Civics and citizenship

Examining how international criminal law has and hasn't brought justice following war crimes in AfricaEver since World War II, the United Nations and other international actors have created laws, treaties, and institutions to punish perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

The historian James Allen Smith traces the evolution of Washington's oldest and prototypical think tank on the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary in 1991.

Over the last few years, Orthodox Jewish private schools, also known as yeshivas, have been under fire by a group of activists known as Young Advocates for Fair Education, run by several yeshiva graduates, who have criticized them for providing an inadequate secular education.

School shootings are on the increase and it often seems like another shooting is just a matter of time.

Do our federal courts, including the Supreme Court, lead or merely implement public policy?

Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v.

Scalawag tells the surprising story of a white working-class boy who became an unlikely civil rights activist.

Using the term "e;exodus politics"e; to theorize the valorization of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J.

In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and pluralism that exerted such a strong influence on the larger, national culture.

Most Americans believe that the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 marked the settlement of post-Revolutionary disputes over the meanings of rights, democracy, and sovereignty in the new nation.

Over the past four decades, the foreign-born population in the United States has nearly tripled, from about 10 million in 1965 to more than 30 million today.

For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable populations for cheap or free labor.

Aristotle accurately characterized humans as political animals.

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Over the past four decades, the foreign-born population in the United States has nearly tripled, from about 10 million in 1965 to more than 30 million today.

Foundations of Civic Engagement is a comprehensive survey and reassessment of the entire field of social and political philosophy.

Aristotle accurately characterized humans as political animals.

We in the U.

This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer.

Activism through Poetry: Critical Spanish Poems in Translation is a compiled anthology of translated poems, which explore cultural, political, social, and ecological issues in the context of contemporary Spain.

A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe.

This book updates prior research that utilized the perceptions of criminal investigators of the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS), and compares these perceptions with immigration enforcement priorities that were implemented post 911, through the Obama Administration up to the Trump presidency.

This book argues that a tribe of the primitive society is formed because of kinship, while a state of the civilized society is formed because of language.

This book argues that vegetarian and vegan people should be guaranteed the right to eat according to their beliefs.

Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political leader.

Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.

Why Are You Here?

This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster.

This book is a fresh approach to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

In Search of Federal Enforcement is a call to investigate the history of federal oversight to secure and preserve black Americans' voting rights over a ninety-five-year interregnum.

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses.

Violent conflict created a divide in Cyprus (1950-1974) that still exists to this day between Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

Studying Charles Tilly (1929-2008), American sociologist, historian and political scientist, is essential for understanding political change and social conflict.

The world needs a UN 3.

Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and Thereafter offers students the opportunity to learn more about important and often overlooked figures of the Civil Rights Movement.

In 1874 and 1875, Brazilian peasants in the Northeastern region of Brazil rose up in rebellion, destroying the weights and measures of the new metric system implemented by the government from Rio de Janeiro.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

From Balewa's declaration, 'Today is Independence Day,' to Azikiwe's impassioned plea, 'Let us bind the nation's wound and let us heal the breaches of the past so that in forging our nation there shall emerge on this continent a hate-free, fear-free, and greed-free people,' to Buhari's patriotic fervor, 'This generation [of Nigerians].

The End of French Rule in Cameroon is a study of the decolonization movement in Cameroon.

Latin American History through its Art and Literature uses 2,000 years of Latin American history as the organizing theme, and then explores that history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer.

The Korean Kingdom and the United States signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1882.

Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina.

From the author:When Citadel Values went to press, we began looking for an educational tool to capture the lessons and fortify our students in the greater world beyond the Lesesne Gate.

Go Get Mother's Picket Sign tells the story of American suffragists who worked to balance their public and private lives as wives, mothers, and homemakers.

In the "e;tribal moment in American politics,"e; which occurred from the 1950s to the mid- to late-1970s, American Indians waged civil disobedience for tribal self-determination and fought from within the U.

The worst thing in politics is to be right and to lose.

Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement is an indispensable resource for archaeologists and the communities in which they work.