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Testimonies and Secrets

The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977

By: Robert M. Mennel

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Testimonies and Secrets

The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977

By: Robert M. Mennel

This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (18441914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of work, pondered the intricacies of communal life, and wrote movingly of his personal and spiritual struggles. His daughter Elvira Crouse Eikle reported on village events for local newspapers, and her son, Harold Eikle (19121977), a gifted teacher and musician, wrote letters and family history. Harold's correspondence celebrated the social liberations of the 1930s and beyond, but also showed their limits in the suffering he experienced as a gay man in a heterosexual world. Using the family papers, other unpublished documents and oral history, Robert M. Mennel connects the experiences of the Crouse-Eikle family and their community to larger themes of social and cultural change in North America. A story of vivid personalities and episodes, by turns sad, conflicted, joyful, bitter, funny and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets will be read with pleasure by scholars and general readers alike.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442614781

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The Taft Court: Volume 10

Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930

By: Robert C. Post

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The Taft Court: Volume 10

Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930

By: Robert C. Post

This work will serve as the authoritative reference text on the Supreme Court during the period of 1921 to 1930, when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. It will become a point of common reference across multiple disciplines, including history, law, and political science.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009336223

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Children and Youth in America: 1600-1865

By: Robert Hamlett Bremner

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Children and Youth in America: 1600-1865

By: Robert Hamlett Bremner

This book, the first of three volumes that will provide the most complete documentary history of public provision for American children, traces the changing attitudes of the nation toward youth during the first two and one half centuries of its history.

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Harvard University Press

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0674116100

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9780674116108

Children and Youth in America

A Documentary History, 1933-1973

By: Robert Hamlett Bremner

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Children and Youth in America

A Documentary History, 1933-1973

By: Robert Hamlett Bremner

Public provision for the rights of children has, at last, a complete documentary history. In three volumes, covering United States history from 1600 to the present, this is a monumental contribution in an area central to American domestic policy. All aspects of the welfare of children are considered. The documents, as comprehensive as they are diverse, are woven into an enlightening narrative of the fundamental issues involved in the place of youth in America. The concluding volumes present forty years of tumultuous history. They begin with the problems and protests of youth in the 1930s; their response to depression, war, and the draft; their organizations and participation in struggles for equality; and their changing legal status. With the advent of the New Deal and continuing into the Nixon administration, the sources show a growing popular emphasis on the rights and welfare of children as well as a dramatic shift in the position and commitment of the federal government. Policies and programs are many and vigorous, but gaps, protests, and inequalities persist. Upon the appearance of the first volume, Children and Youth in America was hailed as "an important event in the history of child welfare in the United States." Now completed, these volumes constitute an indispensable reference and absorbing chronicle of American social history.

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0674116143

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Testimonies and Secrets

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Children and Youth in America: 1600-1865

Children and Youth in America

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