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We Have a Religion
The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not...
Community Leadership in Maryland, 1790-1840
A Comparative Analysis of Power in Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
American democracy has fascinated generations of historians. They have probed its philosophical foundations and the structure of its institutions, but their studies reveal little about those who really wielded power in the formative years of the republic.
Employing a sophisticated research...
Governing the Hearth
Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished...
The Sino-Soviet Alliance
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In 1950 the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues that...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This engaging collection surveys and clarifies the complex issue of federal and state recognition for Native American tribal nations in the United States. Den Ouden and O'Brien gather focused and teachable essays on key topics, debates, and case studies. Written by leading scholars in the field, including...
Secrets of Victory
The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
During World War II, the civilian Office of Censorship supervised a huge and surprisingly successful program of news management: the voluntary self-censorship of the American press. In January 1942, censorship codebooks were distributed to all American newspapers, magazines, and radio stations with...
Religion and American Education
Rethinking a National Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Warren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and practices...
The Politics of American Religious Identity
The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate investigative hearing...
by Thomas W. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds...
Muslim American Women on Campus
Undergraduate Social Life and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny—scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on...
Terms of Inclusion
Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation.
Drawing...
Hiking and Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway
The Only Guide You Will Ever Need, Including GPS, Detailed Maps, and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway. But that's just the beginning: veteran hiker Leonard M. Adkins includes information on every trail that touches the Parkway, including the Appalachian Trail, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail,...
Goat Castle
A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery—known in the press as the "Wild Man" and the "Goat...
Southern Cultures: The Memory Issue
Fall 2011 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Personal. Public. Historical. The next issue of Southern Cultures is
devoted entirely to Memory. . .
. . . Why We Argue So Much About Robert E. Lee
. . . Alice Walker, Allan Gurganus, Elizabeth Spencer, Randall Kenan,
and More Great Writers on our Favorite Films and What They Make Us
Remember
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