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The GI Bill : a new deal for veterans
On rare occasions in American history, Congress enacts a measure so astute, so far-reaching, so revolutionary, it enters the language as a metaphor. The Marshall Plan comes to mind, as does the Civil Rights Act. But perhaps none resonates in the American imagination like the G.I. Bill. In a brilliant addition to Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments in American History series, historians Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin offer a compelling and often surprising account of the G.I. Bill and its sweeping and decisive impact on American life. Formally known as the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, it was far from an obvious, straightforward piece of legislation, but resulted from tense political maneuvering and complex negotiations. As Altschuler and Blumin show, an unlikely coalition emerged to shape and pass the bill, bringing together both New Deal Democrats and conservatives who had vehemently opposed Roosevelt's social-welfare agenda. For the first time in American history returning soldiers were not only supported, but enabled to pursue success--a revolution in America's policy towards its veterans. Once enacted, the G.I. Bill had far-reaching consequences. By providing job training, unemployment compensation, housing loans, and tuition assistance, it allowed millions of Americans to fulfill long-held dreams of social mobility, reshaping the national landscape. The huge influx of veterans and federal money transformed the modern university and the surge in single home ownership vastly expanded America's suburbs. Perhaps most important, as Peter Drucker noted, the G.I. Bill \"signaled the shift to the knowledge society.\" The authors highlight unusual or unexpected features of the law--its color blindness, the frankly sexist thinking behind it, and its consequent influence on race and gender relations. Not least important, Altschuler and Blumin illuminate its role in individual lives whose stories they weave into this thoughtful account. Written with insight and narrative verve by two leading historians, The G.I. Bill makes a major contribution to the scholarship of postwar America.
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Driven to the City: Urbanization and Industrialization in the Nineteenth Century
The relationship between urbanization and industrialization is at once simple and complex. At its simplest level, it is the concentration of people in geographic space that results from the transfer of portions of a workforce from agriculture, which spreads cultivators across the land, to manufacturing, which brings them into close proximity within crowded factories and in workers' neighborhoods immediately beyond the factory gates. Here, Blumin discusses the urbanization and indusrialization in the US during the nineteenth century.
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Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy
Altschuler and Blumin contend that the political engagement of antebellum Americans varied significantly during the golden age, and that the recognition of this variation leads to fundamental questions about Americans and their politics. The presence of an underlying political hostility and skepticism during this time and their significance to the trajectory of popular politics in American history are examined.
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City Limits
An overview of some of the urban history topics that have been covered in the \"Journal of Urban History\" during the publication's first 20 years is offered. Working urban historians could benefit more from a survey of orienting concepts, topics and spatial and temporal foci than from a survey of substantive conclusions.
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\Where Is the Real America?\: Politics and Popular Consciousness in the Antebellum Era
Walt Whitman's lament in 1856 that \"the real America ... does not appear in the government\" and his implication that the distance between Americans and their representatives derives from some significant default on the part of the people are examined.
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Politics, Society, and the Narrative of American Democracy
Altschuler and Blumin examine what brought white men to the voter box and the content and meaning of political participation in the mid-19th century. They attempt to discover the fundamental ways in which the actual practice of democratic politics existed in the lives of everyday people.
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Explaining the New Metropolis
A retrospective look at the perceptions of New York City by nineteenth-century authors Lydia Maria Child (Letters from New York, New York & Boston, 1843; & Letters from New York: Second Series, London, 1845), George G. Foster (New York in Slices; By an Experienced Carver, New York, 1849; New York By Gas-Light; With Here and There a Streak of Sunshine, New York, 1850; Celio: Or New York Above-Ground and Under-Ground, New York, 1850; Fifteen Minutes around New York, New York, 1854; & New York Naked, New York, 1854), Matthew Hale Smith (Sunshine and Shadow in New York, Hartford, Conn, 1868), James Dabney McCabe, Jr. (Lights and Shadows of New York Life; or the Lights and Sensations of the Great City, Philadelphia, 1872), & Junius Henri Browne (The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York, Hartford, Conn, 1869). Perceptions of the antebellum & post-Civil War writers are compared. W. Adams
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