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... and culture. Her witty and urbane struggles with the unruly material that forms her argument become finally an argument that is still going on in our own atemporal times. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CAROL HOULIHAN FLYNN Metternich s German Policy. Volume II: The Congress of Vienna 18141815. By Enno E. Kraehe...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 WHAT CONGRESS NEEDS FLOYD M. RIDDICK HE SECOND SESSION of the Seventy-seventh Congress was adjourned on December 16, 1942; its activities, though per­ formed more hurriedly than usual, were carried out under a strain without...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 THE ADMINISTRATION, LOBBYISTS, AND CONGRESS FLOYD M. RIDDICK THE ADMINISTRATION S control over the House and Sen­ ate in the determination of legislation during the First Session of the Seventy-seventh Congress far exceeded...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 CONGRESS VERSUS THE PRESIDENT IN 1944 FLOYD M. RIDDICK THE ADMINISTRATION mapped out the legislative pro­ gram for the last session of the Seventy-eighth Congress, but the relations between the President and Congress were...

...Ivan W. Parkins Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Ivan W. Parkins Let s Dissassemble the House A. Proposal for Reform of Congress The Problem The Congress of the United States consists of two similar arenas in which many factions check or frustrate one another. The balance part...

...Milledge L. Bonham, Jr. Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 The Chaos of Congress Milledge L. Bonham, Jr. Hamilton College Even Congress admits that never has it stood so low in public estimation as now. Cartoonists, editors, preachers, grand juries, muckrakers all take a shot...

...J. D. Rodeffer, Ph. D. Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 The South s Interest in the Library of Congress By J. D. Rodekfer, M. A., Ph. D. The rapid advance in material prosperity in the South has directed anew the attention of the public to those factors that work toward...

...John Michael Matthews Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 The Dilemma of Negro Leadership in the New South: The Case of the Negro Young People s Congress of 1902 John Michael Matthews In 1902 seven thousand people assembled in Atlanta for the Negro Young People s Christian...

...Robert H. Woody The Violent Men. A Study of Human Relations in the First American Congress . By Meigs Cornelia . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . Pp. 278 . $4.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 109 Maine, Massachusetts, Georgia...

...George E. Hastings Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 JACOB DUCHE, FIRST CHAPLAIN OF CONGRESS GEORGE E. HASTINGS FEW Americans are so ignorant of the history of their country as not to have been told by some of their teachers in the public schools that the first meeting...

...Paul L. Murphy Beyond the Hiss Case: The F.B.I., Congress and the Cold War . Edited by Theoharis Athan G. . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1982 . Pp. xi , 423 . $24.95 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 346 The South Atlantic Quarterly Not every reader...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 THE HOUSE VERSUS THE SENATE IN THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FLOYD M. RIDDICK IF THE FATHERS of the Constitution who proposed and fought for the two-house legislature of the Federal Government could have...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXIX JANUARY, 1940 Number 1 POLITICAL PROCEDURE IN THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FLOYD M. RIDDICK THE FIRST session of the Seventy-sixth Congress, which con­ vened on January 3...

.... CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES FRANK E. SMITH The River War. By Virgil Carrington Jones. The Civil War at Sea, Volume II. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961. Pp. xx, 490. $6.00. In the second volume of his proposed trilogy on the naval history of the Civil War, Mr. Jones leaves blue water and spends...

... Congress about their experiences—potentially criminalized or still legal—was valiant. People who have abortions are experiencing an unprecedented level of visibility at a moment in which we've lost all legal protections. But that visibility and storytelling is one of the critical ways in which we...

...Roy M. Huhndorf; Shari M. Huhndorf In 1971, Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), the largest indigenous land claims settlement in U.S history. Intended to resolve disputes over land and to spur economic development, ANCSA remained silent on issues of indigenous...

... the state-sanctioned massacre of striking mineworkers at Marikana in 2012 as a significant marker for this current phase of protests, the essay explores some of the subsequent political shifts, including challenges to the hegemony of the ruling political party—the African National Congress—and to the trade...

... of the African National Congress’s (ANC) hegemony and a reconfiguration of left forces. The new party is arguably best comprehended as a paradox, reflecting the fragmented and fluid character of contentious politics at this conjuncture. The EFF is the most significant youth movement and the first major left...

...Dale T. McKinley The decision by the National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) in late 2013 to break its long-standing alliance with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its political partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP), represents a watershed moment for left and progressive...

...Yahya M. Madra In late 2014, a two-day conference devoted to establishing the basic principles of a democratic economy in Northern Kurdistan was held by the Democratic Society Congress in the city of Wan. The conference was organized to initiate a process of putting into practice the Kurdish...