The slavery extension issue and its political ramifications throughout the four decades prior to the Civil War are treated in considerable detail and with astute analysis in Michael A. Morrison, Slavery and the American West: The ...
For summaries, see Ronda and Axtell, ed., Indian Missions, passim; Axtell, Invasion Within, 271–86; Wheeler, “Women and Christian Practice in a Mahican Village,” RAC 13 (2003): 27–67; Wyss, Writing Indians, 1–16; and Winiarski, ...
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European ...
In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades.
On the architecture, see Paul David Pearson, The City College of New York: 150 Years of Academic Architecture (1997). See also Sherry Gorelick, City College and the Jewish Poor: Education in New York, 1880–1924 (New Brunswick, ...
Contemporary ancestors -- Provision grounds -- The Rye Rebellion -- Mountaineers are always free -- Interlude: agrarian twilight -- The captured garden -- Negotiated settlements
In fact, Wilson's representative directly proposed that G.E. create an American-owned monopoly that could become a steady consumer of G.E.'s electrical equipment and could also serve the national interest in time of ... Under Owen Young ...
Special thanks to Tom Owen, who secured privileges for me at a full research library, thus opening up a world of critical secondary materials. My obsession with the Mordecais was validated and my ... Finally, no 3.34 s ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
11. aging fighter, jack Brennan, facing a younger, brutish challenger, Walcott. When criminals instruct Brennan that he must lose to protect their bet on Walcott, Brennan accepts his fate and bets $50,000 on his opponent.
In The Battle for Wisconsin, the labor historian Andrew E. Kersten shows just how far-reaching these "reforms" really are—and why they fly in the face of the state's long progressive tradition.
“It will be the liberal barons presenting the Magna Carta to King John,” said one aide.96 At the White House, Andrew Maguire told Schlesinger, “Toby and I are not by ourselves. We have 67 other guys in the House who feel the same ...
With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition highlights the continuing significance of the movement for black equality and justice.
At the same time, Melville had moved his literary deployment of Sam Patch between precisely the same two points.27 Finally, there was Andrew Jackson himself. In 1833 the City of Philadelphia presented President Jackson with a beautiful ...
In Autumn Glory, Louis P. Masur tells the riveting story of two agonizing weeks in which the stars blew it, unknown players stole the show, hysterical fans got into the act, and umpires had to hold on for dear life.
This groundbreaking book insists on the new, unavoidable truth: large international migrations have permanently altered many countries in the world and transformed their politics.
In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America," Elliott J. Gorn proves why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by ...
" As the distinguished historian Thomas P. Slaughter shows in this landmark book, the long process of revolution reached back more than a century before 1776, and it touched on virtually every aspect of the colonies' laws, commerce, social ...
In this illuminating new biography, Thomas P. Slaughter goes behind those famous texts to locate the sources of Woolman's political and spiritual power.
... A Matter ofJustice: Eisenhower and the Beginning ofthe Civil Rights Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), pp. ... 8, 1960, reel 99, CRDP; author interview with BJT, March 29, 2006, Washington, D.C. BJT to Rankin, Dec.
This is a compelling portrait of a mysterious, original, and highly unusual intellectual, and a colorful tableau of the cities and courts in which he lived and worked.