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The May 1970 killings at Kent State often stand as an epitaph to a decade of protest, after which the principal story becomes the resurgence of the right. This title challenges this paradigm by examining three protest movements: the movement against nuclear energy; the nuclear weapons freeze movement; and, the Central American solidarity movement.

Traces the transformation of antiques from family keepsakes to valuable artistic objects, examining the role of collectors, dealers, and museum makers in the construction of a new tradition based on the aesthetic qualities of early American furnishings. This book examines the role of Jewish dealers in promoting American antiques.

Perhaps no other work of secular poetry was as widely read as the historical verse tragedy collection ""A Mirror for Magistrates"". This work shows that modern critics have misconstrued the purpose of the tragic verse narratives of the Mirror, approaching them as uncontroversial meditations on abstract political and philosophical doctrines.

Offers an examination of how scientists have been portrayed in American culture. This work examines the stereotypes assigned to scientists for what they tell us about America's pride in its technological achievements as well as our prejudices about certain 'suspect' kinds of scientific investigation.

Explores the author's personal response to John Milton and ""Paradise Lost"", tracing the intersections between a seventeenth-century biblical epic and the routine joys and tragedies of domestic life in contemporary rural Maine.

Features fifteen essays that tell the story of Hadley, Massachusetts from a variety of disciplinary vantage points. This work investigates relations between Native and European communities, and explores the social, cultural, and political past of this New England town.

A collection of stories including ""Amar"", ""Boy, Sea, Boy"", ""The Collection"" and ""The Kids"". It includes stories that reveal people teetering on the dangerous edge of their lives.

Offers an analysis of the Vietnam War as experienced by the Vietnamese peasantry. This book shows how peasants, who earlier had aspired to a kind of revolutionary modernism, found themselves struggling to survive and to cope with the American intruders who poured into My Tho.

In the mid-1950s, as developing nations sought independence from colonial rule, black women in the American South and in South Africa launched parallel campaigns to end racial injustice within their respective communities. This book traces the dual rise of political consciousness and activism among the black women of the US South and South Africa.

In the United States, the notion of racial 'passing' is usually associated with blacks and other minorities who seek to present themselves as part of the white majority. This book demonstrates that another form of this phenomenon also occurs: cases in which legally white individuals are imagined, by themselves or by others, as passing for black.

One of the messages that Emily Dickinson wanted to communicate to the world was her great love of William Shakespeare - her letters abound with references to him and his works. This book explores the many implications of her admiration for the Bard.

A guide to coastal wetland plants of the Northeast. With coverage both botanically and geographically, it emphasizes plant identification and includes descriptions of over 700 species and illustrations of approximately 550 species. It also covers tidal wetland types such as: beaches, rocky shores, and tidal swamps.

The idea of traveling within the United States for leisure purposes is so commonplace it is hard to imagine a time when tourism was not a staple of our cultural life. This book demonstrates that at the beginning of the nineteenth century travel for leisure was strictly an aristocratic luxury beyond the means of ordinary Americans.

Looks at the lives and culture of four generations of Native Americans in colonial America. Dividing his treatment into four sections - Indian Ministers, Good Men, Religious Women, and Pious Children - the author provides insights into early New England pedagogy and childrearing practices.

In 1847, in the third year of Ireland's Great Famine and the thirteenth year of their rent strike against the Crown, hundreds of tenant farmers in Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, were evicted by the Queen's agents and shipped to New York. This book tells their story, using numerous Irish and US sources and with descendants' help.

Explores the legal implications of 'Masson v New Yorker' in the context of the history of American journalism. This book shows how the case represents a watershed moment in a long debate between the advocates of traditional and literary journalism. It explains how it reflects the intellectual project of the period.

Jews have lived in small-town New England since the colonial era. Part oral history, part ethnography, and part literary portrait, this title tells the story of this group, tracing its patterns of settlement, economic activity, civic involvement, and religious life since the late 1800s.

Boston Harbor served as a colonial gateway to the world, witnessed the Boston Tea Party, and helped the community transform itself from an outpost of a few hardy settlers into a metropolis and self-proclaimed hub of the universe. For hundreds of years Boston Harbor was also a cesspool. This title shows Boston's struggle to deal with its sewage.

Throughout Massachusetts, artists carry on and revitalize deeply rooted traditions that take many expressive forms - from Native American basketry to Yankee wooden boats, Armenian lace, Chinese seals, Puerto Rican santos, and Irish music and dance. This volume celebrates and shares the work of an array of these artists.

From the very beginning in the 1770s, singing was an important part of the worship services of the Shakers, formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. This title includes the texts for one hundred and forty hymns and elucidates the radical and feminist theology of the Shakers.

For more than two hundred years Americans have disagreed about the proper role of religion in public life and where to draw the line between church and state. This book re-examines these debates and distills the volumes of commentary and case law they have generated.

Before the Civil War, slaveholders made themselves into the powerful, deeply rooted, and organized private interest group within the United States. This title explains how a small group of radical activists, the abolitionist movement, played a pivotal role in turning American politics against this formidable system.

For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder. This book offers an account of how the efforts of reformers and abolitionists and the Supreme Judicial Court's commitment to the rule of law ultimately converged to end the death penalty in Massachusetts.

Details not only how such writers as James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft forecast the inevitable demise of Indian-white sympathy, but also how authors like Lydia Maria Child and William Apess insisted that a language of feeling could be used to create shared community or defend American Indian sovereignty.

Examines the religious autobiographies of six early Americans who represented various sorts of marginality: John Marrant, Olaudah Equiano, and Jarena Lee, all of African or African American heritage; Samson Occom (Mohegan) and William Apess (Pequot); and Abigail Abbott Bailey, a white woman who was subjected to extreme domestic violence.

Published between 1842 and 1895, this work gathers together autobiographical narratives that document the experiences of eight former slaves who eventually took up residence in Worcester, Massachusetts. Each narrative tells a individual story, its author clearly visible in the dress of his or her own words.

Revaels how Boston's weekly ""Gay Community News"" was ""the center of the universe"" during the late 1970s. This memoir captures the heady atmosphere of the times. It is also the authors personal story, of growing up in a political movement; and of her deepening relationships with charismatic, talented, and sometimes utterly weird coworkers.

Cutting, a form of self-mutilation, is a growing problem in United States, especially among adolescent females. This book discusses clinical and theoretical aspects of cutting and then applies these insights to several memoirs and novels. It also focuses on the pedagogical dynamics of cutting.

Contains stories that deal with individuals striving to live outside the dominant American culture - people who do not want to be incorporated, appropriated, or consumed. Their battles are waged on interior and external landscapes, pitting clarity against confusion, faith against fear, and the passive against the aggressive.

Offering the history of skiing from its earliest origins to the outbreak of World War II, this book places emphasis on the impact of culture on the development of skiing, from the influence of Norwegian nationalism to the role of the military in countries as far removed as Austria, India, and Japan.