"Though protest and lobbying played a role in bringing about new laws and regulations - touching everything from wheelchair access to women's athletics to bilingual education - what Skrentny describes was not primarily a bottom-up story of radical confrontation. Rather, elites often led the way, and some of the most prominent advocates for expanding civil rights were conservative republicans who later emerged as these policies' most vociferous opponents....

Original source documents are woven into a narrative providing the experiences and points of view of former slaves during the long process of Reconstruction following the Civil War.

A new generation of scientists is emerging with startling discoveries and theories that have much in common with the ancient teachings of many spiritual traditions. In interviews with some of our greatest contemporary minds, mythologist John David Ebert explores the newest insights in the ongoing exchange of ideas between science and religion. Provocative, sophisticated interviews with Brian Swimme, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Lynn Margulis,...

"...Designed to meet the needs of undergraduate college and university students of music. Although directed primarily toward courses in music history or music literature, it is both concise enough and comprehensive enough to be valuable to graduate students taking survey courses in music literature, history, or musicology...particularly helpful in preparation for candidacy exams..."--foreword.

Contains 15 essays, 8 signed J.D.G.D. and 7 signed F.R.W.

James Ensor (1860-1949) was a major figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late nineteenth century and an important precursor to the development of Expressionism in the early twentieth.

"Early civil-rights scholarship focused almost exclusively on the role played by national civil rights organizations between 1955 and 1965. John Kirk argues that only by understanding the groundwork laid by black activists at the grassroots level in the 1940s and 1950s can we fully understand the significance of later protests. Moreover, Kirk shows that local-level black activists and black organizations were not homogeneous, but differed significantly...

Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause. An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) from emancipation to the end of the Civil War. Seven essays focus on the role of the USCT in combat, chronicling the contributions of African Americans who...