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The Life and Career of America's Favorite Pop
When Ozzie Nelson died in 1975, he was no longer a household name. For a guy who had created the longest-running TV sitcom in history, invented the ro...
How Pathological Labels and "Therapeutic" Drugs Hurt Children and Families
This book offers a warning that American children are receiving increased chemical treatment from psychiatrists and provides a primer on how to improv...
Economic Depressions in America
Hard Times presents a comprehensive account of economic depressions in America, from colonial times to the “great recession” that began in 2008. W...
George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents
This remarkable biography features a white American pacifist minister whose tireless work for justice and human rights helped reshape Black civil righ...
Memory and Meaning in Oral History
The industrial expansion of the twentieth century brought with it a profound shift away from traditional agricultural modes and practices in the Ameri...
Oscar G. Johnston and the New Deal
"One of the largest cotton planters in the United States, Oscar G. Johnston of Mississippi (1880-1955) became King Cotton's most effective advocate du...
Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957
"Most accounts of the civil rights movement focus on male leaders and the organizations they led, leaving a dearth of information about the countless ...
Abortion and the Scandal of Christian Discipleship
The twentieth century promised much in terms of progress. Europe was at peace, and America was poised to become a world superpower. Certain religious ...
The Evolution of a Texas Aggie Tradition
The rich heritage of Texas A & M University is marked by a number of unique traditions, none more important than Aggie Muster. Observance of San Jacin...
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Child and Human Development of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First and Second Sessions ... November 25, 1977, San Francisco, Calif., December 12, 1977, Los Angeles, Calif
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A Chronology of Decisions, Statutes and Other Legal Events
Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town's m...
Pioneer—Educator—Statesman
The life of Edward Hunter Snow (1865–1932), a leader in second-generation Mormon Utah, closely paralleled the early-twentieth-century development of...
Around the North Carolina village of Guilford Courthouse in the late winter of 1781, two weary armies clashed on a cold, wet afternoon. American force...
A Kentucky Folk History
Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic: the Rolling Fork, the Nolin, and the ...
This book was written to aid families with ancestors from Laurens County, South Carolina, to jumpstart their genealogical research. Although the focus...
Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s
With working lives characterized by exploitation and rootlessness, merchant seamen were isolated from mainstream life. Yet their contacts with workers...
When Business Takes on Public Schools
The organizations -- Business models -- School designs -- School culture -- Execution -- School leaders -- Politics and schools -- Academic results --...
Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent
In its early years, the American Republic was far from stable. Conflict and violence, including major land wars, were defining features of the period ...
The Baby Boom Years 1946-1964
Dress and Identity in America is an examination of the conservatism and materialism that swept across the country in the late 1940s through the 1950s-...
Black Tudor Society
The Tudor period remains a source of timeless fascination, with endless novels, TV programmes and films depicting the period in myriad ways. And yet o...
A Bibliography of Published Sources
The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main section...
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently perceived...
Connecticut Yankees in King Cotton's Court
This unique book addresses the under-analyzed subject of internal migration in American historiography by showing the impact of eight generations of a...
Our Place Is in Our Soul
This groundbreaking book brings together Native American and Indigenous scholars, wildlife managers, legal experts, and conservationists from dozens o...
A collection of original essays based on oral history and archival research, this volume illuminates diverse aspects of southern workers' experience i...
This text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, soci...
Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest
Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside t...
A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign explores the single largest and bloodiest battle in American military history, including its many controvers...
A Journey toward Justice, 1972-1987
“A fascinating judicial study. The importance of the modern high court’s docket is so thoroughly and expertly chronicled in this book: reapportion...
Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America
Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel pr...
Stay on the cutting edge of today’s most promising trends in complementary and alternative medical treatments with Dr. David Rakel’s Integrative M...
Yiddish Socialists in New York
In a compelling history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, Tony Michels examines the defining role of the Yi...
Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture
Witnessing Suburbia is a lively cultural analysis of the conservative shift in national politics that transformed the United States during the Reagan-...
The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day "Fluently written, im...
A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots
One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state...
Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894
Modern Cronies traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern...
Winter 2011 Issue, includes Music tracks
The Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on our special CD and: The tell-all letter from a teenage girl who kissed—and kissed—Elvis P...
A Guide for Non-specialist Librarians, Library Assistants, and Student Employees
Basic Music Reference is a quick-start guide designed to introduce library employees to the basic tools and techniques involved in answering questions...