This comprehensive history traces the care of dependent, delinquent, and disabled children in Illinois from the early nineteenth century to current times, focusing on the dilemmas raised by both public intervention and the lack of it. Joan Gittens explores the inadequacies of a system that has allowed problems in the public care of children to ......
Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-64
This in-depth account of the rise and decline of the Citizens' Councils of America details the organization's role in the massive resistance to school desegregation in the South following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Included are a new preface and updated bibliography. ''A tour de force of research and narration. . . in highly ......
This unique exploration of Lincoln's economic beliefs shows how they helped shape his view of slavery, his conduct of the war, and most fundamentally his understanding of what the United States was and could become. ''A comprehensive and enlightening survey of the evolution of Lincoln's economic thought.''-- Reviews in American History ''Boritt ......
''Throughout this scrupulously researched interpretation of The Federalist papers, Carey provides a glimpse of our Republic's original design. He shows us what kind of federal union The Federalist's authors had in mind, and indicates how we have strayed from their intent.'' -- Paul Gottfried, National Review ''The best book yet published on The ......
This edition features a new foreword by Paul Buhle and a new epilogue by the author.''A brilliant work. It deals with this nation's rough-and-ready methods for dealing with ideological nonconformists.''--Justice William O. Douglas, The Washington Post ''Ought to be on the shelf of everyone who is concerned with the history of American civil ......
Provides a rich prism through which to explore the social, economic, and political developmentof black Cincinnati. These studies offer insight into both the dynamics of racism and acommunity's changing responses to it. -- Peter Rachleff, author of Black Labor inRichmond
Americans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's most famous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument building, physical preservation, and battle reenactment. But each site is also a place where different groups of Americans come to compete for ownership of cherished national stories and to argue about the meaning of ......
Burning dinners, stitching ''scandalous'' quilts, talking ''hard'' in the male dominated world of rap music - Feminist Messages interprets such acts as instances of coding, or covert expressions of subversive or disturbing ideas. While coding may be either deliberated or unconscious, it is a common phenomenon in women's stories, art, and daily ......
Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union
The Inner Civil War is a classic that has influenced historians' views of the Civil War and American intellectual change in the nineteenth century. This edition includes a new preface in which the author demonstrates the continuing relevance of the work and updates its interpretations.
