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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 17: Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Offering a broad, up-to-date reference to the long history and cultural legacy of education in the American South, this timely volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys educational developments, practices, institutions, and politics from the colonial era to the present. With over...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Spring 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 1
March 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Nicholas Marshall
The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War
Sarah Bischoff Paulus
America's Long Eulogy for Compromise: Henry Clay and American Politics, 1854-58
Ted Maris-Wolf
"Of...
Framing Chief Leschi
Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians. A party of militiamen traveling through Nisqually country was ambushed, and two men were shot from behind and fatally wounded. After the war, Chief Leschi, a Nisqually leader, was found guilty of murder...
On Strike and on Film
Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines--an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952....
by Wendy Lower
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony administered by Heinrich Himmler's SS and police, Hermann Goring's...
Gardening with Heirloom Seeds
Tried-and-True Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Heirloom seeds are more than the promise of next summer's crookneck squash or jewel-colored zinnias. They're living antiques handed down from one generation to the next, a rich inheritance of flavor and beauty from long ago and, often, far away. They are sometimes better adapted to pests and harsh...
Racial Taxation
Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869–1973
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
In the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "taxpayer citizenship--the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. Tracing the genealogy of this concept, Camille Walsh shows how tax policy and taxpayer...
A Government by the People
Direct Democracy in America, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Between 1898 and 1918, many American states introduced the initiative, referendum, and recall--known collectively as direct democracy. Most interpreters have seen the motives for these reform measures as purely political, but Thomas Goebel demonstrates that the call for direct democracy was deeply...
Promoting Worker Health
A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
In this extended essay, Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter introduce a new approach to reforming the American health-care system--a plan they call the Universal Workers' Compensation Model (UWCM). Drawing on Hadler's expertise as a physician and Carter's as an attorney, the two have conceived...
At America's Gates
Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese...
Reading Is My Window
Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures.
Foregrounding the voices of African American...
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...
Peirce on Signs
Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as "ideas" but as...
by Ebrahim Moosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Taking us inside the world of the madrasa--the most common type of school for religious instruction in the Islamic world--Ebrahim Moosa provides an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand orthodox Islam in global affairs. Focusing on postsecondary-level religious institutions in the...