The trials and hearings presented in the two volumes of On Trial capture much of American history in the intensity of courtroom confrontation and argument. Judicial proceedings have long fascinated both historians and the general public.
The trials and hearings presented in the two volumes of On Trial capture much of American history in the intensity of courtroom confrontation and argu...
Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History uses documents to reintroduce students to the contingency, the adventure of the American past. The decisions examined here all had complex historical roots, multiple causes that could have led to quite differing outcomes. They were not simply made in one intense moment by some single important individual. Even when an identifiable leader acted with the authority of Woodrow Wilson in taking the country into war or Harry S. Truman in ordering the use of nuclear weapons, the action was in response to the previous decisions of many, sometimes...
Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History uses documents to reintroduce students to the contingency, the adventure of the American past. Th...
The trials and hearings presented in the two volumes of On Trial capture much of American history in the intensity of courtroom confrontation and argument. Judicial proceedings have long fascinated both historians and the general public.
The trials and hearings presented in the two volumes of On Trial capture much of American history in the intensity of courtroom confrontation and argu...
Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History uses documents to reintroduce students to the contingency, the adventure of the American past. The decisions examined here all had complex historical roots, multiple causes that could have led to quite differing outcomes. They were not simply made in one intense moment by some single important individual. Even when an identifiable leader acted with the authority of Woodrow Wilson in taking the country into war or Harry S. Truman in ordering the use of nuclear weapons, the action was in response to the previous decisions of many, sometimes...
Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History uses documents to reintroduce students to the contingency, the adventure of the American past. Th...
" . . . provides a rare and well-documented view inside the world of under-housed men in New York City . . . It] is an interesting and convincing book." - H-Urban For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 19994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores how public understandings of what constitutes a social crisis are shaped. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York...
" . . . provides a rare and well-documented view inside the world of under-housed men in New York City . . . It] is an interesting and convincing boo...
