Although his name is little known today outside Iowa, during the early part of the twentieth century Benjamin Shambaugh (1871-1940) was a key figure in the historical profession. Using his distinguished career as a lens, Conard's seminal work is the first book to consider public history as an integral part of the intellectual development of the historical profession as a whole in the United States.

Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940s biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Historical Society of Iowa, his development of applied history and commonwealth history in the 1910s and 1920s, and the transformations in his thinking and career during the 1930s. Framing this intriguingly interwoven narrative are chapters that contextualize Shambaugh's professional development within the development of the historical profession as a whole in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and assess his career within the post-World War II emergence of the modern public history movement.

Shambaugh's career speaks to those who believe in the power of history to engage and inspire local audiences as well as those who believe that historians should apply their knowledge and methods outside the academy in pursuit of the greater public good.

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Roy Kreitner - Calculating Promises, The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine (2007).jpg

This book is a history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. It meticulously details shifts in our conception of contract by juxtaposing scholarly accounts of contract with case law, and shows how the cases exhibit conflicts for which scholarship offers just one of many possible answers.
Breaking with conventional wisdom, the author argues that our current understanding of contract is not the outgrowth of gradual refinements of a centuries-old idea. Rather, contract as we now know it was shaped by a revolution in private law undertaken toward the end of the nineteenth century, when legal scholars established calculating promisors as the centerpiece of their notion of contract.
The author maintains that the revolution in contract thinking is best understood in a frame of reference wider than the rules governing the formation and enforcement of contracts. That frame of reference is a cultural negotiation over the nature of the individual subject and the role of the individual in a society undergoing transformation. Areas of central concern include the enforceability of promises to make gifts; the relationship of contracts to speculation and gambling; and the problem of incomplete contracts.

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Roy Kreitner - Calculating Promises, The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine (2007).pdf

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Michael Kammen - The Lively Arts, Gilbert Seldes a nd the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States (1996).jpg

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He was a friend of James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Irving Berlin, and F. Scott Fitzgerald--and the enemy of Ezra Pound, H.L. Mencken, and Ernest Hemingway. He was so influential a critic that Edmund Wilson declared that he had played a leading role in the "liquidation of genteel culture in America." Yet today many students of American culture would not recognize his name. He was Gilbert Seldes, and in this brilliant biographical study, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen recreates a singularly American life of letters. Equally important, Kammen uses Seldes's life as a lens through which to bring into sharp focus the dramatic shifts in American culture that occurred in the half-century after World War I.
Born in 1893, Seldes saw in his lifetime an astonishing series of innovations in popular and mass culture: silent films and talkies, the phonograph and the radio, the coming of television, and the proliferation of journalism aimed at mainstream America in such venues as Vanity Fair, The Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire. (His monthly column in Esquire was called "The Lively Arts.") Seldes was more than a witness to these changes, however; he was the leading champion of popular culture in his time, and a skilled practitioner as well. Kammen, the first scholar to enjoy access to Seldes's unpublished papers, illuminates his immense influence as the earliest cultural critic to insist that the lively arts--vaudeville, musical revues, film, jazz, and the comics--should be taken just as seriously as grand opera, the legitimate theatre, and other manifestations of high culture.
As he traces Seldes's remarkable evolution from an acknowledged aesthete and highbrow to a cultural democrat with a passion for the popular arts, Kammen recaptures the critic's prescience, wit, and generosity for a newly expanded audience. We witness Seldes's triumphs and travails as managing editor of The Dial, the most influential literary magazine of its time, and read of New York's endlessly feuding publications and literary rivalries. Kammen offers wonderfully detailed accounts of The Dial's introduction of "The Wasteland" in its November 1922 issue; Seldes's review of Ulysses for The Nation, one of the first (if not the very first) to appear in the U.S.; and the complete story of the writing, publication, and critical reception of The Seven Lively Arts, Seldes's most influential book. And Kammen also covers Seldes's astonishingly versatile later career as a freelance writer (on every conceivable subject), historian, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, radio scriptwriter, the first program director for CBS Television, and the founding dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Michael Kammen - The Lively Arts, Gilbert Seldes a nd the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States (1996).pdf

One of popular culture's earliest and most eloquent champions, Seldes was nonetheless publicly worried as early as 1937 that the popularity of radio, film, and television would mean the demise of the "private art of reading." By 1957 he was warning that "with the shift of all entertainment into the area of big business, we are being engulfed into a mass-produced mediocrity." At a time when many thoughtful Americans despair of popular culture, The Lively Arts revisits the opening salvos in the ongoing debate over "democratization" versus "dumbing down" of the arts. It offers a penetrating and timely analysis of Gilbert Seldes's pioneering conviction that the popular and the great arts must not only co-exist but enrich one another if we are to realize the innovation and intensity of American culture at its best.

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Gerard W. Boychuk - National Health Insurance in t he United States and Canada, Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference (2008).jpg

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After World War II, the United States and Canada, two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that combines public health insurance for low-income and senior residents with private, primarily employer-provided health insurance - or no insurance - for everyone else.In "National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada", Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each country, honing in on the most distinctive social and political aspects of each country - the politics of race in the U.S. and territorial politics in Canada especially the tensions between the national government and the province of Quebec. In addition to the politics of race and territory, Boychuk sifts through the numerous factors shaping health policy, including national values, political culture and institutions, the power of special interests, and the impact of strategic choices made at critical junctures. Drawing on historical archives, oral histories, and public opinion data, he presents a nuanced and thoughtful analysis of the evolution of the two systems, compares them as they exist today, and reflects on how each is poised to meet the challenges of the future.

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Steve Mills - Live & Work in America, Comprehensiv e, Up-to-date , Practical Information About Everyd ay Life in the United States (2009).jpg

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Whether you are a foreigner on holiday and exploring the possibilities of living in the United States, or whether you have already made up your mind to go there full-time, this easy-toread handbook will tell you how to go about it. It covers all you need to know about: - How to obtain visas, whether for tourism or business - How to obtain permanent residency, on a number of possible grounds - Shipping your possessions and Customs and Excise - Finding work and starting your own business - Dealing with money matters and mortgages - Educating your children at school and at college - Personal security and how to stay safe - Travelling around the States - Opportunities for young people and teachers

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Steve Mills - Live & Work in America, Comprehensiv e, Up-to-date , Practical Information About Everyd ay Life in the United States (2009).pdf

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Black Americans of Achievement - Anne M. Todd - Ch ris Rock, Comedian and Actor (2006).jpg

On Sunday evening, February 7, 1965, three weeks before her due date, Rose Rock gave birth to her first son, Chris, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital in Georgetown, South Carolina. Rose and her husband, Julius, lived just 15 miles from Georgetown, in a town called Andrews. For the previous decade, the civil
rights movement had been gathering force. Just two years before Chris’s birth, more than 200,000 people gathered to join the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., where they had the honor of listening to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech.

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Richard Davis - Electing Justice, Fixing the Supre me Court Nomination Process (2006).jpg

Davis discusses the increasing role of interest groups, the press, and the public, whose role is not prescribed in the Constitution, in the selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and how it affects the process. First he examines in detail the history and nature of the process, then he looks at the role and impact of other players. His conclusions about how non-political actors affect the outcome of Supreme Court justice selection leads him at the end of his book to suggest controversial reforms and their prospects for success.

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Agnes Regan Perkins - Dictionary of American Young Adult Fiction, 1997-2001, Books of Recognized Mer it (2004).jpg

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The authors, both professors of English language and literature, have added another dictionary of American fiction to their previously published dictionaries covering children's literature from 1859 to 1999 (also published by Greenwood). By turning their attention to young adult fiction, they have created a volume that will serve middle- and high-school and public librarians. This collection of 741 alphabetically arranged title, author, and character entries covers 290 books and 242 authors. The included books are recipients of the Printz or Alex awards or appeared on the ALA Best Books for Young Adults, New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, or Booklist Adult Books for Young Adults lists between 1997 and 2001.

All entries are written in narrative format, which makes quick reference for bibliographic or other information difficult. Title entries note the subgenre and give a plot summary that is usually very detailed and comprises most of the entry. A brief critical assessment is provided, as are abbreviations for the award list or lists on which the book appears. Author entries are usually much shorter and focus on the aspects of the person's life most relevant to literature. Character entries include physical or personality traits, how the character functions in the story, and how he or she relates to other characters. These entries are often long and convoluted, as are some plot summaries, requiring familiarity with the book being discussed. Characters are listed the way in which they are most often referred to, sometimes listed alphabetically under Mr., Mrs., or Miss. Asterisks serve to indicate cross-references within the volume.

The index is extremely detailed and runs more than 140 pages, with main entries in capital letters and book titles in italics. There is also a listing of included titles by the awards they received. Although the dictionary may include more information than is needed on a daily basis, the capability to cross-reference a title with its author and characters is a positive feature. Recommended for school and public libraries. Rochelle Glantz

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Jean Parr Lemkau, David L. Strug - Love, Loss and Longing, The Impact of U.S. Travel Policy on Cuban -American Families (2007).jpg

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The book describes the impact of the US travel policy to Cuba, on Cuban-American families.

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Jean Parr Lemkau, David L. Strug - Love, Loss and Longing, The Impact of U.S. Travel Policy on Cuban -American Families (2007).pdf

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Michael L. Mezey - Representative Democracy, Legis lators and their Constituents (2008).jpg

Although we tend to use the terms _representative democracy_ and _democracy_ as synonyms, they are not. Democracy means that the people govern; representative democracy means that the people elect others to govern for them. This raises the question of the extent to which representative government approximates democracy, a question that turns on the relationship between representatives and those whom they represent. Rich in thoughtful analysis, Representative Democracy incorporates normative, empirical, and comparative perspectives on representation. It is perfectly suited for use in an upper-level course on the legislative process or Congress.

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Michael L. Mezey - Representative Democracy, Legis lators and their Constituents (2008).pdf

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In one handy volume Counties USA provides statistical, descriptive, and contact information for the more than 3,100 counties and county equivalents in the United States. This edition provides updated contact information, population figures, and other data gathered from a variety of sources since the last edition was published in 2003.
This edition also features a guest foreword and other detailed information about counties provided by the Executive Director of the National Association of Counties, as well as several new categories of data, including:
Population per square mile
Population change from 2000 to 2005
Personal per capita income
Unemployment rate and unemployment change from 2000 to 2004
Percentage of population working outside county of residence
The work also provides:
Population ranking within state
Population breakdown by race
Median age
Median home value
Median household income
Per capita income
Median travel time to work
Population below poverty level
Unemployment rate
Other new features include 23 County Rankings Tables, which list the top 25 counties by size, population, population growth, employment, median age, unemployment, poverty, per capita income and personal per capita income, and other categories.
This edition offers expanded coverage of more than 2,400 county web sites, representing every county that has a web site, and a listing by county of cities with populations of 10,000+.
Other information included for each county includes a brief description of its location, the date it was organized or incorporated, name origin, and area in square miles with separate figures for land and water areas.

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Jarol B. Manheim - Biz-War and the Out-of-Power El ite, The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporatio n (2004).jpg

This book tells the fascinating story of the reemergence of the American political left over the last quarter century in the form of the new Progressive Movement. Born out of Liberalism's crushing defeats at the hands of conservative strategists of the Reagan/Bush era, this new movement has cleverly reverse engineered the conservative's institutional networking strategy to plan and finance its resurgence. Progressive strategists have constructed an elaborate network of foundations, advocacy groups, and other institutions to advance their agenda. But where the conservatives relied on affirmative corporate support to help power their movement, the Progressive Left has used an anti-corporate strategy whose purpose is three-fold:...

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John Hughes-Wilson - Military Intelligence Blunder s (2000).jpg

This book tells the stories behind some of the world's most disastrous military mistakes, whether caused by faulty information, bad interpretation, cunning plans to deceive the intelligence gatherers or leaders who won't listen to what they are told. It is an analysis of the "intelligence cycle" that turns raw data into useful information about capabilities and intentions and then brings it to the attention of the decision-makers. Who uses many examples of all kinds of extraordinary decisions and deceptions from history to show how often and badly things can go wrong

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Osprey - Desert Storm Special 3 - Peter Gilchrist - Sea Power, The Coalition and Iraqi Navies (1991 ).jpg

Written by acknowledged experts and illustrated to the highest Osprey standards, books in the Battles and Histories series provide new insights into the century's major clashes.

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Jacob Dolson Cox - Military reminiscences of the c ivil war, Volume 1, April 1861 - November 1863 (19 00).jpg

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Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, Eugene N. White - The Defining Moment, The Great Depression and th e American Economy in the Twentieth Century (1997).jpg

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The Great Depression is the " defining moment" to which most historians, economists, and political scientists connect the origins of the economic and social policies that have characterized American government in the second half of the twentieth century. In the most comprehensive collection of essays available on these topics, The Defining Moment evaluates the extent to which the Great Depression was a watershed period in the history of the American economy. This volume concludes that a large role of today's government and its methods of intervention derive from the crisis years of the 1930s. Sixty years later, the basic imprint of the defining moment is still visible.

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They're all there, starting with Anthony Joseph Accardo (1906-1992), the Chicago mob leader known as Tony to crime pals, Mr. Accardo to underlings, Joe Batters to his subordinates, and as "having more brains before breakfast than Al Capone had all day" to syndicate supporters, and working through the alphabet to Abner "Longy" Zwillman (1899-1959), a crime-syndicate founder and New Jersey boss, one of the most feared of the Jewish Mafia, known as the "Al Capone of new Jersey," and much revered for his love affair with Jean Harlow.
Between Accardo and Zwillman, Carl Sifakis explores the lives, reputations, exploits, and subcultures of more than 450 Mafia perpetrators and personalities. Sifakis describes the individuals, codes of behavior, misdeeds, legal scrapes, rivalries, and flamboyant lifestyles associated with the world of organized crime--an entity whose existence J. Edgar Hoover denied for 30 years. Sifakis's research is thorough, and his subjects are nefarious and riveting. It's his feel for storytelling, however, that makes his encyclopedia so enjoyable. He writes about infamous characters such as Al Capone (who felt his bootlegging was merely a public service) and John Gotti (a.k.a. the Teflon Don, who's now serving a life sentence) as well as the Mafia Social Clubs, Donnie Brasco (the FBI agent who infiltrated the mob and sent more than 100 mobsters to prison), and the importance of slot machines to the post-Prohibition welfare of organized crime.

With nearly 100 pictures and illustrations, Sifakis's mob opus is required reading for Mafia buffs, and a remarkably engaging guide for anyone interested in a factual report on organized crime.

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