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• Brown and Lawrence (and Goodridge).(historic rulings and how judicial decisionmaking influences social reform movements)

  - 2005-12-01

  TABLE OF CONTENTS I. WHY BROWN AND LAWRENCE WERE HARD CASES II. COURT AS VANGUARD OR LAGGARD? III. JUDICIAL STRATEGIZING--EVADING THE MARRIAGE ISSUE IV. CONSEQUENCES A. Brown's Backlash...

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• James Monroe and John Adams: an unlikely "friendship".(Biography)

  - 2005-09-22

  RECENT HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP on the political culture of the early United States has turned from analyzing ideologies and issues to examining the personalities and motivations of the first party leaders. Within a framework often termed the "republican paradigm," an incongruous mixture of conservative, deferential, communal, ...

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• LC Puts George Washington's Diaries Online.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)

  - 2000-11-01

  The Library of Congress, the University Press of Virginia, and the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia have released The Diaries of George Washington on the American Memory collection Web site at http://www.loc.gov. This release provides the first electronic publication of the work...

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