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First Freedom
This new volume aims to create, as much as possible, a helpful “go-to” volume for “Religious Liberty 101’ conversations in the present day for pastors, church leaders, professors and other like-minded evangelicals.
Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge
Comprehensive overview of the University of Michigan's Museums, Libraries, and collections
The Oxford Handbook of Public History
The Oxford Handbook of Public History introduces the major debates within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a public historian's tool kit; and exemplary examples of practice. It views public history as a dynamic process combining historical research and a wide range of work with and for the public, informed by a conceptual context. The editors acknowledge the imprecision bedeviling attempts to define public history, and use this book as an opportunity to shape the field by taking a deliberately broad view. They include professional historians who work outside the academy in a range of institutions and sites, and those who are politically committed to communicating history...
Seeing Atrocities
In Seeing Atrocities, Paul Morrow shows how visual encounters with atrocities occur and considers how we ought to respond to them. Informed by cutting-edge scholarship, the book will find readers among lawyers and policymakers, educators and curators, journalists and human rights advocates. The author's arguments are supported by 24 striking illustrations, including satellite images, Old Master paintings, classical sculptures, and humanitarian photographs. In a world where visual encounters with atrocities have become unavoidable, Seeing Atrocities promises to serve as an essential guide.
Closing the Urban-Rural Power Divide
This book proposes a radical reorganization of political and electoral power to address the current political imbalance between urban and rural populations in the United States. Hogan argues that, despite being smaller in population, a “financialist-ruralist coalition” has effectively used the Constitution—especially equal representation in the Senate—to create an anti-urban “vetocracy.” This political imbalance protects the interests of the financial elite and rural cultural conservatives, while effectively blocking urban interests, particularly regarding the adoption of a broad range of structural reforms and progressive policy preferences. By re-dividing many of the largest federated states into smaller city-states, the book posits, the United States would reduce the ability of non-urban interests to control the Senate. This would allow an empowered urbanite alliance to pass the forward-looking legislation the nation needs to remain internationally competitive in the coming decades.
Collecting Nature
Finds in the history of Denver's Conservation Library a microcosm of the growth of the environmental movement as a whole.
The Academic Library in the United States
This book advances the belief that the library--more than any other cultural institution--collects, curates and distributes the results of human thought. Essays broaden the debate about academic libraries beyond only professional circles, promoting the library as a vital resource for the whole of higher education. Topics range from library histories to explorations of changing media. Essayists connect modern libraries to the remarkable dream of Alexandria's ancient library--facilitating groundbreaking research in every imaginable field of human interest, past, present and future. Academic librarians who are most familiar with historical traditions are best qualified to promote the library as an important aspect of teaching and learning, as well as to develop resources that will enlighten future generations of readers. The intellectual tools for compelling, constructive conversation come from the narrative of the library in its many iterations, from the largest research university to the smallest liberal arts or community college.
Catlin's Lament
The first book to probe the conflicted attitudes that shaped and constrained noted painter George Catlin, famous for his 19th century paintings of vanishing Native American culture. Forces readers to rethink their understanding of the artist--despite his advocacy for Native peoples.
