In 1992 James Danky, Wayne Wiegand, and Carl Kaestle founded the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The study of print culture was then a new field represented by scholars from many disciplines, including American studies, history, library and information studies, and literary studies. Stimulated by initiatives of the American Antiquarian Society and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, most research covered the northeast of the United States in the period before 1876, but Wisconsin's new center aimed to encourage research into more recent time periods, and broader areas, a well as into the print culture of marginalized groups whose gender, race, class, creed, occupation, ethnicity, and sexual orientation have...
While not disputing Shiites' closer identification with narrated popular Islam than with orthodox Qur'anic script, Nasr argues that, "Shias follow Islamic law with equal vigilance [as the Sunnis], but their piety... defines believers above and beyond the law" (p. 58). With some economic growth and prosperity, democracy became possible in the West due mainly to the Protestant Reformation, which removed the clerics' legal and temporal authority, as well as the spiritual domination of the cult of saints.
For the first time in our nation's history, a woman, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, was a leading candidate for her party's presidential nomination. And, for the first time in our history, an African American, Sen. Barack Obama, has clinched that Democratic Party presidential nomination. Our country's support of their candidacies is one of the most encouraging things about today's race for president of the United States. Unfortunately, I have heard a number of young people say that this historical moment isn't such a big deal. But for those of you, who like me, grew up during the height of the women's rights and the civil rights struggles of the '60s and '70s, this is a seminal moment. This is . [Fannie Lou Hamer]'s and the party's efforts, coupled with the bloody sacrif...
Index to p. 238. $27.95. Since the 9/11 attacks, there have been a plethora of studies and official reports dedicated to the topic of intelligence reform.
For the first time in our nation's history, a woman, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, was a leading candidate for her party's presidential nomination. And, for the first time in our history, an African American, Sen. Barack Obama, has clinched that Democratic Party presidential nomination. Our country's support of their candidacies is one of the most encouraging things about today's race for president of the United States. As I recall the life of a tiny Brooklyn-born firebrand by the name of Shirley Chisholm, who in 1968 became the first African-American woman to be elected to Congress, I also recall that in 1972 she became the first African-American candidate for president of the United States. I vividly remember 1989, when Doug Wilder became the first African-American governor of the stat...
The scientific method and the respect accorded science seem so obvious now that it is hard to believe it could be any other way. Yet the conversion from what science is and what it was is a fascinating story, one told with considerable charm by Laura J. Snyder in "The Philosophical Breakfast Club. Ms. Snyder, an associate professor of philosophy at St. John's University, centers her story around four figures who met when they were undergraduates at Cambridge University in the early 1800s. William Whewell, John Herschel, Richard Jones and Charles Babbage may not be well-known today outside of science historians, yet their meeting as young men would change the world.
The North Haven football team only worried about the present, not the past or future, when it took the field last Wednesday against Amity- Woodbridge in the final regular- season game for both teams. But in the back of the players' minds, they knew what was at stake. A victory over the Spartans secured North Haven a spot in the state playoffs for the first time in school history.
In the past decade a number of important studies on intellectual life in the late Ottoman Empire have appeared.1This work by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi adds to that ongoing review of the parameters of modernity as understood by people living in the Ottoman Empire, or the former Ottoman Empire in the case of Egypt which provides the focus of much of this work. [...] scholars have concentrated on two dominant intellectual paradigms that were circulating in the empire: nationalism and the Salafiyya, or Muslim reform movement.
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