"Prompted first by the baby boom and then Cold War hysteria, the U.S. government focused on America's children in an unprecedented fashion from the end of World War II to the advent of the New Frontie
"In two canonical decisions in 1920s, the Supreme Court announced that family was an institution possessing a constitutional status and that certain relations within family were constitutionally prote
During World War II, moderate lawmakers in the US Congress, positioned in the middle of the vituperative partisanship dividing hardcore conservatives and liberal New Dealers, successfully worked to co
Margaret Morgan was born in freedom’s shadow. Her parents were slaves of John Ashmore, a prosperous Maryland mill owner who freed many of his slaves in the last years of his life. Ashmore never laid c
An intellectual profile of the 26th President evaluates the dynamic between his achievements and the Progressive Era, explaining how landmark changes in the area of reform marked the period as a time
Breaking new ground in diplomatic, economic, social, and cultural history, Saul's book illuminates both the mutual fascination that briefly permitted peaceful coexistence (and eventual alliance) and t
Brings together wartime recollections from the four major conflicts of the twentieth century, recreating the exhaustion, emotional pain, bitterness, bravery, and comradship that has marked the America
Provides detailed observations and reflections on the constitutional and democratic principles that underpin the debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights in this distillati
Thomas Pangle and Peter Ahrensdorf provide a critical introduction to the most important conceptions of international justice, spanning 2,500 years of intellectual history from Thucydides and Plato to
Pierce (philosophy, North Carolina State U.) argues that moral rights constitute a more solid grounding for ethics in human affairs and feminist thought than concepts of natural law, now in fashion wi
In 1983, two Klamath Indians were fired from their positions as drug rehabilitation counselors for their use of peyote in a Native American Church ceremony. When the state of Oregon denied them unempl
Chronicles the militarization of the Soviet Union during the period from 1926 to 1933 and shows why this period is central to an understanding of Stalin's emergence and consolidation of power. Demonst
