Author: Thomas Richard WhitneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A Defence of the American Policy, as Opposed to the Encroachments of Foreign Influence
Author: Thomas Richard WhitneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A Defence of the American Policy, As Opposed to the Encroachments of Foreign Influence, and Especially to the Interference of the Papacy in the Political Interests and Affairs of the United States
Author: Thomas Richard WhitneyPublisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425539108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. II
Author: National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement
Author: United States. Wickersham CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A List of Books and Pamphlets Received at the Library of the Department of State, by Purchase, Exchange, and Gift, During the Period from ... to ... Supplemented by a List of Periodicals and Newspapers Now Currently Received
Author: United States. Department of State. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomacy
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Industrial Revolution
Author: Jennifer Lee GoloboyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598840665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This volume in the Perspectives in American Social History series reveals the long reach of the Industrial Revolution into the work lives and self-perceptions of average Americans. Industrial Revolution: People and Perspectives offers a well-informed look at the impact of new labor practices in the 1800s. It analyzes this pivotal moment in the broader context of the nation's economic development, measuring its consequences for Americans as both workers and consumers in all regions of the country. Industrial Revolution examines what industrialization meant for American artisans, women workers, slaves, and manufacturers. It shows how this new working world led to sharpening class divisions and expanded consumerism. Throughout, groundbreaking social historians draw on 19th-century primary documents and the latest research to show how the Industrial Revolution transformed the life the average American.
America, Empire of Liberty
Author: David ReynoldsPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465020054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
"The best one-volume history of the United States ever written" (Joseph J. Ellis) It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: How could the anti-empire of 1776 became the world's greatest superpower? And how did the country that offered unmatched liberty nevertheless found its prosperity on slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans? In this new single-volume history spanning the entire course of US history—from 1776 through the election of Barack Obama—prize-winning historian David Reynolds explains how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith—both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized American politics for centuries and the larger faith in American righteousness that has driven the country's expansion. Written with verve and insight, Empire of Liberty brilliantly depicts America in all of its many contradictions.
Conspiracy Theories
Author: Jeffrey B. WebbPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive guide to the history and current shape of conspiracy theories in American life, including the findings of research seeking to understand their origins, type, function, and widespread appeal. This all-in-one resource provides an accessible overview of conspiracy theories past and present in all their many forms. Taking an even-handed, scholarly approach, the book outlines the longer history of conspiracy theories, starting with Ancient Greece and Rome and continuing the story up to the present day, including analysis of 9/11, anti-vaccine, COVID, and QAnon theories. It surveys an array of current books and articles to try to understand why people believe in and act on outlandish and evidence-free conspiracy theories. Notably, this resource also outlines the problems created by untrue conspiracy theories in terms of their negative impact on public debate, trust in others, and efforts to nurture an informed and educated citizenry. Instead, many conspiracy claims have become sources of misinformation, cynicism, and polarization. This book will benefit anyone who seeks a pathway through our current "epistemic crisis" in which the lines between fact and fiction-and between truth and falsehood-have become blurred.
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
Author: Steve LuxenbergPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393651150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
A New York Times Editors' Choice Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize “Absorbing.… Segregation is not one story but many. Luxenberg has written his with energy, elegance and a heart aching for a world without it.” —James Goodman, The New York Times Book Review Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the nineteenth century, Plessy v. Ferguson. The 1896 ruling embraced racial segregation, and its reverberations are still felt today. Drawing on letters, diaries, and archival collections, Steve Luxenberg reveals the origins of racial separation and its pernicious grip on American life. He tells the story through the lives of the people caught up in the case: Louis Martinet, who led the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans; Albion Tourgée, a best-selling author and the country’s best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery New England, whose majority ruling sanctioned separation; Justice John Harlan, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice. Sweeping, swiftly paced, and richly detailed, Separate is an urgently needed exploration of our nation’s most devastating divide.