Civics and citizenship

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The 2008 presidential election made American history.

Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment.

Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment.

While it is true that genocide prevention is not what tends to land on the front pages of national newspapers today, it is what prevents the worst headlines from ever being made.

While it is true that genocide prevention is not what tends to land on the front pages of national newspapers today, it is what prevents the worst headlines from ever being made.

The role of international law in global politics is as poorly understood as it is important.

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

A splendid account of the Supreme Court's rulings on race in the first half of the twentieth century, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights earned rave reviews and won the Bancroft Prize for History in 2005.

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.

Here is a panoramic history of America from 1954 to 1973, ranging from the buoyant teen-age rebellion first captured by rock and roll, to the drawn-out and dispiriting endgame of Watergate.

When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs.

The typical workplace is a hotbed of human relationships--of friendships, conflicts, feuds, alliances, partnerships, coexistence and cooperation.

Affirmative action strikes at the heart of deeply held beliefs about employment and education, about the concepts of justice and fairness, and about the troubled history of race relations in America.

Fear, rage, courage, discrimination.

John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v.

Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document.

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.

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

Jurisprudence regarding the "e;free exercise of religion"e; clause of the U.

When East European Jews migrated westward in ever larger numbers between 1870 and 1914, both German government officials and the leaders of German Jewry were confronted by a series of new challenges.

In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism.

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J.

Bollinger provides a masterful critique of the major theories of freedom of expression, finding these theories persuasive but inadequate.

In Universal Politics, Ilan Kapoor and Zahi Zalloua argue that, in the face of the relentless advance of global capitalism, a universal politics is needed today more than ever.

In Universal Politics, Ilan Kapoor and Zahi Zalloua argue that, in the face of the relentless advance of global capitalism, a universal politics is needed today more than ever.

Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism.

Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism.

Why did southern white evangelical Christians resist the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s?

Why did southern white evangelical Christians resist the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s?

What explains the United States' persistent use of torture over the past hundred-plus years?

What explains the United States' persistent use of torture over the past hundred-plus years?

A compelling and timely vision for gay reparations in the United StatesIn the last two decades many nations have adopted "e;gay reparations,"e; or policies intended to make amends for a history of discrimination, stigmatization, and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

A compelling and timely vision for gay reparations in the United StatesIn the last two decades many nations have adopted "e;gay reparations,"e; or policies intended to make amends for a history of discrimination, stigmatization, and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communitiesThe word "e;peacebuilding"e; evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse.

At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communitiesThe word "e;peacebuilding"e; evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse.

The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history.

The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history.

There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement.

There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement.

Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws?

Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws?

An eighth-generation Charlestonian with a prestigious address, impeccable social credentials, and years of intimate association with segregationist politicians, U.

This series is published yearly by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The governmental pledge to the American people is found in the First Amendment: "e;Congress shall make no law.

Providing an interdisciplinary and global perspective on immigration to the United States, this collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field--including the work of such distinguished historians, sociologists, and political scientists as Charles Tilly, Philip Curtin, Kirby Miller, Sucheng Chan, Alejandro Portes, Lawrence Fuchs, and Aristide Zolberg--and represents an important step forward in the development of immigration studies.

Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-48, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic.

In 1896 the U.

This study of exemplary writings from the debates over the ratification of the 1787 Constitution deals with the American constitutional founders' understandings of citizenship and civic virtue.