Civics category: 1212 books
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Madame,
Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommage
de cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimer
ainsi, l’époque de la Liberté ; je me...
by Jan-Werner Müller
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner Müller argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms,...
Why Are You Here?
A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Why Are You Here?: A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens is a challenge to America’s 7,382 state legislators and their constituents to critically examine their state legislature and take appropriate action to improve it. This is a handbook telling how legislatures came to be, how they function,...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
“This report is the product of an expert working group acting under mandate from the European Commission Directorate General for Research (DG RTD), on the topic of European science and governance. We interpreted our mandate to have three main concerns:
- how to respond to the widely-recognised problem...
935 Lies
The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fiction...
On Liberty
A Translation into Modern English
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
On Liberty: A Translation into Modern English
This is a current language version of John Stuart Mill’s classic 1859 essay – translating the work into modern English to improve its readability and understandability. The translation is substantive but retains original word order and grammar...
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
PHILIPPE, mes jours sont menacés. Je m’adresse à toi pour les protéger… Et cependant je ne crains pas la mort ; tu le sais : mais je veux mourir glorieusement ; et si je le puis, je servirai ma patrie encore dans mes derniers moments.
En 1789, dans le mois de...
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?
David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development...
Was the American Revolution a Mistake?
Reaching Students & Reinforcing Patriotism Through Teaching History as Choice
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Why was George Washington dismayed by the outcome of the American Revolution?
Would slavery still exist if the South had not seceded from the Union in 1861?
Might socialists rule America today if Teddy Roosevelt had not run for President and lost in 1912?
History is full of contingencies....
by John D. Inazu
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
This original and provocative book looks at an important constitutional freedom that today is largely forgotten: the right of assembly. While this right lay at the heart of some of the most important social movements in American history—abolitionism, women's suffrage, the labor and civil rights movements—courts...
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
2 works of Elizabeth Cady Stanton American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement (1815-1902)
This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected....
Let's Move On
Beyond Fear & False Prophets
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Vicente Fox offers his unique viewpoint as a former head of state, avid historian, and true admirer of America’s constitutional ideals. He knows where a Trump presidency can lead—and it is nowhere good. Let’s Move On is a political manifesto written in Fox’s trademark, no-nonsense style where...
The Making of a Dream
How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights—the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society’s attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling America...
by Carrie Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
No Constitutional definition of citizenship existed until the 14th Amendment in 1868. Carrie Hyde looks at the period between the Revolution and the Civil War when the cultural and juridical meaning of citizenship was still up for grabs. She recovers numerous speculative traditions that made and remade citizenship’s meaning in this early period.