Provides a fascinating and entertaining look inside the world of the society debut, from the colonial era to the present day, documenting the colorful history and evolution of the tradition, and expla
A provocative portrait of the filmmaker reveals Stone as a consistent critic and interpreter of American history and culture whose work has changed the way Americans view their country.
Urofsky (constitutional history, Virginia Commonwealth U.) discusses the legal, historical, ethical, and medical issues related to the right-to-die arguments. He focuses on the Supreme Court's treatme
A history of early American radicalism centering on the core influences of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson. Durey (history, Murdoch U.) follows the careers of Paine and other dissenters from Britai
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
Every day, in natural history museums all across the country, colonies of dermestid beetles diligently devour the decaying flesh off of animal skeletons that are destined for the museum’s specimen col
"On August 25, 1938, twenty-five-year-old Ben Dickson and his fifteen-year-old wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota, making off with $2,187.64. Two months later they h
"Bono. Angelina Jolie. Ben Affleck. George Clooney. All of these celebrities, and many others in this century and the last, have endorsed politicians and policies. In Celebrity Power, Mark Harvey take
Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federa
