Serving as a comprehensive twentieth-century history text, this book offers coverage of social and cultural history, along with political and diplomatic coverage.
This volume demonstrates that the Christian Right has a surprising past.
The author examines the history of America and the resilience of its citizens and presents his reasons for believing that "Americans want to reverse the [current] moral decline."--Jacket.
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On January 6, 1787, the North Carolina legislature selected as delegates William R. Davie, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Governor Richard Caswell, Alexander Martin, and Willie Jones. These men were affluent and conservative, ...
This second edition features a new introduction and epilogue to enrich the narrative, charting the later years of Friday's career and examining his legacy in North Carolina and nationwide.
According to one witness , Inez Franko , anti - ERA and anti - abortion speakers at New Jersey's state convention were “ booed , hissed ... physically abused by members of the audience . ” Feminists at the IWY meeting , she said ...
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie’s classic children’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver’s Travels, Alice in ...
William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning of the Civil War itself.
The Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australia is an authorative and comprehensive guide to the region's history.
American Epoch: An era of economic and social change, reform, and world wars, 1900-1945