The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Schools
In contrast to recent efforts to restrict students by putting more power in the hands of parents and school officials, Ronald C. Den Otter makes a bold and rigorously argued case for respecting the autonomy of students and expanding their free-speech rights. In recent years, the debate over student speech has roiled college campuses and elicited ......
Examining Native American Education Policy in the New Deal, 1933-1945
A groundbreaking new examination of federal Indian boarding schools in the New Deal era and the threats it posed to Indigenous sovereignty, from the old danger of assimilation to the new challenges of biculturalism and pluralism. The destructive legacy of federal Indian boarding schools is undisputed. The education programs of the late nineteenth ......
Examining Native American Education Policy in the New Deal, 1933-1945
A groundbreaking new examination of federal Indian boarding schools in the New Deal era and the threats it posed to Indigenous sovereignty, from the old danger of assimilation to the new challenges of biculturalism and pluralism. The destructive legacy of federal Indian boarding schools is undisputed. The education programs of the late nineteenth ......
The wild plants in this book tell stories of land, people, and food. As renowned botanist Kelly Kindscher guides us through over one hundred edible plants in this beautiful field guide, we find that foraging has always been an important part of prairie life.Before colonization, Native American women were the primary gatherers of wild plants, which ......
The Mississippi Central Campaign and Chickasaw Bayou, October 25-December 31, 1862
In Early Struggles for Vicksburg, Tim Smith covers the first phase of the Vicksburg campaign (October 1862-July 1863), involving perhaps the most wide-ranging and complex series of efforts seen in the entire campaign. The operations that took place from late October to the end of December 1862 covered six states, consisted of four intertwined ......
President Dwight D. Eisenhower is remembered by many as the originator of the American Interstate Highway System. He is also praised for restraining executive overreach, restoring the separation of powers, and presiding over an era of governmental equanimity and goodwill.In Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Highway Act, Charles Zug contests all ......
President Dwight D. Eisenhower is remembered by many as the originator of the American Interstate Highway System. He is also praised for restraining executive overreach, restoring the separation of powers, and presiding over an era of governmental equanimity and goodwill.In Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Highway Act, Charles Zug contests all ......
The Nevada Test Site As Ground Zero of 1950s American Culture
Cultural scholar John Wills takes readers on a cultural tour of Doom Town, USA, designed to be the model 1950s American city and destroyed by an atomic bomb on live television to educate Americans on the need to prepare for possible nuclear war-but also to sell new products in the emerging postwar economic boom. In March 1953 and May 1955, ......
Congressional Democrats in Conservative America, 1974-1994
What happened to the Democratic Party after the 1960s? In many political histories, the McGovern defeat of 1972 announced the party's decline-and the conservative movement's ascent. What the conventional narrative neglects, Patrick Andelic submits, is the role of Congress in the party's, and the nation's, political fortunes. In Donkey Work, ......
