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A survey of the historiography of the history of ideas in America. The opening chapter examines the treatment of ideas by pre-20th century American historians and the final chapter is devoted to new directions since the 1940's.

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American Interests, Amercan Purpose explores the relationship between moral norms and U.S. foreign policy. The book does not so much attempt to provide a theoretical framework for the ongoing debate of morality and foreign policy as to examine four different controversial aspects of the argument.

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Explores transnational questions in Jewish history, analyzing the historical, cultural and social experience of American Jewry from 1654 to the present day, and evaluates the relationship between European and American Jewish history.

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This comprehensive work provides access to the existing literature on all types of journalism from newspapers to television.

In his introduction, Sloan reviews the different approaches to journalism history that have characterized writing in the field.

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This is the first and only comprehensive bibliography of American judicial proceedings before 1801. It also covers printed rules of court applicable to those proceedings, judicial proceedings in England relating to the American colonies, and American reprintings of the reports of English and European trials.

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The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.

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The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.

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This study reclaims a lost body of theatrical work by focusing on four labor plays of the 1930s. This work will be of interest to scholars in theatre history, American studies, southern history, and American labor history.

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This book is one of the most comprehensive surveys of American legal topics by a gathering of major Catholic legal scholars. Contributors explore, among other subjects, bankruptcy, bioethics, corporate law, ethics, immigration, and many different aspects of constitutional law, including religious freedom, privacy rights, and free speech.

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The second of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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The last of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont.

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Provides biographical and career information on Southern state house speakers from 1911 to 1994.

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The first of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

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This comprehensive study of state political power will provide fresh insight into the American legislative system of the latter half of the nineteenth century and will be of special value to scholars of American political history and political science.

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1876 is considered to mark the beginning of the modern library movement in the United States, but Americans created and used thousands of libraries before that date.

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The 'Original Six' frigates were commissioned by the new-born US Navy at a staggering cost of $688,888.82. Designed to be light and fast, these warships enabled America to project its power across the globe.

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American Lit Remixed argues that literary texts use music to combat the artifice and alienation of the digital age. Works by well known authors and less familiar ones draw from mixtapes, remixes, vinyl records, and cassettes to reinvent identity and community, as well as literary form.

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While volumes have been generated about the Great Depression, relatively little work has been done on the social transformations during the 1930s and few attempts have been made to relate these transformations to American literary humor.

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"Recommended for academic and public reference collections." Choice

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The history of modern American literature is inextricably tied to the history of the literary magazine.

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