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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 A Reexamination by Richard A. Gerber and Alan Friedlander Professors of History Southern Connecticut State University

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 passed Congress in the waning days of Reconstruction on March 1, 1875. The statute, intended to benefit the recently freed African-American population, banned racial discrimination in public accommodations- hotels, public conveyances and places of public amusement.      The original proposal had also included public school desegregation, but that section was stricken at the last moment. Then the U.S. Supreme Court in 1883 declared the entire 1875 law unconstitutional. Not until 1964 would racial equality in public accommodations once again become law. Authors: Richard A. Gerber and Alan Friedlander Professors of History Southern Connecticut State University

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Living With Stalin's Ghost by Bruce C. Daniels - a new understanding of post-Communist Russia   Part political commentary, part journalism, part comparative history, and part an observant friend, this memoir will entertain readers and give them a new understanding of post-Communist Russia. Bruce C. Daniels is the Gilbert M. Denman Endowed Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Home  About the book  About the author  About the academy  Buy the book © 2008 by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Published by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, P.O. Box 208211, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8211.

A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500 The definitive research tool used by beginning students as well as specialists in the field of Middle English. In each volume, eminent scholars have produced summaries of the contents of each Middle English text, followed by succinct, critical evaluations and an exhaustive bibliography, including full information on manuscript and early print sources. The series is an invaluable addition to the medieval scholar's private library as well as to every academic library collection. Latest volume in the series now available! Volume 11: Middle English Sermons and Homilies, and The Lyrics of MS Harley 2253. Peter G. Beidler, editor (2005) 392 pp. ISBN 1-878508-26-1 Cloth $59.95 VOLUME 11 CONTENTS- Chapter XXVI Early Middle English Sermons and Homilies (by Thomas J. Heffernan): Collections of Early Sermons, Single Early English Sermons and Homilies Later Middle English Sermons and Homilies (by Patrick Horner): Mirk's Festial [etc] Sermons Derived [Wycliffite and Lollard] Other Fifteenth-Century Sermons Miscellaneous Sermons Chapter XXVII The Lyrics of MS Harley 2253 (by Susanna Fein) ORDERING INFORMATION: Manual of Middle English Volume 11 [MA11 ISBN 1-878508-26-1 $59.95] ORDER FORM

VOICES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC Connecticut Towns 1800-1832 Volume I: What They Said Volume II: What We Think CHRISTOPHER P. BICKFORD and HOWARD R. LAMAR, Editors   CAROLYN C. COOPER and SANDRA L. RUX, Associate Editors Now available for shipping! A unique two-volume source book for Connecticut history. WINNER OF THREE AWARDS Homer D. Babbage, Jr. Award for Connecticut History from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History Bookbinders' Guild of New York 2004 Design Award for Scholarly/Reference Book Series 2004 Connecticut Book Award from the Connecticut Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress   This publication contains fresh and vivid material, and brings Connecticut's past alive! Funded with grants from the Connecticut Humanities Council and private donations. In the first decades after winning independence from Great Britain, Americans sought to describe their new republic both to themselves and to others. To gather information for that effort, the newly chartered Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences sent a questionnaire to the state's 107 towns in 1800.    Here are the town's responses and interpretations of them by present-day essayists. More detailed description Volume I Table of Contents Volume II Table of Contents Editors' Biographies Essayists' Biographies Volume I: What They Said ISBN 1-878508-24-5 493 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95 Volume II: What We Think ISBN 1-878508-25-3 338 pp., cloth, 8.5 x 11, illus., $31.95   ORDER FORM