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Fight For Local Control - Schools, Suburbs, And American Democracy

by Campbell F. Scribner

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 In The Fight for Local Control, Campbell F. Scribner demonstrates how, in the decades after World War II, suburban communities appropriated legacies of rural education to assert their political autonomy and in the process radically changed educational law.
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New Moral Vision - Gender, Religion, And The Changing Purposes Of American Higher Education, 1837-1917

by Andrea L. Turpin

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 In A New Moral Vision, Andrea L. Turpin explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities shaped changing ideas about the moral and religious purposes of higher education in unexpected ways, and in turn profoundly shaped American culture.
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Two Weeks Every Summer - Fresh Air Children And The Problem Of Race In America

by Tobin Miller Shearer

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 Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States.
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For The Common Good - A New History Of Higher Education In America

by Charles Dorn

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 Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor''s degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America''s so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university—in states from California to Maine—Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation''s founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good?Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education''s dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities—including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions—and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.
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Armed With Expertise - The Militarization Of American Social Research During The Cold War

by Joy Rohde

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 During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. Yet the controversy it inspired was...
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Merit - The History Of A Founding Ideal From The American Revolution To The Twenty-First Century

by Joseph Kett

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 The idea that citizens' advancement should depend exclusively on merit, on qualities that deserve reward rather than on bloodlines or wire-pulling, was among the Founding ideals of the American republic, Joseph F. Kett argues in this book.
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Education In Politics - The Origins And Evolution Of No Child Left Behind

by Jesse H. Rhodes

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 In this work, Jesse H. Rhodes shows how the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 and its prescriptive policies arose out of the dynamic of decentralized authority established in the American federal system.
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Emperor Of The World - Charlemagne And The Construction Of Imperial Authority, 800-1229

by Anne A. Latowsky

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 Exploring how the historical memory of Charlemagne was used to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages.
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Rochdale Village - Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, And New York City'S Great Experiment In Integrated Housing

by Peter Eisenstadt

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 The history of Rochdale Village in Queens, New York, once the world's largest housing coop, from its planning, to the civil rights demonstrations at its construction site in 1963, through the late 1970s, ending with a look at life in Rochdale today.
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"That The People Might Live" - Loss And Renewal In Native American Elegy

by Arnold Krupat

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 Krupat surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries, finding that despite differences of language and culture, death and loss are consistently felt by Native peoples both personally and socially.
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Merit - The History Of A Founding Ideal From The American Revolution To The Twenty-First Century

by Joseph Kett

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 The idea that citizens' advancement should depend exclusively on merit, on qualities that deserve reward rather than on bloodlines or wire-pulling, was among the Founding ideals of the American republic, Joseph F. Kett argues in this book.
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For The Common Good - A New History Of Higher Education In America

by Charles Dorn

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The Experts' War On Poverty - Social Research And The Welfare Agenda In Postwar America

by Romain D. Huret

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 In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la PauvertÃ©?, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Angell's translation of Huret's work brings to light for an English-speaking audience this critical set of intellectuals working in federal government...
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The One-Way Street Of Integration - Fair Housing And The Pursuit Of Racial Justice In American Cities

by Edward G. Goetz

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 The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Edward G. Goetz doesnâ€™t see the solution to racial injustice as the government...
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New York Amish - Life In The Plain Communities Of The Empire State

by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

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 This book highlights the existence and diversity of Amish communities in New York State, drawing on twenty-five years of observation, participation, interviews, and archival research.
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After Lavinia - A Literary History Of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy

by John Watkins

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 In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. In After Lavinia, John Watkins traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century.
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Two Weeks Every Summer - Fresh Air Children And The Problem Of Race In America

by Tobin Miller Shearer

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 Two Weeks Every Summer, which is based on extensive oral history interviews with former guests, hosts, and administrators in Fresh Air programs, opens a new chapter in the history of race in the United States.
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Heading Out - A History Of American Camping

by Terence Young

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 In Heading Out, Young takes the reader out into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States.
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For The Common Good - A New History Of Higher Education In America

by Charles Dorn

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 Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of Americaâ€™s so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries...
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A Fight For The Soul Of Public Education - The Story Of The Chicago Teachers Strike

by Robert Bruno e Steven Ashby

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 Using interviews, first-person accounts, participant observation, union documents, and media reports, Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno tell the story of the 2012 strike that shut down the Chicago school system for seven days.
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Immigrants And Electoral Politics - Nonprofit Organizing In A Time Of Demographic Change

by Heath Brown

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 In Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other.
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Clearing The Air - The Rise And Fall Of Smoking In The Workplace

by Gregory Wood

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 In Clearing the Air, Gregory Wood examines smoking's importance to the social and cultural history of working people in the twentieth-century United States.
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A New Moral Vision - Gender, Religion, And The Changing Purposes Of American Higher Education, 1837-1917

by Andrea L. Turpin

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 In A New Moral Vision, Andrea L. Turpin explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities shaped changing ideas about the moral and religious purposes of higher education in unexpected ways, and in turn profoundly shaped American culture.
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Weill Cornell Medicine - A History Of Cornell'S Medical School

by Antonio M., Jr. Gotto e Jennifer Moon

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 In this insightful and nuanced book, dean emeritus Antonio M. Gotto Jr., MD, and Jennifer Moon situate the history of Cornell's medical school in the context of the development of modern medicine and health care. The book examines the triumphs, struggles, and controversies the medical college has undergone.
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