Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and hierarchical America which existed before. In the process, class politics re-defined the political agenda of America as—for the first and time in American history—the political universe polarized along class lines. The author explores the meaning of the new deal political mobilization by ordinary people by examining the changes it brought to the local, county, and state levels in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Pennsylvania as a whole.
Suspended precariously in the middle of this epic struggle is freedom itself.
The adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791 marked the creation of a uniquely innovative mechanism for constitutional change by which Americans have continued to renew and redefine their governance over a two-hundred-year period.
This volume unpacks the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves.
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The author examines the Operation IRAQI FREEDOM environment and concludes that the complexity, unpredictability, and ambiguity of postwar Iraq is producing a cohort of innovative, confident, and adaptable junior officers....
This book demonstrates through a combination of sources, the practical reaction to the fugitive slave law, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision and other events in a small community...
... Loyal Protestants and Dangerous Papists : Maryland and the Politics of Religion in the English Atlantic , 1630-1690 ( Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2015 ) , 23-24 . 6. Charles M. Andrews , The Colonial Period of ...
Jonathan Copeland, however, vindicated his action and purchased at least one more slave while under scrutiny for the first offense. Chester Meeting agreed to bar him from meeting business as directed by the Yearly Meeting.
By recounting experiences of earliest settlers of Long Island, the volume covers major events in western civilization's struggle for religious liberty.
In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast.