Civics and citizenship

The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable.

The Tibetan Buddhist tradition has known over thirteen centuries of continuous development.

In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs.

Drawing on speeches, essays, sermons, reminiscences, and works of theological speculation from 1800 to 1950, Christopher Z.

The explosive rise in the U.

In legislatures, group dynamics affect how the legislature operates, who is valued enough to play a critical decision-making role, and what voices matter in determining policy outcomes.

Historians of the Civil Rights era typically treat the key events of the 1950s Brown v.

In this groundbreaking work, Kamal Sadiq reveals that most of the world's illegal immigrants are not migrating directly to the US, but to countries in the vast developing world, where they are able to obtain citizenship papers fairly easily.

Civil War officer, Reconstruction "e;carpetbagger,"e; best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights--Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice.

Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life?

In 1899, Carrie Chapman Catt, who succeeded Susan B.

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In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Engagement challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy.

In "e;Letter from Birmingham Jail,"e; Martin Luther King, Jr.

Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change.

John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v.

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations.

An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time.

Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v.

Between the turn of the twentieth century and the Brown v.

We love freedom.

American Indian tribes have long been recognized as "e;domestic, dependent nations"e; within the United States, with powers of self-government that operate within the tribes' sovereign territories.

On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "e;kneel-in"e; to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black worshippers.

Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the United States.

During the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, appeared in urban settings across the United States.

This book explores the post-national defense and its gender implications.

Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures?

Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v.

The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women.

In the last half of the twentieth century, legalized segregation ended in the southern United States, apartheid ended in South Africa, women in many parts of the world came to be recognized as having equal rights with men, persons with disabilities came to be recognized as having rights to develop and exercise their human capabilities, colonial peoples' rights of self-determination were recognized, and rights of gays and lesbians have begun to be recognized.

From the moment that the attack on the "e;problem of the color line,"e; as W.

How is it that, half a century after Brown v.

The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story.

Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African American coaches.

The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story.

Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African American coaches.

What is the legacy of Brown vs.

In her first book, Shana Bernstein reinterprets U.

In the rotunda of the nation's Capital a statue pays homage to three famous nineteenth-century American women suffragists: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B.

The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment because it granted the vote to black men but not to women.

Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history.

Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the ne'er-do-well Leonardo through his various romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the law.

A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long?

In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history.

When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward.

They were black and white, young and old, men and women.

Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe.

How is it that, half a century after Brown v.

As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home.

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