The Second Amendment on Board: Public and Private Historical Traditions of Firearm Regulation.
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Yale Law Journal. Mar2024, Vol. 133 Issue 5, p1676-1726. 51p.
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HOCHMAN, JOSHUA
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CHAPTER 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVONIAN PERIOD, AND THE DEVONIAN IN NEW YORK STATE AND NORTH AMERICA.
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Bulletins of American Paleontology. Jul2023, Issue 403/404, p11-102. 92p.
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STRAETEN, CHARLES A. VER
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'The Amazing Iroquois' and the Invention of the Empire State
John C. Winters;John C. Winters
In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois,...
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'The Amazing Iroquois' and the Invention of the Empire State
2023
In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the connections between the matrilineal Iroquois and the woman suffrage movement, to the living legacy of the famous'Sky Walkers,'the steelworkers who built the Empire State Building and the George Washington Bridge, the Iroquois are viewed as an exceptional people who helped make the state's history unique and forward-looking. John C. Winters contends that this vision was not manufactured by Anglo-Americans but was created and spread by an influential, multi-generational Seneca-Iroquois family. From the American Revolution to the Cold War, Red Jacket, Ely S. Parker, Harriet Maxwell Converse (adopted), and Arthur C. Parker used the tools of a colonial culture to shape aspects of contemporary New York culture in their own peoples'image. The result was the creation of'The Amazing Iroquois,'an historical memory that entangled indigenous self-definition, colonial expectations about racial stereotypes and Native American politics, and the personalities of the people who cultivated and popularized that memory. Through the imperial politics of the eighteenth century to pioneering museum exhibitions of the twentieth, these four Seneca celebrities packaged and delivered Iroquoian stories to the broader public in defiance of the contemporary racial stereotypes and settler colonial politics that sought to bury them. Owing to their skill, fame, and the timely intervention of Iroquois leadership, this remarkable family showcases the lasting effects of indigenous agents who fashioned a popular and long-lasting historical memory that made the Iroquois an obvious and foundational part of New Yorkers'conception of their own exceptional state history and self-identity.
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Peace--Medals - Iroquois Indians--Government relations - Iroquois Indians--Influence - Iroquois Indians--History - Collective memory--New York (State)Content provider:
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Failed State : Dysfunction and Corruption in an American Statehouse
Seymour P. Lachman;Robert Polner;Seymour P. Lachman;Robert Polner
Failed State is both an original account of a state legislature in urgent need of refo...
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Failed State : Dysfunction and Corruption in an American Statehouse
2017
Failed State is both an original account of a state legislature in urgent need of reform and a call to action for those who would fix it. Drawing on his experiences both in and out of state government, former New York State senator Seymour P. Lachman reveals and explores Albany's hush-hush, top-down processes, illuminating the hidden, secretive corners where the state assembly and state senate conduct the people's business and spend public money. Part memoir and part exposé, Failed State is a revision of and follow-up to Three Men in a Room, published in 2006. The focus of the original book was the injury to democratic governance that arises when three individuals—governor, senate majority leader, and assembly speaker—tightly control one of the country's largest and most powerful state governments. Expanding on events that have occurred in the decade since the original book's publication, Failed State shows how this scenario has given way to widespread corruption, among them the convictions of two men in the room—the senate and assembly leaders—as well as a number of other state lawmakers. All chapters have been revised and expanded, new chapters have been added, and the final chapter charts a path to durable reform that would change New York's state government from its present-day status as a national disgrace to a model of transparent, more effective state politics and governance.
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Political corruption--New York (State) - Power (Social sciences)--New York (State)Content provider:
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Women Will Vote : Winning Suffrage in New York State
Susan Goodier;Karen Pastorello;Susan Goodier;Karen Pastorello
Women Will Vote celebrates the 2017 centenary of women's right to full suffrage in New...
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Women Will Vote : Winning Suffrage in New York State
2017
Women Will Vote celebrates the 2017 centenary of women's right to full suffrage in New York State . Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello highlight the activism of rural, urban, African American, Jewish, immigrant, and European American women, as well as male suffragists, both upstate and downstate, that led to the positive outcome of the 1917 referendum. Goodier and Pastorello argue that the popular nature of the women's suffrage movement in New York State and the resounding success of the referendum at the polls relaunched suffrage as a national issue. If women had failed to gain the vote in New York , Goodier and Pastorello claim, there is good reason to believe that the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment would have been delayed. Women Will Vote makes clear how actions of New York's patchwork of suffrage advocates heralded a gigantic political, social, and legal shift in the United States . Readers will discover that although these groups did not always collaborate, by working in their own ways toward the goal of enfranchising women they essentially formed a coalition. Together, they created a diverse social and political movement that did not rely solely on the motivating force of white elites and a leadership based in New York City. Goodier and Pastorello convincingly argue that the agitation and organization that led to New York women's victory in 1917 changed the course of American history.
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Women--Suffrage--New York (State)--History - Feminism--New York (State)--History - Women--Political activity--New York (State)--HistoryContent provider:
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Aphrodite's Daughters : Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Maureen Honey;Maureen Honey
The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, se...
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Aphrodite's Daughters : Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
2016
The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite's Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women—Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery—who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké's invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery's frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett's risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite's Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery's published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.
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Women poets, American--20th century - African American women--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual life - Modernism (Literature)--New York (State)--New York - African American poets--20th century - American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism - American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism - Harlem Renaissance - African American arts--New York (State)--New York--20th centuryContent provider:
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"The Newsgirl Question": Competing Frames of Progressive Era Girl Newsies.
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American Journalism. Summer2022, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p315-339. 25p. 3 Color Photographs.
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Lorimer Linford, Autumn
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"The Newsgirl Question": Competing Frames of Progressive Era Girl Newsies.
American Journalism. Summer2022, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p315-339. 25p. 3 Color Photographs.
It was a much-repeated line in newspapers across the US: While newsboys could make money selling papers by keeping their eyes peeled, their female counterparts could only sell papers by keeping their eyes appealing. This oft-repeated adage is an example of the gendered experiences of Progressive Era newsgirls—girls and young women who hawked newspapers as newsies on city streets. Newsgirls took up a disproportionate amount of public conversation during this period compared to their male counterparts, yet they have been brushed past by historians. This research suggests the image of newsgirls was strategically framed and exploited to further reformer's causes, bolster newspapers' business, or excuse the public's equal parts of apathy and fascination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Who's Your Paddy? : Racial Expectations and the Struggle for Irish American Identity
Jennifer Nugent Duffy;Jennifer Nugent Duffy
After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what ...
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Who's Your Paddy? : Racial Expectations and the Struggle for Irish American Identity
2013
After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick's Day? Who's Your Paddy traces the evolution of “Irish” as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish have been and continue to be socialized around race, Jennifer Nugent Duffy argues that Irish identity must be understood within the context of generational tensions between different waves of Irish immigrants as well as the Irish community's interaction with other racial minorities.Using historic and ethnographic research, Duffy sifts through the many racial, class, and gendered dimensions of Irish-American identity by examining three distinct Irish cohorts in Greater New York : assimilated descendants of nineteenth-century immigrants; “white flighters” who immigrated to postwar America and fled places like the Bronx for white suburbs like Yonkers in the 1960s and 1970s; and the newer, largely undocumented migrants who began to arrive in the 1990s. What results is a portrait of Irishness as a dynamic, complex force in the history of American racial consciousness, pertinent not only to contemporary immigration debates but also to the larger questions of what it means to belong, what it means to be American.
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Irish Americans--New York (State)--Yonkers--History - Irish Americans--New York (State)--Yonkers--Social conditions - Irish Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions - Irish Americans--Race identity--New York (State)--New York - Irish Americans--New York (State)--New York--History - African Americans--Relations with Irish AmericansContent provider:
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Highway Under the Hudson : A History of the Holland Tunnel
Robert W. Jackson;Robert W. Jackson
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013'There is no comparable book on this ...
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Highway Under the Hudson : A History of the Holland Tunnel
2011
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013'There is no comparable book on this tunnel. Highly recommended.'—Choice ReviewsEvery year, more than thirty-three million vehicles traverse the Holland Tunnel, making their way to and from Jersey City and Lower Manhattan. From tourists to commuters, many cross the tunnel's 1.6-mile corridor on a daily basis, and yet few know much about this amazing feat of early 20th-century engineering. How was it built, by whom, and at what cost? These and many other questions are answered in Highway Under the Hudson: A History of the Holland Tunnel, Robert W. Jackson's fascinating story about this seminal structure in the history of urban transportation. Jackson explains the economic forces which led to the need for the tunnel, and details the extraordinary political and social politicking that took place on both sides of the Hudson River to finally enable its construction. He also introduces us to important figures in the tunnel's history, such as New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge, who, more than anyone else, made the dream of a tunnel a reality and George Washington Goethals (builder of the Panama Canal and namesake of the Goethals Bridge), the first chief engineer of the project.Fully illustrated with more than 50 beautiful archival photographs and drawings, Jackson's story of the Holland Tunnel is one of great human drama, with heroes and villains, that illustrates how great things are accomplished, and at what price.Highway Under the Hudson featured in the New York TimesListen to Robert Jackson talk about the book on WAMC Radio
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Urban transportation--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century - Tunnels--New York (State)--New York--Design and construction--History--20th century - City planning--New York (State)--New York--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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More of a Man : Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America
Andrew Holman;Robert K. Kristofferson;Andrew Holman;Robert K. Kristofferson
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian C...
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More of a Man : Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America
2013
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed financially and emotionally amidst challenging circumstances. The diaries trace his transformations, from an immigrant newcomer to a respected townsman, a wage worker to an entrepreneur, and a bachelor to a married man.Carefully edited and fully annotated by historians Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson, More of a Man features an introduction providing historical context for McIlwraith's life and an epilogue detailing what happened to him after the diaries end. Historians of labour, gender, and migration in the North Atlantic world will find More of a Man a valuable primary document of considerable insight and depth. All readers will find it a lively story of life in the nineteenth century.
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Immigrants--Ontario--Diaries - Patternmakers--New York (State)--New York--Diaries - Patternmakers--Ontario--Diaries - Drafters--Ontario--Diaries - Bookkeepers--Ontario--DiariesContent provider:
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Rikers Island Jail Complex: The Use of Social History to Inform Current Debates on Incarceration in New York City.
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Howard Journal of Crime & Justice. Sep2020, Vol. 59 Issue 3, p286-304. 19p.
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MOONEY, JAYNE;SHANAHAN, JARROD
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Howard Journal of Crime & Justice. Sep2020, Vol. 59 Issue 3, p286-304. 19p.
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Transplanted: Chinese Herbal Medicine in the United States , 1800-1911.
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Chinese Medicine & Culture. Dec2023, Vol. 6 Issue 4, p357-366. 10p.
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Shelton, Tamara Venit
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Chinese Medicine & Culture. Dec2023, Vol. 6 Issue 4, p357-366. 10p.
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Transplanted: Chinese Herbal Medicine in the United States , 1800-1911.
Chinese Medicine & Culture. Dec2023, Vol. 6 Issue 4, p357-366. 10p.
Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States , dating back to its colonial period and extending up to the present. This essay focuses on the earliest generation of practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine in the United States . Although acupuncture is the modality most commonly associated with Chinese medicine in today's medical marketplace, up until the 1970s, Chinese healers in the United States typically specialized in herbalism. Well before mass emigration from China to the United States began, Chinese material medica crossed the oceans, in both directions: Chinese medicinal teas and herbs came west while Appalachian ginseng went east. Beginning in the 1850s, Chinese immigrants came to the United States and transplanted their health practices, sometimes quite literally by propagating medicinal plants in their adopted home. Over time, Chinese doctors learned how to sell their services to non-Chinese patients by presenting herbalism as "nature's remedies.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Murder in New York City
Eric H. Monkkonen;Eric H. Monkkonen
Murder in New York City dramatically expands what we know about urban homicide, and ch...
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Murder in New York City
2001
Murder in New York City dramatically expands what we know about urban homicide, and challenges some of the things we think we know. Eric Monkkonen's unprecedented investigation covers two centuries of murder in America's biggest city, combining newly assembled statistical evidence with many other documentary sources to tease out the story behind the figures. As we generally believe, the last part of the twentieth century was unusually violent, but there have been other high-violence eras as well: the late 1920s and the mid-nineteenth century, the latter because the absence of high-quality weapons and ammunition makes that era's stabbings and beatings seem almost more vicious. Monkkonen's long view allows us to look back to a time when guns were rarer, when poverty was more widespread, and when racial discrimination was more intense, and to ask what difference these things made. With many vivid case studies for illustration, he examines the crucial factors in killing through the years: the weapons of choice, the sex and age of offenders and victims, the circumstances and settings in which homicide tends to occur, and the race and ethnicity of murderers and their victims. In a final chapter, Monkkonen looks to the international context and shows that New York —and, by extension, the United States —has had consistently higher violence levels than London and Liverpool. No single factor, he says, shapes this excessive violence, but exploring the variables of age, ethnicity, weapons, and demography over the long term can lead to hope of changing old patterns.
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The Architecture of New York City : Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols
Reynolds, Donald M.;Reynolds, Donald M.
From the reviews of the first edition of Architecture of New York City.'It should prov...
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The Architecture of New York City : Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols
1994
From the reviews of the first edition of Architecture of New York City.'It should provide joy to anyone even vaguely interested in this city and its artifacts.. It is very likely to turn them into enthusiasts.'--New York Times Book Review'.weaves the little-known stories of 80 buildings and landmarks into a colorful tapestry of New York's whirlwind history.. This richly illustrated guide can be read from beginning to end with great pleasure.'--Publishers Weekly'.Reynolds takes a new look at the older glories of New York . The architecture is freshly seen and is clearly researched. Reynolds'splendid photographs present highly original views of familiar (and not so familiar) important structures and sites.'--Adolph Placzek, former president of the Society of Architectural Historians The history of New York City is a rich pageant of culture, commerce, social change, and human drama stretching back five hundred years. And when we know where to look for it, it is all there for us to see, vividly etched into the cityscape. Now in this celebration of New York's architecture, Donald Martin Reynolds helps us to see and appreciate, as never before, the city's monuments and masterpieces, and to hear the tales they have to tell. With the help of nearly 200 striking photographs (20 of them new to this edition), Dr. Reynolds takes us on an unforgettable tour of five centuries of architectural change and innovation--from 16th-century Dutch canals and 18th-century farmhouses, to the elevator buildings of the 1870s (precursors of skyscrapers) and the Art Deco, Bauhaus, and Post-modern buildings that make up New York City's celebrated skyline. Floor by floor stone by stone, detail by detail Dr. Reynolds lovingly describes 90 of the city's most striking buildings, bridges, parks, and places. He tells us when, why, and how they were built and who built them, and in the process, he evokes the illustrious and exciting history of this restless, ceaselessly seductive metropolis.
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Architecture, Modern--New York (State)--New York - Architecture--New York (State)--New York - Symbolism in architecture--New York (State)--New York - Buildings--New York (State)--New YorkContent provider:
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Gardens of the Gilded Age : Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Homegrounds of New York State
M. Christine Klim Doell;M. Christine Klim Doell
Houses and gardens created in America between 1860 and 1917 were'modern'manifestations...
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Gardens of the Gilded Age : Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Homegrounds of New York State
1986
Houses and gardens created in America between 1860 and 1917 were'modern'manifestations of nineteenth-century art, science, and industry, conveying cultural values in their form, function, style, and materials. Now increasing public interest in the restoration of nineteenth-century properties has provoked curiosity about their physical surroundings.While many buildings from the period survive intact, their landscape and garden settings, in most cases, have long since disappeared. Natural cycles of growth and decay, together with man-made changes, have left only remnants of the historic landscape—a dilapidated fence post, the arching canopy of a venerable tree, some persistent spring bulbs at a dooryard.Based on a careful study of historic photographs from museums, libraries , archives, and private collections, Gardens of the Gilded Age explains the history, design, and social function of ornamental gardens and homegrounds in New York State during the latter part of the nineteenth century.As early as 1820, New York State had become the nation's leader in population, foreign and domestic commerce, transportation, banking, and manufacturing. New York also rook the Iead in influencing the rest of the nation in the theory and practice of horticulture and landscape gardening.The more than one hundred photographs featured in Gardens of the Gilded Age were not selected for their aesthetic quality alone, or for their uniqueness. While including magnificent properties such as Sonnenberg, Lorenzo, and Box Hill, many show ordinary gardens which reflect the character of common people in the art and craft of garden making. Taken together, these garden photographs provide a new perspective on American customs in landscape gardening from 1860 to 1917.
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Va-yo'el Moshe: The Most Anti-Zionist and Anti-Israeli Jewish Text in Modern Times.
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Jewish Quarterly Review. Summer2023, Vol. 113 Issue 3, p479-505. 27p.
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Keren-Kratz, Menachem
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It is important to remember not only that many Jews rejected Zionism but also that for...
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Va-yo'el Moshe: The Most Anti-Zionist and Anti-Israeli Jewish Text in Modern Times.
Jewish Quarterly Review. Summer2023, Vol. 113 Issue 3, p479-505. 27p.
It is important to remember not only that many Jews rejected Zionism but also that for some it symbolized an abomination, heresy, and the worst collective sin the Jewish people have ever committed. Since it was first published in 1960, Va-yo'el Moshe —a book written by Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe—is considered the most radical anti-Zionist text written by a Jew in modern history. During the ensuing sixty years, the book has reappeared in more than a dozen full editions and been translated into several languages. At least thirty further volumes have offered interpretations, adapted it for children, compiled digests, or reviewed its relevance to various ideological issues or halakhic rulings. The essay presents the history of Jewish anti-Zionist texts published prior to Va-yo'el Moshe and briefly reviews Teitelbaum's biography to explain his motivation for writing the book. It then outlines the book's contents and the religious principles that support its main theses. Last, it reviews the Jewish public's reaction to the book and explains how and why it became a canonical text among Jewish Orthodoxy's most radical wing, which in this article is titled Extreme Orthodoxy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi;Ibram X. Kendi
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped ...
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How to Be an Antiracist
2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface.“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus ReviewsAntiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
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Anti-racism--United States - Racism--Psychological aspects - African American men--Biography - African Americans--Race identity - African American historians--BiographyContent provider:
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The Schoolhouse Gate : Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
Justin Driver;Justin Driver
A Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors'ChoiceA...
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The Schoolhouse Gate : Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
2018
A Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors'ChoiceAn award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compulsory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer—these are but a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressed in elementary and secondary schools . The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation. Justin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students'constitutional rights and risked transforming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court's decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actions taken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on students without any procedural protections, searching students and their possessions without probable cause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are not suspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the viewpoint it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have upheld a wide array of dubious school actions, including degrading strip searches, repressive dress codes, draconian “zero tolerance” disciplinary policies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. Driver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns that the repeated failure to honor students'rights threatens our basic constitutional order. This magisterial book will make it impossible to view American schools —or America itself—in the same way again.
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Educational law and legislation--United States - Students--Civil rights--United States - Constitutional law--United States--Social aspectContent provider:
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Starring Red Wing! : The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star
Linda M. Waggoner;Linda M. Waggoner
The epic biography Starring Red Wing! brings the exciting career, dedicated activism, ...
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Starring Red Wing! : The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star
2019
The epic biography Starring Red Wing! brings the exciting career, dedicated activism, and noteworthy legacy of Ho-Chunk actress Lilian Margaret St. Cyr vividly to life. Known to film audiences as “Princess Red Wing,” St. Cyr emerged as the most popular Native American actress in the pre-Hollywood and early studio-system era in the United States . Today St. Cyr is known for her portrayal of Naturich in Cecile B. DeMille's The Squaw Man (1914); although DeMille claimed to have “discovered the little Indian girl,” the viewing public had already long adored her as a petite, daredevil Indian heroine. She befriended and worked with icons such as Mary Pickford, Jewell Carmen, Tom Mix, Max Sennett, and William Selig. Born on the Winnebago Reservation in 1884 and orphaned in 1888, she spent ten years in Indian boarding schools before graduating from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1902. She married James Young Johnson, and in 1907 the couple reinvented themselves as the stage personas “Princess Red Wing” and “Young Deer,” performing in Wild West shows around New York and beginning their film careers. As their popularity grew, St. Cyr and Johnson decamped from the East Coast and helped establish the second motion picture company in Southern California, where Red Wing became a Native American leading lady in westerns until her career waned in 1917. After returning to the reservation to work as a housekeeper, she took her show on a two-year tour to educate the public about Native culture and lived out her life in New York , performing, educating, and crafting regalia.Starring Red Wing! is a sweeping narrative of St. Cyr's evolution as America's first Native American film star, from her childhood and performance career to her days as a respected elder of the multi-tribal New York City Indian Community.
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Freedom Farmers : Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
Monica M. White;Monica M. White
In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres ...
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Freedom Farmers : Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
2018
In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, and political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an alternative to the second wave of northern migration by African Americans--an opportunity to stay in the South, live off the land, and create a healthy community based upon building an alternative food system as a cooperative and collective effort.Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans.
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Agriculture, Cooperative--United States--History - Food sovereignty--United States - African Americans--Political activity--History - African Americans--Agriculture--History - African Americans--Social conditions--History - Food supply--Political aspects--United States--History - Black lives matter movement - African Americans--Social conditionsContent provider:
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Capital of the World : The Race to Host the United Nations
Charlene Mires;Charlene Mires
From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace...
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Capital of the World : The Race to Host the United Nations
2013
From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World. But what would it look like, and where would it be? Without invitation, civic boosters in every region of the United States leapt at the prospect of transforming their hometowns into the Capital of the World. The idea stirred in big cities—Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, and more. It fired imaginations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in small towns from coast to coast. Meanwhile, within the United Nations the search for a headquarters site became a debacle that threatened to undermine the organization in its earliest days. At times it seemed the world's diplomats could agree on only one thing: under no circumstances did they want the United Nations to be based in New York . And for its part, New York worked mightily just to stay in the race it would eventually win. With a sweeping view of the United States 'place in the world at the end of World War II, Capital of the World tells the dramatic, surprising, and at times comic story of hometown promoters in pursuit of an extraordinary prize and the diplomats who struggled with the balance of power at a pivotal moment in history.
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Melville Reviews and Notices, Continued.
Academic Journal
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Leviathan; Mar2011, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p88-115, 28p
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Norsworthy, Scott;Norsworthy, Scott
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Leviathan; Mar2011, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p88-115, 28p
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