Tracing the development of public policy in America, Wallenstein focuses on the southern variant of the national pattern and demonstrates the impact of ...

How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study ...

The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie ...

Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early ...

In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994, there were too few to warrant a separate census category. ...

African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity ...

For half a century, David Stick has been writing books about the fragile chain of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast known as the Outer Banks. ...

Founded in Baltimore in 1828 by a French Sulpician priest and a mulatto Caribbean immigrant, the Oblate Sisters of Providence formed the first permanent ...

Hubbard and his colleagues present findings from a comprehensive national longitudinal study of the effectiveness of drug abuse treatment in the United ...

Since the sudden collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe in 1989, scholars have tried to explain why the Soviet Union stood by and watched as ...