United States
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Sophia Rosenfeld [Rosenfeld, Sophia]

Chapter 4 Democracy in an Age of Lies It’s one of the oldest dreams around. One day, a single language, a single grammar, a single learning method, or even a ...
( Category: Democracy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-09 | Author:John Gennari [Gennari, John]

Crossover Dreams and Delusions In One Nation under a Groove: Motown and American Culture (1995), Gerald Early argues that Motown, which became the paradigm of racial and cultural “crossover” in ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers [Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.]

The women who bought and sold enslaved people for personal use, sold enslaved people on behalf of others, engaged in slave speculation, and partnered with others to trade in slaves ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Stephen Brumwell [Brumwell, Stephen]

* * * Inclined to downplay fears for his own safety, Washington remained alive to the possibility that the British might yet take advantage of the ice to launch further ...
( Category: American Revolution January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Rachel McBride Lindsey

Figure 26. Front page, Harper’s Weekly, May 8, 1869. Modern Graphic History Library, Washington University in St. Louis. Used with permission. After the hearing, William and Hannah returned to Boston, ...
( Category: Monuments January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:Allison Stanger [Stanger, Allison]

How Snowden Became a Whistleblower Conducting research for this book, I was routinely struck by the polarization of views created by partisan definitions of whistleblowing. Our nonpartisan definition provides a ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-28 | Author:Joshua Reeves

fathers die, and leave their children unprovided for; parents drink, and abuse their little ones, and they float away on the currents of the street; step-mothers or step-fathers drive out, ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Patel, Kiran Klaus; [Patel, Kiran Klaus;]

BROADENING SECURITY Power to the People While many parts of the 1935 New Deal legislation only affected small pockets of society, the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) had a far-reaching impact ...
( Category: Comparative Politics January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Zallen, Jeremy;

Filling and dipping a frame. Children filled these frames layer by layer at incredible speeds, slotting splint after splint into grooves cut in the wooden strips strung and stacked across ...
( Category: History of Technology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Jeanne E. Abrams

Abigail Adams became the second First Lady of the United States on February 8, 1797, when, at the age of sixty-one, John Adams was formally elected president, although he did ...
( Category: American Revolution January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-07 | Author:Erika Gasser

Pitty and Prayers rather than Censures are their due; on which account I am glad that there is published to the World (by my Son) a Breviate of the Tryals ...
( Category: Cults January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer;

Chapter 6 Roots and Rootlessness: 1920–45 One of the goals of intellectual history is to try to access, as best we can, not simply the ideas but also the lived ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Mary Graham [Graham, Mary]

Ford could not have predicted on August 9 that during his time in office an unlikely convergence of events would create the greatest expansion of government openness and the most ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Lee Mandel [Mandel, Lee]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Naming Names IN APRIL OF 1950, THE APPEALS OF THE HOLLYWOOD TEN REACHED THE United States Supreme Court. The court refused to review the convictions and each member ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Michael Cohen

What you saw with George Wallace is generally what you got. There was little ambiguity or nuance in his political rhetoric, which was to be expected from a politician whose ...
( Category: Elections January 19,2020 )