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Cover of Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

This Encyclopedia on American history and law is the first devoted to examining the issues of civil liberties and their relevance to major current events while providing a historical context and a philosophical discussion of the evolution of civil liberties. Coverage includes the traditional...
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The First Civil Right

How Liberals Built Prison America

by Naomi Murakawa
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot easily be ignored. Many believe that...
Cover of Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties: Revised and Expanded Edition, 2nd Edition [4 volumes]
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017

This revised and expanded four-volume encyclopedia is unequaled for both the depth and breadth of its coverage. Some 650 entries address the full range of civil rights and liberties in America from the Colonial Era to the present. In addition to many updates of material from the first edition, the...
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Philadelphia Freedom

Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer

by David Kairys
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009

"David Kairys is one of the grand long-distance runners in the struggle for justice in America. His brilliant legal mind and superb lawyerly skills are legendary. This marvelous book is his gift to us!" ---Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Princeton University,...
Cover of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
by Ralph J. Temple
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012

A memoir from one of the country’s top civil rights lawyers—from his work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through his career at the ACLU.   This volume comprises Ralph J. Temple’s memoirs of his life and his work on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged. After graduating from Harvard Law School...
Cover of Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
by David Muir Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012

Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the...
Cover of Blue, Gray and Red: Two Nurse’s Views of the Civil War
by Louisa May Alcott, Kate Cumming
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Two Nurses - Two Experiences - One Civil War Blue, Gray and Red presents the hard reality of the Civil War. There are no stirring bugle calls, only the calls of the wounded. There are no battlefield heroics, but there is also no lack of heroism. It presents the suffering and courage of both...
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Journal of the Civil War Era

Winter 2011 Issue

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish *The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor. Table of Contents for this...
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Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation

The Economics of the Civil War

by Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Mark Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004

What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish *The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor. The Journal of the Civil...
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After the Rebellion

Black Youth, Social Movement Activism, and the Post-Civil Rights Generation

by Sekou M. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014

What happened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation? What kind of causes did they rally around and were they even rallying in the first place? After the Rebellion takes a close look at a variety of key civil rights groups across the country over the last 40 years to provide a broad...
Cover of Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri
by Dennis K. Boman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

During the Civil War, the state of Missouri presented President Abraham Lincoln, United States military commanders, and state officials with an array of complex and difficult problems. Although Missouri did not secede, a large minority of residents owned slaves, sympathized with secession, or favored...
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by Christopher Lyle McIlwain
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

Christopher McIlwain’s Civil War Alabama is a landmark book that sheds invigorating new light on the causes, the course, and the outcomes in Alabama of the nation’s greatest drama and trauma. Based on twenty years of exhaustive research that draws on a vast trove of primary sources such as letters,...
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Covering

The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

by Kenji Yoshino
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011

A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar. “[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone...
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