History

Revisiting the question of race in the woman suffrage movement -- African American women in the first generation of woman suffragists : 1850-1869 -- African American woman suffragists finding their own voices : 1870s and 1880s -- Suffrage strategies and ideas : African American women leaders respond during "the nadir" -- Mobilizing to win the vote : African American women's organizations -- Anti-black woman suffrage tactics and African American women's responses -- African American women as voters and candidates -- The nineteenth amendment and its meaning for African American women.

Summary"In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image." "Lawrence M. Friedman argues that the evolution of criminal justice has reflected transformations in America's character. Thus the theocratic world of seventeenth-century Puritanism generated a peculiar equation between crime and sin. The extraordinary geographic and social mobility of nineteenth-century America produced its own distinctive approach to crime and punishment. And the expressive individualism of the twentieth century encouraged an emphasis on "crimes of the self."" "Crime and Punishment in American History covers vast and fascinating terrain: the Salem witchcraft trials; the Red Scare after World War I; the rise of the American penitentiary; the emergence of the professional detective; the development of laws against fornication and gambling and the reform of rape laws; the rise of the insanity defense; the growth of a prisoners rights movement; and much more. It is about vigilantes, outlaws, embezzlers, swindlers, and what happened to them; about the growth of white-collar crime; and about revolutionary changes in the relationship between gender and criminal justice." "Informed by the perspective of the social sciences, this book is a social history of crime and punishment, the story of the social reaction to crime. Not a history of criminal law or an intellectual history of penology or a treatise on the philosophy of good and evil, this book chronicles the development of a working system of criminal justice, from arrest to trial to prison and punishment." "Serious crime has skyrocketed in our day, affecting the lives of millions of people directly and all of us indirectly. This elegant and magisterial history helps us understand why this is happening - where we have been and where we are heading. It is a story that needs to be told."--Jacket

SummaryChange in the 2008 election will cause another of our country's periodic political makeovers resulting from the coming of age of the Millennial Generation and the full emergence of the Internet-based communications technology that this generation uses so well.

SummaryAmerican Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity - the people - would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. The idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union. Today's constitutionalism is not a natural inheritance, but the product of choices Americans made between shifting understandings about themselves as a collective sovereign.

SummaryPresents an overview of the cultures and histories of Plains Indian people. Includes entries on important individuals and places of significant cultural or historic meaning. Provides a chronology of the major events in the history of American Indians in the Plains.

The Past as Prologue: The American Vision of the Postwar World -- The Soviet Union and World Revolution: The American View 1941-1944 -- Cooperating for Victory: Defeating Germany and Japan -- Repression Versus Rehabilitation: The Problem of Eastern Europe -- Security versus Self-Determination: The Problem of Eastern Europe -- Economic Relations: Lend-Lease and the Russioan Loan -- Victory and Transition: Harry S. Truman and the Russians -- The Impotence of Omnipotence: American Diplomacy, the Atomic Bomb, and the Postwar World -- Getting Tough with Russia: The Reorientation of American Policy, 1946 -- To the Truman Doctrine: Implementing the New Policy -- Conclusion: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War.