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Ippolito examines the least publicized source of our current fiscal troubles - federal credit programs. Since the 1970s these programs have grown dramatically, but neither the growth nor their costs have been reflected in the budget. The true costs are not tangible and direct, but these programs can affect investment, economic growth, and productivity. Originally published 1984.

Thematically, Chandler's work is in the mainstream of American literature that moved westward, carrying the simple problems of the extrovert who, knowing right from wrong, had only to exert a courageous individualism in order to end up a hardened but virtuous hero. Originally published in 1963.

In the simple unpretentious dignity of everyday speech, elderly Tar Heels share their fascinating and touching stories of North Carolina's past, a time when activities and cares were closely associated with extracting a living from the soil. The earliest firsthand accounts date from about 1885, and the latest reach into the post-depression era. Originally published in 1977.

House and Foreign Policy: The Irony of Congressional Reform

Traces the developing view of the human condition through the major works of five writers. The method is inductive, and the works are seen as a record of human experience not as an illustration of philosophical theory. A final chapter places them in the larger perspective of traditional American fiction.

Lovejoy (1873-1962) was America's foremost historian of ideas, a major participant in the philosophical debates of the twentieth century, and a prominent advocate of academic freedom. Lovejoy believed that only the principles of reason could order the world and so make our universe intelligible.

Kapelle's study of the north of England in the years before, during, and after the Norman Conquest is a fascinating account of a pivotal, but little-studied, region of medieval England. He explains the resistance of Northumberland and York to Norman settlement in terms of the region's geographical, historical, and political background. Originally published in 1979.

Through an intensive study of party origins in the state of New York, this volume reexamines and reevaluates the whole of the Democratic Republican movement. It will compel changes in present concepts of anti-Federalist and Republican connections with banking, mercantile, land-speculation, and manufacturing interests. Originally published in 1967.

This illustrated story of America's first architect is based on material from a number of contemporary sources in the colonial period. Harrison's buildings reflect the classical mode, and they fortunately survived the Revolution. His designs include the King's Chapel, Boston; the Synagogue, Newport; and Christ Church, Cambridge. Originally published in 1949.

When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South.

Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential work in the essay form. In this volume, Cheryl A. Wall offers the first sustained study of the African American essay as a distinct literary genre.

Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Contextualizing American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practice to American literary production.

Narrates the dynamic history of policing, anti-police abuse movements, race, and politics in Los Angeles from the 1965 Watts uprising to the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion. Using the explosion of two large-scale uprisings in Los Angeles as bookends, Felker-Kantor highlights the racism at the heart of the city's expansive police power through a range of previously unused and rare archival sources.

Examines the theological struggle over racial justice through the story of one Southern town - Americus, Georgia - where ordinary Americans sought and confronted racial change. Documenting the passion and virulence of these contestations, this book offers insight into how mid-century battles over theology and race affected the rise of the Religious Right and continue to resonate in American life.

Tells the story of how African American women in Washington D.C. transformed civil rights politics in their freedom struggles between 1920 and 1945. Even though no resident of the nation's capital could vote, black women seized on their conspicuous location to testify in Congress, lobby politicians, and stage protests to secure racial justice, both in Washington and across America.

Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines the rise and response to the disease in two societies: the United States and Japan. Both societies have faced rising rates of diabetes, but their social and biomedical responses to its ascendance have diverged.

Tells the story of black education reformers' community-based strategies to improve education beginning during the 1960s, as support for desegregation transformed into community control, experimental schooling models, and black teachers' challenges to the teachers' union. This book reveals how these strategies collided with the neoliberal educational apparatus during the late twentieth century.

This intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured thought and action on the postwar American left. Robin Marie Averbeck argues that these thinkers helped construct policies that never truly attempted a serious attack on the sources of racial inequality and injustice.

Over the course of his long career, legendary bluesman William "Big Bill" Broonzy (1893-1958) helped shape the trajectory of the genre, from its roots in the rural Mississippi River Delta, through its rise as a popular genre in the north, to its eventual international acclaim. Through Broonzy's life and times, Kevin D. Greene assesses major themes and events in African American history.

In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen.

Now thoroughly updated and revised - with a new chapter on the Dreamer movement and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) - this book offers North Carolinians a better understanding of their Latinx neighbours, illuminating rather than enflaming debates on immigration.

"Centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoraubaa people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. ... Situating Prieto's story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands of Yoraubaa speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land"--

The purpose of this work is to foster a more just appreciation of Milton's relation to the literature of a complex and vital age. The book examines the relation of Milton's poetry to certain contemporary works and older works that were then available, and analyses the relation of some of Milton's pamphlets to controversial writing during his age.

This study incorporates the findings of field investigators who have made intensive courthouse studies in forty-three of the one hundred counties of the state. Its importance lies in the discovery of antiquated and wasteful practices that may be the sources of many economic and governmental ills. Originally published in 1928.

The primary objective of this book is to give consideration to rural problems in terms of human elements as well as in terms of production, prices, and markets. Actual relief cases are described to illustrate the cause and effect of federal relief on families in various sections of the United States. Originally published in 1939.

The first of this series of lectures states the five rights of science recognised by all fair-minded men. The second lecture affirms the mutual relationship of science and philosophy. In the third lecture, "The Relations of Science and Religion", the author affirms that there can be no real conflict between the two. Originally published in 1929.

Presents the actual conditions faced by the cotton farmer of the American South. Vance analyses the cotton culture complex shrewdly, sympathetically, and soundly. His book is a rare combination of sound economics and human interests. Originally published in 1929.

Provides a survey of the careers of the twenty-two Afro-Americans who served in Congress during and immediately after reconstruction and an evaluation of their achievements. Smith has drawn a vivid account of the lives and influence of these black leaders. Originally published in 1940.