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Race and the Cherokee Nation
Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
"We believe by blood only," said a Cherokee resident of Oklahoma, speaking to reporters in 2007 after voting in favor of the Cherokee Nation constitutional amendment limiting its membership. In an election that made headlines around the world, a majority of Cherokee voters chose to eject...
Let This Voice Be Heard
Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Anthony Benezet (1713-84), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenth-century antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Huguenot family in Saint-Quentin, France. As a boy, Benezet moved to Holland, England, and, in 1731, Philadelphia, where he rose to prominence in the Quaker...
Take Up Your Pen
Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Executive orders and proclamations afford presidents an independent means of controlling a wide range of activities in the federal government—yet they are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the controversial edicts known as universal presidential directives seem to violate the separation...
Moral Minority
The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evangelical...
American Marriage
A Political Institution
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
As states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars grapple with its implications for the status of gays and lesbians and for the institution of marriage itself. Yet, the struggle over same-sex marriage...
Human Rights
A Political and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. But even so, this universal...
Food on the Page
Cookbooks and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
What is American food? From barbecue to Jell-O molds to burrito bowls, its history spans a vast patchwork of traditions, crazes, and quirks. A close look at these foods and the recipes behind them unearths a vivid map of American foodways: how Americans thought about food, how they described it, and...
Kitchen Culture in America
Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line—mostly female—flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those magazine racks are countless images of food and, in particular, women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together,...
Architects of Delusion
Europe, America, and the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The commencement of war in Iraq in 2003 was met with a variety of reactions around the globe. In Architects of Delusion, Simon Serfaty presents a historical analysis of how and why the decision to wage war was endorsed by some of America's main European allies, especially Britain, and opposed by others,...
by Su-kyoung Hwang
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In 1948, two years before Cold War tensions resulted in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea that started the Korean War, the first major political confrontation between leftists and rightists occurred on the South Korean island of Cheju, where communist activists disrupted United Nations-sanctioned...
by Michael L. Ondaatje
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In the last three decades, a brand of black conservatism espoused by a controversial group of African American intellectuals has become a fixture in the nation's political landscape, its proponents having shaped policy debates over some of the most pressing matters that confront contemporary American...
Cutting Along the Color Line
Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and...
Afghanistan Declassified
A Guide to America's Longest War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and geography of Iraq, but...
American Justice 2014
Nine Clashing Visions on the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
In this provocative and insightful book, constitutional scholar and journalist Garrett Epps reviews the key decisions of the 2013-2014 Supreme Court term through the words of the nation's nine most powerful legal authorities. Epps succinctly outlines one opinion or dissent from each of the justices...