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These essays examine a wide range of questions that have engaged past generations of Americans and persist into the present--questions about the composition of a moral community and the case for civil disobedience, about the appropriate responses to injustices and inequalities, and about the ethical implications of artistic expression, school curricula, sexual behaviors, and popular media. Focusing on the impact of moral problems on everyday experience, the authors consider these questions in light of reform movements and religious practices; changing social institutions such as marriage, public schools, labor unions, and penitentiaries; and enduring moral forces from the Bible to the U.S. Constitution. Together their essays give historical context to a wide variety of American practices and beliefs and, in doing so, provide a new framework for understanding cultural life.
Contributors Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia Joel Bernard, Portland, Oregon William E. Forbath, University of Texas, Austin Richard Wightman Fox, Boston University Jonathan A. Glickstein, Santa Barbara, California Karen Halttunen, University of California, Davis Jackson Lears, Rutgers University Anne C. Loveland, Louisiana State University Lewis Perry, Vanderbilt University Anne C. Rose, Pennsylvania State University Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago Christine Stansell, Princeton University Tamara Plakins Thornton, State University of New York, Buffalo
About: American history is filled with moments of grave moral doubt and institutional crisis, with conflicts over fundamental values, with ethical dilemmas and paradoxes.
About: American history is filled with moments of grave moral doubt and institutional crisis, with conflicts over fundamental values, with ethical dilemmas and paradoxes.
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