Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State offers an in-depth examination of the origins, controversial uses, and competing interpretations of this powerful metaphor in law and public policy.
The American media has recently discovered children's experiences in present-day wars. This book shows that boys and girls have routinely contributed to war efforts, armies have accepted under-aged soldiers for centuries, and war-time experiences have affected the ways in which grown-up children of war perceive themselves and their societies.
The American media has recently discovered children's experiences in present-day wars. This book shows that boys and girls have routinely contributed to war efforts, armies have accepted under-aged soldiers for centuries, and war-time experiences have affected the ways in which grown-up children of war perceive themselves and their societies.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933, the White House staff numbered fewer than fifty people. In the ensuing years, as the United States became a world power and both the foreign and domestic duties of the president grew more complex, the White House staff has increased twentyfold.
In this anthology drug policy expert David Musto chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the most popular mind altering substances in the United States: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and opiates.
Based on more than twenty-five years of research, this social history traces the growth of the religious right in America from its humble grassroots beginnings in the early 1970s to its status as a powerful cultural and political force.
For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as nature's perfect food, as indispensable and the most complete food. These milk boosters have ranged from consumer activists, to government nutritionists. This book tells the story of how Americans came to drink milk.
Tells the story of how Americans came to drink milk. This title lets us: learn how cow's milk, which was associated with bacteria and disease became a staple of the American diet, and encounter 19th century evangelists who were convinced that cow's milk was the perfect food with divine properties.
Sex Without Consent explores the experience, prosecution and meaning of rape in American history from the time of the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans to the present.