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The Mexicans in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
How the Mexicans in Milwaukee built the South Side, from the 1920 tannery recruits to Cesar Chavez Drive, the Crystal City migrants, and the Mexican Fiesta.
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Stories of the communities that built homes in the United States: how Irish, Italian, Polish, German, Indian and other families set down roots, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
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The Mexicans in Fresno, California
Half of Fresno is Mexican. Trace how farmworkers from Michoacan to Oaxaca built the San Joaquin Valley city, the birthplace of the farmworkers' union.
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The Mexicans in Saint Paul, Minnesota
How the West Side became the heart of the Mexicans in Saint Paul, Minnesota: from 1920s beet workers to District del Sol and Cinco de Mayo.
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The Finns in Marquette, Michigan
Why Finnish immigrants settled Marquette, Michigan: mining, the sauna belt, Suomi Synod churches, and a heritage that still defines the Upper Peninsula.
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The Mexicans in Phoenix, Arizona
The Mexicans in Phoenix have shaped Arizona since before the city had streetlights, from Grant Park and Guadalupe to the murals of Calle 16.
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The Dutch in Sioux Center, Iowa
In Sioux Center, Iowa, nearly two in three residents claim Dutch ancestry. How Reformed settlers built a town, a college and a faith on the prairie.
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The Puerto Ricans in Orlando, Florida
Inside the Puerto Ricans in Orlando, Florida: how Disney jobs and Hurricane Maria built America's second largest Boricua community across Osceola County.
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The Swedes in Stromsburg, Nebraska
Stromsburg, the Swede Capital of Nebraska, was founded by immigrants from Ockelbo. Inside its brick square, Midsommar Festival and Swedish heritage in Polk County.
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The Norwegians in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
How Mount Horeb, Wisconsin became Norwegian: the Koshkonong overflow, Telemark settlers, the Sons of Norway, and the famous Trollway of carved trolls.
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The Germans in Columbia, Illinois
How German farmhands paid in land came to own Columbia, Illinois: a Mississippi bluff town of brick brewers, an 1846 parish, and a festival St. Louis…
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The Czechs in Crete, Nebraska
How Czech immigrants from Bohemia and Moravia built Nebraska's largest rural Czech colony in Crete and Saline County, from an 1869 opera house to today.
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The Germans in Helen, Georgia
The Germans in Helen, Georgia: how a dying lumber town reinvented itself as a Bavarian village in 1969, and the real German families who followed.
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