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Forerunners of revolution : muckrakers and the American social conscience / by Walter M. Brasch.

Book/text

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1990.

1990

1 item

Call number

JLD 91-318

Item location

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Gillette's social redemption : a review of world-wide conditions as they exist to-day offering an entirely new suggestion for the remedy of the evils they exhibit : with illustrations and index / by Melvin L. Severy.

Book/text

Boston : Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1907.

1907

3 items

Available online

Full text available via HathiTrust

Call number

Sc 309.173-S (Severy, M. Gillette's social redemption)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

SC (Severy, M. L. Gillette's social redemption)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Call number

SC (Severy, M. L. Gillette's social redemption)

Item location

Offsite

The master trend : how the baby boom generation is remaking America / Cheryl Russell.

Book/text

New York : Plenum Press, c1993.

1993

1 item

Call number

JFD 93-16172

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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From cradle to grave : the human face of poverty in America / Jonathan Freedman.

Book/text

New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.

1993

1 item

Call number

JFE 93-12865

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Understanding social problems, policies, and programs / by Leon Ginsberg.

Book/text

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1994.

1994

1 item

Call number

JFE 94-17223

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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FINDING AID AVAILABLE
National Civic Federation records, 1894-1949 bulk (1900-1920).

Microform

1894

1 item

Collection information

Finding aid

The finding aid is a document containing details about the organization and contents of this archival collection. Archival collections may require an appointment to view and use onsite.

Call number

*ZL-191 r. 274: Series 4. Departmental Files {1901-195} Box 299 Folder 3: Child Care. . .-Clubs, Statistics. . Box 300 Folder 3: Democratic Plan- Dental Care

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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Families and change : coping with stressful events / edited by Patrick C. McKenry, Sharon J. Price.

Book/text

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1994.

1994

1 item

Call number

JFD 94-18201

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Decentralizing power : Paul Goodman's social criticism / Taylor Stoehr, editor.

Book/text

Montréal : Black Rose Books, 1994.

1994

1 item

Call number

JFD 95-8793

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Reasonable creatures : essays on women and feminism / by Katha Pollitt.

Book/text

New York : A. Knopf, 1994.

1994

1 item

Call number

JFD 94-24273

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Une Amérique qui fait peur / Edward Behr.

Book/text

Paris : Plon, c1995.

1995

1 item

Call number

JFE 95-17205

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Democracy by other means : the politics of work, leisure, and environment / John Buell.

Book/text

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1995.

1995

1 item

Call number

JFE 95-16316

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Lights of passage : rituals and rites of passage for the problems and pleasures of modern life / Kathleen Wall, Gary Ferguson.

Book/text

New York : HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.

1994

1 item

Call number

JFE 96-409

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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True love waits : essays and criticism / Wendy Kaminer.

Book/text

Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1996.

1996

1 item

Call number

JFD 96-10303

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Poverty and riches : a study of the industrial régime / by Scott Nearing ; illustrated with photographs and pictures by Charles F. Weller, Lewis W. Hine, George Frederick Watts, W. Balfour Ker and other artists.

Book/text

Philadelphia : The John C. Winston Company, c1916.

1916

2 items

Call number

TDC (Nearing, S. Poverty and riches)

Item location

Offsite

Call number

JFD 96-20614

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Post-intellectualism and the decline of democracy : the failure of reason and responsibility in the twentieth century / Donald N. Wood ; foreword by Neil Postman.

Book/text

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996.

1996

1 item

Call number

JFE 96-15797

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Comes the millennium / Jack Blake.

Book/text

New York : St. Martin's Press, c1996.

1996

1 item

Call number

JFD 96-27830

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The American culture wars : current contests and future prospects / edited by James L. Nolan, Jr.

Book/text

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1996.

1996

1 item

Call number

ILH 97-1126

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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No mercy : how conservative think tanks and foundations changed America's social agenda / Jean Stefancic, Richard Delgado ; foreword by Mark Tushnet.

Book/text

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.

1996

1 item

Call number

JFE 96-18822

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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But seriously-- : Steve Allen speakes his mind / Steve Allen.

Book/text

Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 1996.

1996

1 item

Call number

MWES (Allen S.) 96-16353

Item location

Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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America in ferment / by Paul Leland Haworth.

Book/text

Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company, publishers, [1915]

1915

2 items

Call number

Sc 917.5-H (Haworth, P. America in ferment)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

ILH (Haworth, P. L. America in ferment)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Taking back our neighborhoods : building communities that work / Mary I. Wachter, with Cynthia Tinsley.

Book/text

Minneapolis, Minn. : Fairview Press, 1996.

1996

1 item

Call number

JFE 97-2566

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Poverty, ethnicity, and violent crime / James F. Short, Jr.

Book/text

Boulder, Colo. : WestviewPress, 1997.

1997

1 item

Call number

JFE 97-6669

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Common purpose : strengthening families and neighborhoods to rebuild America / Lisbeth B. Schorr.

Book/text

New York : Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1997.

1997

1 item

Call number

JFE 97-11852

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The prophetic tradition and radical rhetoric in America / James Darsey.

Book/text

New York : New York University Press, c1997.

1997

1 item

Call number

JFE 97-11469

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Welfare in America : how social science fails the poor / William M. Epstein.

Book/text

Madison, Wis : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997.

1997

1 item

Call number

JFE 98-2139

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Dreammakers : putting vision and values to work / Michele Hunt.

Book/text

Palo Alto, Calif. : Davies-Black Pub., c1998.

1998

1 item

Call number

Sc E 98-826

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Moral order and social disorder : the American search for civil society / Frank Hearn.

Book/text

New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c1997.

1997

1 item

Call number

JFE 98-8786

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The absence of reasonable motive in the so-called "criminal acts" of the confirmed inebriate / by L.D. Mason.

Book/text

[Washington, D.C. : American Medical Association?, 1892].

1892

2 items

Call number

VTZ p.v. 239 no. 10

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Call number

VTZ p.v. 232 no. 14

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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A study of the social statistics of 4,663 cases of alcoholic inebriety / by L.D. Mason.

Book/text

[Hartford, Conn. : Case, Lockwood & Brainard?, 1890].

1890

0 resources

Inebriety a disease : president's anniversary address : delivered before the American Association for the Cure of Inebriates at Chicago, Illinois, September 13, 1877 / by Theodore L. Mason.

Book/text

Fort Hamilton [N.Y.] : Printed at the Inebriates' Home for Kings County, 1878.

1878

2 items

Call number

VTZ p.v. 240 no. 9

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Call number

VTZ p.v. 239 no. 9

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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An address delivered at a meeting of the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety held at Burlington, N.J., to celebrate the seventy-first birthday of Dr. Joseph Parrish, president and founder of the association / by Lewis D. Mason.

Book/text

Hartford, Conn. : Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., printers, [1890]

1890

3 items

Call number

VTZ p.v. 241 no. 7

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Call number

VTZ p.v. 240 no. 10

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Call number

VTZ p.v. 239 no. 19

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The drunkard's diseased appetite : what is it? if curable how? by miraculous agency or physical means -- which? / [J. Willett].

Book/text

Fort Hamilton [N.Y.] : Printed at the Inebriates' Home for Kings County, 1877.

1877

0 resources

Crisis in America : father absence / Frank Ancona.

Book/text

Commack, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c1998.

1998

1 item

Call number

JFE 98-9889

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Addressing community problems : psychological research and intervention / Ximena B. Arriaga and Stuart Oskamp, editors.

Book/text

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998.

1998

1 item

Call number

JFE 98-12456

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Framing youth : ten myths about the next generation / Mike A. Males.

Book/text

Monroe, Me : Common Courage Press, c1999.

1999

1 item

Call number

JFE 99-7278

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Conversations with Cesar Chavez, George Wiley, Ralph Abernathy.

Book/text

Lakeside, Conn. : United Church of Christ, 1970.

1970

1 item

Call number

Sc F 99-450

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Thinking about social problems : an introduction to constructionist perspectives / Donileen R. Loseke.

Book/text

New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c1999.

1999

1 item

Call number

JFE 00-4215

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Last call : 10 commonsense solutions to America's biggest problems / Rob Nelson.

Book/text

New York : Dell Pub., c2000.

2000

1 item

Call number

JFD 00-2280

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The monster in our midst : will you be spared by the monster? / by Elie Robinson.

Book/text

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Dorrance, c1999.

1999

1 item

Call number

JFE 00-4811

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Wasting human life / [Microform] by A.M. Simons.

Microform

Chicago : Socialist Party of the United States, [191-?]

1910

1 item

The ten things you can't say in America / Larry Elder.

Book/text

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

2000

1 item

Call number

Sc E 00-1111

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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From rage to responsibility : Black conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America today / Jesse Lee Peterson with Brad Stetson ; foreword by Dennis Prager.

Book/text

St. Paul, Minn. : Paragon House, 2000.

2000

1 item

Call number

Sc E 01-1300

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The American presidency and the social agenda / Byron W. Daynes, Glen Sussman.

Book/text

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2001.

2001

1 item

Call number

JFE 01-429

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The hidden America : social problems in rural America for the twenty-first century / edited by Robert M. Moore.

Book/text

Selinsgrove, [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press, 2001.

2001

1 item

Call number

IM 01-6336

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The monochrome society / Amitai Etzioni.

Book/text

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2001.

2001

1 item

Call number

IM 01-7176

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The Common Courage reader : essays for an informed democracy / edited by Kevin Griffith.

Book/text

Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, c2000.

2000

1 item

Call number

JFE 01-6761

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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