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The article discusses the role of the American South in the efforts to provide famine relief to Ireland and Scotland in 1847. Relief efforts were led by the Society of Friends in Dublin and American Quakers and efforts were encouraged by leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and Irish and Scottish associations in the U.S. The leadership of the U.S. in international philanthropy and the funds raised for the cause are discussed.

The article discusses the impact of World War I on the Jewish immigrant community in Albany, New York, how they responded to the plight of their fellow Jews in Europe and Palestine, and the Zionist movement.

The article discusses the historical move of the people of Cincinnati, Cleveland and other Ohio communities who joined in a national effort in voluntary philanthropy to help the starving Irish during the Great Famine era. It notes that communities across Ohio outpoured their sympathy for the Irish as Americans sent food, clothing, and money to assist the starving people from Ireland and Scotland who were suffering from crop failures.

The article presents a study which examines the religious community created by the Jewish immigrants in Schenectady, New York. It details the chronology of Jewish immigration from the German states and Austrian Empire to the U.S. in 1840s which created an identity as a small religious minority in a vast Christian population. It notes that the Jewish immigrants maintained their identity as Jews by organizing a shul or synagogue and purchasing land for cemetery. It reveals that the Jews of Schenectady transitioned to be Americans, but they selected what to shed and what to retain of their religious and cultural values.

The article discusses American public reaction to the Chesapeake Affair of 1807, focusing especially on New York state. The incident between the U.S.S. Chesapeake and the H.M.S. Leopard was a result of Great Britain's Napoleonic War policy of boarding American ships for the impressment of sailors, often while the ships were within the territorial coastal waters of the U.S. During the June 22, 1807 engagement between the ships, three Americans were killed and another 18 injured. Some of the subjects considered include the political parties of the Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and the Embargo Act of 1807, American and British diplomatic relations, and public demonstrations denouncing the affair and calling for a declaration of war.

The article focuses on the studies written by Irish famine historians about the famine in Irish history and its contribution to the immigration of Irish to the U.S. Research evaluates the responsibility of the British government with relief movement that marks American's entrance onto the international stage for humanitarian acts. The author states that Americans have organized relief efforts through voluntary local, county and state committees, which led to the shipment of foodstuffs to Ireland in the spring and summer of 1847. Moreover, raising money to send direct donations of food, usually cornmeal, wheat flour, beans, bacon, and salted pork, were also managed.

The article discusses on the City of Hate Affair, a controversy that stems from a television (TV) documentary about anti-Semitism in Elsinore, California in the late 1950s and early 1960s. According to the author, this controversy is one of the most unusual cases in the history of broadcasting and history of California. It notes that the controversy raised the questions of whether a TV station had slandered the community of Elsinore by producing a documentary about anti-Semitism. The City of Hate Affair started with a dispute over the use of mineral water in Elsinore assumed anti-Semitic overtones. The documentary appeared on KTLA, a TV station in Los, Angeles, in December 1959, and the broadcast resulted to public outcry by Jewish residents of Southern California.

Discusses the opposition to the War of 1812 in New York State and its relation to a peace movement organized in the state immediately after the war. Overview of anti-war politics between the Republican/Federalist parties in the state prior to and after the declaration for war; Political clash between both parties regarding steps to address a resistance by New Yorkers to militia service; Roots of the peace movement in the state.