Civics
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- Black, White, and Catholic
- New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956
- Most histories of the Civil Rights Movement start with all the players in place--among them organized groups of African Americans, White Citizens' Councils, nervous politicians, and religious leade...
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- Challenged by Coeducation
- Women's Colleges Since the 1960s
- Challenged by Coeducation details the responses of women's colleges to the most recent wave of Women's colleges originated in the mid-nineteenth century as a response to women's exclusion fr...
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- The Clinton Wars
- The Constitution, Congress, and War Powers
- Today the United States is fighting a "war" against terrorism, a military action whose definition will be a matter of controversy, particularly, if history is any guide, between Congress and the pr...
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- Going Coed
- Women's Experiences in Formerly Men's Colleges and Universities, 1950-2000
- More than a quarter-century ago, the last great wave of coeducation in the United States resulted in the admission of women to almost all of the remaining men's colleges and universities. In thirte...
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- Law Touched Our Hearts
- A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education
- In February 1954, President Eisenhower invited Chief Justice Warren to dinner at the White House. Among the guests were well-known opponents of school desegregation. During that evening, Eisenhow...
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- My Father Said Yes
- A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration
- On September 4, 1957, the group of African American high school students who became known as the Little Rock Nine walked up to the front of Central High to enroll in school. They were turned away b...
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- The Next Form of Democracy
- How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance -- and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same
- Beneath the national radar, the relationship between citizens and government is undergoing a dramatic shift. More than ever before, citizens are educated, skeptical, and capable of bringing the de...
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- Smoke in Their Eyes
- Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars
- The classic American struggle between the public interest and corporate interests is perhaps nowhere better illustrated than in the decades-long struggle between the tobacco industry and advocates ...
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- Tennessee Government and Politics
- Democracy in the Volunteer State
- Tennessee Government and Politics offers a timely and comprehensive new survey of the state's political evolution. With its concise historical analysis, up-to-date presentation of contempora...
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- A Troubled Dream
- The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana
- Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the United States still has a long way to go to attain true integration of our educational system.
Using extensive interviews and a wealth o...
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- We Make Change
- Community Organizers Talk About What They Do--and Why
- Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with people. Although it's not an occupation that l...
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- American Conservatism
- Thinking It, Teaching It
- This book offers a rare opportunity to read about how a scholar's teaching informs his research, in this case an examination of the nature of American conservatism. It is based on an interdiscipli...
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- Engaging Young People in Civic Life
- The myth of generations of disengaged youth has been shattered by increases in youth turnout in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 primaries. Young Americans are responsive to effective outreach efforts, an...
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- The Way We Vote
- The Local Dimension of American Suffrage
- To a degree unique among democracies, the United States has always placed responsibility for running national elections in the hands of county, city, and town officials. The Way We Vote exp...
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- The People Shall Rule
- ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice
- With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing and the effectiveness of ACORN (Association of ...
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- The Political Centrist
- Today almost half of all Americans decline to define themselves as either "liberal" or "conservative." In fact, modern liberalism and conservatism seem hopelessly fragmented ideologies. Liberals c...
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- The DeMarco Factor
- Transforming Public Will into Political Power
- Vinny DeMarco might be a latter-day Don Quixote except that he tilts his lance at real obstacles to social justice: lobby-locked state legislatures and Congress, stonewalling the public will. And h...
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- Reconstituting Whiteness
- The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
- In Reconstituting Whiteness, sociologist Jenny Irons explores the tactics and legacy of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, an agency of the state that existed from 1956 to 1977 an...
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- Seeds of Change
- The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group
- "There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers." --Todd Gitli...
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