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Advancing Democracy
African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), it is important to consider the historical struggles that led to this groundbreaking decision. Four years earlier in Texas, the Sweatt v. Painter decision allowed blacks access to the University of Texas's law school for...
Henry Steele Commager
Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College and was a pioneer in the field of American studies....
Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism
Marburg, 1880-1935
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Focusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organizational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups.
The Kennedy Crises
The Press, the Presidency, and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This analysis of the Kennedy administration's relationship with the press during the Laotian, Berlin, Cuban missile, and Vietnam crises of 1961-63 suggests that press coverage and Kennedy's influence on the press were far more varied than scholars have supposed. Focusing on press coverage of government...
The Price of Defiance
James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
When James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, the resulting riots produced more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. Eagles shows that the violence resulted from the university's and the state's long defiance of the...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See
A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and have come to define the southern forest. But logging, suppression of fire, destruction by landowners,...
Innocent Abroad
Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
German violation of Belgian neutrality escalated the 1914 hostilities into a world war, and disagreement about Belgium's future did much to block a compromise peace. In the postwar decade, Belgium's role as intermediary between France and Britain was pivotal, and its primary concerns reveal mush about...
Medicalizing Blackness
Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses...
by David F. Schmitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
A comprehensive analysis of American foreign policy and Mussolini's Italy. Schmitz argues that the U.S. desire for order, interest in Open Door trade, and concern about left-wing revolution led American policymakers to welcome Mussolini's coming to power and to support fascism in Italy for most of...
by Stella Gentry Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This is the story of a little black boy, told for children and illustrated with over fifty photographs showing Tobe and his brothers and sisters in all the varied activities of a small southern farm. Both vocabulary and sentence structure have been kept as simple as possible, and although not graded...
Freedom's Teacher, Enhanced Ebook
The Life of Septima Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) developed a citizenship education program that enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to register to vote and to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. Clark, who began her own teaching...
by John M. McManamon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
By studying the funeral orations of Renaissance Italy, McManamon analyzes Italian humanism as a characteristic phase in Western rhetorical culture. By examining hundreds of funeral speeches, he provides a valuable overview of major civic issues and humanistic themes, adding significant new material...
Dramatist in America
Letters of Maxwell Anderson, 1912-1958
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America. His thirty-three produced plays make him a leader among these playwrights of America's most creative era in the theater, and a number of his plays have shown a lasting vitality and importance. What...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This new edition includes more than one thousand concise entries, organized by state and city, listing specific details on the location, hours, and history of each garden. For each state, gardens are located on a map. The focus is on historic gardens in existence for over seventy-five years. Some...