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The Uncertain Triumph
Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Using the Kennedy and Johnson archives to analyze the evolution of educational policy from the perspective of the executive branch, Graham finds that the central theme was executive planning through presidential task forces. Mission agencies, clientele groups, and congressional committees produced...
"Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush"
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Mason-Dixon Lines
"Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush"
poetry by Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan drives home a similar message with three poems. They address "memory" on the grandest scale— not merely familial or communal but epochal and even...
Entitled to Power
Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women's unexpected response to new labor-saving devices.
Federal farm policy at mid-century treated farm women...
by Patrick J. McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America's corporate, political, and military elites. They did so not just to improve their professional standing and win more money for research, says Patrick McGrath, but for political reasons as well. They wanted to use their...
by Cleanth Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun...
by Woodruff D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Although Germany's short-lived colonial empire (1884-1918) was neither large nor successful, it is historically significant. The establishment of German colonies and attempts to expand them affected international politics in a period of extreme tension. Smith focuses on the interaction between Germany's...
by Jaime Amanda Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Under policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered control over portions of their slave populations to state authorities, military officials, and the national government to defend their new nation. State and local officials cooperated with the Confederate...
by Arthur S. Link
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In a dazzling array of the most recent research and writing, the contributors deal with Wilson's approach to the Mexican and Russian revolutions; his Polish policy; his relationship with the European Left, world order, and the League of Nations; and Wilson and the problems of world peace. They show...
by Harold C. Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In 1980, with the passage of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, Congress created the Superfund as a mechanism to clean up the toxic legacy of the industrial and chemical revolutions. Over a decade later, the consensus is that the program has failed: too much...
Citizens in Arms
The Army and Militia in American Society to the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This first study to discuss the important ideological role of the military in the early political life of the nation examines the relationship between revolutionary doctrine and the practical considerations of military planning before and after the American Revolution. Americans wanted and effective...
Passing of the Mill Village
Revolution in a Southern Institution
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This is the story of a revolution--the factors influencing management's decision to sell, the extent of the sales, procedures followed in the various sales, psychological effects upon the worker, effects upon labor-management relations, the reaction of the union, and the changes in mill village life...
Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume III
Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
First published in 1992 and now available in paperback in three volumes, Paul Rahe's ambitious and provocative book bridges the gap between political theory, comparative history and government, and constitutional prudence. Rahe challenges prevailing interpretations of ancient Greek republicanism,...
The Life and Times of Sir Archie
The Story of America's Greatest Thoroughbred, 1805-1833
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Few Americans triumphed more gallantly over odds, wore honors more gracefully, or were so honestly mourned after death than Sir Archie, forefather of such great horses as Man O'War, Gallant Fox, War Admiral, and Native Dancer. The depiction of the antebellum life of which Sir Archie was a part is...
by John A. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century. He explores the effects of institutions--the city, imperial polity, bureaucratic imperatives of centralization,...