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Books
Blatz, Perry, (associate editor with Howard Harris, editor)
Keystone of Democracy: A History of Pennsylvania Workers (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1999)

Dwyer, John J.
The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Agricultural Property in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming).

Mayer, Holly (co-authored with David E. Shi)
For the Record: A Documentary History of America, 2 volumes (W.W. Norton & Co., 1999).

Vardy, Stephen B. Hungarians in the New World [Magyarok az Ujvilagban].
(Budapest: International Assoc Qiation of Hungarian Language and Culture, 2000, 800 pages.)

Articles
John J. Dwyer
"The End of U.S. Intervention in Mexico: Franklin Roosevelt and the expropriation of American-Owned Agricultural Property," Presidential Studies Quarterly, v. 28, no. 3 (1998): 496-509.

"Diplomatic Weapons of the Weak: Mexican Policymaking during the U.S.-Mexican Agrarian Dispute, 1934-1941." Diplomatic History, v. 26, no. 3 (2002): 375-395.

Mayer, Holly
"Wives, Concubines, and Community: Following the Army," for War and Society in the American Revolution, editors John Resch and Walter Sargent. To be published by Northern Illinois Press in 2006.

"From Forbes to Families: Following the Army into Western Pennsylvania, 1758-1766." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 130 (January 2006): 5-43.

"Food for Thought: Reflections on the Study of War." Pennsylvania Legacies (Historical Society of Pennsylvania) 5, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 36-37.

"Generals' Wives: Martha Washington, Catharine Greene, Lucy Knox," in Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, edited by John P. Resch et al. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004.

"Forging the Armor of Virture." Pennsylvania Legacies (Historical Society of Pennsylvania) 2, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 13-17.


Stonge, Carmen
"Making Private Collections Public: Waagen and the Royal Museum in Berlin," Journal of the History of Collections, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Summer, 1998).

Vardy, Steven
"Impact of Trianon upon the Hungarian Mind: Irredentism and Hungary's Path to War, in Hungary's Path to War, N.F. Dreisziger, ed. (New York: Eastern European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1999).

"The Trianon Syndrome since the Collapse of Communism," in Hungary's Path to War, N.F. Dreisziger, ed. (New York: Eastern European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1999).

"Kossuth's Words in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address," in Eurasian Studies Yearbook, È volume 71: 1999.

"Reverend Edmund Vasvary: Personal Reminiscences about a Chronicle of the Hungarian-American Past," in Eurasian Studies Yearbook, volume 71: 1999.

"Hungary's Holy Crown in American Custody," in Sudi Finno-Ugrici: Annali dell'Instituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 1996-1998, volume 4: 1999.

"Az amerikai magyar emigracio vilaghaboru politikai viharaiban [Hungarian Americans in the Political Storms of World War II]," in Valosag [Reality], January 1999.

"Rendszervaltas nyolo eves kesessel, Magyar-magyar viszony az 1990-es evekben [Change of Political Regime Eight Years Belatedly, Hungary's Relationship to its Expatriates in the 1990s]," in Valosag [Reality], May 1999.

"Kossuth amerikai 'dradalutja' 1851-1852 ban [Kossuth's 'Triumphant Tour of America in 1851-1852]," Debreceni Szemle [Debrecen Review], New Series, volume 6: July 1998.

"The World of Boarding Houses in Turn-of-the-Century America," in Forras [Sources ] v. 31, no. 10 (1999): 79-90.
"A Ûmerican-Hungarian Literature at the Beginning of This Century," in Pannon Tukor [Pannonian Mirror], v. 4, no. 4 (July-August, 1999): 18-23

"The First Hungarian Newspapers and Newspaper Editor in America," In Debreceni Szemle [Debrecen Review], New Series, v. 7, no. 4: (1999)

Louis Kossuth’s Impact upon American Society and Mentality," in Volosag [Reality], v. 42, no. 9 (September, 1999, 36-43.

"Exiled Regent Horthy and Hungarian Americans," in Valosay [Reality], v. 43, no. 4 (April, 2000): 64-69.

"American Scholarship on Bulgaria, Balkans, and East Central Europe: The Works of Dennis P. Hupchick," in Eurasian Studies Yearbook, v. 72 (2000): 16-24.

"Kossuth and American Democracy, " in Emlekonyv L. Nagy Zsuza 70. szuletesnapjdra [Memorial Volume on the Occasion of Zsyzsa L. Nagy’s 70th Birthday]. eds. Janos Angi and Janos Barta. Debrecen: Multiplex Media -Debrecen University Press, 2000, pp 173-182.

"The Hungarian Declaration of Independence in 1849" [Az 1849-es magyar fuggetlensegi Ó nyilatkozat] in Debreceni Szemle [Debrecen Review], New Series, vol 8, no. 3 (2000) pp. 464-468.

"The Impact of Literacy upon the Turn-of-the Century Hungarian Immigrants in America, Part I" [Az irasbeliseg hatasa a szazadfordulo magyar kivandoroltjaira Americkaban] in Korunk [Our Age], Third Series, vol. 11, no. 7 (July 2000) pp. 34-48; Part II in ibid., vol. 11, no. 9 (September 2000, pp. 101-106.

"East Central Europe: Poland, Czechia, and Hungary, " in Encyclopedia of European Social History, editor-in-chief Peter N. Stearns, 6 vols. (Detroit and New York: Charles Scribners Sons: 2001, vol. 1, pp. 379-403).

"Birth and Development of the Hungarian-American Theater, Part I" [Az amerikai-magyar szinhazi elet megzuletese es kifejodese], in Pannon Tukor [Pannonian Mirror], vol. 5, nos. 5-6 (September-December 2000), pp. 31-35; Part II in ibid., vol. 6, no. 1 (January-March 2001), pp. 20-25.

"Changing Image of Hungarians in America during the Past Century and a Half" [A magyarsag valtozo kepe Amerikaban az elmult masfel evszazaban], in Valosag [Reality], vol 43, no. 9 (2000), pp. 70-89.

"Hungarians and Slovaks in Turn-of-the-Century America" in Proceedings of the Conference: Hungarians and their Neighbors, ed. Janos Barta. (Debrecen: University of Debrecen Press, 2001) pp. 135-153.

"Image and Self-Image among Hungarian-Americans since the Mid-Nineteenth Century, " in East European Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 3 (June 2001), pp. 309-342.

Conference Presentations and Lectures
Blatz, Perry K.
"Titanic Struggles," Pennsylvania Labor History Association, Anthracite Heritage Museum, Scranton, PA, September 26, 1999.

"The Uses of Historical Collections," Panelist, Conference on Andrew Carnegie’s Historical Legacy, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, May 17, 2000.

"Abraham Lincoln and the 13th Amendment," Civil War Soldiers Fair, Pittsburgh, PA, June 25, 2000.
"Collecting and Interpreting the Twentieth Century," Mid-Atlantic American Studies Association, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown, Mar Åch 31, 2001.

"Teaching the Next Generation," Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Annapolis, Maryland, April 6, 2001.

Dwyer, John J.
"Regionally Unique and Nationally Common: Sonora and Baja California in the Early 20 th Century." Delivered at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 26 th Congress. San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2006.

"Employing the Politics of Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism along the U.S.-Mexico Border." Delivered at Cleveland State University Conference: Navigating the Borderlands of Intercultural Encounters. Cleveland, October 2005.

"In Search of Modernity in Post-Revolutionary Rural Mexico: Common Elite and Subaltern Interests." Delivered at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 25th Congress. Las Vegas, October 2004.

"Agrarista Militancy and State-Building: The Invasion and Expropriation of American-Owned Land in Baja California." Delivered at the Americas Undisciplined Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2004.

"Modernizing Mexico: Elite and Subaltern Projects to Modernize the Mexican Countryside." Russo Family Faculty Development Award Lecture, Duquesne University, February 2004.

"Using the Politics of Race to Establish Post-Revolutionary Institutions in Northern Mexico." Delivered at the XI Reunión de Historiadores de México, los Estados Unidos, y Canada. Monterrey, Mexico, October 2003.

"Rethinking Great Power and Weak State Relations: The Case of the U.S.-Mexican Agrarian Dispute." Delivered at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association – Midwest Branch, St. Louis, November 2002.

"Undermining Diversity Near the U.S.-Mexican Borer: Mestizaje, the Yellow Peril, and Xenophobia in Post-Revolutionary Mexico," Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, March 2002.

"Reclaiming the Land: Agraristas and the Yaqui Indians Spark Agrarian Reform in Sonora," American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Park City, August, 2000.

"Mexican Peasants Defeat a Los Angeles-Based Multinational: Expropriation of the Colorado River Land Company in Baja California," Western Social Science Association, San Diego, April 2000.

"The Repatriation Program of Mexican Presdent Lazaro Cardenas during the Late 1930s," Conference of Mexcian, United States and Canadian Historians, Dallas-Fort Worth, November, 1999.

"Peasant Agency and State Formation in Post-Revolutionary Mexico," Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, 1998.

"Expanding the Boundaries in the Field of U.S. International Relations: How the Mexican Peasantry Helped to Change the Course of U.S.-Mexican Relations," Organization of American Historians, Indianapolis, April 1998.

"Cardenista Weapons of the Weak: Mexico’s Role in Shaping the Outcome of the Agrarian Dispute," American Historical Association, Seattle, January 1998.

Mayer, Holly
"Canadian Continentals: Fighting for American Independence," for "Warfare and Society in Colonial North America and the Caribbean" Conference, Knoxville, TN, 7 October 2006.

"Following the Continental Army," at Yorktown, VA, 12 September 2006.

"Continental Army Camp Followers: Spouses, Sutlers, and Servants," for the George Washington Teachers' Institute, Mount Vernon, VA, 28 June 2006.

"Women Following the Continental Army," for the Brigade of the American Revolution, School of the Soldier, Newburgh, NY, 29 April 2006.

"Women on the March: Military Life in the 18th Century," for Shenandoah University's Lecture Series, Winchester, VA, 5 April 2006.

"Continental Army Camp Followers," at the Camden Campaign Symposium, Camden, South Carolina, 2 April 2006.


Stonge, Carmen
"Marketing Modernism in Germany, 1906-1912," European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha, October 15-17, 1998.

"The Folkwang Museum: Promoting Diversity and Internationalism," Multicultural and International Conference on Global Diversity, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, October 18-20, 1998.

"Lea Grundig's Expressions of Sorrow: Battered Women, Gestapo Raids and Murder," International Conference on Expressions of Joy a "nd Sorrow, Atlanta, GA, November 6-8, 1998.

"Positioning German Expressionist Art: Utopia/Dystopia," International Conference on Utopia and Dystopia, Atlanta, GA, November 5-7, 1999.

"The Artist-Couple: The Case of Katharina and Walter Determann," European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha, October, 2000.

"Madness and Bliss: Murder in the Name of Art," International Conference in Literature: Visual Arts and Cinema, Atlanta, GA, November 2000.

Vardy, Steven
"The Birth of Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Austria-Hungary," Thirteenth Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boca Raton, FL, September 24-27, 1998.

"Thomas Masaryk's Political Philosophy and Political Achievements," Annual Meeting of the Czechoslovak Ro om Committee, University of Pittsburgh, October 24, 1998.

"The Main Sources of the Hungarian-American Past and the Ways to Preserve Those Sources," Annual Convention of the Hungarian Writers' Federation, Budapest, Hungary, November 13-15, 1998.

"The Fall of Communism and Its Impact on the Relationship between Hungary and the Expatriate Hungarian Community," Thirty-Eighth Hungarian Congress, Cleveland, OH, November 26-29, 1998.

"Image and Self-Image among American Hungarians in the Course of the Past Century and a Half," Keynote Address at the Twenty-Third Annual Convention of the American Hungarian Educators' Association, Cleveland, OH, April 8-11, 1999.

"Kossuth and American Democracy," Meeting of the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Scien îces, Budapest, Hungary, June 25, 1999.

"Louis Kossuth's Impact upon American Society and Contemporary Thought," Meeting of the Kossuth Society, Debrecen, Hungary, June 28, 1999.

"Hungarian-Americans and the Mother Country: Relations with Hungary from the Turn-of-the-Century through the 1960s," Hungarian Educators’ Association, Budapest, Hungary, May 26, 2000.

"The Changing Image of Hungary and the Hungarians since the Mid-Nineteenth Century," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Denver, Colorado, November 9-12 2000.

"Hapsburgs in European History, " Institute of German American Relations, Pittsburgh, PA, May 18, 2002.

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