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America and the World: Culture, Commerce, Conflict
By Lawrence A. Peskin, Edmund F WehrleSome members of Congress, including future president John Adams, hoped to open up free trade with the world. In 1776, Adam Smith had just published The Wealth of Nations, which would become the most important attack on mercantilism and ...
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Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program
By Donald A. BeattieLetter to George E. Mueller, Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, NASA, Washington, D.C. 20546, responding to copy of Foster's memo of September 8, 1964, dated September 25, 1964, signed by George M. Low, Deputy Director, ...
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The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution
By Lorri GloverIn The Fate of the Revolution, Lorri Glover explains why Virginia’s wrangling over ratification led to such heated political debate. Virginians were roughly split in their opinions, as were the delegates they elected.
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Blood On Steel: Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937
By Michael Dennis... Edwin J. Kennedy later claimed to have seen strike supporters carrying “clubs, iron bars, bricks, and slingshots” prior to the march. According to Kennedy, he saw several of these men practicing their slingshot delivery and lining ...
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Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
By Michael L. McKinney, Sue Taylor ParkerHe was strongly influenced both by Romanes and by Wolfgang Köhler's landmark studies of ape cognition at the Anthropoid Research Station of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in the Canary Islands. Köhler's (1927) research on problem ...
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African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album
By Ronald S. CoddingtonSeaman Alfred Bailey, a free man from Virginia who moved to Baltimore before the war, left his job as a waiter in the summer of 1864 and enlisted. 748 After training on the Vermont, he joined the Roanoke.
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Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797
By Dennis Romano, John Jeffries Martin14. Nicolò Machiavelli, Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio 1.55. English translation from Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others, trans. Allan Gilbert, 3 vols. (Durham, N.C., 1965), 1:308–9. See also Donati, L'idea di nobiltà, ...
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The Webster-Hayne Debate: Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic
By Christopher ChildersIn The Webster-Hayne Debate, historian Christopher Childers examines a sharp dispute in January 1830 that came to define the dilemma of America’s national identity.
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Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform
By Joseph F. SpillaneIrving J., 151 Irving T., 144 Jack B., 85 Jack E., 75, 155–156 Jack J., 78 Jackson, Ken, 104, 108–109, ... See also Warwick Karl B., 61–65 Kelley, Florence, 196 Kendall, Glenn, 48, 50, 56, 64, 78, 121–122, 128, 131, 167–168, 185, ...
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Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man
By Tim M. BerraThe Beagle's surgeon, Robert McCormick, also a naturalist, became envious of Darwin's position, quarreled with Captain FitzRoy and First Lieutenant John Clements Wickham (Darwin's favorite officer), and left the ship in Rio in 1832.
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Midnight Ride Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise
By Robert Martello... and moneyed entrepreneurs such as Samuel Slater and Moses Brown in the Rhode Island spinning mills, Robert Fulton's and Robert Livingston's work on early steamboats, and 55 Paul Moody and Francis Lowell in the Lowell textile.
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Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age
By Julie WoskThis mock Mariana returns to the moated grange and “finds to her sorrow, that her room is warmed by hot water pipes and lighted by electricity.” Zucchi after Angelica Kauffmann, 1 January 1781. Urania, the muse.
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Science Unshackled: How Obscure, Abstract, Seemingly Useless Scientific Research Turned Out to Be the Basis for Modern Life
By C. Rene JamesSanger and his team placed the DNA strings into a special gel and applied a mild electric field. Because of the way the electric charges are situated on DNA molecules, the electric field would force the DNA to the positively charged ...
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The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency
By John Sayle WattersonJohn A. Garraty, The American Nation (New York: Harper and Row, 1979), 2:615. 12. Herbert Hoover, Fishing for Fun and to Wash Your Soul (New York: Random House, 1963), 76. 13. Geoff Earle, “Forget His Resume, What's His Regimen?
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Behavioral Genetics: The Clash of Culture and Biology
By Ronald A. Carson, Mark A RothsteinNine essays examining the ethical, cultural, legal, and biological underpinnings of behavioral genetics. Scientists conducting human genome research are identifying genetic disorders and traits at an accelerating rate.
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Creationism in Europe
By Stefaan Blancke, Hans Henrik Hjermitslev, Peter C KjærgaardA history of Creationism in Europe, from its reception to its rise and the response that has followed. For decades, the creationist movement was primarily situated in the United States.
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Rebellion in Black & White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s
By Robert Cohen, David J SnyderEdited by Robert Cohen and David J. Snyder, the book features the work of both seasoned historians and a new generation of scholars offering fresh perspectives on the civil rights movement and many others.
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Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts
By Patricia J. Gumport“Outstanding . . . it presents a comprehensive state of the field, and it explores the role of sociological research in guiding higher education practice.” —Choice In this volume, Patricia Gumport and other leading scholars examine ...
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Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics
By Lucan Way“Pluralism by Default will change the way we understand the emergence of democracies and the consolidation of autocracies.” —Chrystia Freeland, author of Plutocrats Exploring sources of political contestation in the former Soviet ...
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Approaches to Greek Myth
By Lowell Edmunds“A handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths.” —Phoenix Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in ...