The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History brings together in a single authoritative
reference work an extraordinary wealth of information about the history of everyday life in …

Sociology, like biology and geology, is a historical science. Specific historical conditions and
events, as well as lawful processes, determine current life ways. Sociologists of American …

In 2005, the United States Congress voted to spend millions of dollars in federal funds to
help K-12 students learn about their nation's past. Lawmakers were careful to specify that …

" This is a bad time to be a social historian," Tony Judt anno Workshop in the spring of 1979.
If so, it was a" bad time" f feel nostalgic. Like Peter Stearns in 1994, Judt was worried called …

This is a new edition of the radical social history of America from Columbus to the present.
This powerful and controversial study turns orthodox American history upside down to …

" The essays brought together in this volume are the outcome of a general session at the
annual meeting of the American historical association at Providence in December, 1936 …

I must begin by acknowledging that I write as a formal outsider to the field of history and the
terms of its particular historiographic, methodological, philosophical debates. When asked to …

Set amid the flow of the great events, trends, facts and fads of the 20th century, An American
Century is a non-fiction, historical novel that tells the story of an American family and the …

tions that social forces become in a large sense operative". This exclusiveness was long
since challenged by those who excavated the foundations of our economic life, and more …