Abstract:
Also Present…Stories of an American Family reflects both a universal and particular characteristic of one family’s journey that runs through the history of a Europe torn by religious and imperial wars to the settlement, birth, and growth of the United States, ending (in this volume) in the middle of the 19th century. Along the way, the reader learns about the side streets of history; those important, but untaught, vignettes that so influenced how we created a nation from disparate cultures.