Books from Columbia University Press
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The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
By Rory McVeigh, Kevin EstepThe Union garrison housed many black soldiers, some rumored to have been Forrest's former slaves.21 According to ... That same year, President Ulysses S. Grant deployed federal troops to put down the Klan rebellion in South Carolina.
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Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920
By Kevin McGruder... 45,147,158 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 185 Dunbar Court, 185 Dunbar Theater, 216 Dunkney, Mary S., 115 Dutch farmers, ... 23 Enforcement Act (1870), 25 Enoch, May, 45 Garrison Literary and Benevolent Society, 20 Garvey, Marcus, 115 Gates.
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Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy
By Richard D. KahlenbergShanker pounced on Reagan's use of Mann. “Horace Mann would have turned over in his grave at being used in this way,” Shanker said. Quoting Columbia education historian Lawrence Cremin, Shanker noted that Mann's commitment was to a ...
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Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice
By Richard C. Friedman, Jennifer I. DowneyThe situation in that regard is somewhat more complex than it seems in light of an ambitious, ... Whereas women were more likely than men to have slight to moderate homosexual feelings, men were much more likely to be predominantly or ...
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Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation
By Karen Litfin... and air conditioning to 90 percent for aerosol uses , averaging roughly 50 percent overall ( Miller and Mintzer 1986 : 19 ) . 27. ... on the acid rain issue , decided to take on the ozone issue ( interview with Alan S. Miller ) .
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Genealogy of American Finance
By Robert E. Wright, Richard SyllaD. iscover began life as a subsidiary of the retail department store giant Sears, Roebuck and Company. From humble beginnings as a mail order catalog company in 1893, Sears grew quickly and soon expanded into lending and insurance.
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Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family
By Bruce D. Haynes, Syma SolovitchPresident Johnson incorporated much of Young's model into his War on Poverty initiative. Young was also successful in persuading corporate America and major foundations to support selfhelp programs for education, jobs, housing, ...
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The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service
By Christof Mauch... bourgeois , and Catholic circles , such as the former Reichskanzler Heinrich Brüning , Joseph Wirth , Gottfried Treviranus , Oscar Meyer , Arnold Brecht , and Erich Koch - Weser.89 As soon as its first conference had been announced ...
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Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue
By James S. Ettema, Theodore L. GlasserIn regard to psychic baggage , see S. Robert Lichter , Stanley Rothman , and Linda S. Lichter , The Media Elite : America's New Powerbrokers ( Bethesda , MD : Adler & Adler , 1986 ) . 8. David H. Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit ...
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Depression: Theories and Treatments : Psychological, Biological, and Social Perspectives
By Arthur Schwartz, Ruth M. Schwartzbeen linked with anger and agitation ( Trachtenberg and Blum 1987 ; Blum and Trachtenberg 1988 ) . Opioid drugs such as heroin lessen these feelings , possibly by substituting for the natural analgesics ( painkillers ) , the endorphins ...
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Life, Temperature, and the Earth: The Self-organizing Biosphere
By David W. Schwartzman, Professor David SchwartzmanAquat Geochem 2 : 301–12 . Bieri , R. 1964. Humanoids on other planets ? Am Scientist 52 : 452–8 . Black , D. 1996. Looking for the twilight zone . Nature 381 : 474–5 . Blum , A. E. , D. M. McKnight , and W. B. Lyons . 1997.
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Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America
By Michael E. StaubAlthough Commentary s editorial policy maintained independence from the American Jewish Committee , Stuart Svonkin argues ... Notable examples include Melvin Lasky , " Why the Kremlin Extorts Confessions , " Commentary 13 ( January 1952 ) ...
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Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice
By Alexander L. George, Richard SmokeLasky , Melvin J . , ed . The Hungarian Revolution : A White Book . New York , Praeger , 1957 . New York Times , October 26 , November 2 and 5 ... U . S . Department of State . American Foreign Policy 1950 - 1955 : Basic Documents .
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American Environmental History: An Introduction
By Carolyn Merchantfrom wells or later led from reservoirs via rivers, aqueducts, and pipes to be swallowed by the city and its inhabitants. Trees were cut for fuel to cook the food that entered its digestive system. The city also had an elimination ...
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Unearthing the Changes: Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing ( I Ching) and Related Texts
By Edward L. Shaughnessy8 For zhi 至, “to arrive,” both rand M read zhi 致, “to bring, to cause to arrive.” 9 Whereas complete bamboo strips of the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi manuscript are generally about 45.5 cm long, only the bottom 20.8 cm of strip no.
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Our Friend Manso
By Benito Pérez GaldósOUR FRIEND MANSO Benito Pérez Galdós Translated from the Spanish by Robert Russell Benito Pérez Galdós has long occupied a central position within the literary tradition of Spain ; critics call him Spain's most significant novelist ...
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Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi
By Hans-Georg Moeller, Paul J. D'AmbrosioPuett, Michael J., and Christine Gross-Loh. 2016. The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life. New York: Simon and Schuster. Raphals, Lisa. 1996. “Skeptical Strategies in the Zhuangzi and Theaetetus.
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The Biology of Nectaries
By Barbara Bentley, Thomas Elias, Thomas S. EliasThis statistic is based not only on my own observations , but also on the reported observations of Zimmerman ( 1932 ) and Schell , Cusset , and Quenum ( 1963 ) . As most of the earlier determinations were made upon gross structural ...
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Dynamics of Regional Politics: Four Systems on the Indian Ocean Rim
By William Howard Wriggins4 and s . For a discussion of allegations that India's intelligence organization helped organize and supported the mukthibahini ... also Marwah , “ India's Military Power , " in Marwah and Pollack , eds . , Military Power , p . 117 .
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Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, & Christianity
By Jeffrey S. ShoulsonThe term minim, “heretics,” is almost always the rabbinic code word for followers of Jesus and Paul. . My debt to Geoffrey Hartman's mode of literary criticism should be apparent in these two terms, as they echo Hartman's Saving the ...