Charles Peters
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam War. Few figures in American history are as compelling and complex as Lyndon Baines Johnson, master of the U.S. Senate in the 1950s and successor to President John F. Kennedy after his assassination. Part of the Kennedy-Johnson administration from 1961 to 1968, political observer Charles Peters offers...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Language
English
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Description
Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as the one delivered in Roe v. Wade in 1973. Four decades later, it remains a touchstone for the culture wars in the United States and a pivot upon which much of our politics turns. With that in mind the authors have now taken stock of the abortion debates, controversies, and cases that have emerged during the past decade in order to update their book...
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Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This book charts the history of civil litigation in America from the 17th century to today, using key cases that illustrate the central theme of lawsuits in different periods of U.S. history, and enabling readers to explore and understand key questions in American life and culture through the changing nature of how and why we sue one another.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1853, in Lafayette City, Louisiana, eleven-year-old Elias Abrams loses his mother to yellow fever. Grief-stricken and alone, he becomes embroiled in the street life of New Orleans. After Elias is falsely accused of a crime, and in order to escape arrest, he enlists in the Third Louisiana Regiment, where three thousand other Jews will ultimately fight for the Confederacy. Before long, though, Elias' past catches up with him, and he...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In late-seventeenth-century New England, the eternal battle between God and Satan moved into the courtroom. Between January 1692 and May 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, neighbors turned against neighbors and children against parents with accusations of witchcraft, and nineteen people were hanged for having made pacts with the devil.
Peter Charles Hoffer tells the real story of how religious beliefs, superstitions, clan disputes, and Anglo-American...
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Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The newest entry in the Witness to History series introduces students to the gag-rule (1836), which tabled any petitions or discussions of slavery, effectively forbidding Congress to address the issue. It took John Quincy Adams four Congresses and a lot of passionate arguing to finally get enough votes to repeal the gag-rule in 1844. Students often think of the first half of the 19th century as a boring gap between the Revolution and the Civil War....
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's history. Now a veteran team of talented historians--including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series--have produced the most readable, astute, and up-to-date single-volume history of this venerated institution, as engaging for general readers as it is rigorous for scholars. The Supreme...