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  • Political Science in America

    Oral Histories of a Discipline

    Edited by Michael A. Baer, Malcolm E. Jewell, Lee Sigelman ...
    Few academic disciplines have recorded their own origins and development in an organized way. The American Political Science Association, in cooperation with Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society, and the University of Kentucky, have undertaken an extensive oral history project, the aim of which is to trace and record the growth of the discipline. The program has made it possible to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

    by Nancy MacLean ...
    **Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book"“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all ... Read more

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  • The Teacher Wars

    A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

    by Dana Goldstein ...
    In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been ... Read more

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  • Between Citizens and the State

    The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century

    by Christopher P. Loss ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth ... Read more

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  • The Citizen Machine

    Governing by Television in 1950s America

    by Anna McCarthy ...
    The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV's potential to mold the right kind of citizen.Based on ... Read more

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  • Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement

    Freedom's Bittersweet Song

    Edited by Julie Buckner Armstrong, Susan Hult Edwards, Houston Bryan Roberson, Rhonda Y. Williams ...
    The past fifteen years have seen renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes and classrooms once again. New evidence in older criminal cases demands that the judicial system reconsider the accuracy of investigations and legal decisions. Racial profiling, affirmative action, voting districting, and school voucher ... Read more

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  • Making a New Deal

    Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939

    by Lizabeth Cohen ...
    This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or patronize the new A&P. As they made daily decisions ... Read more

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  • Measuring America

    How Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century

    by Andrew L. Yarrow ...
    The United States has always fancied itself a nation apart—"exceptional" in its values, traditions, and way of life. For most of the country's history, ideas about what made America distinctive generally were framed in terms of a liberal idealism rooted in the thought of John Locke and articulated by Jefferson, Madison, and other Founders. While some commentators also observed that the United ... Read more

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  • Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters

    by Jonathan M. Ladd ...
    As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in the press declined so dramatically over the past 40 years? And has this change shaped the public's political behavior? This book examines waning public trust in the institutional news media within the context of ... Read more

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  • Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger

    School Segregation in Rochester, New York

    by Justin Murphy ...
    In Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger**, the veteran journalist Justin Murphy argues that Rochester's educational disparities stem from historical and ongoing racial segregation.** Education reform alone cannot resolve racial inequity; cities such as Rochester must first dismantle segregation.Through interviews and documents, Murphy shows how discriminatory policies and personal prejudice ... Read more

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  • Doing History from the Bottom Up

    On E.P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below

    by Staughton Lynd ...
    Reflections on the crucial importance of including the perspectives of the marginalized and the non-elite in our historical accounts.In the 1960s, historians on both sides of the Atlantic began to challenge the assumptions of their colleagues and push for an understanding of history "from below." In this collection of writings, Staughton Lynd, one of the pioneers of this approach, laments the ... Read more

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  • Ghetto Schooling

    A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform

    by Jean Anyon ...
    In this personal account, originally published in 1997, Jean Anyon provides evidence that the economic and political devastation of America’s inner cities has robbed schools and teachers of the capacity to successfully implement current strategies of educational reform. She argues that without fundamental change in government and business policies and the redirection of major resources back into ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD