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This book explores new media and new stories in Holocaust public memory as powerful agents against a rising tide of global intolerance. Arguing that gender is often absent in traditional medial forms of public memory, Costello illustrates how new forms of memorialization shift our orientation toward others and our engagement with the past.

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Comparing over 500 Supreme Court decisions with timely nationwide poll questions, Thomas R. Marshall shows that most Supreme Court decisions agree with poll majorities or pluralities across time and across issues and often represent Americans views to the same degree as federal policymakers.

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This bibliography orders one major genre of research in American Puritan studies--doctoral dissertations and published monographs based on them--to facilitate access to many significant but often neglected studies, and to display per exemplum the remarkably broad array of topics that have interested students of the American Puritans.

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This book is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in this fascinating period of U.S. history.

After a historical overview that opens the book, railroad historian Augustus Veenendaal explores the technology that made the railroads possible and the innovations in financing that got them built.

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Against the Tide is a collection of in-depth biographical essays on the most important women reformers in American history. This reader will be useful in any history course that deals with the important contributions made by women to the development of our government and society from the early republic to today.

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An easy-to-use guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and a selective annotated bibliography.

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The evolution of religious diversity and complexity in the United States is explained clearly in this richly illustrated historical work.

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This intriguing book explores why spectacular films involving Biblical figures or set in Biblical times have been a staple of filmmaking since talkies began.

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The most significant, public religious issue confronting America is the relationship between Church and State. Secular opinion holds that the rise of religion in the public square is a threat to our democracy that must be resisted. This book argues that this position, although understandable, is misguided.

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This book is a collection of essays, each written by a specialist in his field, reviewing American research on Russia since World War II. The topics range from history, economics and political science to music, linguistics and architecture.

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Moving beyond traditional texts, this revealing volume explores the world of the average citizens who played an integral part in the Revolutionary era of American history.

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A chronicle of McDougall's achievements as a soldier who rose to the highest rank in the Army, as a politician who became a member of the Continental Congress, and as the first and only Minister of the Marine.

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Gustainis analyzes several important aspects of Vietnam era rhetoric: presidential rhetoric, protest rhetoric, and the war as portrayed in popular culture.

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This book explores the representation of American Roma from the nineteenth-century to today by examining portrayals in newsprint, television, movies, and social media.

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American Romanticism, Education, and Social Reform argues that American Transcendentalism was an attempt to institutionalize and popularize Romantic literary practice. The Transcendentalists tried to make Romantic education the generating idea of society itself, so self-reliance needed to become a cultural practice available to everyone.

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Berube analyzes the three great educational reform movements in the United States. He shows how they have been shaped by outside societal forces: Progressive Education was an offshoot of the Progressive Movement; Equity Reform sought to complete the unfinished agenda of Progressive Education in educating the poor.

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Berube analyzes the three great educational reform movements in the United States. He shows how they have been shaped by outside societal forces: Progressive Education was an offshoot of the Progressive Movement; Equity Reform sought to complete the unfinished agenda of Progressive Education in educating the poor.

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From the Cold War through to America's War on Terror, science fiction has proved a subtle vehicle for the hopes, fears and preoccupations of a nation at war. This book presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre.

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Science fiction film and television were initially inspired by the classic literature of HG Wells and Jules Verne. This book presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre.

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Bruce L. R. Smith makes sense of the break between science and government and identifies the patterns on postwar science affairs. He explains that what might otherwise seem to be a miscellaneous set of separate episodes actually constituted a continuing debate of national importance that was closely linked to broad political and economic trends.

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The American Settlement Movement was one of the most significant, broadly based reform efforts in the history of the United States, yet surprisingly few people are even aware of its existence.

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Challenging conventional wisdom, this work argues that the US federal government, not the private sector, created the dynamic New Economy. It aims to help readers who want to discover the causal factors that created the conditions for the unprecedented economic boom of the 1990s.

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An analysis of organised hate crime violence, where the author presents historical specificity for a modern theory of hate crime, and then tests it with interview data derived from those who have committed an array of violent acts against members of the classic "outgroups" of American society.