At the turn of the century Thurman was a prosperous farming and ranching settlement with 51 households, a post office, two general stores, a blacksmith shop, five schools, and a church. Today, only th
Seven leading Johnson scholars provide a revealing new look at LBJ's role in domestic and foreign policy. They examine his obsession with the Vietnam War; his commitment to the Great Society and civil
Chronicling the recycling of land use in Northern Wisconsin from logging to marginal farming on cutover lands back to (replanted) forests, Gough (history, U. of Wisconsin, Eau Claire) narrates an acce
Samar (philosophy, Loyola U.) seeks to develop a metatheory of law that judges could use to decide very hard cases in which the law offers no firm precedents or it is not clear whether the applicable
In late-seventeenth-century New England, the eternal battle between God and Satan moved into the courtroom. Between January 1692 and May 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, neighbors turned against neighbo
Are appointment politics and court decisions linked? Do presidents use judicial appointments to shape their policy agendas? C. K. Rowland and Robert A. Carp provide definitive answers to these questio
Overviews changes in the rural West since WWII to show that agriculture, rural life, and agrarian politics have been inextricably linked to the economy and culture of the region even though the modern
A stellar group of writers including journalists Seymour Hersh and David Halberstam, novelist Tim O'Brien, historian Stephen E. Ambrose, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, military prosecutor William Eck
Tension between free speech and social stability has been a central concern throughout American history. In the 1960s that concern reached a fever pitch with the anti-Vietnam War movement. When antiw
Covers transplants, mulches, plant nutrition, pest control, weeds, water management, and wind protection, and offers advice on growing the most popular varieties of vegetables
