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History, Am.: 20th C.



link to catalog page BEARY, Black Bishop

Black Bishop

Edward T. Demby and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Episcopal Church

Author: Michael J. Beary
Pub Date: January 2001

The story of America’s first black bishop and his struggle, against white apathy, lack of funds, and jurisdictional ambiguity, to rebuild the African-American component of the Episcopal Church in the context of a segregated church.   learn more...

link to catalog page LARDAS, The Bop Apocalypse

The Bop Apocalypse

The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs

Author: John Lardas
Pub Date: December 2001

The first book to engage the religious world of the Beats on its own terms, taking seriously the otherworldly claims made by each writer and recreates the religious world that was foundational to the most well-known works of the three most famous Beat writers.   learn more...

link to catalog page PEDERSEN, The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57 Author: Vernon L. Pedersen
Pub Date: January 2001

Bolsheviks in Baltimore shows that contrary to the beliefs of many historians--radical and otherwise--the American Communist Party did often march to Moscow’s tune in efforts to sway American foreign policy in ways that benefitted the Soviet Union.   learn more...

link to catalog page CORNWALL, Contemporary Mormonism

Contemporary Mormonism

Social Science Perspectives

Author: Edited by Marie Cornwall, Tim B. Heaton, and Lawrence A. Young
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2001

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link to catalog page ROSE, Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism Author: James D. Rose
Pub Date: July 2001

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link to catalog page HICKS, Experimental Americans

Experimental Americans

Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century

Author: George L. Hicks
Pub Date: July 2001

An in-depth look at one of America’s most long-lived utopian communities, set in context not only with other such uniquely American experiments, but with American society as a whole.   learn more...

link to catalog page HAWES, Family and Society in American History Author: Edited by Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth I. Nybakken
Pub Date: 2001

This eclectic reader illuminates changes in the American family and presents some of the methods and approaches used to study families, showing how shifts in legal structures, ideas about medicine and health, gender roles, and other variables lead to changes in the structure and functioning of the family.   learn more...

link to catalog page NOYES, Free Love in Utopia

Free Love in Utopia

John Humphrey Noyes and the Origin of the Oneida Community

Author: Compiled by George Wallingford Noyes
Pub Date: October 2001

The extraordinary “free love” Oneida community story, told in its entirety through never-before-published primary documents   learn more...

link to catalog page JENSEN, Illinois

Illinois

A History

Author: Richard J. Jensen
Pub Date: 2001

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link to catalog page PORTERFIELD, Last Cavalier

Last Cavalier

The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, 1867-1948

Author: Nolan Porterfield
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2001

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