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“andrew stone higgins”

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  • Higher Education for All

    Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan

    by Andrew Stone Higgins ...
    The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States. Yet the Master Plan, the product of committed Cold War liberals, unfortunately served to reinforce the very class-based exclusions and de facto racism that plagued K–12 education in the nation’s largest and most diverse ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor

    A Collective History of the International Socialists

    by Andrew Stone Higgins ...
    From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor documents the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members.The Independent Socialist Club, founded at UC Berkeley in 1964 as a radical civil rights group, lit the spark of the Free Speech Movement that same year, and its members and successor organizations would go on to play an outsized ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Stayin’ Alive

    The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

    by Jefferson Cowie ...
    Winner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historianA wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin’ Alive is prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie’s remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic ... Read more

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  • The Seventies

    The Great Shift in American culture, Society, and Politics

    by Bruce J. Schulman ...
    Most of us think of the 1970s as an "in-between" decade, the uninspiring years that happened to fall between the excitement of the 1960s and the Reagan Revolution. A kitschy period summed up as the "Me Decade," it was the time of Watergate and the end of Vietnam, of malaise and gas lines, but of nothing revolutionary, nothing with long-lasting significance.In the first full history of the period, ... Read more

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  • Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power

    Community Organizing in Radical Times

    by Amy Sonnie, James Tracy ...
    THE STORY OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND LITTLE-KNOWN ACTIVISTS OF THE 1960s, IN A DEEPLY SOURCED NARRATIVE HISTORYThe historians of the late 1960s have emphasized the work of a group of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries, ... Read more

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  • Living for the City

    Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

    by Donna Jean Murch ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling and influential forms of Black Power politics.During an era of expansion and political struggle in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century

    A Social Justice Hall of Fame

    by Peter Dreier ...
    A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted -- because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Campus Wars

    The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era

    by Kenneth J. Heineman ...
    "At the same time that the dangerous war was being fought in the jungles of Vietnam, Campus Wars were being fought in the United States by antiwar protesters. Kenneth J. Heineman found that the campus peace campaign was first spurred at state universities rather than at the big-name colleges. His useful book examines the outside forces, like military contracts and local communities, that led to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Crossing Broadway

    Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City

    by Robert W. Snyder ...
    Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's ... Read more

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  • Losing Control: How a Left-Right Coalition Blocked Immigration Reform and Provoked the Backlash That Elected Trump

    by Jerry Kammer ...
    Follow Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter Jerry Kammer as he traces the roots of America's failure to reform immigration. Losing Control tells the remarkable tale of one of the most consequential failures of governance in modern American history. It is the story of the left-right, strangest-of-bedfellows coalition of activists, ethnic groups, business interests, and civil libertarians ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement

    by Simon Hall ...
    Series series American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
    Between 1965 and 1973, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans participated in one of the most remarkable and significant people's movements in American history. Through marches, rallies, draft resistance, teach-ins, civil disobedience, and non-violent demonstrations at both the national and local levels, Americans vehemently protested the country's involvement in the Vietnam War.Rethinking ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson

    Edited by Mitchell B. Lerner ...
    Series Book 87 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    This companion offers an overview of Lyndon B. Johnson's life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the central arguments and scholarly debates from his term in office.Explores the legacy of Johnson and the historical significance of his years as presidentCovers the full range of topics, from the social and civil rights reforms of the Great Society to the increased American ... Read more

    $199.00 USD