Maria Luisa. Argentinian, Teacher at Lincoln High School, Portland. In Nosotros: The Hispanic People of Oregon. Eds. Erasmo Gamboa and Carolyn M. Baun. Portland: …
South Dakota Subway Map
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW In 1798, Regis Loisel (1773-1804), another French Canadian turned Spaniard, landed in St. Louis, determined to extend the fur trade to the headquarters of the Missouri. He …
Texas
Constance Cortez Texas CHRONOLOGY 1519 Spanish cartographer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explores and maps the Texas coastline. 1528-1532 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, the Spanish king’s treasurer, shipwrecks on …
North Carolina Subway Map
North Carolina Economic Impact of Latinos The rapid increase of the state’s Latino population has been felt perhaps most strongly in the economic sector. North Carolina’s growing economy …
South Carolina Travel Destinations
The results of the Spanish-American War included Cuban independence and the U.S. acquisition of Puerto Rico as a territory. Connections between Puerto Rico and South Carolina formed in the …
Holiday in Texas
The Progressive Era and the Mexican Revolution The Progressive Era, the first two decades of the twentieth century, was marked by an acceleration of economic expansion. By 1920 the …