Local Identifier: 1000
Date Issued: 2007-04-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
The article presents several interpretations of former president Thomas Jefferson' address for the committee of the Danbury Baptist Association…
Local Identifier: 1001
Date Issued: 2005-10-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
Lawrence A. Peskin's Manufacturing Revolution makes two important contributions to our understanding of early American industrialization. First…
Local Identifier: 1002
Date Issued: 2006-07-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
Mark D. McGarvie's One Nation Under Law is the most innovative recent study of church-state relations in the early republic. McGarvie argues…
Local Identifier: 1003
Date Issued: 2004-10-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
In 1810, Theophilus Parsons, the Federalist chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, argued that the state need not recognize voluntary…
Local Identifier: 1004
Date Issued: 2009-04-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
This review provides an opportunity to look back on the work of Garrett Ward Sheldon, who teaches political science at the University of Virginia…
Local Identifier: 1005
Date Issued: 2009-04-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
To Connecticut's Congregational ministers, something had gone wrong. Hardly had independence been won when ordinary people began challenging…
Local Identifier: 1006
Date Issued: 2008-08-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
With Critical Americans, Leslie Butler has written a remarkable work that recovers a lost generation of American intellectuals. Tracing the…
Local Identifier: 1007
Date Issued: 2011-04-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
Alexis de Tocqueville watched with horror as American society and politics changed in the two decades following the publication of Democracy in…
Local Identifier: 1008
Date Issued: 2011-06-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
The challenge of defining 'the people,' political theorist Jason Frank writes, 'haunts all theories of democracy and continually…
Local Identifier: 1009
Date Issued: 2004-12-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
Colonial America was a diverse place. And each voice is valuable. Historians must be sensitive to this fact. We know now that any narrative…
Local Identifier: 1010
Date Issued: 2013-04-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
Thomas Jefferson is often invoked as an advocate of limited government and a defender of individual rights. This article argues that rights were…
Local Identifier: 1011
Date Issued: 2011-09-01
Creators/Contributors: Thompson, Roger R.
The land-locked north China province of Shanxi, identified in 1870 by the geologist Baron Richthofen as 'one of the most remarkable coal and…
Local Identifier: 1012
Date Issued: 2008-04-01
Creators/Contributors: Costanzo, Susan
This examination of amateur theatres from 1957 to 1971 reveals that members of the educated public beyond the cultural elite were engaged in shaping…
Local Identifier: 1013
Date Issued: 2006-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Jimerson, Randall C.
Archivists serve many constituencies and often find themselves mediating conflicting interests among records creators, donors, researchers, and their…
Local Identifier: 1014
Date Issued: 2010-08-01
Creators/Contributors: Leonard, Kevin Allen
People whose bodies are not unambiguously either male or female have lived in America since at least the early years of European colonization. Until…
Local Identifier: 1015
Date Issued: 2004-11-01
Creators/Contributors: Leonard, Kevin Allen
Over the past twenty years a number of historians have attempted to explain why an African American 'underclass' emerged in many U.S.…
Local Identifier: 1016
Date Issued: 2013-08-01
Creators/Contributors: Leonard, Kevin Allen
Yone Noguchi is now best known in the United States as the father of sculptor Isamu Noguchi, but he was a highly regarded author and poet who lived…
Local Identifier: 1017
Date Issued: 2013-02-01
Creators/Contributors: Leonard, Kevin Allen
Joan Singler was one of the founders of the Seattle chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Her co-authors were also active in Seattle…
Local Identifier: 1018
Date Issued: 2006-08-01
Creators/Contributors: Leonard, Kevin Allen
A number of geographers and historians have observed that an unusually diverse mix of people populated many Los Angeles neighborhoods prior to World…
Local Identifier: 1019
Date Issued: 2004-07-01
Creators/Contributors: Stewart, Mart A.
As the environmental history of the South is exposed and recovered, and historians explain more fully the intimate relationship between agriculture,…
Local Identifier: 1020
Date Issued: 2008-12-01
Creators/Contributors: Stewart, Mart A.
Aaron Sachs's impressive study of Alexander von Humboldt's influence on nineteenth-century American explorer-scientists reexamines terrain…
Local Identifier: 1021
Date Issued: 2013-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Neem, Johann N.
This response argues that it is reasonable to consider Thomas Jefferson a proponent of democratic education. It suggests that Jefferson's…
Local Identifier: 1022
Date Issued: 1995-11-01
Creators/Contributors: Friday, Chris
Who controls the commons and with what end in mind? Irene Martin proposes that Columbia River gillnetters have rights to fish for salmon that are…
Local Identifier: 1023
Date Issued: 1995-08-01
Creators/Contributors: Friday, Chris
Dana Frank argues that Seattle's working people rode an unprecedented wave of power and control from the World War I boom economy to the early…
Local Identifier: 1024
Date Issued: 1997-08-01
Creators/Contributors: Friday, Chris
In this work, editors Joseph Cone and Sandy Ridlington have brought together an impressive set of documents dating from the mid-1850s treaties with…
Local Identifier: 1025
Date Issued: 2000-05-01
Creators/Contributors: Friday, Chris
George Lipsitz has sculpted a set of essays into a masterful volume that engages the critical questions of the last several generations of Americans…
Local Identifier: 1026
Date Issued: 2009-04-01
Creators/Contributors: Ritter, Harry
Liberal parties fared poorly in the politics of late Habsburg Austria, yet Deborah Coen argues that nineteenth-century Austro-German liberalism…
Local Identifier: 1027
Date Issued: 1979-09-01
Creators/Contributors: Ritter, Harry
The 1970s were an interesting and significant decade for the historiography of contemporary Austria. Among Austrian scholars, the tradition of…
Local Identifier: 1028
Date Issued: 1975-12-01
Creators/Contributors: Ritter, Harry
The Anschluss problem was one of the most vexing legacies of nineteenth-century nationalism and the peace settlement of 1919. Seen in broad…
Local Identifier: 1029
Date Issued: 1996-01-01
Creators/Contributors: Ritter, Harry
Ernst Hanisch's new survey of Austrian Zeitgeschichte is one of the first volumes to appear in Ueberreuter Verlag's projected ten volume…